Hi fren. I saw your comment above and felt like offering my two cents. I've done a high fat, low carb, medium protein diet for eight years and I've loved it the whole time. I'll never go back to living on carbs. You mentioned a low carb, high protein diet. But I wonder if the high protein substituting for carbs isn't what caused that diet not to work for you. The body only burns glucose or fat for energy. So if you cut down on carbs, you need to substitute something else for them. If you up your protein uptake, unfortunately your body only converts this protein into glucose (sugar). So you're still just running on carbs just as if you were eating a high carb diet. In addition, your body only converts protein to sugar at about a 50% efficiency rate, and a byproduct of the conversion is ammonia, which is quite toxic and which your body must further break down to the less toxic uric acid and then excrete through the urine.

My recommendation would be to try the low carb, high fat diet. Substitute fat for the carbs, and keep the protein intake at a moderate level. This way your body switches over to burning fat for fuel. My own personal experience with this way of eating is that the energy is unbelievable, the appetite is perfectly controlled by the natural and automatic balancing of appetite hormones that occur, and mental clarity is amazing. Running on fat for fuel instead of carbs produces 30-40% fewer free radicals as metabolic waste, so it's much cleaner than burning sugar. As far as your mitochondria are concerned and how they make energy, it's the difference between heating your wood stove with rolled up newspapers or oak hardwood. I only eat twice a day, I NEVER get cravings (you will no longer find bread tempting), and I never have to watch how much I eat or exercise to stay trim. I eat like a king everyday with fatty steaks or cuts or ground meat, eggs, cream, butter, sour cream and cream cheese, cheese, whole milk yoghurt, and animal fats of all kinds like butter, lard and tallow added to everything, as much as I want. When you eat fat as your fuel, your body tells you when to stop, so precisely that it signals you to the very bite by taking your desire away to take another bite. You've experienced this before when eating something fat-rich like chocolate mousse. But it happens with every meal when you are "fat-adapted." As long as your carbohydrate intake is low enough and your fat intake predominates, you can eat all you want, sit around all day, and you will lose weight and eventually become thin. It happened to me, and it has happened to everyone I've ever advised who put it into practice.

It's the reason you've never seen a fat wild animal. Animals in the wild, eating what they are designed to eat, eat as much as they want, but never more than they need. And if they're hunters, they sit around all day except when hunting. Of course, they're not conscious of any of this. And we humans don't have to be either. When a human eats the way it's designed to eat, its body signals when it's had enough. ALL mammals run on fat as their primary fuel. Herbivores turn the plant fiber (cellulose) they eat into mostly fat, some protein, and a little bit of carbohydrate. Carnivores eat the fat of the herbivores, and take in no other carbohydrates than the little bit of sugar circulating in the blood and muscle of their prey. Humans thought they were getting a free ride when they invented agriculture and started living on carbohydrates. But all they really did was cheat themselves of their natural, God-given design as mostly fat eaters that came about in the eons before agriculture when humans had converted to hunters.

My top recommendation for learning about all this is a relatively thin, well-written, well-researched and somewhat humorous book called "Low Carb High Fat Diet Revolution", written by a Swedish doctor named Andreas Eenfeldt.

If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer as best I can.

Hi fren. I saw your comment above and felt like offering my two cents. I've done a high fat, low carb, medium protein diet for eight years and I've loved it the whole time. I'll never go back to living on carbs. You mentioned a low carb, high protein diet. But I wonder if the high protein substituting for carbs isn't what caused that diet not to work for you. The body only burns glucose or fat for energy. So if you cut down on carbs, you need to substitute something else for them. If you up your protein uptake, unfortunately your body only converts this protein into glucose (sugar). So you're still just running on carbs just as if you were eating a high carb diet. In addition, your body only converts protein to sugar at about a 50% efficiency rate, and a byproduct of the conversion is ammonia, which is quite toxic and which your body must further break down to the less toxic uric acid and then excrete through the urine.

My recommendation would be to try the low carb, high fat diet. Substitute fat for the carbs, and keep the protein intake at a moderate level. This way your body switches over to burning fat for fuel. My own personal experience with this way of eating is that the energy is unbelievable, the appetite is perfectly controlled by the natural and automatic balancing of appetite hormones that occur, and mental clarity is amazing. Running on fat for fuel instead of carbs produces 30-40% fewer free radicals as metabolic waste, so it's much cleaner than burning sugar. As far as your mitochondria are concerned and how they make energy, it's the difference between heating your wood stove with rolled up newspapers or oak hardwood. I only eat twice a day, I NEVER get cravings (you will no longer find bread tempting), and I never have to watch how much I eat or exercise to stay trim. I eat like a king everyday with fatty steaks or cuts or ground meat, eggs, cream, butter, sour cream and cream cheese, cheese, whole milk yoghurt, and animal fats of all kinds like butter, lard and tallow added to everything, as much as I want. When you eat fat as your fuel, your body tells you when to stop, so precisely that it signals you to the very bite by taking your desire away to take another bite. You've experienced this before when eating something fat-rich like chocolate mousse. But it happens with every meal when you are "fat-adapted." As long as your carbohydrate intake is low enough and your fat intake predominates, you can eat all you want, sit around all day, and you will lose weight and eventually become thin. It happened to me, and it has happened to everyone I've ever advised who put it into practice.

It's the reason you've never seen a fat wild animal. Animals in the wild, eating what they are designed to eat, eat as much as they want, but never more than they need. And if they're hunters, they sit around all day except when hunting. Of course, they're not conscious of any of this. And we humans don't have to be either. When a human eats the way it's designed to eat, its body signals when it's had enough. ALL mammals run on fat as their primary fuel. Herbivores turn the plant fiber (cellulose) they eat into mostly fat, some protein, and a little bit of carbohydrate. Carnivores eat the fat of the herbivores, and take in no other carbohydrates than the little bit of sugar circulating in the blood and muscle of their prey. Humans thought they were getting a free ride when they invented agriculture and started living on carbohydrates. But all they really did was cheat themselves of their natural, God-given design as mostly fat eaters that came about in the eons before agriculture when humans had converted to hunters.

My top recommendation for learning about all this is a relatively thin, well-written, well-researched and somewhat humorous book called "Low Carb High Fat Diet Revolution" written by a Swedish doctor named Andreas Eenfeldt.

If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer as best I can.