I absolutely agree that we consume too much. The average serving size compared to the 1960's has increased dramatically. There have also been quite a few detrimental things regarding our diets that we have been completely mislead about for decades. One is the whole idea that dietary fat is bad for us. Back in the 1960's the sugar industry paid off a group of Harvard scientists to put the blame on dietary fat as the cause for heart disease. This lead to the food industry removing fat from food which made it bland and unpalatable. The answer to this was add sugar to just about everything. In the 70's high fructose corn syrup came along and that saved manufacturers a boatload of money, now that is in everything. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat
Another big one is the Ancel Keys 7 country study. Which turns out was really a 22 country study but he cherry picked the data & manipulated his graph to show that dietary cholesterol was the cause for heart disease. We now know that dietary cholesterol is protective in nature. The best analogy I have heard is "blaming cholesterol for clogging an artery because it is present at the blockage is no different than blaming the fireman for starting the fire because he was at the scene." Really calcium build up is the #1 cause for almost all heart blockages and a Coronary calcium scan can tell you way in advance your chances of heart disease. That is why I cringe when I hear that an older person is told to take dietary calcium. When really they should be taking vitamin K2 and D3 along with magnesium. We should not have calcium floating around in our blood stream, and K2 helps put it back in our bones where it belongs. https://deniseminger.com/2011/12/22/the-truth-about-ancel-keys-weve-all-got-it-wrong/
I started with the keto diet myself but than I slowly transitioned into the carnivore diet. I can honestly say that once my body switched over from being in sugar/carb burning mode for so long and my gut microbiome adjusted to digesting only dead animals I had insane amounts of energy & never felt better in my entire life. I felt like I was always running a little warmer than usual but I ended up loosing about 45 lbs without working out once or counting a single calorie. Just ate till I was stuffed. Salt intake was important to keep up with since the kidney excrete a lot more salt when consuming protein/fat without carbs. When I started keto the best thing I did and recommend getting no matter what diet is a blood glucose meter and take a measurement an hour after eating different things and see what it does to your blood sugar. Also test yourself in the mornings while fasted. I was able to get my resting blood glucose down to around 73 MG/DL.
That brings me to the most important thing I can possibly think of that really determines how much weight you put on or lose. INSULIN. If you have too much insulin running through your bloodstream or are insulin resistant, you will never burn a single drop of fat from your body unless you are severely under eating. Insulin is the hormone that basically tells your body that you have plenty of energy available so don't go breaking down any fat for energy. The problem gets even worse when we have all of this insulin floating around and we keep consuming more, it just make more insulin and stores the excess energy as fat. Add a different type of energy source to that mix like protein/fat and there is no way that is getting used for energy and goes through a process and stored as fat. Its an endless cycle. Protein and Fat suppress the hormone Ghrelin which is what tells your brain your are satiated, while carbs/sugars (Glucose) do not which is why you can eat so much more fruit and veggies without feeling full than you can meat or dairy.
Sorry this is so long, More people need to know how our food industry and scientists have deceived us for decades and throw in a dif diet perspective but I got carried away and could go on forever. Its great that you found something that works for you so keep doing it, just keep an eye on the blood sugar and do some digging on Oxalates since you consume a lot of fruit and veggies. Dr. Sally Norton is very knowledgeable on the topic. https://sallyknorton.com/oxalate-science/oxalate-basics/
I absolutely agree that we consume too much. The average serving size compared to the 1960's has increased dramatically. There have also been quiet a few detrimental things regarding our diets that we have been completely mislead about for decades. One is the whole idea that dietary fat is bad for us. Back in the 1960's the sugar industry paid off a group of Harvard scientists to put the blame on dietary fat as the cause for heart disease. This lead to the food industry removing fat from food which made it bland and unpalatable. The answer to this was add sugar to just about everything. In the 70's high fructose corn syrup came along and that saved manufacturers a boatload of money, now that is in everything. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat
Another big one is the Ancel Keys 7 country study. Which turns out was really a 22 country study but he cherry picked the data & manipulated his graph to show that dietary cholesterol was the cause for heart disease. We now know that dietary cholesterol is protective in nature. The best analogy I have heard is "blaming cholesterol for clogging an artery because it is present at the blockage is no different than blaming the fireman for starting the fire because he was at the scene." Really calcium build up is the #1 cause for almost all heart blockages and a Coronary calcium scan can tell you way in advance your chances of heart disease. That is why I cringe when I hear that an older person is told to take dietary calcium. When really they should be taking vitamin K2 and D3 along with magnesium. We should not have calcium floating around in our blood stream, and K2 helps put it back in our bones where it belongs. https://deniseminger.com/2011/12/22/the-truth-about-ancel-keys-weve-all-got-it-wrong/
I started with the keto diet myself but than I slowly transitioned into the carnivore diet. I can honestly say that once my body switched over from being in sugar/carb burning mode for so long and my gut microbiome adjusted to digesting only dead animals I had insane amounts of energy & never felt better in my entire life. I felt like I was always running a little warmer than usual but I ended up loosing about 45 lbs without working out once or counting a single calorie. Just ate till I was stuffed. Salt intake was important to keep up with since the kidney excrete a lot more salt when consuming protein/fat without carbs. When I started keto the best thing I did and recommend getting no matter what diet is a blood glucose meter and take a measurement an hour after eating different things and see what it does to your blood sugar. Also test yourself in the mornings while fasted. I was able to get my resting blood glucose down to around 73 MG/DL.
That brings me to the most important thing I can possibly think of that really determines how much weight you put on or lose. INSULIN. If you have too much insulin running through your bloodstream or are insulin resistant, you will never burn a single drop of fat from your body unless you are severely under eating. Insulin is the hormone that basically tells your body that you have plenty of energy available so don't go breaking down any fat for energy. The problem gets even worse when we have all of this insulin floating around and we keep consuming more, it just make more insulin and stores the excess energy as fat. Add a different type of energy source to that mix like protein/fat and there is no way that is getting used for energy and goes through a process and stored as fat. Its an endless cycle. Protein and Fat suppress the hormone Ghrelin which is what tells your brain your are satiated, while carbs/sugars (Glucose) do not which is why you can eat so much more fruit and veggies without feeling full than you can meat or dairy.
Sorry this is so long, More people need to know how our food industry and scientists have deceived us for decades and throw in a dif diet perspective but I got carried away and could go on forever. Its great that you found something that works for you so keep doing it, just keep an eye on the blood sugar and do some digging on Oxalates since you consume a lot of fruit and veggies. Dr. Sally Norton is very knowledgeable on the topic. https://sallyknorton.com/oxalate-science/oxalate-basics/
I absolutely agree that we consume too much. The average serving size compared to the 1960's has increased dramatically. There have also been quiet a few detrimental things regarding our diets that we have been completely mislead about for decades. One is the whole idea that dietary fat is bad for us. Back in the 1960's the sugar industry paid off a group of Harvard scientists to put the blame on dietary fat as the cause for heart disease. This lead to the food industry removing fat from food which made it bland and unpalatable. The answer to this was add sugar to just about everything. In the 70's high fructose corn syrup came along and that saved manufacturers a boatload of money, now that is in everything. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat
Another big one is the Ancel Keys 7 country study. Which turns out was really a 22 country study but he cherry picked the data & manipulated his graph to show that dietary cholesterol was the cause for heart disease. We now know that dietary cholesterol is protective in nature. The best analogy I have heard is "blaming cholesterol for clogging an artery because it is present at the blockage is no different than blaming the fireman for starting the fire because he was at the scene." Really calcium build up is the #1 cause for almost all heart blockages and a Coronary calcium scan can tell you way in advance your chances of heart disease. That is why I cringe when I hear that an older person is told to take dietary calcium. When really they should be taking vitamin K2 and D3 along with magnesium. We should not have calcium floating around in our blood stream, and K2 helps put it back in our bones where it belongs. https://deniseminger.com/2011/12/22/the-truth-about-ancel-keys-weve-all-got-it-wrong/
I started with the keto diet myself but than I slowly transitioned into the carnivore diet. I can honestly say that once my body switched over from being in sugar/carb burning mode for so long and my gut microbiome adjusted to digesting only dead animals I had insane amounts of energy & never felt better in my entire life. I felt like I was always running a little warmer than usual but I ended up loosing about 45 lbs without working out once or counting a single calorie. Just ate till I was stuffed. Salt intake was important to keep up with since the kidney excrete a lot more salt when consuming protein/fat without carbs. When I started keto the best thing I did and recommend getting no matter what diet is a blood glucose meter and take a measurement an hour after eating different things and see what it does to your blood sugar. Also test yourself in the mornings while fasted. I was able to get my resting blood glucose down to around 73 MG/DL.
That brings me to the most important thing I can possibly think of that really determines how much weight you put on or lose. INSULIN. If you have too much insulin running through your bloodstream or are insulin resistant, you will never burn a single drop of fat from your body unless you are severely under eating. Insulin is the hormone that basically tells your body that you have plenty of energy available so don't go breaking down any fat for energy. The problem gets even worse when we have all of this insulin floating around and we keep consuming more, it just make more insulin and stores the excess energy as fat. Add a different type of energy source to that mix like protein/fat and there is no way that is getting used for energy and goes through a process and stored as fat. Its an endless cycle. Protein and Fat suppress the hormone Ghrelin which is what tells your brain your are satiated, while carbs/sugars (Glucose) do not which is why you can eat so much more fruit and veggies without feeling full than your can meat or dairy.
Sorry this is so long, More people need to know how our food industry and scientists have deceived us for decades and throw in a dif diet perspective but I got carried away and could go on forever. Its great that you found something that works for you so keep doing it, just keep an eye on the blood sugar and do some digging on Oxalates since you consume a lot of fruit and veggies. Dr. Sally Norton is very knowledgeable on the topic. https://sallyknorton.com/oxalate-science/oxalate-basics/