I have followed a high fat, low carb diet for eight years and I love it. It is how I live, and I will never go back to living on carbs. The energy is steady and always available, the appetite is perfectly controlled by the automatic rebalancing of appetite hormones that naturally occurs, and the mental clarity is astounding. Running on fat for fuel instead of carbs produces about 30% less metabolic waste, so it's much cleaner than burning glucose (all carbs [sugars and starches] are broken down into glucose). As far as your mitochondria are concerned and how they make all the energy for your body, it's the difference between heating your wood stove with rolled up newspapers or heating it with hardwood. I only feel like eating twice a day, I NEVER get cravings (you will no longer find bread tempting, or even chocolate cake), 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, ground meat, bacon, unlimited 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 fueling up with fat and your body is "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 happened to everyone I've ever advised who started eating this way.

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 should. And if they're hunters, they sit around all day except when hunting. Of course, they're not conscious of any of this, but nature takes care of everything. And we humans don't have to be conscious of it 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 during the eons before agriculture when humans had converted to hunters.

The mechanism behind why eating fat doesn't make you fat, but eating carbs makes you fat, is rooted in the role of insulin. Insulin is the only tool the body has for signaling fat storage. When your insulin is too high, your body will convert the carbs you eat to fat for storage, even if your body needs those carbs for immediate energy. This is why overweight people are hungry a lot. They are not overweight because they are hungry a lot, they are hungry a lot because they are overweight. Being overweight is in essence a state of artificially-induced starvation. Conversely, the only tool the body has for signaling the release of stored fat, is a relative absence of insulin. The only thing that causes your insulin to be too high is carbs. Cut down enough carbs, and your insulin drops. As soon as your insulin drops sufficiently, your fat cells start releasing their stored fat for burning to energy. All you have to do is take your insulin levels way down by lowering carb intake. It's that simple. Eating fat does not affect insulin levels, and you can run on fat permanently without any need for carbs. Fat and glucose (carbs) are the only two options your body has for fuel. So when you cut down carbs, you must replace them with fats, otherwise you'll go hungry. Making yourself hungry is completely unnecessary for effortless weight loss, and in fact will set you at war with nature which you will most assuredly lose.

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. Another great book if you want to take a little deeper dive is Gary Taubes' "Why We Get Fat". I can also recommend other sources for anyone who wants to delve even deeper.

I'd love to have a discussion about this with as many people in this community as possible. I think this community is a perfect match for an Ancestral way of eating. And if you all have any questions, I'd be happy to answer as best I can.

I have followed a high fat, low carb diet for eight years and I love it. It is how I live, and I will never go back to living on carbs. The energy is steady and always available, the appetite is perfectly controlled by the automatic rebalancing of appetite hormones that naturally occurs, and the mental clarity is astounding. Running on fat for fuel instead of carbs produces about 30% less metabolic waste, so it's much cleaner than burning glucose (all carbs [sugars and starches] are broken down into glucose). As far as your mitochondria are concerned and how they make all the energy for your body, it's the difference between heating your wood stove with rolled up newspapers or heating it with hardwood. I only feel like eating twice a day, I NEVER get cravings (you will no longer find bread tempting, or even chocolate cake), 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, ground meat, bacon, unlimited 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 fueling up with fat and your body is "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 happened to everyone I've ever advised who started eating this way.

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 should. And if they're hunters, they sit around all day except when hunting. Of course, they're not conscious of any of this, but nature takes care of everything. And we humans don't have to be conscious of it 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 during the eons before agriculture when humans had converted to hunters.

The mechanism behind why eating fat doesn't make you fat, but eating carbs makes you fat, is rooted in the role of insulin. Insulin is the only tool the body has for signaling fat storage. When your insulin is too high, your body will convert the carbs you eat to fat for storage, even if your body needs those carbs for immediate energy. This is why overweight people are hungry a lot. They are not overweight because they are hungry a lot, they are hungry a lot because they are overweight. Being overweight is in essence a state of artificially-induced starvation. Conversely, the only tool the body has for signaling the release of stored fat, is a relative absence of insulin. The only thing that causes your insulin to be too high is carbs. Cut down enough carbs, and your insulin drops. As soon as your insulin drops sufficiently, your fat cells start releasing their stored fat for burning to energy. All you have to do is take your insulin levels way down by lowering carb intake. It's that simple. Fat does not affect insulin levels, and you can run on fat permanently without any need for carbs. Fat and glucose (carbs) are the only two options your body has for fuel. So when you cut down carbs, you must replace them with fats, otherwise you'll go hungry. Making yourself hungry is completely unnecessary for effortless weight loss, and in fact will set you at war with nature which you will most assuredly lose.

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. Another great book if you want to take a deeper dive is Gary Taubes' "Why We Get Fat". I can also recommend other sources for anyone who wants to delve even deeper.

I'd love to have a discussion about this with as many people in this community as possible. I think this community is a perfect match for an Ancestral way of eating. And if you all have any questions, I'd be happy to answer as best I can.

I have followed a high fat, low carb diet for eight years and I love it. It is how I live, and I will never go back to living on carbs. The energy is steady and always available, the appetite is perfectly controlled by the automatic rebalancing of appetite hormones that naturally occurs, and the mental clarity is astounding. Running on fat for fuel instead of carbs produces about 30% less metabolic waste, so it's much cleaner than burning glucose (all carbs [sugars and starches] are broken down into glucose). As far as your mitochondria are concerned and how they make all the energy for your body, it's the difference between heating your wood stove with rolled up newspapers or heating it with hardwood. I only feel like eating twice a day, I NEVER get cravings (you will no longer find bread tempting, or even chocolate cake), 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, ground meat, bacon, unlimited 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 fueling up with fat and your body is "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 happened to everyone I've ever advised who started eating this way.

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 should. And if they're hunters, they sit around all day except when hunting. Of course, they're not conscious of any of this, but nature takes care of everything. And we humans don't have to be conscious of it 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 during the eons before agriculture when humans had converted to hunters.

The mechanism behind why eating fat doesn't make you fat, but eating carbs makes you fat, is rooted in the role of insulin. Insulin is the only tool the body has for signaling fat storage. When your insulin is too high, your body will convert the carbs you eat to fat for storage, even if your body needs those carbs for immediate energy. This is why overweight people are hungry a lot. They are not overweight because they are hungry a lot, they are hungry a lot because they are overweight. Being overweight is in essence a state of artificially-induced starvation. Conversely, the only tool the body has for signaling the release of stored fat, is a relative absence of insulin. The only thing that causes your insulin to be too high is carbs. Cut down enough carbs, and your insulin drops. As soon as your insulin drops sufficiently, your fat cells start releasing their stored fat for burning as energy. All you have to do is take your insulin levels way down by lowering carb intake. It's that simple. Fat does not affect insulin, and you can run on fat permanently without any need for carbs. Fat and glucose (carbs) are the only two options your body has for fuel. So when you cut down carbs, you must replace them with fats, otherwise you'll go hungry. Making yourself hungry is completely unnecessary for effortless weight loss, and in fact will set you at war with nature which you will most assuredly lose.

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. Another great book if you want to take a deeper dive is Gary Taubes' "Why We Get Fat". I can also recommend other sources for anyone who wants to delve even deeper.

I'd love to have a discussion about this with as many people in this community as possible. I think this community is a perfect match for an Ancestral way of eating. And if you all have any questions, I'd be happy to answer as best I can.