Just a thought here....I remember my first real diet effort was in 2000, when I did 12 weeks of the Body For Life program. That program said to eat 6 little meals per day (for example, one "meal" might be an apple with a piece of string cheese). No matter how I tried, I simply could NOT eat that much, that often. It drove me nuts. I might manage 5 of these little meals, but more often 4 was all I could do, including one in the evening. Now I was also doing an intensive exercise program 6 days a week, and I did drop 25 pounds in 12 weeks, but no way could I sustain that way of eating and exercising for life in order to maintain. Of course, the dominant thing in those days was that notion that eating frequently pumped up your rate of metabolism, as well as an intensive rate of exercise, but I don't buy that any more. If your body is ALWAYS busy digesting food, when does it repair? When can it burn fat? I just don't personally believe that theory now. And I lose weight far more quickly by NOT doing frequent, intensive exercise such as I did back in 2000. The light bulb went on in my head in 2003 when I first tried Atkins...I had a sprained shoulder from a ski fall, and did Atkins for maybe 6 weeks, lost about 10 lbs effortlessly, and did zero exercise of any kind. It was all about the food I ate (and didn't eat!!) And I felt more fantastic than I'd ever felt before, too, and that was a real revelation! That's when I started reading up seriously on low carb and I've stuck with it ever since (with varying levels of compliance, of course, but still with LC principles strongly in my mind).
Dr. Fung's lectures absolutely make total sense to me, the idea that one is either in a feeding or fasted state. And the fasted state is when the body repairs and burns fat. Instinctively that makes more sense to me. I've read so many great things about the benefits of spending more time in a fasted state, and it all rings true with me. I can say I definitely feel better not eating so much, and eating in response to true hunger, and not overeating.
Last edited by CMCM : Fri, Oct-06-17 at 13:41.
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