Took me a while to find time to read it all, but that's some very interesting info, thank you for taking your time to write all that.
I known about how bad the seed oils are and that coconut oil is a great alternative, but what do you think about pure oilve oil?
While I was on Keto I was lifting and didn't suffer any loss of strength and kept progressing, but what I noticed was that I had a lot less stamina. Now that I'm back on carbs I can workout for a lot longer.
I had heard about a study that put a low sugar diet up against a low fat diet. Both groups ended up losing weight due to decreased food intake and the results were essentially the same with the low fat group winning by an insignificant amount.
I never tired keto, but all I can think about is what deprivation it would be. Carbohydrates are bad, but for some reason every cell in your body can derive energy from glucose. Starch is bundled up glucose, and most cultures have a starchy plant as their staple food. Cells have a battery compartment and glucose is the battery.
One time I decided to avoid fast food, and I would eat vegetarian frozen meals instead. I ultimately became a vegetarian. I thought I was eating like a pig, and usually ate granola bars with sugar in the morning. I also liked cold coffee with sugar and milk. I actually ended up losing almost 15 pounds (went from skinny to even skinnier), and I didn't feel deprived at all.
I was actually on a low fat diet for long time due to calorie counting and all that, so fatty food was bad since it had most calories. In turn it made my gallbladder weak so I decided to go to a keto diet for a year. No gallbladder of mine is going to be a weakfag. It did fix the problem.
Once you get adapted to using fat for feul, and if you make sure that your electrolytes are in check, there really is no deprivation. Your cravings completely change, all you want to eat is fatty meat, eggs, daily and such. The biggest issue is that it's difficult to sustain since you have to cook everything specially for yourself and if you eat out options are very limited.
I remembered reading about blood groups and diet, and my blood group was supposed to thrive on low carb high meat diet, and it turns out it really did work for me.
Right now, I eat a lot of meat, dairy, eggs with most of my carbs coming from root vegetables. So basically like when I was on Keto, but root vegetables and occasionally fruit for carbs.
I'm not sure about any validity of blood type diets. People tend to hone in on one or two things and build a diet philosophy on it. You will also find families with different blood types, and often times you have one person cooking for the whole family. My mom is O and I believe most of the rest of us are A. I don't live with them anymore, but I'm just saying. I think O is supposed to be meat eaters and being vegan is for A types. Unfortunately, I don't usually feel like cooking, so I don't do well with eating because of that. I also don't make a ton of money.
If it's actual olive oil and not adulterated it's okay. It is weak, though, and will be damaged by oxygen a little and isn't very strong against heat. I think it's relatively high in omega 3 fat, though. One of the better oils if you're not brutalizing it with hit and especially time and using it in large amounts like deep frying.
I was having trouble building up stamina on the exercise bike. All I can think of is that I'm getting older. I started doing an exercise bike with hand cranks with the resistance as high as it goes. If your legs get tired, you can push hard with your arms. It's great for a more constant pushing of the heart and lungs. With a high resistance exercise bike only, my leg muscles burnout, and I can't keep going.
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