This is true.
I have been doing this for the last 6 months:
- No sugar
- No starch
- No vegetable fats
- Eat once every 24 hours
However, in order to reduce my consumption I had to learn how to cook because my body drives me to eat a variety of interesting things.
The strange thing is that 6 months in, I now have no cravings for any foods and I sometimes skip eating for up to 48 hours without any impact on my energy or concentration.
Looking back, I have no idea how I was eating 3 times a day. I think I mostly ate to distract me from the day to day stress so maybe this chyna virus is what has allowed me to achieve this.
I did a bit of intermitent fasting by eating only one normal meal a day and a keto diet for 6 month to loose weight; lost 25kg sitting on my ass watching youtube and playing games (I was unemployed at the time). When I would tell my friend about it, they would just say that they would faint if they don't eat three times a day; to which I would respond that there is something wrong with their diet.
I’m doing the one meal a day (OMAD) with a longer fast thrown in once or twice a week. I’m juicing a variety of vegetables and holding it down to one fruit. Look up autophagy. I’ve dropped 30 lbs over a month and feel fantastic. Low carbs seem to be responsible for the weight loss no doubt but not going near processed foods with seed oils has left me rejuvenated. I’m sleeping better, my energy level is sky high and I feel more mentally alert.
I've been on a straight meat carnivore diet for 2 years. It cured my asthma. Run 30km week now on zero carbs
Wow. Amazing. I keep on reathing about similar experiences.
// EDIT: What do you eat in a typical week?
I went on it to see if it helped my terrible depression and anxiety (it did heaps). Was not expecting to have my asthma completely go away. No more daily corticosteroids!
I eat everything animal based. Bacon 3 eggs and ground beef or steak for breakfast. Another steak for dinner, maybe some lamb. Always fatty cuts
It's a pretty repetitious diet but I never get bored. I'm slim and feel great
Very interesting, thank you for sharing. I posted a video on fasting and I did the 16:8 method with good results.
For anyone interested, I have been trying to figure out full fasting (no eating for many days at a time) and intermittent fasting for about two years now.
While I have figured out the procedure for getting into a full fast I did discover that it was difficult to keep even intermittent fasting going for a long time. For those that are not aware, intermittent fasting is just eating one meal every 24 hours.
Here is what I discovered was super important:
Most important: I had to learn the basics of cooking. The body craves all kinds of things at all kinds of times of day. If you don't know how to cook you cannot satisfy your bodies need for the kinds of variety it will be looking for an you will eventually end up snacking or eating restaurant food.
Second most important thing: De-stress. I never thought this was an issue, but going to work with and/or for people that you hate has a hell of an impact on my eating habits. The chyna virus kind of opened my eyes to how much I was eating just to distract my self even though I just thought it was normal to eat 3 times a day.
Third most important thing: Downregulate your hormone levels. Did you know there is a hormone called ghrelin that controls our apetite? If you didn't know this, you probably thought you were hungry because your stomach was empty right? Nope. Hunger is controlled by ghrelin. How much fat you store is controled by the insulin hormone. You would not believe how many things in our body are regulated by hormone levels. The inverse is true too ... you wouldn't believe how many inputs from the environment (stress, food input, etc) affect your hormone levels. There are GIANT feedback loops built into how our bodies perform making losing weight really difficult.
It turns out that you cannot control how much and when you eat at all as far as I can tell. The only thing that you can do is interfere with the feedback loops that impact our hormone response and regulation systems.
It also turns out that the biggest impact on our hormone levels are controlled by sugars. I separate sugars and starches into categories because that is how we label food, to our body they are the same thing. Basically, if you cut out all sugars and starches your body will automatically start to downregulate your hormone levels because it is sugars and starches that are the cause of the majour spikes in hormone response levels.
I cannot tell yet if cooking was the most important part of the strategy or the chyna virus de-stressing my work environment that was ultimately what has allowed me to eat once a day to be honest. Right now, I feel it was learning to cook because my cravings went away once I learned how to cook because I no longer crave anything and eating once a day is the new normal.
But right now, eating once a day is not even intermittent fasting for me. It's normal. Yesterday I had 4 plain smokies in a baguette for dinner around 8pm, I am not hungry now and wont eat until about 7pm. Today I might even skip because I'm not that hungry.
Cutting out vegetable oils doesn't seem to really have affected my hormone downregulation in a noticeable way, I just did that for health reasons as per video above and other similar videos. Of course, to cook you have to use fats and obviously its beef / pork fat and butter. I can't use coconut oil because it makes everything taste like coconut.
But, there is another side effect of eating less and less because the cravings are gone: I am finding I am using less and less fat these days as well. With the exception of Indian and Chinese cooking which is very heavy on fats, I am even using less and less fat for some reason. I don't even crave most of the variety of foods that I used to crave in the past so I guess using less fat is just a sideffect of downregulating my hormone levels.
The human body is a wild mechanism.
>I can't use coconut oil because it makes everything taste like coconut.
Get the "refined" type, not the "extra virgin" type. It's good to have shelf stable options for fat.
No starch I had 4 plain smokies in a baguette
Where can I buy grain-free baguettes?
I used juicing to build up to OMAD. Right now I’m trying to burn fat so I go low on the protein everyday. Trying to become less insulin resistant. Every ten days or so I’ll go for some protein and animal fat. I don’t lose weight but I don’t gain either. Everything I’ve seen points to seed oils being poison and adulterates processed foods.
I think you are right, I have noticed I crave unhealthy kinds of food less if I eat healthy (less carbs and sugar = less cravings).
Note that carbohydrates are sugar
Sounds like you’re carnivore like myself
Yup! If you get rid of sugars and starches you are left with meat and green veg on your plate. Which is pretty much carnivore or close to it.
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