I just finished reading The Obesity Code and it resonated very deeply with me based on my own journey with weight gain and loss and Type 2 Diabetes. It also pained me because I spent many years being verbally abused by doctors and given insulin and sulfonylurea drugs, told to eat a low-fat, high-carb diet, consistently gaining weight, and told I was not following their protocol. That ended in 2009 when I just by chance started doing the Atkins Diet to avoid gastric bypass surgery and lost almost 100 lbs and stopped all medication but Metformin within weeks. I stopped Metformin a few months later. I maintained the weight loss for just over a year and then noticed that I would periodically begin to retain water, so I began to water fast for a few days at a time after each incident until I no longer felt swollen.

Like the OP, I am here to heal. I am a metabolic mess and I do not know the answers. I just know that I feel best when I eat fat, meat, water, and salt and when I take a break from eating.

I was curious in the book in the Solutions chapter in Step 3 : Moderate Your Protein Consumption (p. 230) as to why he is advocating limiting protein to 20-30% of total calories citing, "Excessively high-protein diets are not advisable and are quite difficult to follow, since protein is rarely eaten in isolation...thus...are usually quite unpalatable" as his reason along with them being difficult to comply with. I do not see any research supporting this.

Just curious about others opinions. Some days my diet is mostly protein, others mostly fat. I do eat carbohydrates occasionally but that is willful.

you should eat a high fiber diet with carbs that are high in fiber and high protein high fat while doing a low carb ketogenic diet and intermediate fasting

@Roseygirl1 it would appear that you are on the right track here. One of the take home ideas from a LCHF convention I just attended was that small changes gradually applied can be helpful. After all, we didn't get to where we are now suddenly but gradually, over a long period of time. I find that I can incorporate many helpful ideas if I allow myself time to incorporate them into my practice. Thanks for the great insight shown in this thread.

GregStone2 wrote: »

thats what I started doing

GregStone2 wrote: »

you should eat a high fiber diet with carbs that are high in fiber and high protein high fat [/b]while doing a low carb ketogenic diet and intermediate fasting

I don't know how high fiber, high protein, high fat ketogenic would work. Typically when you say you eat a high (whatever) diet, you eat more of a certain macro than all others, thereby only one of them is high while the others are low or moderate. This is a very confusing statement.
And fiber can do a lot of harm to the system. It's another one of those things we have always been told we "need" so much of that upon going without we can realize how much better off we typically are...
I was always told to eat high fiber since I had no gall bladder and IBS. Back then, I actually felt like it helped. But going keto was like a light came on and I realized I felt better with little of it and then going carnivore really made a difference finally getting rid of the last symptoms of digestive issues while getting only traces of fiber on occasion.

@Roseygirl1 you are such an inspiringly positive person.

RE the 70s and snacking, I grew up in the 60s and my family as well as all my friends families at 3 meals a day. There were no snacks except possibly Saturday night. Usually this was a cereal bowl of popcorn and perhaps a shared bottle (16 oz back then) of regular soda. So about 4 oz of soda. If you complained of feeling hungry before supper, it was "you'll spoil your appetite". This was just normal eating. Dishes were done and no one ate again until the next meal.

At school, there were no snacks except kindergarteners who got milk and a graham cracker for a snack midmorning before their nap. Kindergarten was a half day. No one starved. Poor grades weren't blamed on lack of food at home. Funny how test scores continue to drop and yet we are providing more and more food to kids at school (breakfast, lunches and now, in our area, we are providing afterschool snacks and even box lunches for kids to take home and eat. Ok, off my soapbox.

You still see that "food pyramid", "healthy plate" influence on all of them but at least the other countries have actual food and not food products...