jfmp wrote: »

Did we ever get a “why” for doing this? I think I am going to do it for at least 2 weeks. I’m on my 4th week of keto, past the keto flu, but don’t feel like I am nutritional ketosis – breath is fine, energy is blah-ish (normal) but not bad, weight loss has stalled (which is fine, doing this for the energy, feeling satiated and to - hopefully - help with neurological disease, mainly). Maybe this will give me a boost into NK. I am going to have coconut oil because I have so much of it and won’t spend any more money on oils/fats until it’s gone. I AM going to try to cut out my raw cacao – I’m assuming it’s not allowed – and stevia because I think stevia is a bit overrated . . . at least for me - cravings-wise, and not reaching NK.

• Curiosity
  This was a big motivator for me. I read the Fat of the Land and was curious about whether or not I could do it. Was it all BS? Wouldn't I get scurvy? I know it says I won't, but people can lie. I wanted to see for myself.
• Unresolved digestive issues
  I suffered, my whole life, with digestive issues. It was to the point where I didn't even recognize that I had issues. I just assumed it was "normal" or at least "normal for me." Everyone has cramping pains from eating. Everyone's gut gurgles and growls all the time. Everyone farts constantly. Everyone has extreme swings in the consistency of their waste. Everyone spends hours in the bathroom each day.
• Extreme Sensitivity to Carbs
  Atkin's original plan recognized that people have varying levels of carb tolerance. He started people at zero grams, and slowly moved them up 5 grams at a time until they stopped losing weight. For some people, any attempt to move up would lead to issues, and they would discover that any amount of carbs caused issues with weight loss.
  
  This is something I still stress. If you're not losing weight, if you can't eat without tracking because you overeat, the first "correction" you should attempt would be to cut the carbs down even more. It wouldn't be to accept that you just need to track forever.
• Simplicity
  No need to track, no need to weigh, no need to meal plan, etc. You eat meat and you just find things get simple really fast. Your desire for sweets and snacks will eventually subside. The longer you do it, the easier it becomes. You find that your energy is level and you don't ever feel like you are starving. There might be times when you know you're hungry, but you aren't ravenous.
• To prove FIT-Goat wrong
  This was a motivation for a couple people the last time around. They thought I was an idiot and that this wouldn't work. The biggest group jumped in during the Ad Libitum (eat to hunger without restriction) experiment and stuck around to test this one out too. Maybe you'll eat this way and it will not work. You'll be able to say you tried it and didn't like it.
• Health
  Eating this way tends to positively benefit your health. You'll find your body finally running correctly on the right fuel for it. Your whole life of eating has been like pouring vodka in your car's gas tank, wondering why things don't run right, and now you're going to try ethanol-free gasoline. You'll see how things were meant to run.
• Ultimate Removal Diet
  You've removed all (well almost all) possible things causing issues. You can get a real baseline, and see how you react as you add things back in.
• Weight normalization
  Yeah, you will probably lose fat, if you're over-fat. You'll probably gain some weight, if you're underweight. You'll approach a healthy weight for your body.
• Other random side effects
  My seasonal allergies vanished. Maybe it was coincidence, but I was taking daily allergy meds before eating like this, and now I am off them without symptoms. No migraines. Although, to be fair, my migraines had resolved with keto. No stinky tonsil stones, also had already improved dramatically from keto but vanished since meat-only. Increased heat tolerance? This one might be in my head, but I just never seem to be bothered by the heat unless it's really extreme.