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We're happy to support you. If dog food helps you reach your goals, then long live dog food. :) But the lesson some of us learned the hard way is that treating this as a short-term weight-loss diet doesn't work very well. I was very successful in 2004. That's why I tried low carb again in 2014. But between 2004 and 2014, I…

There's a cool picture galley where people submit pictures of themselves. You can search by height and weight. Find a match you like. :) http://www.mybodygallery.com/

BTW, at least one of the studies the article sites on obesity and fecal transplants has been retracted: http://retractionwatch.com/2016/04/28/paper-linking-fecal-transplants-to-obesity-in-rats-retracted-for-faked-data/

If true, then the cure is just a good course of antibiotics. :)

FWIW, I was around 100g/d carbs when I had my stone. But I was running daily, which lead to both ketosis and short-term dehydration. Stones are much more common during the warmer months when dehydration is more likely. But you mentioned a kidney infection. That can be the result of a bladder infection, and the stones can…

You're trying to motivate yourself with a negative incentive. First, negative incentives are less effective than positive incentives. Second, your "will power" is a limited resource and a poor tool for controlling your diet. That's why diets fail. Find LC foods you love. Avoid the triggers long enough to make LC a habit.…

If you're craving salt, you may need salt. Just make it low carb. Soup, pork rinds, or PICKLES.

This (and some of the suggestions on your other thread) seem to promote an unhealthy relationship with food. I guess the approach I took was to find low-carb foods I LOVED and eat them. There was no incentive to go "off plan" and no need to visualize germs or eat dog food. :)

Did you get your 24-hour urinalysis yet? If not, request it after you pass the stone(s). It'll give you lots of insight into how it was made.

First step is to know your triggers. Second step is to avoid them. It's mostly mindset. I like @Sunny_Bunny_'s approach. There are only two categories -- food and not-food. If you start down the slope, don't beat yourself up. Just start over with better discipline. Simply logging the food helps me. It makes me more…

Effects of Dietary Composition on Energy Expenditure During Weight-Loss Maintenance Among overweight and obese young adults compared with pre–weight-loss energy expenditure, isocaloric feeding following 10% to 15% weight loss resulted in decreases in REE and TEE that were greatest with the low-fat diet, intermediate with…

Among obesity doctors, there seems to be a consensus that bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment. It has the best record for long-term weight loss. Not 100%, but better than any other known approach. The holy grail is to understand why it works so well and to replicate those benefits without surgery. Some clues…

Ketogenic just means "generating ketones." If you're in ketosis, your diet is ketogenic. I looked at your diary on the couple days you did complete logging. Looks like your calories were pretty high on those days. It also looks like you're treating fat as a goal. If so, don't. As you've discovered, eating a lot of fat…

It doesn't have to be high fat. As you say, the idea is to feast on the fat of your body. :) As you lose body fat, and you continue to restrict carbs, you may need to increase dietary fat. It's just for satiety. The idea is to find your dietary groove without suffering through hunger. Fighting hunger is a losing battle.…

Fung wrote about it today! https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/the-biggest-loser-diet/ I do not follow his logic at all. He essentially says bariatric surgery patients don't have this problem, therefore fasting doesn't have this problem, because bariatric surgery is just like intermittent fasting (as opposed to calorie…

I would be happy with those numbers. :) Your TG/HDL ratio is perfect. Your LDL is perfect. LDL tends to go up on low-carb, mostly due to increased SFA intake. There's no evidence it's a Bad Thing, and might even be a Good Thing. :)

Recomp is a sloooow process. Much slower than weight loss in my experience. I don't lift weights much. Mostly, I run. As an old guy, I didn't expect much change, but my calves showed a pretty good improvement in muscle definition, and my quads are slooooowly showing some muscles. After a friggin 1.5 years! Wanna see my…

Kevin Hall interviewed on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/05/02/biggest-loser-show-weight-gain-post-show-lead-hall.cnn "evidence on fixing this problem is very limited" "something is special about bariatric surgery" "if we can better understand what's special about surgery, maybe we can help people keep weight off…

@Sunny_Bunny_ , yeah, a good comparison is Keys' famous Minnesota Starvation Study. It wasn't really "starvation." It was high-carb and low-calorie. Pretty much the same results. Everybody ate like crazy, regained most or all of the lost weight. Fat comes back more quickly than muscle.

FFM went from 50% at baseline to 71% at the end of the show. After 6 years, it went down to 53%. RMR was predicted based on their particular tissue composition. It was WAY below the predicted value. Even after regain, RMR was still in the toilet. Pretty much the definition of "broken."

I've posted this before: http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2016/03/constitutional-obesity-and-resistance.html It's basically a theory that our fat destiny is predetermined by the fat cells we grow as kids. Fat cells (almost) never die, and they're always bugging us to refill them if we deplete them. :(

FFM = fat-free mass (mostly muscle). With weight loss (end of 30 weeks), you'd expect both FM and FFM to decline as it did. But FFM actually went WAY up as a % of body weight, so that's a Good Thing. RQ went up a bit as they gained weight. Like I said earlier, just another sign that they're eating high-carb and burning…

@Lillith32, I think you're right. And it's probably a combination of screwed-up hormones and screwed-up sensitivity to those hormones. The biggest change we experience on low-carb, IMO, is improved sensitivity. Normal hunger. Normal metabolism. And for some of us, normal sleep, normal skin, normal digestion, etc. It's just…

Table 1 is very informative.

Yes, there are some low-carb studies that suggest:* leptin sensitivity improves on low-carb * leptin levels don't fall as much as on low-fat * other hunger hormones (such as ghrelin) are suppressed by ketones

Right, this is not an invalidation of the health benefits. But it would still be interesting to know which health benefits come from being low carb and which come from weight loss. Personally, I think high insulin levels cause lots of problems.

Exactly. This study showed weight loss, just no additional fat loss due to being low carb. So in one sense, it's just a validation of CICO. But combined with ALL the other studies showing that low-carb works for weight loss even with "ad lib" eating, it strongly suggests that the results are nearly 100% due to appetite…

Blockage is pretty rare (lucky me). And it's even more rare in women. You'll do fine. Increase water intake. Consider supplementing with Mg-K-Citrate. Take it easy on the high-oxalate foods, and maybe the high-purine meats.

Well, 30 weeks is how long they were losing weight. You'd expect a reduction in RMR with weight loss. You wouldn't expect it with a weight regain. So 11 of the 16 clearly had a "broken" metabolism. That is something to fear. But 5 of them, almost 1/3 had a pretty normal response -- RMR went up with increased weight,…

Ouch! Allow me to commiserate with you: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10239560/kidney-stones/p1