Crazy shit when I'm eating delicious steaks and other "fattening" things and not really counting calories for the past couple of months, I just eat when I'm hungry...
Makes me wonder how many millions of people have died or suffered from obesity related diseases in the past 50 years because our trusted officials are too busy taking bribes from agribusiness to fact check their dietary recommendations.
Coronary diseases are a bad time zarf, if you are going to eat meat constantly i'd stick to fish.
Am interested to hear more details about your diet though, i'm probably going to have to go the eat lots of meat route to slim down. Important for long term health to transition to something else when done though.
Yeah, I'm on Keto. loads of good info here:
www.reddit.com/r/ketoIt's not really a high meat diet, It's very low carb (20g - 50g a day), then enough protein to maintain your lean muscle mass - somewhere around 100g / day for me - and then the bulk of your calories from fats to whatever calorie deficit you want. I'm comfortable eating between 2000 and 1500 cals a day, which is a deficit of 500-1000 and gives me a weight loss of between one and two pounds a week (body fat is 3500 calories/lb).
I do actually eat a fair amount of fish, usually salmon. Other usual meals are based around beef/pork/lamb steak, bacon, omelettes, chicken. I also eat plenty of dark green veggies, have a bag of frozen broccoli and one of spinach, have them with at least one meal a day, they are cheap and delicious after 5 minutes in a steamer and then with some butter melted over them.
Don't worry about heart disease, there's no link between dietary fat and heart disease on low carb diets. It's all been FUD springing from some severely flawed trials back in the 50's (basically they got only the people who were on the low fat part of the study to also give up smoking and do exercise, so any conclusions about the role of dietary fat alone are meaningless). Subsequent properly controlled studies have proved there's no link. Lots of people on reddit post bloodwork comparisons too and they all improve drastically.
Cholesterol is actually a good thing, your body needs it to transport energy to your cells. Your liver naturally produces two entire packs of butter worth of cholesterol every day and regulates itself effectively, any cholesterol you eat just means your liver makes less. (properly controlled) studies have also shown that a low carb/high fat diet actually improves the ratios of cholesterol in your blood so you have less of the type that can cause plaques and clog arteries.
Some other good sites with properly cited peer reviewed studies are
www.nusi.org, a nonprofit funding studies into nutrition, and
www.ketogenic-diet-resource.com . Theres a calculator to work out how much of each type of maconutrient you should aim for to meet your goals here -
http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com/The main reason why Keto is so effective is that you don't really get hungry on it or have peaks and troughs in energy levels like you would on a more normal diet, so it's easy to stick to your planned calories. Carb heavy diets over a long period of time fuck with your Insulin and Leptin levels, eventually causing resistance to their receptors and thus fucking with the body regulation mechanisms (fat storage, hunger) that these hormones control. This ends up in a downward spiral because the result of becoming resistant to these hormones is that you end up eating more of your carb heavy diet because you feel hungry and tired, and exacerbate the problem. Once you get sufficiently resistant to Insulin you're a type 2 Diabetic.
As you can probably tell, the whole thing has triggered my geekiness, I've become a bit obsessed with reading up about it, finding out how all the biology works is really interesting.
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