re: Can you go a full day without eating processed carbs?

Zero.

I am keto

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If you are counting generally unprocessed carbs like rice I literally couldn't make it 24 hours or my body would shut down. This time of year my caloric intake is about 3800 and roughly 2400 of that will be white/beige carbs or roughly 600 grams.

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You must be running, biking or swimming at least four times a week. If not you probably have some weight to lose.

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6 whole oranges

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Does this mean I have to eat the peel? Because then yes I agree, i probably cant.

I actually did this for weeks during Covid when I had the time to do it. After 10 days of being lethargic, the weight started falling off of me and I got a huge energy boost. That was damn nice.

Addiction level isn't the problem for me.

The problem is convenience. Time is my most valuable resource, and I don't have time to grill fish or meat for the bigger meals very often. I guess to a lesser extent, the problem is also cost as eggs and bacon have grown so much in price in the past 2 years.

Can I? Yes.

Am I today? No. Still have lots of leftover tortillas from a birthday party so I'm doing a big thing of taco meat to get rid of them.

I'm about to get back on the grind, though. Typical day:

Coffee (I'm about to get more serious about IF so it will be black and 1 hour after I wake up min) around 630-730.

Eat lunch around 1130-1230. Will be a protein and green mix (steamed kale/broc and shaved carrots). After will be an apple.


Eat a light snack around 230-330. Usually some cut cheese (do you count these as processed carbs?) and nuts.


Eat dinner around 630-700. Protein, veg mix, and apple. Maybe a little more nuts/cheese.

Brush teeth by 8pm so no more eating.

It's not that difficult and if I start off the period with some ribeyes or picanha or skirt steak, it's not even difficult to get the body used to the carb stuff. After 3 days it's nothing.

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Not even close. Don't know where you came up with this nonsense. You must not weigh yourself much or never binge. I've gained 9lbs over a weekend. And it's gone within 2 days. I vary 3-4lbs a day from morning to night

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That's not a real gain of weight, it's just the fluctuation of fluid and food intake or retention. I was talking about a real gain of 7 pounds. If I drink a gallon of water and weigh myself I've "gained" 8 pounds, but not truly.

I can go a full day without eating, I do a full 24 hour fast every few months.

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I just know cooked potatoes is an easy starch for our bodies to break down into sugars so IMO you can lump potatoes into the the processed carb category. Just like rice.

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i get where you are going with this but 3 things

1) rice and potatoes are not processed at all.

2) the amount of carbs you take in doesnt matter when it comes to body fat loss. what matters is overall calories and protein. Now if you find it easier to stick to a caloric deficiet eating low carb than have at it. All of these diets like keto, carnivore, intermittent fasting etc etc etc are all just stratgies used to keep people consistently in a caloric deficiet. we have dozens upon dozens of studies that show once calories and protein are equated,body fat loss is the same.

with that said i do encourage people to eat lower carbs becasue people gorge on them and have zero concept of how much they are eating at all especially when processed and combined with fat.

3) carbs and sugar are not really addicting in the sense of things like cocaine(i use this example as there are tons of memes about sugar being more addictive than cocaine). and if it was, people wouldnt be able to keep 5lbs bag of pure processed sugar in the house.

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No.

6 navel oranges peeled versus 6 navel oranges squeezed.

The squeezed will go down really easy and you will have room for a sandwich.

Eating all the peeled oranges will be much more difficult to eat and your craving for food after will be nil.

The point is to show the difference between processed and unprocessed carbs. Both the peeled and squeezed have the same number of calories however the squeezed will give you a much higher insulin spike and you are still hungry.

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thats not true if you eat the squeeze and eat the full orange.

so if i take 6 naval oranges peeled and put them in a blender and make juice from them, it will be exactly the same as if i ate them.

if you just squeeze the juice out....sure you are leaving all the fiber behind.

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Someone who used to be a lardass is the best person to give diet advice.

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no he is using a 1 off expierence to try and give diet advice.

and some like carbs for performance, some for hypertrophy.

believe it or not, some people actually weigh and track their food so they no whats best for them and in what amounts.