re: Carbs and weight - then vs now

"Good God Man!"

How is it that when I use wiki to look up carbohydrate and look up how many times glucose (sugar) is mentioned, I get 39 hits? Carbohydrates = blood sugar rising ... some at different rates, but still - it is going up.

How is it, I can overeat and stuff my self with 4,000+ "calories" of food each and every day for a month and not gain weight? Probably because I am eating fatty meats and loads of saturate fats.

Or maybe, if we find our baseline of "calories" to not gain weight, then replace some calories with ethanol calories....why in the hell did they lose weight? Opps, they just broke your calorie is a calorie theory.....in 1972. Do you want to know why the caloric theory is wrecked? It is not some straight physics equation like the "experts" want you to believe. It is a biological equation/problem.

Overeating prisoners refuse to gain calculated weight
Summary: It disproves the caloric theory because they didn't gain nearly as much as expected, despite eating 9-10,000 calories per day.

In short - Ask yourself, "Why did Atkins work for so many, yet they found it hard to maintain?" The answer - because Atkins had them eating what they were suppose to. The reason they were having such a hard time was that they were breaking their addiction to sugar and pre-sugar, aka carbs. The food eaten in the 50s had sat fats = less weight and more healthy.

I am going to bed because I've already stated and backed up my position on this subject in previous post. There is a reason the Food Board has over 500+ pages of people losing weight...

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And yes I'm old enough to remember my mother handing the car keys to one of the Wade Lemoine Esso attendants and he opened the trunk and would exchange the wooden case of empty Coke bottles with a fresh one. Those few Cokes were about the extent of our sugar.

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Can't count the bottles I picked up to trade in, sucks that they removed this incentive for kids to get off their arse and do something to make some cash along with pick up litter and replaced it with trashy arse plastic bottles.

A Coke with a stage plank or some Mary Janes was a real treat.

Have you ever tracked calories/macros, just for the data? I'd recommend tracking with my fitness pal, and even measuring for a week.

You might be eating more than you think, or have macros out of whack.

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Welcome to Keto, brother.

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Thanks, I have no idea what to call it but it is amazing how well it works.

I should also add that I am eating fish and small portions of fruit for "treats".

And I will say it again....."I am never really hungry."

I should have done this two decades ago.

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No, they cooked real food. No boxes, no processed. No dehydrated. No bleached flour, no "enriched" anything (enriched sounds like a good thing right?)

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This is periphery- a side factor but not the main factor. I know plenty of people that eat shitty foods almost exclusively but they don't eat much in terms of volume.

The number one reason America is full of fatties is portion size. It's about calories in vs. calories out and it's as simple as that. You're right in that a pound of broccoli fills you up for 100 calories (as opposed to two bites of a cookie for 100 calories) but that's not a factor if you're only taking in 2,000 calories a day.

The number two reason America is full of fatties is our sedentary lifestyle. When I was a kid, I ate candy, McDonald's, healthy foods, non-healthy foods, carbs, sugars, and anything I could get my hands on. I also played football, basketball, hide-and-go seek, freeze tag and any other game I could convince someone to play. I didn't stop moving from sunup to sundown and my mom had to force me inside for a bath at the end of the day. As a result, I was skinny as a rail. And so was every other kid in my class. Go look at a year book from the 1950s, 60s or 70s. Everyone was thin.

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I see what everyone is saying. Here is my situation: - I don't eat sweets, ANY. never have, always hated them -same with sodas -i cook our family dinners from scratch, never using "boxed" stuff or anything like that. I don't even buy chicken stock instead I make my own -carbs, I don't avoid them but I dont seek them out And all if this and I still struggle keeping my weight down.

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It doesn't matter about the sweets, soda intake, carbs or what you're making from scratch. Let me ask you two questions:

1) How many calories are you taking in a day?
2) How many calories are you burning a day?

If you want to lose weight, burn more than you take in. It's that simple. Sure, eating fruits and veggies helps to curb those cravings and make you feel fuller than sweets but honestly- keep your weight under control comes down to a simple math equation.

3.5 hours before
Pasta
Caffeine is fine if it helps you i guess