Quote: (07-22-2016 01:56 PM)Tail Gunner Wrote:
Quote: (07-22-2016 10:49 AM)Balkan Wrote:
I get where you're coming from. Eating a significant amount of calories from fat easily gets repetitive. I found a system that works for me but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get boring.
Yes, that is exactly my point (just stated another way). I would have no problem constructing a temporary ketogenic diet (for a few weeks or even a few months) to meet short-term goals. For example, for a few months (for therapeutic brain health) I ate 17 ounces of coconut cream per day, which provided me with about 100 grams of healthy fat per day (and, unfortunately, about 1,000 extra calories).
I do think that you are continuing to place way too much emphasis on calories.
The below linked article is interesting, even though I may not agree with the exact explanation, but think about it, in the 1940s, US farmers were going to attempt to fatten up a bunch of pigs by using coconut oil, and they thought that were going to get a competitive advantage with fatty pigs, but instead they got lean and mean pigs (so they switched back to feeding the pigs corn and grain so they could get fatter).
https://physicalculturestudy.com/2014/12...-for-pigs/
I think that the digestion of humans is a lot like pigs in that we are both omnivores, and grains and carbs are going to fatten us up, while fats are going to slim us up (especially good fats like coconut oil).
Quote: (07-22-2016 01:56 PM)Tail Gunner Wrote:
But Dr. Mercola obviously means this as a permanent long-term healthy diet: "most people actually need upwards of 50-70 percent healthful fats in their diet for optimal health! My personal diet is about 60-70 percent healthy fat." I just do not see how such a diet is maintained on a long-term basis.
I think that if you are maintaining a decent weight, then you just continue with aspiring to certain fat levels, and if you are getting bored, then of course you likely are going to have to mix up your diet a bit, yet if that is causing weight gain, then you are doing something wrong.
Of course, we can have some carbs in our diet and we even need to have some carbs to feed the healthy gut bacteria (which is also including some resistance starches in our diet).., and so sometimes, we can mix up the various levels of carbs and the kinds of carbs in our diet while still keeping the carb levels below 30% maybe preferably to keep carbs below 20%, but we can still play around with the range.
Regarding the range, this need not be a daily focus, but may be more healthy and practical to consider on a weekly basis to shoot for maybe keeping fats between 40% to 60% (and shoot for the higher end of the range when possible), proteins 20 to 30% (nothing wrong with keeping these at the lower end of the range as long as good quality proteins and getting adequate amount of protein, maybe getting more protein when exercising a lot), and carbs shooting for 15% to 30% (shooting for the lower end of the range and keeping in mind that probably need at least 10% or more in the diet just to feed the healthy gut bacteria, and sometimes can still splurge a bit more with natural food carbs that can just be parts of other foods including vegetables, nuts, dairy, and even rice and potatoes and some other night shades such as squash... fruits can be included here, but really small amounts of fruits overall, yet any of these carbs can be mixed up and mixed in to keep things more interesting as long as kind of within the limits)