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« on: April 14, 2014, 05:17:33 am »
I have been chronic ZC for years and mostly chronic VLC for a decade before that. I have become metabolically resistant to weight loss from gaining and losing the same 100lb over and over. If I start eating starch or sugar I have somehow developed the ability to gain weight faster than I can eat it, nevermind lose it. Two weeks of carbs can set me back 3 months of weight loss on strict ZC. Also, I get itchy, gassy, smelly, depressed, mood swings, asthma, intense hunger and cravings for the worst poison junk food, skin problems, I sleep an extra 4 hours and still feel like shit when I drag myself out of bed, catch frequent colds, there is more but I've made my point. I'm like an addict, if I let it go on long enough you will find me in a car littered with chocolate wrappers and fast food bags maxing out my last credit card at the mcdonalds drive thru. I say no thank you to all of that, I will take ketosis for life whatever the alleged consequences. I'm almost 100% sure the people who had problems were making one of the big three mistakes: cheating too frequently to fully adapt to burning fatty acids in the body directly and reserving most ketones for the brain, eating such a large amount of protein that it converts to glucose and resets adaptation, or not drastically increasing the fat intake for normal weight people.
About the resistant starch and gut bacteria, If I am eating raw meat then my gut will be populated with the right bacteria for what I am eating. Why do I need to feed starch to the the starch eating bacteria? This is why I stopped taking probiotics. One day I just realized, "wtf am I doing? These bacteria are for digesting lactose and fermenting plant cellulose. I don't have any of that in my diet. The probiotics must be just dieing and getting eaten by the other bacteria, what a waste of money."