Ignoramus15381 wrote:
As you might know, I lost 50 lbs by "eating less" and exercising.
Almost a year ago I reached normal weight, the anniversary is on Sep
10.

I ate less, reduced carbs some, but not radically.

Despite the fact that I maintained my weight loss steadily and even
lost a bit more, I felt hungry most of the day and got some food
obsessions, thinking a bit too much about food, which are, actually,
mental signs of starvation. (I can post a great text about that that
describes starvation related mental symptoms).

My main food desires were meaty, fatty things. That's even though I
was eating plenty of meat and fat.

So I was going by willpower, but started realizing that I cannot do
that for life and that, sooner or later, I would invent some
rationalization for giving up.

At some point, I read about paleo diet, read one book, and decided to
try it. The idea of a paleo diet is to eat an approximation of how,
supposedly, people ate up to 10,000 years ago, as hunter
gatherers, which is eating meat and fish, vegetables, fruits and
nuts. No grains, legumes, milk products, sugar.

So, I went on it a month ago, giving myself a month to see how it
works. I eat pretty much as much as I want, but only of what is
allowed.

The result is, I am no longer hungry and no longer think too much
about food. It just comes naturally to me that I eat as much as I
need, without a big conscious effort, portion weighing etc.

In that month, I gained about 0.07 lbs, which is obviously a
nonconsequential amount, not statistically significant.

So, so far, this diet is a winnder for me. I no longer need to
exercise my willpower on a daily basis. Especially because all those
foods are what I like, whereas grain products etc, I used to eat
because I considered them "healthy" and "prudent".

I want to thank, specifically, Cubit and Jenny for steering my mind
towards realizing that my hunger was due to me eating my morning bread
and too many junk carbs.

I will test my blood lipids after a while, as part of my physical, and
see how they change.

For breakfast tomorrow, I am going to eat a stewed squirrel.

Noooooooooooooo! How could you!? Is this a picture of you? ;-)
http://jack.finalapproach.net/cat-squirrel-a.jpg

i

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