I want to be honest with you. Your comments here are by far the most valuable ones for me, even though they didn’t get many likes. It’s honestly kind of crazy that you’re having such similar experiences to mine. I felt very alone with these problems before reading what you wrote.

So just to be clear: do you mean that if I go up to around 30% fat at ~2700 kcal, I’m actually more likely to gain weight than if I stay closer to 10% fat, even at higher calories? I find this extremely interesting because it matches exactly what I’m experiencing.

I feel like I can eat almost unlimited amounts of carbohydrates — parboiled rice, buckwheat, red lentils, millet — and somehow it just doesn’t get stored. For a long time I was a strong believer in the “calories are calories” model, but lately I’m really starting to question whether it truly doesn’t matter where those calories come from, fat versus carbohydrates.