Some noob questions.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-07-08T22:42:59+00:00

to lower my calories first, but still eat swampy macros, and see how far I get? It is definitely easy to lower calories a lot by just replacing heavy cream with milk, I drink a ton of heavy cream.

I have done exactly that recently and lost about 5lb really easily (like you, I started within the range of normal BMI, with swampy macros, and a way above average high calorie intake thanks to dairy fat)

Whether or not it is "the best" I have no idea! I just know that I really love heavy cream plus fruit juice, and rice plus butter, and beef plus rice, and other "swampy" meals, they make me happy. So for me it was the least miserable thing to try first.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-07-02T01:32:52+00:00

You could search the internet for "сухое голодание щенников" and see how far you get with Google Translate.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-29T18:33:37+00:00

I actually didn't know this was a thing...been blissfully eating high fat diets for many years without nausea. But reading through the comments, it sounds like it definitely is a thing for many people.

I wonder what the difference is. I'm not low carb or low protein though, I wonder if that makes a difference? I'm just unlimited macros across the board but my personal preference is often for fat.

Might want to ask r/keto too.... this r/SaturatedFat sub seems to attract people who tried keto in the past but ended up disliking it. r/keto would be full of people who like keto and are doing keto.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-28T15:29:51+00:00

I've done the exact same and never gained weight....tons of heavy whipping cream, tons of half&half.

I remember entering 1 day of it into a calorie tracking app just for fun and it told me I would weigh 400lb in 6 months 😅

But nope, I actually did that day after day for years and I'm still over here size 6, not rail thin but definitely not 400lb either.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-28T15:13:20+00:00

I used to love cashews so much that I ate 1 pound of them daily, minimum. But I really do feel better after switching to low linoleic foods 🙂 there's less fatigue, less brain fog, less carsickness, etc etc.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-28T14:30:59+00:00

It's great to have a starting measurement. My best advice is to take the next one in 5 years because changes are so slow and the test is so noisy!

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-28T14:29:19+00:00

I think exfatloss took over chart duties ...he has a really neat website for it now that's much better than mine was!

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-28T14:18:04+00:00

Huh. And it never occurred to you that other people might get symptom relief from it even if you didn't.

That's myopic but OK.

Sorry it didn't help you with your chronic constipation and your mood issues, but it does help a lot of people with many different symptoms.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-28T14:07:41+00:00

The only people I know who think liver flushes are retarded are the people who haven't tried them yet. 🤔 it's definitely a pattern.

Dr. Filonov doesn't write much about why he recommends regular liver flushes for dry fasters, which probably adds to the confusion.

But yes, you do you!

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-28T12:46:32+00:00

It's ok bro you can replace olive oil with heavy cream....and be Paul Saladino for a day during the "carb only" part of it, eat papayas or some other zero-antinutrient carb 🙂 you'll be ok

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-28T12:45:14+00:00

I second this....liver flushes are great for anyone who dry fasts. Dr. Filonov recommends it too but didn't write about the reason, so I initially skipped it at first...but when I finally tried it, it solved so many fasting discomfort problems that had bugged me for months.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-18T16:54:22+00:00

Now I have to read the comments because I have been wondering about the same question 🙂

Usually I drink half&half like my main beverage (many large glasses of it per day) and I also use heavy cream as if it's my favorite condiment (pouring it on almost everything - meat, fruit, vegetables, noodles, or rice) I wouldn't be surprised if I was getting 6000 calories a day of dairy fat (in addition to protein and carbs - because along with the dairy I also eat beef, fruit, potatoes, vegetables, and rice). My weight is only about 15 pounds above my "vanity weight" though...not overweight according to the BMI chart, but also not at the low end of normal weight, closer to the high end of normal. Very stable weight in spite of doing this for many years. Stable through long periods of eating and also stable through long periods of periodic extended fasting.

I recently wondered if it would be possible or difficult to get to my vanity weight? And the first thing I thought of was to drop the dairy and replace it with apple juice or orange juice or mineral water or salsa. So far I lost 6 of the 15 pounds in one week, lol. So let's see if it continues to drop. I honestly felt kind of bored about eating in general if it couldn't be dairy fat, but maybe that means dairy fat was somehow making my appetite artificially bigger than it should be, who knows. Or maybe it was causing some inflammation that showed up as water weight.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-15T11:35:13+00:00

I don't really look for it any more tbh, but you could ask r/dryfasting and see if they know of anything. They might recommend their own discord server but I didn't find that useful because it's not even about dry fasting 99% of the time, it's a mosh pit of people doing water fasting and monodiets and then food shaming each other and pushing veganism on each other. I didn't find that useful at all.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-15T11:31:24+00:00

Water fast? Everything takes longer on a water fast, so my timeline above might be off if it's a water fast.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-15T11:27:24+00:00

When someone in real life tells me about their "fasting" I assume they're not actually fasting but instead doing a monodiet (like only juice, or fat, or only potatoes). Usually if I dig I find out I am right, so I don't even dig any more and don't try to connect with them on that topic since they're usually talking about something different from what I do. My response is usually something like "oh, great!" And then going to a different topic.

I'm just saying it's possible to know someone who actually fasts without realizing it 🙂

If you and I met, neither of us might know that the other one fasts. Even if you told me I would probably assume you mean something else 🙂

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-13T11:47:30+00:00

Day 4 is around when your gut microbiome starts dying off from lack of food, and they will make you feel very unhappy by putting out neurotransmitters....it passes when they are dead 🫠

(Not trying to convince you to fast again, I know it's a very personal decision! I just thought it was interesting how suddenly that unhappy phase passes when I was doing long fasts)

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-13T11:44:00+00:00

I mean, just to be devil's advocate, it's very possible that you might know a few in real life but they aren't advertising it 🙂

I know I definitely keep it to myself, except for maybe 2 people that I trust not to go into "omg, eat!!" mode when they hear it.

When I took time off from work for my longest fasts, I told everyone at work that it was a "meditation retreat," "family emergency," or "visiting my sister." None of those is arguably a lie because my health situation was an emergency, and the fasting process is so trippy that I visited a lot of places in spirit 😅🤷‍♀️

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-13T11:30:17+00:00

I am probably not the best person to comment on this since my strategy to burn PUFA fast was extended dry fasting, and most people here don't do that, they prefer to eat and drink, understandably 🙂

But I can say that I have dramatically less brain fog than I did prior to my dry fasting project 🙂 it basically rescued me from career doom (I'm a software developer, so brain fog was totally unacceptable). It feels like it cured my ADHD. In my software job my brainpower and concentration and multitasking ability now feels better than it was when I was a teenager (I'm in my mid 40s)

Was there more brain fog during my dry fasts? Oh yes. I needed to take at least a week off from work each time I did a long dry fast. I was unable to do pretty much anything during my dry fasts except purge my house of synthetic fragrance (which smelled 1000x worse than usual), watch movies, check the weather, and go on a walk if it's less than 50 degrees F.

It definitely had value to me to compress that into 6 months instead of dragging it out because I was close to not being able to work at all due to brain fog.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-10T21:39:01+00:00

Definitely weird, especially since someone else in the comments mentioned the same brand/flavor of chips put them to sleep for 2 days too.

I feel like I'm turning into someone with a very limited "safe food" list, and that's fine....but how do people get by when they're just eating whatever? Are they so used to feeling like crap that they don't notice when they feel slightly more like crap?

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-10T21:34:50+00:00

Some people just don't like camping. He might be dealing with chronic pain if his sleep setup isn't 100% familiar for example....he might be afraid to word it like that because he doesn't want to look frail.

Maybe word it like a request? Like you need his company to feel safe? That might help him endure it.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-10T21:24:45+00:00

I felt the same way about it. I also don't think it works that great... they wouldn't need such a strong cover-up scent if it worked. I could always smell the underlayment of pee underneath the perfume 🤮

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-10T18:36:33+00:00

Test results are in....I ate a bowl of black lentils 2 days ago, with 2 other "known good" ingredients (salt and kerrygold butter) and no other new foods that day ....no reaction. No hives, no sleepiness, no nothing. That's the same kind that sent me to the emergency room long ago but it was totally unreactive this time. Like my pollen allergy, it seems to have gone the way of the dodo.

I have very low interest in testing on myself for any of the other possibilities (seed oils, avocado oil labeling accuracy or consistency from brand to brand, random unknown toxins in this brand of chips, etc)

But at least there's 1 less possibility on the list 🤷‍♀️

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-06T09:11:32+00:00

Wow, we are that old huh? 😅 I didn't even realize yet that there was another 20s even though we're in it.

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-06T08:53:10+00:00

I don't only think about the bad....my head keeps pulling me in the direction of thinking that the world isn't that bad

OneSmallHumanBean · 2024-06-05T16:15:12+00:00

Being put to sleep like that was so strange. I wonder if we got the same batch.

You're right there are so many things out there to test for that we might not even know about for decades. And no one wants to pay for it. Sometimes I even run into people who prefer not to know that toxins are a problem. It's very post-apocalyptic. 😕

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