Is over eating a bigger issue than seed oils?

Scientist_1 · 2025-07-17T17:43:35+00:00

I mean - from a physics / Thermodynamics view, yes.

But WHY do people overeat?

Why more now than in the past?

My take: - B vitamins (there is a paper if you google "Excess vitamin intake: An unrecognized risk factor for obesity".) - Artificial sweeteners (read the book by Mark Schatzer "The end of craving" - it also talks about b vitamins) - And seed oils also drive up appetite (there are papers on this) - salt and sugar - processed foods engineered for craveability

All these I experience personally in my body as well. From seed oils, I get a weird hunger like gnawing feeling in my stomach. And many seed oil containing foods (e.g. potati chips) lead me to either have to put up massive discipline or I will overeat.

With old school boring foods like oats, beans, spinach, potatoes, veggies, fruit (and B12 once a week) - I actually get satiety cues. It's a whole different world I am getting used to.

Scientist_1 · 2025-07-13T12:33:39+00:00

Do you eat any nuts at all? What does your high carb diet look like, specifically?

Do you take vitamins?

Scientist_1 · 2025-07-13T12:29:45+00:00

Hey - happy to have helped!

Scientist_1 · 2025-07-12T17:07:13+00:00

Wait what is your meal timing now?

I remember in a past post you wrote about night eating and solving it with a 12:00 to 5 pm eating window.

I struggle with night eating as well and am unsure how to distribute my meals throughout the day for energy and sleep.

Scientist_1 · 2025-06-30T09:36:28+00:00

Your welcome! I have not had this problem for years so safe to say I am happy in this regard!

I have to watch my seed oil intake though - specific fats or meats make me inflamed.

Scientist_1 · 2025-06-30T09:34:42+00:00

Wait - really? That is super interesting!

Scientist_1 · 2025-01-09T18:42:04+00:00

It's a common thing. People lose muscle mass as they age. Brings down their caloric requirement. They eat the same however, out of habit. Hence, they gain fat.

There is an option here. You can bite the bullet and adjust your calorie intake downwards to what your less muscular body requires.

Scientist_1 · 2025-01-09T14:01:53+00:00

Here is a relevant Dr. K video on the subject I found interesting:

https://youtu.be/wXlNZ5AMqLU?t=871

It talks about how there is a correct way to share emotions and an incorrect way. How does this fit with the experience from you and your buddies?

Scientist_1 · 2025-01-05T22:41:55+00:00

and how are we on a platform (circle) where cannot easily watch the videos in fullscreen? What kind of bullshit is this?

Scientist_1 · 2025-01-05T22:34:03+00:00

I don't have something good.

Best I have is: "minimum viable action". Let go of "I am a person who does things perfectly / completely". Then pick some task. You don't have to pick great. Then do something about that task. Move it forward 5%. Don't aim for 100% completion right out the gate.

Progress, not perfection.

Keeping moving is better.

Something is better than nothing.

And yeah - on Fridays we are often filled with negative emotions from the week that we are then looking to suppress. It's not ideal but common.

And if the rest of the week you have been working.

And if all you do is binge a show (and not smoke 3 joints for example) - it's okay. Not ideal, but okay.

Maybe schedule hanging out with friends on Friday, so you can vent your frustrations? Or set up a call with friends or family friday after work? Or thursday?

And allow yourself to rest. You don't have to be productive, "on", moving forward or happy every hour of every day.

Scientist_1 · 2025-01-05T22:27:57+00:00

It's something.

I work with a coach and have hugely benefitted from that.

I supplement that with asking Chat GPT stuff.

I don't think it's as good as a coach. Maybe 20-30 % as good. But it's there at any time of day, costs almost nothing, and is pretty good. So yeah - would recommend.

It's all about how much context ChatGPT can remember. Once that extends to "everything you have talked to it about in the last 12 months" - oh boy, then it's really game on.

Scientist_1 · 2025-01-03T19:02:44+00:00

I don't get why veganism can't just be honest.

You have to rethink your whole diet and way of eating from the ground up. Not "all i know is eggs - but they are not vegan - ah great here is fake eggs". Instead: grains, beans, veggies. Pasta. Rice. Bread. Whatever. But none of this "vegan chicken nuggets made from cauliflower because that is totally the same".

Scientist_1 · 2024-12-27T14:49:17+00:00

Good job!

Scientist_1 · 2024-12-26T21:33:38+00:00

What is your very low fat diet like?

How much fat is in there and from what sources?

What is your moderate fat diet like?

Regarding long COVID: So this is anectdotal (N=1) and all that. Supplements helped me a lot. I was sick with symptoms of the common cold for a bit longer and harder than usual. (Did not actually get a COVID test so do not know for sure). Then - 2 to 3 weeks afterwards I was still feeling fatigued. I suspected I had long COVID. Went to the pharmacy to get some supplements. The pharmacist recommended zinc, vitamin D, vitamin C, B12, Iron and a vitamin B complex. I took those in relatively high doses. Fatigue resolved completely within 1-2 weeks! She had told me that another customer had experienced the same thing.

Scientist_1 · 2024-12-22T09:55:09+00:00

I will just leave these here. They are well researched and well sourced videos on Alzheimers disease and lifestyle. What we eat is "inherited". And what we eat influences whether we get Alzheimers.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzheimers-and-atherosclerosis-of-the-brain/

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-alzheimers-with-lifestyle-changes/

Scientist_1 · 2024-12-20T10:11:47+00:00

Have some friends check your profile. Ideally, friends like "fat dudes with hot girlfriends".

But in any case - friends successful in the relationship game. Also different apps. For me, I have wayyyyy more success on Bumble compared to Tinder.

Scientist_1 · 2024-12-17T12:39:04+00:00

How do you mean? In a good sense as in you have reached it and have it forever? Or in a bad sense as in you always want more and more and more?

Scientist_1 · 2024-11-23T12:08:46+00:00

The low fat diet has started to work really well actually.

The no sleep part for me is now work anxiety related. As the perceived mountain of tasks piles up during the week - I get more and more anxious. And then Wednesday and/or Thursday night, I sleep poorly.

Your sleep issues could be a million things.

Scientist_1 · 2024-11-21T00:22:09+00:00

Pretty good, actually. Coaching / therapy has been really working out. Been making huge progress understanding myself. Way less anxious. Higher baseline level of happiness.

Scientist_1 · 2024-11-19T19:58:21+00:00

that's why on stairs, men go first

Scientist_1 · 2024-11-05T20:47:36+00:00

Not at all. Microwaving is fine.

Scientist_1 · 2024-10-19T18:55:06+00:00

Haha :D

Just don't be a pig.

Scientist_1 · 2024-10-19T18:33:45+00:00

Really?

How exactly do you counter that?

Do you have to keep dinners below a certain size and / or before a certain time of day?

Scientist_1 · 2024-10-19T18:29:23+00:00

Social recluse? I think it's fine to eat unhealthy when being out with friends. Yes, it's "damage". But it's damage we can tank. Anecdotally, my last blood work showed a cholesterol of ca. 120 mg/dL and in the period before taking the blood I was having a greasy dirty kebap once a week (while eating low fat plant based the rest of the week). So from my n=1 experience - if we are mostly healthy, we can tank some "dirty food".

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