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Tyler Ransom's avatar

I laughed out loud at "I might just be metabolically ruined forever from my carb-eating days"

Also definitely agree on staying away from the keto-frankenfoods.

I find I do well on Keto, having dabbled in it starting 12 years ago. But I also really like sugar. And Potatoes. I just don't like how hungry a honey-type diet makes me (and I know you've mentioned that as well). I've never tried a full-on potato diet but imagine I would enjoy it.

I'm really considering getting a genetic test from Patchwork Food (the startup of https://metrep.substack.com/) just to see what happens.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

I wonder what tests exactly they're running and what sort of things they can find out by them. If you do end up getting it, please keep me updated!

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Mac's avatar

It's DNA sequencing from a cheek swab or similar, and with that data, we generate a report and present it to you as part of a consult over 45-60m. You can see a sample report here: https://calc.patchworkfood.com/sample-report.html

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Jimmy Slim's avatar

Thanks for linking your fuel partitioning post. That was really worth revisiting. In retrospect, I think it's one of the best summaries of what we "know" about fighting obesity that I've read anywhere.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

Thank you!

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Robert Beck's avatar

The very model of a modern major ketard sums it up.

Keto beliefs are tethered to a model. A model that claims to posit determinate outcomes based on a suite of inputs. Ketard is a basically a system of faith based eating.

Evidence is only occasionally useful in keto-apologetics.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

Exactly. You can be a keto proponent or you can be a ketard, but the latter has typically lost all tether to reality/falsifiability.

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Leo Abstract's avatar

To be fair, the people who dismiss unheard what you are saying in favor of their diet dogmas might also just dislike you personally. We've never seen the kind of conversations these ketards have with each other behind closed doors when we high-disagreeableness chaps aren't around.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

I actually have very agreeable debates in private with some of them.

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Jas's avatar

This opens up a whole can of worms, but I have seen how many, not all, obesity/weight issues are a deeper defense and survival mechanism that stem from psychological and/or emotional trauma held in the body. Hence why everyone has a different response to most any "diet", and just changing your external association to food doesn't begin to touch upon the roots of the matter.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

Then how do we diagnose that and treat/fix it?

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Kevin Lawrence's avatar

It's so hard to re-evaluate the diet that removed 100 lbs from me, but it seems to have reached the limit of effectiveness for me. I see others that seem to easily achieve their ideal weight and keep trying to imitate what they have done. But the weight refuses to drop unless I start fasting. Very frustrating!

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

Yup, same. "Just do X it worked for me!" Yea but I did it harder than you and it did not work.

Gotta experiment more until we find The One that works for us heh :)

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John Lawrence Aspden's avatar

That's the spirit! True humility is ignoring experts and staring reality in the face. Nullius in verba.

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