>You sound down on carbohydrate-heavy diets-- Carb-diets are not bad per se. Western ones certainly are, as evidenced by Dr. Weston Price, Vilhjalmur Stefansso

>You sound down on carbohydrate-heavy diets-- Carb-diets are not bad per se. Western ones certainly are, as evidenced by Dr. Weston Price, Vilhjalmur Stefansson &c. In my own experience, daily arizona green teas and mochas add up, and are loaded with sugar. So is food at every restaurant, from Denny's to the poshest, including steak. >So, is your recommendation an isocaloric diet, a ketogenic diet, or eating only when you actually feel hungry, and only enough to assuage the hunger? Others are better qualified to make recommendations: Dr. Eades and Stephan at wholehealthsource. My protocol: no omega-6, eat 1/day within 5 hour period, eat if hungry, eat till full, overeat if I feel like it [0]. No wheat at all[1], limit sugar to once/wk. I est. 1.5-2.5 kcal/meal, but because of tabata/kettle-bells etc. my calorie needs are quite a bit higher, so I'll punt and call it iso-caloric. It is ketogenic, only because I prefer to eat coppa, proscuitto, butter, cream, yogurt, eggs and cheese, rather than spend time to bake sourdough, soak oats etc. Sugar (honey) and carbs (mostly sauerkraut) 1/wk. I started intermittent fasting based on an article by Dr. Eades, and stuck with it only because it was really easy to do, and lets me program pretty much from 7am to 8pm (a single meal saves time as well as assoc. post-prandial sleepiness). Also Frederick Burnham-Russell[2] is a big hero of mine, and he IF-ed his way through awesomeness. Other than the above, I don't consider it a diet in the "dieter" sense at all, although it is very Banting[3]. [0] cannot overeat butter! olive oil is allowed, and severely limited EFAs (omega 3-6-9) due to http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400040780 http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=978140... [1] imho, all wheat-eaters have non-symptomatic celiac disease, and budding diabetes. I used to. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Russell_Burnham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Russell_Burnham [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting