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My keto dinner: boneless chicken thighs cooked in beef tallow, salad with Caesar dressing, olive oil and apple cider vinegar.

I did 40 light minutes on Peloton bike, some body weight exercises, then 3 sets of 5 reps deadlifts, at 200 lbs, trying to get back to where I was a couple of years ago. I (try my best to) follow the Starting Strength method of barbell training

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My keto dinner: store bought roast chicken and cream sauce with olive oil, sour cream, cider vinegar, salad of lettuce, Caesar dressing with Parmesan cheese.

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My keto dinner. Pork ribs and salad.

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Gary Taubes, "Why We Get Fat" Youtube 2014

This 1951 obesity diet is still pretty much the low carb keto diet for weight loss followed today. I'd say for people like me with a lot of insulin resistance, fruit needs to be only occasional berries like blueberries in season. Cheese also needs to be limited, and nuts as well.

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Gary Taubes, "Why We Get Fat," Youtube 2014.

We know in 2024 that for many people trying to lose weight, control diabetes, and overcome insulin resistance, it's not enough to not eat refined grains, starches, and sugars. That works fine for some, but for people like me who have been insulin resistant and obese for decades, this requires a much more strict approach - no grains at all, for example.

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Slides from Gary Taubes lecture, "Why We Get Fat," YouTube video, 2014.

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Gary Taubes lecture on "Why We Get Fat," 2014.

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Fried pork rinds just delivered today.

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Key takeaways from the Gary Taubes lecture, “Why We Get Fat,” YouTube video linked earlier, from 2014.

A lot has been learned in the 10 years since this lecture and Taubes’ book. This includes much more about the different effects and actions of the two distinct sugars that make up sucrose or table sugar, which are glucose and fructose.

But the basic message is the same: carbs drive insulin; insulin drives fat storage and fat accumulation in the fat cells; and a reduction in blood insulin is required to allow fat to flow back out of fat storage and be used to fuel the body.

One slide above refers to refined grains, starches, and sugars as driving insulin. Another 10 years of experience has shown that people like me, with many years of insulin resistance to overcome and long-present obesity, have to be much stricter about restricting and, really, giving up nearly all carbs apart from green leaves and vegetables and fiber.

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My keto dinner: salad of romaine lettuce and classic Caesar dressing with avocado oil mayonnaise and Parmesan cheese. Olive oil and apple cider vinegar. Fermented pickle and pickle juice. Butter broiled shrimp. Allulose with citric acid.

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My keto dinner: 5 eggs folded over into a sort of omelette with havarti with dill, fermented pickles, salad of lettuce, cheese, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, fried pork rinds.

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Gary Taubes, Why we get fat, 2014 (see previous post for background).

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Gary Taubes lecture on “Why we get fat,” in 2014. This runs 1 hour and is a little bit technical, but it’s possible to ignore the technical science and just focus on the main takeaways.

I will post a couple of screen shots of his slide deck that give the main points about, quite literally, how and why we get fat.

It’s not about calories eaten versus calories expended (at least not in the first place). It’s about carbs consumed driving insulin secretion, which causes the body to accumulate and lock up fat in the fat cells.

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A little shoutout to the brand of coffee we have been buying for a year or two, kittytowncoffee.com. Outstanding coffee, and they donate to cat welfare organizations.

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Weekend coffee … these days I take my coffee either black or black with vanilla or caramel Allulose syrup added. Today being a Saturday, I added (yes, lol, an excessive amount of) heavy cream.

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My keto dinner: 2 hamburger patties w cheese, salad of lettuce, avocado, Gruyère cheese, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, fermented pickles, crème fraiche, fried pork rinds.

I just had black coffee, with some vanilla Allulose syrup, during the day. I worked out in the basement, though not all that hard and no barbells.