FYI: Food-Intake - My Past 8 years

[BrightAngel]

Here is quite an unusual post
showing detailed food-intake records
for me over a period of THE PAST 8 YEARS
http://www.diethobby.com/blog.php?ax=v&nid=642

[reinhard]

Impressive!

[Jethro]

This is awesome. Your figure shows it.

[oolala53]

Very interesting. I also am curious how with all your experimentation it doesn't look as if you ever tried a more low-fat eating plan, one more around 20% fat, for any length of time. I personally wouldn't want to do it, but given how you have been curious and disciplined enough to try different plans and adhere to them, it's interesting to me that that wasn't one of them. I doubt it would make a difference, though, except that you'd likely be eating a greater volume of food to achieve the same calories. Fat takes up the least room.

I've kept some of the same guidelines for my meals for years, even when I was bingeing between those meals. I do calculate occasionally and I come pretty close to a 40*30*30 carb/protein/fat ratio. I was influenced by that crowd, and Sears, and Rolls, about 15 years ago, if not longer. I'm leaning toward fewer meat meals, so it might be changing. Will see where that goes.

But I digress. Amazing records!

[BrightAngel]

Very interesting. I also am curious how with all your experimentation it doesn't look as if you ever tried a more low-fat eating plan, one more around 20% fat, for any length of time. I personally wouldn't want to do it, but given how you have been curious and disciplined enough to try different plans and adhere to them, it's interesting to me that that wasn't one of them. I doubt it would make a difference, though, except that you'd likely be eating a greater volume of food to achieve the same calories. Fat takes up the least room.
Amazing records!

Thanks oolala,
I've probably done more experimentation with low-fat in my life
than with any other nutritional substance.
I did many years of that before the last 8 year period.
Low-fat was my DEFAULT way to diet for most of my lifetime.
I, personally, find the volumetric approach to be the LEAST satisfactory way of eating.
I much prefer having tiny amounts of things I find really tasty,
to having large amounts of foods I'm not really fond of.

I still cook and eat a great many low-fat recipes, but this is merely
because they've become favorites. I like many low-fat recipes,
and those also tend to be lower calorie.
I almost never eat fried foods, and Except when I'm experimenting with low-carb,
I tend to save my fat calories for small amounts of cheeses, butter, nuts, sweets, chips or crackers.

With regard to a low-fat way of eating, yearly averages can be especially deceptive,
because a week or two of high-fat eating can easily raise
the nutritional fat average of long periods (such as more than 12 weeks) of sustained low-fat eating.

High-carb eating also raises the averages of low-carb eating (4 calories per gram),
but not to the extent that high-fat eating (9 calories per gram) does.

[oolala53]

Those are most of the fats I use. I find even a few walnuts can make a big difference in a meal, esp. breakfast. But since fats are so concentrated, it doesn't take much to get to 30% or more.

I think you'll agree that weight loss comes from any combination of foods; the key is to find the combinations that are sustainable by any one individual.

[BrightAngel]

the key is to find the combinations that are sustainable by any one individual.

Exactly so.