I was surprised today that I seem to have put on some extra fat. Obviously there are pathways for protein to fat and fat to fat, but one piece of advice from the subreddit where I started was

eat fatty meat until you don’t want more

I followed that, the other was for setting the fat percentage

Eat more fat if digestion is too slow (code for difficult pooing) eat less if it’s too fast (loose poo)

I should be eating less fat.

I think I’ll change my standard order from Scotch fillet (I think that’s rib eye fillet in American) to half Scotch fillet and half something lean

Or I could exercise a lot more. They say you can’t outrun a cheeseburger, you definitely can’t outrun the fat in a 2 inch Scotch fillet cooked to very very blue

Christmas and New year’s drinks may have also contributed either directly (is there a booze to fat pathway?) or by offsetting the food I need

(Fat versus muscle judged by Tanita body composition scales with hand conductors)

  • psudOPMEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Never hungry unless there is meat in front of me, and I often don’t finish, and have the leftovers the next day

    I’m pretty sure it’s two things:

    I started working from home and not cycling to and from work (1 hr each way) 5 days a week

    I didn’t change the fat percentage of my food

    The long term carnivores on Reddit noted that appetite changes lagged exercise changes so they’d get super lean in summer when they exercised and put on a bit of fat in winter while idle

    • totallynotjet@lemm.eeMEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Never hungry unless there is meat in front of me, and I often don’t finish

      This might be the reason, if your not hungry, you don’t need to eat. That is your body’s feedback mechanism.

      I started working from home and not cycling to and from work (1 hr each way) 5 days a week

      Yeah, you developed a eating habit/schedule for a higher metabolic rate then your maintaining.

      I didn’t change the fat percentage of my food

      Unless your body building, I don’t think you need to mess with fat percentages, natural fat, and natural meat are supposed to be combined together. Fat is a strong, STRONG, satiety signal. If your muscle mass isn’t going down, I’d say increase the fat % so that you don’t eat too much protein.

      Debugging

      You might want to put your entire daily food intake into cronometer, then look at your nutrient breakdown. I’ve found it helpful

      Common confounders: High stress levels, Cheese, sugar alcohols can increase insulin response too

      • psud@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Thanks mate! (This is me on the PC, it defaults to lemm.ee where phone defaults to aussie.zone)

        • totallynotjet@lemm.eeMEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Yeah no worries, my instance is having trouble right now, so I’m using a different account now too! Small world. It must be this hot sunny day.

          • psudOPMEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I’m so much worse than you at keeping my names different so people can’t tell I’m the same person - they’ll never get through your camoflague, but I’m psud@* lemmy.wold is my original and was my backup, aussie.zone is my favourite but isn’t all that reliable, now lemm.ee is my new backup.