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I don't mind self experimentation oto test out theories. In fact I feel its the only way to find out what works, and what doesn't, for me.
Here's a thing. I don't like fat. I don't enjoy eating fat on meat for instance. I am intrigued that I can eat 65-70%+ of my kcals from fat with no real bother. I wonder how far to push it....
Today's experiment was to see what happens if I go overboard on double cream. I don't much like cream, so it's easy for me to avoid. It seems to be favoured by HFLC dieters. Today I had cream in coffee - 50ml, thinned down with whole milk. I tried all cream in coffee the other day. Bleurgh.
That felt ok, it was quite nice actually, and I felt no after effects. So, a few hours later I tried again. I had 48g raspberries and 100ml of cream. Mmmm, mixed up while the raspberries were still frozen it turned into a wonderfully coloured deep pink semi-frozen delight. To be honest, I didn't think I'd be able to eat it all, let alone in one go That's one heck of a lot of cream in one hit. I ate it with a very small coffee spoon and savoured the raspberry flavour. Surprisingly, I did eat it in one go, over a period of about 15 minutes. My lips felt greasy.
Initially I felt fine. Then, within a very few minutes my chest was tight and I was coughing as I had built a lot of phlegm. That's no real surprise, I know dairy affects my mucous production. On that count alone I will not go over 50ml cream in one go, I think that's my limit. I didn't feel sick, though I felt I would not feel like eating again for a long time.
The other aspect of this is that I pushed my kcals WAY over my norm. There were around 500 kcals in that weeny bowl!! Over the next few days I will eat and exercise as normal. If my weight goes up I will conclude that I have eaten a surplus of energy and find it easier to accept that weight loss is/could be about energy balance in terms of energy in and energy expended.
To be honest, I am still not convinced by that theory, from my personal experience. Over the first 10 months of 2015 when I started my intentional weight loss journey I had lost 8.9 kilos. I was struggling to consume my minimum calorific requirement of 1400 kcals a day, because in addition to being grain and pulse free I was eating low fat. In mid November I upped my kcal intake to 1600+ by adding more fat and reducing my carbohydrate - I changed my macro's. In this period I was also doing less exercise than I had been for much of the year.
Well, the expectation from the energy balance/energy deficit theory would be that I would have gained weight, or at the very least my weight would have stalled, right? That's what we have been taught.
So, what happened?
In the last two months my weight has dropped 4.1 kilos. When I was eating around 1400 kcals and moving more I dropped, on average, .89 kilo a month. Eating around 1600 kcals and moving less I have dropped 2.05 kilo a month, that's 2.3 times faster than the previous 10 months.
I fully expect my weight to rise, after what I ate today, It's what makes sense in my head, and in the energy balance theory. I can't see how it would not. Let's look at my figures. If I am losing say 70g body fat a day, that means that 630 kcals are being used from my stores. The extra kcals I ate only push me 490 over my usual 1600, so I still have scope to lose weight. Oooh. I will be extremely interested to see what actually happens.
When, shortly after Christmas, I pushed up my carbohydrate by around 50g or so - equivalent to adding a couple of hundred kcals, my weight went up.
I am watching this space!
I am fascinated by all this, it's flippin' great :D
Diet Calendar Entry for 16 January 2016:
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1259 kcal
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Fat: 100.12g | Prot: 56.25g | Carb: 50.09g.
Breakfast: Tomatoes, Semi-Skimmed Milk, John West Wild Pacific Red Salmon, Sainsbury's Rich & Creamy Avocado, Infinity Foods Organic Walnut Halves, Egg, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Yeo Valley Butter, Sainsbury's So Organic Organic Chestnut Mushrooms, Ginger, Co-Op Celery, Co-Operative British Spring Greens. Lunch: Infinity Foods Organic Almonds, Cherry Tomatoes, Sorocka Loin Polish Style Ham, Cos or Romaine Lettuce, Sainsbury's Celery Fresh and Crunchy, Morrisons Double Gloucester Cheese, Avocado. Dinner: Yeo Valley Greek Style Natural Yogurt, Total Greek Yoghurt, Frozen Raspberries. Snacks/Other: Parmesan Cheese (Hard), Cherry Tomatoes, Co-Op Cucumber. more...
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