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https://codingbackwards.org/fat-carb-experiment-1.html

George of codingbackwards.org (r/ObjectivePop4366 on reddit), appears to be trying something similar, and he explicitly mentions me and u/exfatloss https://www.exfatloss.com/ and the Molds https://slimemoldtimemold.com/ as inspirations.

I think he's Australian, so he can eat lard without worrying about it being full of PUFAs because of America's evil farming.

He says:

almost no vegetable oils, less lean meat, and basing your diet mostly around starch and animal fats

Looking at his example day's food, it looks like he's going for no-PUFAs and very low protein, a sort of ex150carbs, which I've been meaning to try for a while.

And his results are most impressive. He's got a nice graph from 22nd January to 9th February 2024, which looks likes it goes from 118.4kg to 115.4kg, a loss of 3kg in three weeks. Amazing!

He says:

How have I gone? I eat until I'm full, I never exercise, I never feel hungry or tired, but I lose about 1 kg each week. This is not like any weight loss regime I've every been on, and I'm honestly shocked by the results.

I’m not! That’s how it works when it works. The interesting questions are about how it works, and what happens when you stop.

I'm not actually clear when he started his new diet, or when he first renounced the polyunsaturated evil, but he made a reddit comment about three weeks ago:

I'm also about 2 weeks into a diet focusing on foods high in starch or saturated fat, avoiding foods high in protein, unsaturated fat and sugar.

Not sure the exact proportions but I'm probably "in the swamp".

So far it's going great. Skin and digestion issues clearing up, good energy, good satiety, weight (slowly) dropping.

I was thinking of writing a longer post about my experience once I've done it for a while.

That implies that he's actually been doing this for about five weeks, and there's a couple of weeks data missing at the start, which would have been interesting to see too! But probably like me, he didn't realise he was actually doing an experiment until he'd been at it for a bit.

His website is really charming to my eyes, it's obviously been hand-coded in html.

But in a concession to modernity, it's missing a page-view counter and an 'html 4.0 compliant' button, and it doesn't say 'best viewed with telnet to port 80' anywhere either, as programmer's websites once did, back in the good old days, before we were all so cruelly thrust into what I suppose we must learn to call ‘the future’.