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KillerStack said:Not to bicker but you did say they didn't track cals so my guess is the calories were lower, even if the diet contained plenty of fat and they felt like they were eating a large quantity of food. I agree that the insulin is part of the reason for the appetite decrease. The insulin response from carbs keeps feeding itself. High insulin = low blood sugar = more and more food and calories.
What kind of foods did they eat?
It's not bickering but a good question. There have been studies done about eating fats and protein and mainly carbs but the same amount of cals and people lost weight while the other group gained. Far as I know they still do not know the exact reason this occurs.
You have to be very careful with obese people. They will NOT stick to a diet that is not palatable to them so in the beinning like I said I do not care what they eat so much. I have had people eat loads of redmeat, eggs, butter, mayo, bacon any kind of lunch meat as long as it is low carb,which I do not neccesarily like to see but again you have to let me go in the beginning and wait for their appetite to come around.
Some people will say that this type of diet is unhealthy. Most of these people have been eating loads of fat and carbs and chemicals with little protein for 30 some odd years. If it takes a few weeks to trick them into eating better I certainly cannot see how it unhealthy to eat some processed foods for a few weeks. I still get shocked at what some of these people eat on a daily basis. TV dinners, boxes of prepared food, low fat cakes, pies and potato chips. 6 or more cans of soda daily, donuts for breakfast. What a shame that the public has been tricked into believing anything low fat is healthy.