The greatest discovery in my life

[Objectivist]

I don't feel deprived at all.

Serious congratulations on what you've accomplished! I can see you're devoted to this, and I'm impressed by the results.

I've never had a worrying weight problem, but as I get older it's clear that I can't eat like a kid any more. One misjudged meal and I'll be groggy for a whole day. So a lot of what you say here is applicable to my situation as well. I've done minimal meals, especially in the evening, and may get brave and try a limited-time fast, just to see how it goes. 

I'm looking forward to applying this. 

(One embarrassing thing that happened: I made a language mistake when telling my doctor about my condition. In Japanese "acid reflux" is "gyaku-ryu-sei". But "foreign exchange student" is "ryu-gaku-sei." Same syllables, different order, and I mixed them up. So my doc was confused when I told him that when I lie down I have trouble with foreign exchange students.)

That's too funny, Belaqua. 

I genuinely hope you find it useful, Belaqua.  I recommend you watch the video I linked to.  I wish I'd seen it a year ago.  

 I started gaining a lot of weight when I was about 10.  In high school, I weighed 210 pounds and I was really depressed.  I cut sugar out of my diet completely and over the next year I got down to 145.  I've struggled with my weight all my life.  I gradually gained it all back until last year I weighed 268 pounds.  I've tried just about every diet over the years and I always gained the weight back and then some.  I realize now that it is because those diets didn't do much of anything to lower insulin levels.  I was definitely insulin resistant.  I am still learning about all this. 

 Did you know that vitamin K2 has an important function in the body? It pulls calcium out of the walls of arteries and into the bloodstream and then it gets deposited in the bones.  Know what antagonizes K2?  Insulin.  What happens when insulin is high?  Calcium builds up in the arteries causing hardening.  It also activates cells in the bones that pull calcium out of the bones and into the bloodstream where it gets deposited in the arteries.   I've been studying this because I definitely don't want heart disease.  I found out that fermented foods are a great source of this.  Foods like yogurt, kimchi, and sour kraut have it as well as grass-fed beef and chicken have it too.   Kombucha too.  I tried that once and didn't really like it but I might have to acquire the taste.  My father-in-law raises grass-fed cattle so I might see about buying some beef from him.

I'm also learning about turmeric.  I had heard it was a powerful anti-oxidant but never really understood why.  It actually isn't in itself but it does something to the coating on the dna and it removes it and causes some genes to be expressed that are anti-oxidative, or at least the proteins they make are.  Can't remember what it's called but it's in the video. 

That's why I started adding curry powder to my coffee along with butter and pepper.  Turmeric doesn't get absorbed without fat and pepper increases absorption by 2000%.   

I think the best thing to do is just start by pushing breakfast a couple of hours and eat dinner  a couple of hours early. So if you normally eat at 8 AM try eating at 10 and if you normally eat dinner at 7 PM eat at 5 instead.  In retrospect, this was one of the things I did wrong by starting by skipping dinner altogether.