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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP above...just a ant to clarify the point a little the original menopausal mice.  The researchers concluded that menopause causes overeating which causes obesity.  But the truth is the OPPOSITE!  The mice overate because they needed more food!  They needed more food because their bodies were taking calories and storing them rather than letting them burn.

Menopausal women don't overeat because they are gluttons all of a sudden.  If they get fat and overeat, they overeat because they have less energy and need more food!  It's a vicious cycle, though, because if they overeat a Hugh carb diet, they are storing more and more fat and raising insulin higher and higher, storing more fat, and on and on.

Fat causes the urge to overeat.  Overeating carbs raises insulin and causes even more calories to be fmdivertes to fat, which causes more hunger.

i actually cried when I read this chapter.  Then got mad.  Then got 50 pounds slimmer, seriously.  With not a lot of effort compared to all the calorie restriction and exercise and self-recrimination I had previously tried and failed.[/quote]

NP. Finally somebody who put it as it is, and thank you for explaining it so I can truly understand. I never needed carbs, didn't like them before 40. Then I was so tired(I did have undiagnosed Lyme, but that just added to the problem). All of a sudden around 40 I want carbs, I want bread, I want that rice! It is like all I ate my whole life, veggies and meat, turned upside down and I became my own Jekyll! How did you lose weight, by eating more protein? I also make muscle like nobody's business, my kids too, I can walk one mile and muscle is there. Please give us more info! Thank you!![/quote]

Op here.  After I read the Taubes book I drastically cut back on all refined sugars and slowly started stepping away from carbs.  I added LOTS of fat, especially grass fed butter and olive oil.  I did things like switching tea with sugar to tea with heavy whipping cream which is amazingly delicious.  Cutting out starches, breads, pasta was much harder for me at first so I added intermittent fasting.  Still ate lots of calories, no added sugars, lots of fat, but only did it with an 8 hour window daily to keep my insulin lower.  As the months went by and I felt better and better, I went back to carbs less and less.  It was so hard for me because so much of my diet WAS carbs.  I had eaten tons of rice and pasta since Weight Watchers in my 20's because all of that was "low fat".  I hardly ever ate fat or much meat beyond lean white meats.   Now I eat beef and don't drain the fat.  Amazing that. Asicalkyvthe opposite of everything I was taught is now working.

Btw, my total cholesterol has gone way up but my triglycerides are WAY down, good cholesterol is way up, and bad cholesterol is doen.  My cardiologist is totally fine with total cholesterol being higher as long as triglycerides (which are high from sugars/carbs, not fat) are low and the ratio of good to bad is good.  My inflammatory markers which used to be sky high are basically gone.  Losing the weight is basically just a bonus on top of being SO much healthier!!![/quote]

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