Modified Walter Kemper diet
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Was thinking about giving this a go, a high starch low fat low protein diet for fat loss. The basics involve white rice, fruit and table sugar , i believe there was use of T3 in the diet. I think to modify it I’ll add in potatoes, fat source being a little bit of coconut oil to go with the starch, as well orange juice and coffee, haven’t decided yet if I want to add skim milk or not.
I was thinking about how this diet would work, typically people try to reduce their starch when they try to lose weight, is it mostly the reduced fat that makes the weight loss easier?
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@TopicalsOnBalls I ate a lot of rice for a while, but got bloating. I think refrigerating it makes the bloating worse because it makes the starch more resistant, which makes more of the starch feed gut bacteria instead of being absorbed by the intestine. My problem is that I like to cook it for a long time to make porridge with sugar, but it's not practical to cook rice multiple times every day.
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Forgot to mention that one of the benefits of this diet is the reduction of inflammatory amino acids. Not sure about the reduction of salt, even for short term, feel that any weight loss regimen should involve some amount of sodium.
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Am in the process of doing something similar, have made a post on the topic already: https://bioenergetic.forum/topic/422/fat-free-short-grain-rice-and-skimmed-milk-diet-highly-effective-for-fat-loss
So far it's going very well, far more effective than anything else I have tried for fat loss, with the most interesting part being my actual bodyweight isn't going down, just fat.
Can't comment on using potatoes but if you want to do this with rice make sure it's short grain/glutinous rice, otherwise the fiber adds up very fast.
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@GuantanamO-Shea I was thinking about adding potatoes for the variety, and I don’t find fruit very satiating, perhaps a potato mash with coconut oil.
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@GuantanamO-Shea Interesting case study
Maybe I should give it another try with short-grain rice -
@coffee I would recommend it. And honestly short grain rice is tastier than long grain so works out doubly well
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@GuantanamO-Shea I could see that working, give it a shot! If memory serves mashed potatoes tend to have the most gelatinized starch so definitely the easiest-to-digest route.
Do try to get short grain rice if you're going to be eating significant volumes of it, I have actually gone off long grain rice now, don't really like it anymore when I know what good rice tastes like now -
@TopicalsOnBalls I have noticed this effect of resistant starches too - it makes me wonder how people tolerate batch-cooked meal prep that includes a lot of re-heated rice.
Have you found a difference between eating this resistant starch cold/reheating it? I haven't tracked re-heated rice enough to say, but eating cold potatoes seems to have really irritated my poor digestive system.