"Good nutrition and sleep are sufficient therapy for a healthy young organism." - Ray Peat, Generative Energy
I started eating according to Peaty principles back at the beginning of the year in order to combat fatigue issues and low BMR. I'm glad to say that it worked, but my weight shot up from 190lbs -> 215lbs in just a couple months. Now that I feel all around healthy (despite my avg. temp being slightly low), I want to see if I can bring down my BFP.
I've begun the Haidut sub 10% dietary fat method, which frankly I don't understand the mechanism behind other than forcing carb metabolism utilizes a more efficient method of ATP creation, along with the advice of maintaining a high calcium/phosphate ratio (avg. 150mg calcium/day, working on dairy tolerance and planning to double).
Currently, I'm eating 2300cal/day with a 72C/18P/10F split along with standard strength training.
My diet consists of nearly solely:
- Fruit/fruit juice
- Coffee
- Milk/cheese/greek yogurt (all skim/non-fat)
- Nixtamalized corn tortillas
- Tilapia
- Pico de Gallo
- Occasional eggs/beef
- Occasional coconut oil
With the oral supplements (not ideal I know):
- 1000mg Magnesium
- 500mg Vit. E (dl-alpha)
- B Complex
- 1000 mg Thiamine HCL
- 1.5g Creatine HCL
- Occasional D3+K2
Does anyone else have experience with trying this, and are there any nutrients I'm obviously missing?
I'm trying to see how far I can get without thyroid supplementation or any other sort of serious therapy. I'm young (early 20s), so I want to get as far as possible with diet/lifestyle.
It's been two weeks and I'm down ~3lbs, although I stupidly started creatine at the same time which confounds things. Notably, last time I dropped weight from 220lbs -> 175lbs, I had to eat at 2000cal and then 1700cal, so I hope to get this number up. The overall goal is to find a diet where my maintenance weight remains low while energy remains high.
Will report back with results.