@edouard Thank you for sharing! I will definitely integrate honey or some form of sugars at the end of meals to spike insulin and promote fat storage (not sure how I didn't think about that before lol).
Yes, about Ray's situation, I think it had to do something with holding magnesium in cells and how thyroid is allowing that and otherwise without sufficient thyroid the body becomes inefficient at holding magnesium and requires abnormally high calories just to maintain.
Maybe all I really need is some cynoplus/cynomel...