Is It POSSIBLE To Lose Weight On A HIGH CARB Diet? - Doctor Reacts

[@alcott122]

Thanks Doc. We need more people telling truth like you. After reading "The 23 Former Doctor Truths" I realized why Doctors really give up on their carrers and its no wonder!

[@arwenhardy1995]

I'm 60 years old and restricting "calories" never worked for me, not once. Started keto 2020 and within less than 6 months, lost 55 lbs and have sustained this for almost five years now. I've never experienced one hunger pang and find it perfectly sustainable. Just my experience.

[@elizabethk3238]

If you don't exercise you become weak. Losing weight is about what you eat. Exercise is about staying strong.

[@suzannecuerrier279]

Me too!

[@hamsterbox4732]

High carb, high insulin, little access to stored body fat, raging hunger. You do it that way it is torture and you will not do it for a long time.... Low carb, low insulin, fast access to body fat, no hunger - that's how it works! Done it, lost about 50 lb in 8 month. 5ft2, from 200lb to 150lb, no notable extra exercise, just daily life doings.

[@debiwillis9045]

I lost 40 by eating a balanced diet

[@doddgarger6806]

Exactly

[@doddgarger6806]

​@@debiwillis9045 Lost 47 in 4 months using science (Ketones and low insulin)

[@julienfroidevaux1143]

Dr Kepner aka the rice diet/ Kepner diet reversed diabitities on a high carb low fat plant based diet. Vegans have 1/3 the rates of diabitities compared to meat loving Americans. Source Pub Med. When are the carnivores going to publish their studies for the scientific community to scrutinise? Berry diet ? Chafee diet ? Baker diet ? I wish they would cause them saying stuff without evidence is getting rather 🥱.

[@julienfroidevaux1143]

Dr Kepner aka the rice diet/ Kepner diet reversed diabitities on a high carb low fat plant based diet. Vegans have 1/3 the rates of diabitities compared to meat loving Americans. Source Pub Med. When will the carnivores publish their studies for the scientific community to scrutinise I wonder ?🤔 Baker diet ? Baker diet ? Berry diet? I wish they would cause them saying stuff without evidence is getting rather 🥱 .

[@thubandra963]

I am 6ft.2, 76-year-old male that weighed 190 pounds on 9/17/24. I am a rancher, and I am active. 2012, prostate cancer. I beat that. 2020, bladder cancer. I beat that. Was on omeprazole for prior 14 years, two blood pressure meds, and in July 2024 Doc put me on a Statin for high LDL and told me I was 6.0 pre-diabetic. I watched a couple of your and Dr. Berry's pod cast. That day I chunked the sugar and carbs. In one week I lost 5 pounds. I chunked the Omeprazole, Statin, and one of the blood pressure meds. I am now of today, 11/1/24, at 168 pounds. What converted me was a couple of knowledge factors. 1. If one cuts the sugar and carbs the body has to burn fat, goes into "Ketosis". 2. The longer you stay in ketosis and stay within 20 max carbs you lose weight. 3. Eat KETOVORE and supplement with vitamins especially B-12, Magnesium and Potassium. No more joint pain, no acid reflux, I sleep all night. Blood pressure down and almost too low at times. One observation, 66/39 @ 97 and felt faint while working. Waiting until January 25 checkup for doc's hair to catch fire and tell me my LDL is off the map. Going to ask him about dumping the second blood pressure Med. I chart it 3 or so times a day to give him something to look at. Back in the mid to later 1800's, food in the west on the plains was at a premium. People ate Jackrabbits. Jackrabbits are extremely lean meat and people got "Jackrabbit fever". Today it's called KETO Flu. I bought your book.

[@jdmosaics]

Keto flu is about not enough electrolytes …Although it could be your BP tablet keeping your BP artificially low. Will be good to see what your Dr thinks. Good work and Dr Westman is the best!

[@thubandra963]

@@jdmosaics I'm drinking water and Propel.

[@joanhendrix5967]

👏 👏 👏 😊

[@erniewhite1382]

Another highly successful podcast Eric Thank you

[@CarnivoreDietDr]

Your analysis at 4:15 is incredibly insightful! 🧠 I appreciate how you break down the science behind a high-carb diet and weight loss, making it so easy to understand. This video is a must-watch for anyone curious about nutrition.

[@SheriMorgan]

Thank you for making this video!!! I really appreciate hearing your point of view! It’s crazy to hear that people are surprised about energy balance! Love&Light from California 🤍🤍

[@mattod5491]

I remember youtuber jason whittrock making a series of videos where he deliberately doubled his calories on a high fat diet for 2 weeks and ended up losing a little weight. You can clearly lose weight on a high carb diet by calorie restriction but when you inevitably need to raise calories again if you also do that on a high carb diet you will store body fat quickly. This is why traditional diet groups are genius because you will first have ‘success’ if you follow the plan but you will usually just gain it all back and have to try, try again.. and again.. If you have a weight problem you are optimistic if you think you can eat high carb and just eat less calories because your body will be desperate for proper nutrition and you will just keep eating attempting to find it but not actually doing so. Thats my belief anyway

[@MsLeenite]

Thank you, Dr Westman.

[@edwardmiller8482]

As a 69 year old male with numerous medical conditions, I tried a low carb diet, intermittent fasting and exercise. I initially lost weight from 210 pounds while hospitalized to 185 pounds. Then my weight stalled. I then realized that doing low carb was not working anymore. Exercising didn’t help either. What was my problem? Started watching and listening to weight lifters and discovered that I was eating below my BMR. I increased my calories to two hundred fifty below my Total Daily Energy Expenditure, continued my exercise routine and 16:8 Fasting. I stopped doing low carb but continued avoiding ultra processed and sugar laden foods. I have started to lose a 1/2 pound to 3/4 pound of weight every 10 days. Not in a rush to lose the remaining 25 pounds but to do it slowly. Hope this can help others who get stuck.

[@kerryrus]

Yes, but over 80% gain their weight back within 3 years, most gained all their weight back within 2 years. Because you cannot go from one inadequate meal to the next indefinitely. Eventually you want to feel full. The TV show The Biggest Loser never has reunion episodes, because it would be uninspiring.

[@snb310]

The restaurant example that Gary taube uses is interesting but the question isn't really why is the restaurant crowded. To me, the better analogy would be why are more people going in the restaurant (than coming out).

[@missiris1234]

😂😂😂

[@bo-bx5hn]

The largest fundamental issue with CICO is how do you know what calories went out? How are you counting what your microbiome used? How do you know what protein went to repairing or growing tissue and what went to fat storage? How do you know how much of your dietary fat left your body in the toilet? Do you expect your calories from alcohol to be used as a nutrient source the same way omega 3 is? You don't. So it's a waste of time. And I'm saying this as someone who once lost 60 lbs by counting calories. Don't encourage people to consider such a form of torture.

[@alysiaandjohnglass]

No, I disagree the largest fundamental issue with CICO is calories. Calories are nothing more than a construct that is un applicable to a open system in this regard.

[@k.m.9801]

I wonder about insulin resistance, high triglycerides, and other metabolic issues with the high carb low fat weight loss diet.

[@DocSiders]

Caloric restriction doesn't work for most people for long.

[@darinl848]

when i was addicted to sugar/carbs, i would get so hungry an hour later after eating sweets or pasta. now, on a keto diet, i can go 4 hours after eating meat and there's no hunger.

[@kevintappminville195]

Dr. Westman. For something to be true, it must always be true. It cannot be true on a case by case basis. A Hyper-Caloric Ketogenic diet helps with weight loss. HYPER-Caloric ketogenic diet. A controlled trial has been made on this. I personally eat 3000-4500 calories a day, i play video games, and i loose weight... So calories-in calories-out is true only on a glucolitic diet? Then it's not true... Calories are nothing more than a rule of thumb that approximate nutrition. If someone is eating a hypercaloric rice diet with nothing but rice, he'll get fat, because of De Novo Lipogenesis, turning excess carbs into fat. Not calories into fat, carbs into fat. And when the insuline is high, exogenous fat is also stored. So now calorie in calorie out SEEMS to work, because you eat plenty of macronutrient which all get converted to fat and your insuline is high. A hypo-caloric diet promotes weight loss only because you're starving yourself. A hyper-caloric ketogenic diet works because no matter how many grams of fat you eat, it's not stored unless you have a certain amount of insuline... It is not about calories, it's about grams of substance and hormonal levels... CICO DOES NOT WORK!

[@AHN001]

Keto diets are no better for weight loss when calories and protein are equal - numerous studies proves this. Calories in, calories out is all that matters for weight loss. Keto just happens to be a great way to acheive a calorie deficit, and it's also superior for insulin compared to other diets - even when calories are matched.

[@kevintappminville195]

@@AHN001 Nope... Calories don't apply tonnutrition, we're not burning our food... It's a biochemical reaction directed by hormonal levels. The study i'm eluding to is on Frontier Sin. I can't be more specific, youtube will censor me...

[@Vineyardedge]

I am on carnivore now, but I always used to lose weight on a macrobiotic diet, which was mostly brown rice, beans, and cooked vegetables.

[@johnbierma9834]

It’s not in, it’s absorbed by the body. Types of food are digested in the tube differently. Some like cellulose are not digested at all. Yet if you burn them they release calories. I have lost lots of weight on high carb and protein diets but could not sustain and I was sick all the time.

[@kevinwilson3337]

What types of carbs were you eating ????

[@andreyg2905]

The only way a human can lose fat (not overall body weight, but namely fat from adipose tissue) is to have low insulin to glucagon ratio long-term. Glucagon activates hormone-sensitive lipase which in turn activates lipolysis. It is the one and only metabolic pathway of losing body fat. It is possible to maintain low insulin to glucagon ratio on any diet, but doing it high carb is tough because it will force the person to undereat (very likely and for the vast majority of grown adults) in order to compensate high insulin responses from carbs.

[@RandomHuTaoSimp]

Partially correct. If you follow high carb, low fat with lean meats like lean beef, you can definitely make it will, however you will notice you will crave more lean than fatty meats, which is the opposite on a low carb, high fat diet like carnivore. You can achieve homeostasis on any diet if randle cycle is freely avoided. The carb intolerance in high fat carnivore isn't pathological though, it's a protective, physiological state of metabolism that can be beneficial. But thanks to mendelian randomized trials, we extrapolate and apply to all dietary patterns under any metabolism, but this refutes mechanistic findings from other hard science fields In other words it's wrong to put a label on specific dietary patterns like carnivore without actually have experimental data under control on the diet but believe me it's not hard to get enough food on either metabolism. It boils down to the types of protein you take it since nutrients tend to track with protein, especially in ruminant animals. Most ruminant animals in their natural habitats are actually quite lean, including beef. Humans tended to get their fats from things like bone marrow, and what animal fat added up from the muscle meat and things like cheese, raw milk, raw milk kefir, and other animal sources which added up. This is why I conclude animal saturated fats are safe for humans despite the dogma surrounding specific, crappy datasets

[@cassieoz1702]

Thank you. This is what Dr W just avoids addressing all the way through

[@2adamast]

Just like people playing roulette for winning, there are so many theories trying to outsmart the hard truth of calories in and out. Now, if I eat enough and it's mostly carbs with high insulin I will lose more weight as storing carbs to fat then burn it is less energy efficient than storing fat to fat then burn it.

[@leopoldbloom100]

Thank you Dr. Westman, for your consistent wisdom. As to the commentator you addressed, when I hear someone engage in so much sophistry and with such determination, I suspect there is an underlying ideology. I would like to ask him two questions. Do you believe the earth is faced with catastrophic climate change that can be prevented by changes in human behavior? Do you have an ethical objection to people eating animals?

[@elizenolte4687]

Famous weight loss company founding member stated many years ago to then the house wives, that the only exercise anyone needs to do during weight loss journey is to turn your face from left to right and not agree to the second helping. It is still applicable.

[@XaqNautilus]

I know some people can stay lean or lose weight eating carbs. But I never could. Carbs just don't satiate me. I couldn't stop at half a bag of chips, a "normal" serving of chicken fried rice, etc. etc. and I would always be hungry again far too soon. I didn't have the willpower to fend off the hunger that the insulin rollercoaster induced.

[@nordblut666]

Instead of chips eat real potatoes and you will be surprised

[@XaqNautilus]

@@nordblut666 It never mattered the form for me. I could eat a whole plate of normal microwaved potatoes slathered in butter and still be hungry 3 hours later. I don't eat carbs anymore. It's the better solution.

[@suzanneknight2145]

Well when I first started the high carb low fat diet was right after covid. I strictly ate potatoes made in the air fryer as no oil french fries and had it with tomato sugar-free ketchup

[@suzanneknight2145]

To continue I did eat leafy greens with it sometimes Tomatoes anyway I did it for 6 weeks dropped 45 lb very easily didn't want to count my Calories ijust ate till I was full and it worked really well for me however I can't go back to potatoes now they kind of repulse me so I'm on carnivore

[@kevinwilson3337]

@@suzanneknight2145carnivore is too expensive lol

[@JohnHansenArtist]

I f anyone remembers the Pritikin Diet... Zero fats and high carbs. I used this for a fitness, as a long distance runner, for a lifestyle change, not for weight loss. I was eating ~8000 +plus calories a day and yet I was always hungry and had lost all excess weight. A very unhealthy thin! Over time my body would react with inflammation and hives to activities, and more and more of the foods I consumed. Beyond Pritikin was eventually introduced and so healthy fats were added... It was not sustainable, while I ate less calories I found myself easily falling back into older patterns to my eating. Started healthy keto, or low carb, about 6 years ago and lost 65 lbs of 'normal' yearly weight I had accumulated. It was difficult at first, 'keto flu', as I used to eat a great deal of carbs ( I was never a junk food eater). I'm 67 now and healthier and more vital than the state I was 6 years ago. My fitness watch says my markers are within the range of a 25 year old male's numbers... Keto is an easy lifestyle change because of it's rewards. Thank you very much to the keto common sense information provided by people like Dr Westman!

[@kevinwilson3337]

Stop lying!!!!!!! You weren’t eating 8000 calories a day.

[@JohnHansenArtist]

@@kevinwilson3337 lol, no exaggeration, I absolutely was. On average 8000 calories/day. Zero fats/oils, moderate lean/low fat/zero fat proteins, and lots of all types of whole grains, all fruits (no avocados), all vegetables, almost no dairy except some skim milk. Concentrated apple juice and some honey were the only sweeteners. Hunger all day! I became unusually thin and I guess my immune system was slowly deteriorating. My doctor thought it was great as he saw a huge drop in my cholesterol number, though now we know that measure isn't looked at in the same way now. The fact is that a high carb diet can lead to weight loss, though at what cost becomes the question.

you are so nice in saying they are dumb...

[@timesofourlives5642]

I remember listening to this before and thinking duh. I’ve lost weight on high carb low calorie diets tons of times. The problem was that I felt like I was starving!

[@TylerEngland-bb3tb]

I dont think i need to be on any strict diet but I would like to prevent diabetes, cancer and any autoimmune disease. What would a safe amount of carbs be for someone like myself ? Im 31 years old, am underweight and have no illnesses and work an active job.

[@Jay-h9d9h]

i lost a lot of weight on a high carb diet drinking gallons of milk and gallons of juice a day while i was dying of dehydration, starvation, and ketoacidosis before I was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic.

[@jdmosaics]

Oh dear, all that fructose 😢

[@benicio1967]

I’ve been on carnivore for 64 days and frankly I have had almost zero benefits. Some joint pain has disappeared but that’s it. I did a low caloric diet years ago and I felt so much better just doing low calories, low fat. I’m unable to get fat adapted on carnivore. I feel very tired, muscle tightness, I have debilitating low energy and I just can’t function or get anything done. I think I’m going to go back to the diet I did years ago because at least my energy was high and I lost weight too. By now, on carnivore, I should’ve lost at least 20 pounds and I’ve lost virtually nothing. Some people do so well on carnivore because their bodies just take to it. I have found out from failing so miserably on carnivore (compared to how well I did on the last diet), that everyone has that perfect diet that is suited well to their bodies and their own chemistry.

[@powerguiller]

If you ruined your body for years and decades, 64 days are not enough to fix it. It will take time, even 300 days or more. Just keep going.

[@Trayln68]

Why not try Keto?

[@doddgarger6806]

People overeat protein for sure and don't get enough fat which absolutely excess protein metabolizes into glucose which stores as fat so the idea that you can just eat as much as you want on carnivore is not really true

[@doddgarger6806]

​@@Trayln68yeah for sure for a while anyway

[@orchidmuse]

You write: "by now I should have lost 20 pounds ..." Who has promised that to you? Your journey and your body is very individual. No one can predict a weight loss of so and so pounds in so and so weeks. Your organs might need a longer heeling process, and your macros calculation might not be fitting your goals. You might eat too few calories, too few fat or too much protein for your goal, or carnivore foods you eat make your weight stall, like eggs. dairy. Or you don't drink enough water. Etc. etc. There might be circumstances which don't benefit you personally. But carnivore and low carb diets are not in the first place for the weight loss, but for general healing. If you don't care about what you body needs and just want to look great, choose a diet which works for you.

[@johncarter4411]

I just can't do so much fat and protein, so I'm gonna start including some carbs otherwise I'm not eating even 1000 calories a day and have no energy. I get naseous with to much fat and meat.

[@amyfarrell8799]

I lost weight on a high carb diet. 50 lbs on whole grains meat dairy vegetable eggs. Years ago. All I wanted to eat. No processed foods or sugar . Never hungry. Not much exercise. No refined foods.

[@2adamast]

And as the 50lbs was mostly fat, you were on a fat diet at the same time.

[@jeCktHeReal]

Caloric restriction / caloric deficit = starvation. Can one lose weight by starving themselves? Yes. Should they do it? No. Of course if one eats just enough carbs for their body to oxidize as "energy", there won't be any carbs to be stored as fat - however, that diet would be completely destitute of nutrition for a human being. I wish people (including Dr. Westman) would stop talking about calories in regards to human nutrition and also would stop this fixation on "weight loss" when it really should be about fat loss in particular. The calories-in calories-out (CICO) theory is asinine, demonstrably so. The first law of thermodynamics doesn't apply to open thermodynamic systems, of which the human body is of. Calories are also heat energy, and the "caloric content" of foods on the label is a mere estimation of the amount of "energy" being derived from said food - however, that same "caloric content" on the label is allowed to be 20% +-. Stop using the C word.

[@jdmosaics]

Dr Westman is only talking about the C words as he is trying to explain Mike is back on the old track of C in C out and using exercise to make that happen…. If anyone knows about the truth of how the body burns or uses fat, it is Dr Westman..

[@kentmarche4349]

I think Volek and Phinney , demonstrated in several papers that you cannot exercise your way out of a high carb diet. The main problem is that metabolism itself seems to to favor the few steps required to turn fat into the building blocks of life rather than sugar , that seems to take a tour round the houses and then only produces energy (so called empty calories). In fact the whole thing would make more sense if fat people stored sugar, but they don't.

[@kevinwilson3337]

Explain in simpler terms please.

[@kentmarche4349]

@@kevinwilson3337 diet is based on metabolism, metabolism on biochemistry. And problem 101 with carbs in biochemistry is they are not nutrients. So effectively after pasta, rice, glucose etc the body goes quiet for an hour and then says "give me food"

[@richhahn2443]

Everyone seems to ignore genetics. Some people do better on a low fat diet and some do better on a low carb diet. Is your body better at digesting and metabolizing fat or glucose? Many people can do either, but at the extremes are people that should eat either a higher fat diet or a higher carb diet.

[@paulcallicoat7597]

I'm thin enough after 27 months on the carnivore woe. I weigh around the 130# range with a bmi of 18. I'm eating omd but still have coffee with butter.I had some fresh pomegranate but spit the seeds out yesterday. I picked and ate a small apple off a tree that is feral a few days ago. I spit out the fiber. Winter is coming and the seasonal fruit trees are soon to be bare and not poise such a lure to me much longer. The stuff in the stores has no appeal as they are so weirdly perfect with no bug bites and huge in size.

[@doddgarger6806]

Exactly, if bugs won't touch it there's something wrong with it

[@olgakuchukov6981]

Same!

[@timjosling9298]

I lost weight on the Pritikin low fat low protein diet but a lot of it was muscle. I became extremely weak and developed a bad back. My hunger grew and grew and became intolerable. My weight rebounded and I ended up almost obese with high BP. On high fat high protein my fat levels are low while I remaing strong e.g. I did 50 full pushups recently as a 69 uear old.

[@CindyCorporon]

Years ago there was a diet, called the rice diet. Which is high carb. Probably low calorie too. To hard to eat that way anyway. But it did work.

[@charleswilson4598]

I have lost 65 lbs so far on no particular diet. I just eat less food/ I don't count calories or anything else. I believe that no matter what you call your diet as the good doctor says, calories still count.

[@jdmosaics]

Agree and Mike should know this as I am sure over the years he has actually said as much… he needs to go back and listen to some of his old vids! 😂

[@TheRealBrook1968]

I learned two new words from this video: Tautology and "retrospectoscope."

[@ad3781]

so basically he admits you have to lower your calories to lose weight. no matter how you do it. so, like layne norton says, pick the diet that's easiest for you to stick to.

[@finagill]

Weight loss is primarily about having your insulin level lower longer than it is elevated. You can spike your insulin and lose weight if the spike is short lived and infrequent. Eating less high glycemic food means that your spikes aren't as bad. Time your meals correctly and you will lose weight. It doesn't mean that it is good for the long term. Calories are irrelevant. The caloric content of food is determined by burning the food and seeing how much heat(calories) are released. It tells you nothing about how much energy you extract from it. Physics tells us that any 2 objects of equal mass have equal energy. When you burn a unit of fat you get 9 kcal per gram. When you burn a unit of carbs you get 4kcal per gram. Neither tells you anything about how much you actually get from it.

[@jupeter24]

31:08 "When it was finally examined by 40,000 women, the low-fat diet didn't do anything! The study didn't show that people go better..."

[@suzannecuerrier279]

Your videos are so "common sense"! I really don't like extremists but a low carb diet has worked for me for over 5 years. And yes, calories matter. I just find cutting out high carb foods is sustainable for me.

[@Mike-fj2ln]

The only way that I can lose weight, carbs or not, is long-term fasting, as in 60 hours plus. Obviously that has work, if you do enough days of it.

[@alejandrosaez1772]

You can if the Randle Cycle isn't activated

[@michaelcariello6233]

That’s not what Gary Taubes is saying. Calories are irrelevant. Pay attention to what insulin is doing and that will determine what fat mass is doing regardless of micro deficits or surpluses of calorie intake.

[@TCBytom]

Here are some remarks about this "study" and Dr. Westman statements. I've read the paper (or rather ppx) and what we get here is: This was extreme fit and ultra healthy man; his fasting insulin was 6,9 uIU nad glucose 95mg% which gives perfect HOMA-IR. Cut-off (equilibirium) point for insulin blocking release fatty acid from adipose tissue is established between 14 to 20 uIU in vivo in humans. So this guy is constantly in retrieving mode of fatty acids from the tissue most of the time during 24 hours (with exception during 1-2 hours after a meal). His daily expenditure was 3100 kcals, and he ate 2400 kcals where 400 kcals was in fat (44grams daily) and 1400 kcals from carbohydrates (330 grams). In comparition; average sedentary man 1,75m, 70kg weight, utilizes 2000 kcals; 800 kcals from fat (~90 grams), and 900 kcals from carbohydrates (~215 grams) as measured in respitaratory chamber and by radioactive isotopes. So this mentioned study n=1 is in reality low fat diet and moderate carbohydrate diet, because intake of 44 grams per day is lower than observed in sedentary men (90 grams). This study was also moderate glycemic index diet (54 value) and glycemic load (36) which is pretty moderate value (it means that he did not eat more than 66 grams of complex carbohydrates per meal). Resistance training is known to recrut all 3 types of muscle fibres (type 1, 2a and 2x), 2x is solely glycolityc, 2a can shift from carbohydrates to fats when needed. 800 kcal training is pretty decent one; it can utilize up to 200 g of carbs or even 90 grams of fats. Now we have full picture why this guy has lost weight on such diet. Better model would be if he ate 90 grams of fat per day and did exclusivly submaximal wieght treining and his energy deficit was 300 kcals in carbs. And even better model would be without resistance training. And last thing. He lost 12.2 kg of fat during 210 days what gives us deficit of 168000 kcals, but he's just lost 12.2 x 8000 kcals =97600 kcals. So according energy balance model he should have lost 21 kg. So let's take into account fat loss (90 g per day - 44 eaten) = 45 g per day x 210 days = 9660 grams of fat deficit. but 1 kg of fatty tissue contains just 88% of fat, so we get 11.1 kg of fatty tissue reduced. So which model explains better? Energy model or ingredients model? and what are metabolic pathways responsible for convertion fat into glucose if calorie from fat can replace calorie from carbohydrates?

[@snb310]

What if there's no insulin present. Will you gain or lose weight in a high caloric state?

[@ekondigg6751]

No insulin: that would be the case for a type 1 diabetic with no access to insulin. That person will lose weight rapidly, no matter how many calories are consumed because the glucagon:insulin ratio tends to infinity. If that person doesn't get insulin, then death will occur due to so much weight loss.

[@russvet]

I was slim and fitted even on high carbs. Nutritional density of food metters. Enough proteine, vitamins and animal fats.

[@DavidAHaugh]

I lost 100 lbs of weight in 1978 in 6 months by counting calories and exercise but as soon as I went back to eating normally was hard to maintain. The low carb plan works the best to feel good and maintain a healthy good weight.

[@Glen.Black.]

YES! If you have one 2 ounce serving of a food that has high carbs per serving for your OMAD.

[@steadfast20-4-26]

I have had way more success with weight loss on carnivore, and as far as calories…intake is higher than on plant-based (as post-menopausal). I guess it depends on your stage of metabolism 🤷‍♀️

[@user-pr5tx9ep4m]

CO has always been the mystery. As Huberman and Jeff Nippard talk about, people of very similar metrics (sex, height, weight, average amount of daily activity) can have wildly different BMRs. I've always assumed that WHAT you eat impacts your BMR by hormone manipulation because when I first did keto about ten years ago I lost weight freakishly fast eating double bacon cheeseburgers without the bun everyday. But the CICO model can still apply to people like myself. Crudely speaking it may play out like this. When I was metabolically deranged and eating high carb, my CO may have been 1800, but going low carb spiked my CO to 3500. So if I'd been eating 2000 calories a day previously, I was actually gaining weight, but with low carb can increase the CI but lose weight. Because it's the difference that matters.

[@doddgarger6806]

Insulin yes

[@KittilyKat]

I used to be on a high carb diet, most miserable time of my life. I gained 8-9 pounds in a few weeks while calorie restricting and fasting.

[@kentmarche4349]

Dieting with carbs has another problem called "metabolic advantage". Or how eating bread, chips and beer did not make me the athlete I thought it would.

[@natmya243]

I would be interested in your comments on this video

[@natmya243]

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[@rapajaro]

If you go on calorie deficit while on high carb, it may work initially, you mention satiation, and yes, it is one part of the story, if you are not satiated, then you have to have strong self control to stick to the plan of eating less, this can work for some time, but not forever. the 2nd part is that being on high carb low calorie feeding, if insuline is triggered you will not be able to burn much fat while the calories from carbs are not enough, then your body may burn protein or reduce metabolism to adapt, so if you continue in a deficit, you will end up reducing your lean mass and tired all the time.

[@kevinwilson3337]

You’re crazy lol. I am on high carb low fat with moderate protein and i have more energy than anything else lol.

[@ARBackfire]

Bodybuilders have been using the caloric deficit routine for decades to cut, lmao. Just wish they’d be more open to keto/carnivore. A lot of science based lifters have a bit of carb supremacy ingrained in them. I’ve found I build muscle extremely faster on a high fat, high protein diet.

[@bert_buikema]

Losing weight is about burning fat. Burning fat is difficult on a high carb low fat diet. Burning fat is easy on a low carb high fat diet. No need to make it more complicated than that, if we choose not to discuss the mechanistics of it.

[@TheExpeditionUK]

Penn, of Penn & Teller, lost 100lbs on the potato diet

[@Mike-fj2ln]

Obviously exercise helps, but even relatively heavy exercising will not help if eating a lot of calories. However, cut the calories down, and you'll lose tons of weight without even exercising.

[@Kevinbbadd-c3n]

Dr Westman’s face after hearing you can lose weight with carbs 🤯

[@JohnSmith-qz1zp]

That’s what Susan Powder recommended. She said “Fat makes you fat.” She was just a person not a doctor or a dietitian she had no factual basis for her diet.

[@Billy97ify]

The Pritiken Diet was proven to work long ago and still does. It is not an easy diet to carry out though. I'll stick with carnivore.

[@debiwillis9045]

Just because its not keto or carnivore...does not mean its a crappy diet

[@doddgarger6806]

Why do carbs and sugar elevate triglycerides and type b LDL?

[@LauraB.335]

Never said that, BUT A LOT of people who eat high carb for many years end up having all sorts of problems, including serious autoimmune and GI issues.

[@Kevinbbadd-c3n]

Exactly it’s calories. You can’t outrun a high fat diet.

[@arwenhardy1995]

@@Kevinbbadd-c3n I weigh 119 lbs. and eat high fat, moderate protein and as close to zero carb as possible. Have never counted, much less restricted, "calories". Never deprived myself, eating to satiety. All "calories" are not metabolized alike. Eating whole, 1 ingredient mainly animal-sourced foods helped me lose 55 lbs and keep it off for almost five years. Boom!

[@Kevinbbadd-c3n]

@ More like 600

[@TamzRod]

The more correct statement is, you can't run a bad diet.

[@Kevinbbadd-c3n]

@@TamzRod And high fat is the bad diet

[@RavenMacGowan]

Sure, you can lose weight on a high-carb diet, but you have to starve yourself and you lose muscle mass. I power lift and see bodybuilders do this and they are always weak when they do it. I laugh my ass off while I eat 5,000 "calories of fat and meat and am still building muscle, losing body fat and getting stronger.

[@cleoburrows]

I'm curious what your thoughts are about this video on calories in/ calories out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmPdooawea-jZ9U

[@KperkIns54]

Calorie is measure of heat energy. A camp fire has calories. But the body doesn’t work that way. We metabolize food we don’t burn it. I hate when skinny people try to talk about weight loss.

[@QuintonDolan]

We do ‘burn’ it though. The caloric energy in food is the measure of chemical energy in the molecular bonds released when it is oxidised, which is exactly how the body works in the mitochondria. Burning something is just oxidising it.

[@michaelcariello6233]

Dr Westman is a great guy but he is hopelessly lost on this topic.

[@eddyk564]

From my experience, it is definitely doable to lose weight on a high carb diet, but you have to be super disciplined. It is very easy to overeat when eating starchy carbs in particular. It's much easier to just go low carb for me as the weight just falls off, rather than it being something I have to constantly put effort into.

[@2adamast]

If you're losing weight, you're on a high (body) fat diet anyway.

[@dalobucaram7078]

Short answer: impossible Proof: me

[@doddgarger6806]

Of course you can starve yourself and lose weight 😅

[@sb9442]

This video makes me so confused 🙄

[@KatiareginaNormanda]

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[@KyazimTutaj]

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[@NicolineVadier]

But then, what do you do? How do you come about that in that period?

[@KatiareginaNormanda]

Big thanks to Mrs Christian Evelyn Mackie

[@KatiareginaNormanda]

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[@KatiareginaNormanda]

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[@cassieoz1702]

I think you missed the point. Folks who've been exposed to the physiology of weight loss in more recent times, have been lead to believe that low insulin is necessary for lipolysis, and therefore don't understand how high carb works. I just didn't read him as 'surprised' as implied and can't understand DrW beating the CICO point as long as he does. He still never addresses the insulin point. I don't think this is one of his good episode. Repetitious and didnt read the content creator well

[@ammovette]

spend a lot of money to prove that water is wet!

[@darinl848]

yea, you can lose weight eating one donut a day and that's it. you'll be starving and get sick eventually.

[@perserverance333]

My LDL went up to 130 from 113 in a year. Doc said stop eating red meat daily and don't eat egg yokes.

[@kentmarche4349]

The sweet spot is around 230 apparently: Nature: Total cholesterol and all-cause mortality by sex and age: a prospective cohort study among 12.8 million adults

[@LauraB.335]

Do you research about cholesterol and LDL. Researchers are starting to think LDL is protective, especially as we age. Most doctors freak out and throw a script at you as you walk out the door, and they’d be wrong.

[@perserverance333]

Muscle is 70 percent water, carboHYRATES are needed for hypertrophy and continued muscle gains.

[@franki7]

carbs and fruit = Sugar. No thank you

[@jvlbme]

Gosh darnit, now you mentioned that which must not be mentioned. Extra cleansing ritual for you tonight! 😔

[@shaunabchapman]

Crappy gas will make your car run, but in the long term that gas is destructive to all the parts and pieces of your engine, and will shorten its life. You can lose weight smoking meth too… you gonna do that?

[@debiwillis9045]

There are plenty of high carb plant based channels on YT....very successful for many years

[@doddgarger6806]

Eating a bunch of cellulose is starvation, why vegans have the lowest body mass index, that's not a good thing

[@Kevinbbadd-c3n]

You just debunked Keto and Carnivore when you admitted it is caloires 😂 don’t start back peddling now 😂

[@jeronangell2028]

How does that debunk keto, keto does not say it’s the only way to lose fat.

[@Kevinbbadd-c3n]

@ Because they claim insulin is what causes weight gain

[@andreeldridge8457]

Because it is. Insulin is spiked when you eat. It spikes higher the more sugar you consume. That’s not a debunk. That’s a fact. What keto and carnivore does is allow you to eat more satiating foods and have less hunger. So by default you eat less calories than what you expend. You are MORE LIKELY be hungry more often the more carbs you eat especially depending on the intensity of your workouts. Why do you think body builders drop carbs when they go on a cut? It’s not to drop weight, it’s to drop body fat. But also remember there’s no 1 answer to fit all. Do what works for you!

[@Kevinbbadd-c3n]

@@andreeldridge8457 Nope he just said its calories in calories out. Keto debunked.

[@CuriousJS]

@@Kevinbbadd-c3n I love seeing comments from people like you, just trying to rile people up. 😂

[@thetankgarage]

For four months this summer, I ate over 3,000 calories (3,300-3,700) of only meat every day and lost 5 pounds, with no exercise. Yes, calories count, but the only real function carbohydrates seem to have in our bodies is to downregulate our calories out I.E. lower our metabolism. That's probably literally the only real evolutionary function that the macronutrient carbohydrate has in our bodies: to decrease our calories out. So, yes, eating high-carb and losing weight will work if you force yourself to starve, but why focus on eating the one macronutrient whose seemingly only function is to prevent us from losing weight, in order to lose weight? Just seems silly.

[@debiwillis9045]

People just need to realize that keto does not work for everyone, nir does IF...we are all made differently, thats why the diet industry is a multi billion dollar industry.

[@doddgarger6806]

I don't know that this is true, you're making that statement because the guy suggested a starvation diet works??? 😅

[@Clammy69]

That's a fallacy. We might have slight differences person to person, but as a species, we're all basically the same. Just like every other species on earth.

[@LauraB.335]

We are born in ketosis, and stay in ketosis for much of our life as a baby, unless our parents feed us crap formula or lots of sugar. People are meant to be in ketosis for parts of their lives - period! I’m not saying everyone needs to be on a ketogenic or carnivore diet, but for a body to be completely dependent on carbs and have no periods of ketosis, decreases metabolic flexibility and health. We are not all made differently. The body works the same way for most of us, and gets metabolically unhealthy for many of us the same exact way: eating too many carbs too often.

[@davidsanderson7948]

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[@offshoretinker]

Sad.

[@davidsanderson7948]

@ It’s not sad. It’s glorious.

[@Mike-cp1tj]

look at Asia - there is your answer

[@doddgarger6806]

Calorie restriction sure but you probably haven't looked at Asia lately, China and India have the highest rates of diabetes on the planet

[@jvlbme]

Yeah, the realisation has begun. You are all going to end up on Mediterranean diet. Took you long enough.

[@doddgarger6806]

Because this guy said starvation causes weight loss that means Mediterranean diet 😅????? Ok 👌

[@jvlbme]

@doddgarger6806 Mediterranean is carbs in moderation - carbs are not evil btw - and sure, if you exercise enough you'd starve on that too. Have fun!

[@CuriousJS]

@@jvlbme Why are you so obsessed with what people are eating. 🤣 it’s weird!

[@perserverance333]

Calories in, calories out.