@ThePlantRocker

1 month ago

Hi Dr. Nagra! Here’s some great things to make videos on and if you’ve made content about it I’ll have to look into it cuz sometimes things don’t show up in the algorithm!

The first is the role of healthy fats and weight loss on a plant based diet. When I first got into a vegan diet the general advice you run into is to eat next to NO fat. That means no oils no nuts no avocados!

So I’ve done that before and the thing I found was my brain’s hunger drive didn’t always seem to TOTALLY shut off. And then also I’d do it for two months and then rebound. I also saw in Gardners study of Atkins vs Ornish people just weren’t ACTUALLY hitting the level of low fat that Ornish recommends while trying to follow his diet. That was something Ornish resented but Gardner said he was studying people actually trying it DO the diet.

Anyway I tend to think SOME fat in the form of olive oil on the veggies or avocado or nuts in a salad can make the brain STOP wanting MORE food. I dunno I was experiencing this situation where I kept wanting to eat but my stomach was full but the hunger drive was not shutting off. And it’s like sure perhaps I’m still eating less calories but if I’m just stuffing myself all the time and I’m full and the hunger mechanism isn’t stopping it sucks! Some fats with the meal seem to help with that a lot in my anecdotal experience!

Next is protein because again the advice given is don’t worry about it just eat a high carb diet and you’ll have enough protein. So my thing with this is so if you’re eating very low protein and you lose weight, what happens if you start to eat more calorie rich foods but you’ve also lost muscle? You’ll put on a ton of weight! (Not that I know or anything!! 😅)

My first encounter with this was the twin study where the did dexa scans and the vegans had lost muscle mass. Gardner said this part of the documentary wasn’t very scientific they just wanted to do a scan of the few people that were the main characters of the doc. But I did see that and think to myself “that’s something to be aware of because that will make it easier to gain weight BACK!”

So that’s also something I’d love to see more content on the available research.

Yeah I had a couple sweet potato burgers from Dr praeger and a salad with avocado walnuts blueberries a balsamic vinaigrette and basically what I said to myself is “this seems to shut off the desire to constantly eat food but also I’m not feeling the NEED for junk food any longer to get the fats because there’s some fats on the diet.

I think a lot of us are out here feeling scared to eat any sort of healthy fats. 🤣 If you’re snacking on nuts or drenching everything in oil it’s one thing but that’s not my experience of what I do when it’s paired with other plant foods.

I’ll have to research satiety and healthy fats. I do feel they tend to get my hunger drive to shut off when paired with other healthy foods!

It’s also a situation for me where I’m for example more likely to eat air fryer French fries over real fries if they have a very small amount of oil. More likely to eat salads every day if there’s more to them! It’s a form of making the healthy options a lot more desirable so i continue eating them.

But the experience I felt was a little bit of fat along with the fiber that’s what seems to do it as far as shutting off the hunger drive! Before I don’t know what it was I would keep eating well past the feeling of fullness! That is a strategy if it’s very low calorie but it doesn’t feel very good to your digestion! 🤣

I do have a cut off with that though and it’s that I try to totally avoid fried foods or anything with palm or coconut oil or just foods in general totally drenched in oil like say movie popco

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