Well written William, and I believe true for many of us.
Thanks! Katie
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  From: william<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:28 PM
  Subject: Re: Experience with ZC


  Todd Moody wrote:

  > 
  > I've experimented with ZC twice.
  > 
  > I found that I did fine during the day, and my appetite was
  > well-regulated. I ate one or two small, high-fat meals, because
  > that's all I wanted. By dinner time I was very hungry, however, and
  > ate Falstaffian amounts of meat. Amazingly, I'd be hungry again a
  > couple of hours later, and wanted more and more. It was the kind of
  > hunger that made it hard to pay attention to much else. *Distracting*
  > hunger, I guess you could say. I lost no weight. Other than that, I
  > suffered no ill-effects.

  Those of us who have blood sugar problems do suffer ill effects if we 
  lose track of the EFA:protein proportion. Your hunger was a reliable 
  signal of relative low fat intake.

  > 
  > What I find is that if I have a moderate amount of carbs with dinner,
  > paleo or not, my appetite is more regulated, and I'm not hungry for
  > the rest of the evening.

  This is typical of those who fail zc, and hard to avoid in a low fat and 
  carb-addicted world.


  > 
  > I don't present my experience as in any way normative.

  It looks like it is normative for those who fail.


    I know that
  > the advice at the ZIOH forum is always to keep at ZC, and eventually
  > you'll adapt.


  Bad advice, as most at ZIOH eat cooked, guaranteeing malnutrition.


     No one has demonstrated that ZC is the healthiest or best
  > way to eat.


  I did, and do.

    Those who find that it works well for them shouldn't be
  > deterred by my or anyone else's experience.

  I don't need anyone else's experience, as I get an ugly reminder of my 
  folly when I cheat.


    For those of us who
  > didn't do as well, there just doesn't seem to be any good reason to
  > struggle to adapt to it.

  Difficult to imagine anyone eating raw zero carb by choice, although 
  there are a few who write that they do. Far more resolute than I.

  > 
  > Furthermore, monotony is real, and it can be a problem.

  No contest, but that's probably because there is a lot more to 
  maintaining a raw zero carb life than is presently known to me.


    I reject the
  > premise that food is fuel and nothing more. For our species this
  > simply isn't true. Food is a key component in many social
  > interactions.

  Exactly! It's also a political tool used to create civilization, 
  resulting in the insanity of war, poverty, slavery, disease (physical 
  mental spiritual) including the "war between the sexes".

  William