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