James,

You might have digestive problems that carbohydrates
make worse. I'm fairly carbohydrate intolerant. I
can't eat much raw fruit or vegetable or I get
constipated. There's a diet called the Specific
Carbohydrate Diet and a web page (plus mailing list)
that may very well address your symptoms. It's
http://www.scdiet.org .

I'll put on weight eating just fruits and vegetables
and lose weight eating lots of meat even though I'm
sure I'm consuming many more calories with the meat.

Nuts, in general are hard to digest, even for folks
with good digestion. I think the best way to consume
nuts is to soak them overnight. This frees up the
enzyme inhibitors.

I do a low carb paleo diet and skip the nuts. I get my
fat from olive and flax oil and from avocadoes.

Sol


--- "Dr. James Alpigini" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Cave People,
>
> It is a rather odd, but I seem to be putting on
> weight, and it is not
> muscle.  I am at a bodyfat percentage > 25% so it is
> not that my body needs
> the extra fat - quite the opposite.
>
> I am eating 4 or 5 times per day, mostly greens
> (lettuce, spinach, green
> beans, broccoli, broccoli rabe), meat (beef, pork,
> chicken, salmon), eggs,
> olive oil, flax oil, pork rinds and some nuts.  I
> have to be careful of the
> nuts.  I rarely ate them before and I've learned
> that more than an ounce or
> two at a time gives me a belly ache.  I've gone very
> light on carrots,
> perhaps two this week.  Early in the week I had a
> small batch of pemmican,
> but I haven't had any since Tuesday.  Fruit wise,
> I've had 1 orange, 10
> dates and 2 TBS of honey this week.
>
> I'm drinking 2 - 4 liters of water per day.
>
> I estimate that my protein has been about 240 grams
> per day, but I have not
> been tracking the carbs/fat/pro/calories.
>
> Using ketosticks, I see that I am not dropping into
> ketosis.
>
> I have not been able to give up my coffee (black, no
> sugar) in the morning.
>  (Flesh is weak and all that)
>
> And the complication: I have Kalman's syndrome,
> which is an obscure
> pituitary condition.  The end result is that my body
> does not make
> testosterone, which is supplied via patches and
> injections.  Lord knows
> what that does to a metabolism.  On the metabolism
> end, it may be broken
> due to previous yo-yo, high carb, low protein, low
> fat dieting - directed
> by a registered dietician to combat cholesterol.
>
> I have a database which I can use to track my food
> exactly.  I could crank
> in whatever I eat and trim it down to say 1800
> calories per day, but I had
> hoped to avoid the hassle.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> James at Penn State
>

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