Todd,  you may be on to something here.  Not sure about Ken's
though......
However, it is hard to determine why I had lost 3 pounds.  I have Graves
Disease and it is hard to lose 3 pounds in a month, let alone 10 days.
My fat consumption is rather high.  Olive oil, fatty fish 3 x a week,
flax seed oil in salads, clarified butter.  I must say though,  I did add
the dairy because I have seen others talk of it.  I started paloe as a
way of controlling my Graves..*a thyroid condition*  so far I am
extremely happy with the results.

Trish

On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 23:20:30 -0500 Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Ken Stuart wrote:
>
> > One possibility that occurred to me each time I read one of these
> anecdotes in
> > the thread is that consuming too little fat prevents fat loss.
> It seems that
> > the body conserves fat when it perceives there is a scarcity.
> Thus, you can
> > actually stall weight loss by consuming too little fat.   (There
> are more
> > technical details, but this is the gist.)
> >
> > So, it occurred to me that the "dairy" addition that triggered the
> weight loss,
> > may simply have been a fat addition.
>
> I'm not sure about Trish's case, but in the case of James this
> hypothesis doesn't fit.  He was taking pains to stay in ketosis
> before, so it's hardly likely that he wasn't getting enough fat.
> So, whatever explains the weight loss resulting from adding
> butter and cheese back in, I don't think it is a matter of
> getting fat intake back up to adequate.
>
> On the other hand, even though I speculated that it could be the
> CLA in the dairy fat that is responsible, I have to wonder
> whether the modest amounts of dairy that James and Trish reported
> could make that much difference.  Maybe, or maybe other nutrients
> are involved.
>
> Todd Moody
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