Message #23565

[mccoy]

Now, the above reccomendations would seem pretty clear. I've made a dietary experiment on myself to test the 'eat less carbs + eat less proteins' points, or rather to optimize the quantitiy of carbs and proteins.

I just cut all natural sweets (honey, dried fruit, bananas) eating just fresh fruit, no more than one pound per day. I also cut all cereals, bread and so on.
I count all proteins and make sure not to eat too many of'em.

The result has been interesting but undesired to me, since I lost at least 5 pounds, starting from leanness. I do not wish to loose weight, rahter I'd like to increase some muscle mass. It was mainly water and fat but maybe a little muscle mass.
So I have to devise another strategy, maybe cutting animal proteins and resuming some bread.

A very interesting aspect which I noticed though is that I broke my former dependency on the sweet taste, even though I ate mainly natural sweets. I was a huge eater of honey, putting it in all hot beverages and sometimes on bread and butter. I also ate raisins together with almonds. Now a tiny amount of honey (I say almost microscopic) seems sweet to me, so the taste for sweetness has sharpened.