I’m no mod, Tom, and contrary to you I don’t try to police the forum. However it’s a bit of a mystery why you think that your post is a contradiction, all you do is attack the messenger with your vapid diatribe.
What you demonstrate is that you have nothing of substance to contribute to the topic at hand. And no wonder, the timing suggests that you didn’t even watch it.
Yes you are, just be ready to get mobbed by one and all…if that’s a risk you can live with, congrats! You passed the “can actually use forums” test. 
On a more serious note - don’t get too attached to IF. Other strategies can work too.
I have an app I keep track of everything I eat and do in a day and it’s pretty good so far. It’s interesting it appears that usually I don’t get enough proteins and I could have sworn I eat too much meat etc.
You post a video about someone who has recommended a low-carb, high-fat diet. This is not good advice.
Why would I assume the same person would post contradictory, healthy advice.
I’ve read about resistance-starches. They are a good thing. I eat them.
I’ll watch the video when I have time - just for you!
I don’t need to lose weight - but thanks for the concern.
I like experimenting. A few weeks ago I undertook a high-protein diet for a couple of weeks.
I ate more protein and less carbs.
Hats off and applause for those that do that.
It takes a lot of determination to feel like you are eating so much you feel nauseous at the end of a meal. Not a pleasant feeling in the slightest.
For the record - I put on a kilo or so of weight - fat. I also had much less energy and felt lethargic.
Science backs up my experience.
I think the fast food diet experience was more fun because although I put on weight, I still had energy.
Oh, not at all. I didn’t think you do, judging by the amount of cycling and your gender. But just in case someone else might need it.
Btw, it also works in case you need to know what you actually eat in a day, as most people tend to either underestimate or overestimate the amount of carbs, proteins and fats. It helps one to be more aware of their nutrition and physical activity levels in general.
What was the purpose of this experiment if I may ask? Building muscles?
It’s an overview over the various types of resistant starch, there appears to be significant confusion about them. The messenger is largely irrelevant.
I’m far from surprised that this went right over your head and got you triggered.
No. To disprove what people are thinking that it is something special about eating a high-protein diet which helps with weight-loss.
It’s not specifically eating a high-protein diet but eating less which helps with weight loss and just eating a different diet than normal without actually cutting down the amount you eat will make no difference and could even cause you to put on weight.
My fast food diet was to prove whether exercise would be enough to counter calories from fast food.
Over a week I ran 70km and put on quite a bit of fat (and weight). I don’t have the exact figures with me.
And this is true for any weight-loss diet, pretty much. I recall my first wife went through a lot of them, back in the 80s, I forget all the names, but the high-fibre one was popular, various shake-based ones, one of the food-combination ones, IIRC. They all worked in the short term, but either left you starving or made it impossible to live a normal life.
My second wife (of 30 years now) has also tried a few of the more recent ones, with similar long-term results, i.e. no permanent weight loss. Does she need it? Not really, no. She had some eating issues when I first met her, now all gone thankfully, and she’s a lot healthier for it than she would be just be losing a few kilos.
I’ve never had to worry about it myself, just a few occasions in my life when I’ve had to go to 34 inch Levis or got over 90kg ( BMI just over 25, so technically overweight but in nobody’s view would I have been considered so), all of which were when work/commuting etc. made it harder to eat healthily so I’d ended up eating a lot more junk food, with inevitable results. Often it was working in an office with no catering facilities so the morning bakery run and the pub lunch was a normal part of the work day.
Losing that little bit was always easy just by becoming aware of it and resisting the bacon rolls, the bakery items and suchlike which had generally become a far-too-normal part of my diet.
I agree
It used to be believed that overweight people had shorter lives but studies looking at people over the last 30 years show the same life expectancy or, at worst, a couple of months shorter.
The reason is modern medicine. There are tablets for blood pressure, diabetes, chlosterol and so long as you take them then you are protected.
There are also studies that claim older people with BMIs 27/28 and more withstand serious diseases better, presumably they have more reserves.
I would like to point out that she’s not in any way a ‘fatty’ TYVM.
Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale, circa 1405 :
Love is blind and may not see.
Now that’s a bit of a mansplanation, but thanks anyway… 
I think these experiments are somehow unnecessary if you don’t have a higher purpose for yourself e.g. feel better or lose weight.
Personally I don’t have the time and will to experiment for the sake of experimenting. Eating too much protein is not something I would do anyway.
Careful here, I’ve been chastised by some woman back on EF for using this word - and I actually used it jokingly and in relation to a singer not anyone I know or anyone on the forum…but hey ho… 
I think you meant to say that there are no real weight issues there, which is probably very accurate but but…personally I don’t know many women who are totally happy with their weight, not even the ones who are really skinny not according to my views (which may or may not be accurate) but judging by their weight/height ratio i.e. more objective factors.
I have a friend who lost so much weight it doesn’t even look good anymore tbh…
Anyway, I don’t know why anyone would think that only people with health issues can be more careful about what they eat or should worry about their weight gains however insignificant etc.
Most people that I know and want to lose some weight ( I could also lose a few more kg), women and men alike, want that to feel better in the first place and for getting more active, not necessarily for lowering their BMIs, which may fall within the normal range anyway.
And I think some need that extra-push in the form of a diet or maybe different eating patterns, but I agree it can’t work in the long term and in the end it’s about finding a balance.
Some truth there but…is love really blind though?.. I think love is forgiving but not blind…and you look after one another, this is what people do.
Quite right too, it was used in the post I replied to, it’s since been removed.
I was not eating more or fewer meals than normal. It took no extra time.
The fast food experiment was when I was out working in California for a couple of weeks.
I can’t comment on will power but it took a bit to continue eating burgers and fries after about four days.
I don’t get this experiment; what was supposed to prove? That you gain weight if you eat only fast food or…? Why would you even do that if you know a fast food based diet is a bad idea anyway? I just had some oatmeal and blueberries because I’m getting ready for a morning run and I don’t like to run on an empty stomach. I don’t know, IMO it makes sense to experiment with stuff that makes (some) sense.
No, I think that is pretty obvious - to me at least. I was in the last weeks training for a marathon so doing a lot of running.
There was discussion at the time whether exercise alone could mean you could eat what you wanted.
People had always said to, “oh, you’re so lucky, you can eat what you want and never put on weight.”
But no, even with a massive amount of calorie burn through exercise, eating three normal-sized meals a day could cause you to put on weight.
If they had said, “oh, you’re so lucky, you only eat what you need and never put on weight” then there may be some truth in that.
Exercise is really important for a healthy body and mind but it’s not going to affect your fat content* much.
*I wrote that rather than weight as obviously people can put on muscle by training with weights or their body weight.
The human body is pretty efficient, so you’d need to do a lot of exercise to burn off a single burger, let alone 3!
I worked it out once - a big mac meal is something around the number of calories burnt when running a marathon.
A walk to the bin from your car at the drive-in to throw away the waste isn’t going to cut it!
60 min in the gym according to my app is around 320 calories. This is a kit kat. One has to be Michael Phelps in terms of calory expenditure to offset a bad diet. For the rest of us, food is number one in terms of what makes a “summer body”
I read recently that the calculation of calories burned doing exercise is just what you burn on top of your Basel Metabolic Rate. Doing hard exercise doesn’t really contribute much to your overall calorie burn through the day apparently. Most of it is burned just by existing, using your brain, fidgeting, moving around to clean up the kitchen, go shopping, play with the kids, we just don’t notice it.
Moral of the tale seemed to be just “be busy” as much as you can through the day. Oh and “have muscles” because they’re pretty expensive calorie burners, even at rest.