One month of slow carbs...

It has now been one month since I started doing a "lose the love handles" diet. The results are slow, but that's okay. As you can see, the trend is definitely in the right direction: 2% body fat loss in four weeks. While I want to be down to about 14% BFP and that will take another seven months, this has definitely been one of the easier lifestyle decisions I've ever made. Yes, it means giving up my beloved oatmeal in favor of lentils and bacon, but hey, that's a decision I can live with. And I still get to eat whatever the hell I want on the weekends.

I really think the biggest change, though, has been giving up on soda pop. I eat bread in moderation, and potatoes only when home-cooked, and only in moderation. (Except on weekends. Then it's beer, bacon-wrapped baked potatoes, and thin-sliced London porterhouse broils, baby!)

Oh, and I actually read the JAMA article that purports to claim, "Carbohydrates are a nutrient for which humans have no absolute requirement." It does say that. It also says the following (Mozaffarian et al. (2010) Dietary guidelines in the 21st century):

Saturated fat—targeted by nearly all nutrition-related professional organizations and governmental agencies—has little relation to heart disease within most prevailing dietary patterns.

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Typical recommendations to consume at least half of total energy as carbohydrate, a nutrient for which humans have no absolute requirement, conflate foods with widely divergent physiologic effects. Little of the information found on food labels' "nutrition facts" panels provides useful guidance for selecting healthier foods to prevent chronic disease.

The recommendation? You know: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Prepare at home."

Hey, it's working for me.

By the way, the BFP calculation is courtesy a bioelectrical impedance scale, which has an accuracy rate of +/-2.5%, so I don't worry about the daily accuracy so much as the trend. I have used the exact same routine of using the scale every morning immediately after waking and urinating, so I should be at an after-sleep semi-static consistent state.