Morning all.
Interesting discussion. The thing is, it doesn't need to be high fat. If you look at something like the Dukan diet it's low fat low carb. But it's miserable. The thing about fat is it fills you up and is enjoyable.
But it is a proportion of your daily intake. I've put on weight I think four times in my life, I tend to be relatively static, and I've used low carb to manage it for years. The reality for me, and the reason I didn't post my menus, just said I don't follow exactly, is because to lose weight I also need to manage my calorie intake down, but I find it quite easy to do on low carb/high fat as I can manage my appetite. On carbs, I struggle and feel hungry often, then over eat and gain weight. When I over eat on carbs, it's sugar, every time.
But if you think about Athels diet, she's not gained any weight, is consuming quite a lot and is relatively sedentary. That's a result in itself.
So whereas this really isn't a calorie controlled diet, calories do count. At the beginning it's not important as you lose the water weight but then as you move into keto, your appetite wanes, you've more energy as you're burning fat, and you can easily reduce your intake, you don't have those insulin spikes, thus losing weight with little effort. That's how it works for me anyway. You can then easily maintain.
It's not for everyone but for some of us who aren't major carb fans, as said, my downfall is sugar, but I can easily forego bread, potatoes, rice, pasta, crisps etc, then it's prob the easiest weight loss and weight management woe there is.
So for me it's not carte Blanche to stuff myself, it's more an easy way to control my appetite and subsequently lose or maintain weight,,,,