What happens if you eat 5,800 calories of carbohydrate-rich junk food every day? This is what Sam Feltham is going to find out in a 21-day experiment that he’s now launching. He’ll also monitor various health markers during the experiment.
SmashTheFat: Introduction: The 21 Day 5,000 Calorie CARB Challenge
You may have seen the results of Feltham’s earlier experiment – 5,800 calories of LCHF food daily for 21 days:
What happens if you eat 5,800 calories on an LCHF diet every day?
While eating an enormous amount of LCHF food he didn’t gain 16 lbs (7.5 kg) as simplistic calorie counting would predict. He “only” gained 3 lbs (1.3 kg).
What do you think’ll happen when he consumes 5,800 carbohydrate-rich calories daily over the same length of time?
Contest: Estimate the number of pounds of weight gain for Feltham in the comment section below. Please also speculate on what happens beyond weight gain (tiebreaker in the event of several correct answers). The winner will be honored in a blog post.
He'll feel tired and have trouble maintaining energy levels. Headaches, dizziness, short temper and feeling permanently run down.
Someone has to be the contrarian, might as well be me. :D
Trigs will go up, HDL will go down.
mark
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I think he'll get sick of all that junk food though. He normally eats very healthy stuff. I bet he gets spots.
Its impossible to predict how much fat he will gain because genetics play a large role, he will certainly gain more fat than his LCHF experiment however and his waist will go up 3-4cm. maybe even more,
BUT the point is, as soon as the experiment ends, the weight will be easily lost and he will effortlessly return to his normal weight. He is obesity resistant.
I guess I would eat sugar, wheat, low protein and omega six rich oxidized fats, approx 50/50 carbs/fat.
So a donut diet!
Yeah thats how I would destroy myself in the shortest time possible, however I will not do that because I am not retarded.
In the end, this experiment changes quite a lot of variables, and will be criticized on that
later.
But lets take the resulting weight-gain as an (exemplary) effect of eating too much on a "standard" diet.
My wild guess he will gain 5 lb of fat and 3 lb of muscles as a result.
What happens after weight gain can be considerable for some but I would say; depression, breathing problems, risk of diabetes ect. But this is speculation for I am not a Dr.
Will differences be observed and why have these types of diets not been done?
NuSi will hopefully be the first of many studies to ask these more fundemental questions about diet, health, biomarkers and real vs not real diet results.
Eric
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to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
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Where did I say anything about whether replenishing is good, and confirmation bias regarding what?
I think he probably has a body that can eat a lot and burn it off easily (the type of people we hate;) but I bet he is also glycogen depleted when started so there will be a lot of water weight gain. Those will cancel each other out and he'll gain 10 lbs.
In the same way the proponents of simple calorie-restriction point to "weight loss" as if it was all fat mass, with no loss of lean muscle tissue?
This is exactly the point of the exercise... to show up the fallacies of these widely held beliefs.
Just because you claim to understand that these are fallacies, does not change the fact that the vast majority of the population and health care professionals, still hold them to be true.
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Also any adverse health effects would also be expected per conventional wisdom and among CICO advocates. The CICO crew would say that these adverse health effects are dose dependent, so as long as you are eating way above maintenance, one should expect adverse health effects of these foods. Twinkie diet guy shows quality doesn't matter that much IF you can keep your calorie intake low.
21 days at 5800 calories and a 15.6 pound weight gain is in line with a 3200 per day calorie burn and 2600 excess calories.
This is in keeping with DOctor Richard K Bernsteins experiance of adding 1000 calories a day to skinny diabetics diets to try to help them gain desired weight. After 6 months no gain.
Maybe the NuSi diet studies under very controlled conditions will demonstrate to some of the doubters the delta of HFLC and the SAD high carb western diets.
Funny we do not see the High carb gurus running longer term testing on weight, A1c, Fasting glucose and insulin. Maybe they have and just do not publish? The last 40 years of USA higher carb diets and more illness speaks for itself. Eric
And no wonder Vegataian have higher A1c and fasting Insulin levels!