after those first few days I started to get
headaches and feel my energy levels decreasing.
Again you can see in the video diaries as the
experiment goes on that my presenting ability
went downhill with a lot more umm's, err's and
nonsensical sentences, so much so that I decided
to put out takes at the end of each video diary.
experiences. On the low carb high fat diet of real
foods I felt no difference in my level of fitness
during the Tabata sessions but did notice that with
my cycling commute I couldn't wait to get on the
bike to burn off my plentiful energy. On the high
carb low fat diet of fake foods I noted from the first
week that I was finding it harder to breathe during
the Tabata sessions as well as on my cycling
commute, which I felt slowing
down through the experiment.
I even felt as though my
asthma was coming back,
which disappeared about 4
years ago when I gave up
alcohol and wheat.
These self-experiments have
been a very enlightening
experience for me, I hope for
you too, and have helped me to
understand how my body reacts
to different foods and not to the
total number of calories I ingest.
Although this is not a randomised
controlled trial, it is quite a
powerful demonstration that more
rigorous research needs to be
done into what causes us to gain or
lose weight, as for me at least it
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isn't about the quantity of calories
but about the quality of those
calories that make the difference
between a healthy body and an
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unhealthy body.
decided to interview my girlfriend for the video
diary about whether I had changed at all and she
From Monday 20th January I will be conducting a
noted my breathing was heavier and that I was
third self-experiment where I'll be eating 5,793 k/
snoring loudly at night, one night was so bad that
cals a day for 21 days again of a high carb low fat
she recorded me snoring which I thought was
diet but of real foods instead of fake foods. As per
rather hilarious but also a serious aspect of the
the previous experiments I will be doing video
side effects from fake foods. Although I felt
diaries every day on my YouTube channel and
absolutely terrible throughout the fake food
posting
them
to
my
blog,
experiment I never had problems eating the 5,793
www.SmashTheFat.com/blog , where you can find
k/cals and even noticed that from mid-experiment
all of my previous experiment videos and plenty of
I could definitely have eaten more at the end of
other useful information.
the day.
As I previously mentioned I did exercise during
these experiments using interval training and my
usual cycling commute. I did 3 Tabata training
sessions a week, where you perform 20 seconds
of intense exercise with 10 seconds rest repeated
8 times totalling 4 minutes, a quick and easy way
to get in some decent exercise when the majority
of your day is spent eating and editing videos. My )