[tutufan]

It could well turn out that the common factor here is not consuming a lot of highly refined carbohydrates (sugar, flour, etc.).

More importantly, metabolism is just incredibly complicated, with many complex relationships and effects. On top of that, there is significant genetic variation, so these will differ across individuals. For now, we pretty much have to experiment on ourselves and observe what works.

[com2kid]

> It could well turn out that the common factor here is not consuming a lot of highly refined carbohydrates (sugar, flour, etc.).

Also monitoring food intake.

I am a huge proponent of ketogenic diets, but I also realize having a diet that completely forbids me from eating all common dessert and snack foods is what contributes in large part to calorie reduction.

Sure, I love all the other benefits from the diet, but part of what works about restrictive diets is that they are so restrictive.

[jtwebman]

I have been eating stuff with sugar and some flour so not sure that is the case. Also there are a bunch of search backing my diet but you don't hear much about it because you can't sell anything with eat potatoes :)

[lloeki]

> More importantly, metabolism is just incredibly complicated, with many complex relationships and effects

Plus you're missing on many other factors, especially sleep and mood.