Personal Eating Patterns
I think I’ve discovered the patterns behind my eating.
So I think there are 3 parallel tracks going on when I eat, the sugars, the fats, and everything else.
I have a fairly small capacity for sugar (carbs in general), and once my sugar capacity fills up to 100%, I start feeling sick and bloated and tired and I get unhealthy. In parallel, I have a capacity for consuming fat, and once that capacity is filled to 100%, I feel full, rejuvenated, and there’s a sense of satisfaction. At the same time, there’s a third track that consists of everything else, which doesn’t seem to affect my body to the same degree as sugars and fats. In the end, every meal is a race between the three tracks. If the meal has too much sugar, I will loose my appetite for what I’m eating and will feel gross. If the meal doesn’t have enough fat, I will never feel full and will keep on eating whatever it is, until my sugar capacity fills and I need to stop eating. It’s not a rule that’s strictly black and white but it’s a rough pattern, so it’s not always the case but usually can be used as a rough guide.
What I’ve discovered is that the average meal when eating out is way overloaded with carbs and has almost no fat (they keep cutting out and throwing away the fatty juicy morsels of meat!). So I’m never truly satisfied but I’ve overloaded my body with carbs. When I eat a proportion that’s more carbs and less fat, I start to gain unhealthy weight. When I’m eating lots of fat, I never need to resort to eating more, and end up much healthier. For me, a meal that’s extremely high in all sorts of fatty meat and cholesterol and basically no carbs seems to be what my body is made to eat (with possibly a little fruit). But I’m more on one end of the spectrum, and everyone’s body has evolved to eat a different breakdown to be at its healthiest, and may operate with a different pattern and have different tracks. E.g. Some have a strong need for their sugar track and that’s what keeps them healthy, and other people seem to really hate eating fatty things, etc.
I think there may actually be a good number of people who are on my end of the spectrum, and it seems like in a lot of Asian countries where people don’t purposely go for low-fat diets, people are ridiculously skinny. Especially when they eat fatty intestines and liver etc. Of course that may not be the cause, but seems like an interesting coincidence to keep in mind 
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I think everyone you should figure out your own eating patterns too! 
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