Do you mean that you used to consume a lot of Omega 6? If so, in what form was that Omega 6 consumed?
The problem with balancing Omega 3 and Omega 6 - which appears to be generally accepted as a good thing, is intensely difficult in today's environment unless one is very deliberately trying to do so.
Take for example - a 1950 calorie day comprising cereal and skimmed milk plus orange juice, lunch a cheeseburger no chips, dinner 2 sausages, chips , peas tomato ketchup and 2 slices of bread and butter , no dessert , small tin of pringles in the evening.
That day will deliver 0.7 g of Om 3 and 17.3 g of omega 6 - a ratio of 24;1. it is generally considered that a ratio of about 30:1 is what happens in a standard day of an average person eating a standard but not excessive western diet
Then take for example - someone such as me converting to LCHF, eating real foods with a great deal of variety, no particular cheats, no processed rubbish. just the occasional day when they got a bit carried away in volume terms .
That describes me over the last 12 months which delivered a weight loss of 24kg on LCHF . It also delivered a diet of around 1450 calories, a bit less in the early months when I did lose weight and a bit more latterly when I didn't ( unsurprisingly) .
I was deliberately trying to eat healthily acheiving 96% of nutrients overall. On average that delivered 2.7g om 3 and 12.0 om 6 a ratio of 4:1. I thought that was entirely acceptable and 5:1 is often mentioned as a good "goal " .
I did a lot of research trying to find out what must be wrong with my diet ( or the way my foods are interacting with my willpower ) i.e. why have I stalled. I concluded I need to do 2 basic things I had not hitherto been doing
a) proper gaps between foods to get the insulin down quicker and teach me the value of not snacking
b) better matching of Om 3 and Om 6 to reduce inflammation and hopefully get my system working more efficiently when not being overloaded with inflammatory Om 6 oils.
Funnily enough it was your post about " in your opinion " that led me to then go look again at more data. I knew before that matching was a good idea but it was more in a " that makes sense to me based on what I've read" kind of way rather than " here is why" kind of way. Your post got me thinking - " am I just making this up? " - hence asking the moderator to make abundantly clear this whole experiment is just " in my opinion".
That is the point that I searched out the historic data for the growth in Omega 6 oils in the human body and realised that its growth from 8% of body fat to 25% of body fat also correlates with the increase in diabetes and inflammatory disease.
Given that inflammation and insulin are intimately connected whenever mentioned in scientific research and the light bulb moment that the presence of too much insulin then causes carbs to become more toxic by converting more of them into fructose that causes fatty liver disease and there you have the complete set.
Stick to LCHF, Get rid of inflammation by getting rid of the Omega 6, get rid of the insulin by fasting , loese, weight by eating all nutrients in one sitting -(which you can do in about 1000 calories ) . I wasn't actually expecting that I could lose weight on 1500 calories because that is what I've already been eating so I had no reason to.
The only differences between before and now are I am now eating exactly the same foods but once per day AND I am now upping omega 3 deliberately by drinking enough cod liver oil to ensure that the two nutrients are matched. That process has delivered 7.1kg in 12 days and 7cm off my waist.
I don't know which ingredient made the difference. It could quite simply be that true enforced " no snacking " delivers it on its own.
For me personally I will continue with all three elements because I have been convinced of the health benefits of doing so and reduce calories in this context if I get to another stall.
I have uploaded the actual data since diagnosis ( I record everything I eat every day )
I am still doing about the same results in terms of nutrient mix, but my current ration of 4.8 om 3- 5.4 om 6 is a lot closer to 1:1
I am going to try and get the balance in favour of Om 3.
the weight chart shows whats happened since I made the switch. whatever the reason I intend to carry on for now !
