ex150nosauce+ACV-6: new all-time low.. by 1lb

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ex150nosauce+ACV-6: new all-time low.. by 1lb<br>Another confusing month

Experimental Fat Loss<br>May 17, 2026

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Previously on Lost

My last experiment was exactly the same as this experiment, my new standard diet, ex150nosauce+ACV:<br>150g of beef + some leafy vegetables per day

Ad-lib heavy cream, usually with coffee but sometimes plain

Each morning, 1 serving (~=1 tbsp) of Bragg apple cider vinegar capsules

As expected, I started out losing weight very linearly and rapidly, until I hit pretty much my previous modern all-time low of just under 208lbs. Then I plateaued for 2 weeks straight, bouncing around the 208-210lbs mark.<br>I suspected then that I’d hit my “settling point” and would need to deplete more linoleic acid from my body fat to hit a lower ad-lib weight.<br>But to make sure, I was just going to do it all again this month. I predicted I’d hit that same level of ~207-208lbs and plateau once more.

Play it again, Sam

And here’s what happened:

Refeed weight gain of 17lbs, back down 17lbs within a week, back down to 207-208lbs 3 days later.<br>And then, a slow, steady, bizarrely stable plateau for 17 days.<br>It happened EXACTLY as I predicted. A few days into the plateau I ate 2x my normal beef, just in case it was a protein hunger thing. It wasn’t. I never really did get that ravenous PLH hunger, but just in case.<br>Next, a reader suggested I could try doubling my ACV dosage. Heck, why not, I thought, that stuff’s cheap enough. So I started also taking one serving in the evening, usually around dinner. I think I only forget it once or twice from then on.<br>About 10 days into the plateau I had a cheat meal of rice, lentils, and some meat, home-cooked at a pot luck. I could’ve easily said no, but at that point I was 100% convinced I was correct about the plateau and that I might as well cheat. Since it was only a single meal, my weight didn’t even noticeably bounce up.<br>Two weeks into the plateau, with the double ACV dose seemingly not having had any effect, the same reader suggested I just try something, anything at all. Might as well do a mini experiment-in-the-experiment, right?<br>So just for shits and giggles, I switched from 150g of beef to 150g of wild caught Alaska sockeye salmon for the last 5 days.<br>On day 29, I reached a new all-time low of 206.7lbs. And on day 30, I was 206.3lbs, besting my old ATL by a whole pound. I was now down 85lbs from when I first started ex150. Feels good, man.<br>What the heck happened?<br>I don’t know. Maybe the 2x ACV finally kicked in, after 2 weeks. Weirder things have happened.<br>Or maybe the omega-6:omega-3 thing did make a difference on the margin.

A Brief History of Fish

Or, more accurately, my brief history with fish.<br>In short, I don’t like fish. Never have. I could happily go the rest of my life without eating any fish ever again. Most fish is tasteless. Much fish is worse, actively nasty-tasting. For example sardines. I don’t like sardines at all.<br>Back in 2023, I did a sardine experiment: ex150sardines. I lost 4lbs, but I hated the sardines, and at that time, 4lbs wasn’t an incredibly impressive amount of weight to lose. I was still 245lbs then, and would lose similar amounts just doing my regular beef.<br>Salmon is pretty much the only fish I actually enjoy eating, but it’s not nearly as good as even standard 80/20 beef, it’s expensive, it’s a pain to cook, and so I generally don’t.<br>I did once do a 30 day experiment replacing my daily beef with salmon, back in 2024: ex115salmon.<br>On that I did lose weight and reach a new ATL, but only by about 3lbs, and after reaching it 2 weeks in, I regained 2lbs so it was mostly a wash overall:

I generally found the salmon to be less palatable than the beef, and I got a major sunburn that month, which I sort of hadn’t in a year at that point, having cut out seed oils.<br>Overall I wasn’t particularly impressed by “oily fish, rich in omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids” even with the pretty extreme intake.<br>There are lots of seed oil deniers out there who claim you don’t need to avoid omega-6, all you need is to eat fish once in a while to maintain a healthy omega-6:omega-3 balance.<br>Those people are stupid.<br>It just doesn’t work. You can do the math; these people never do. You need to eat 2lbs of salmon to counter a single tablespoon of soybean oil. That ranch dressing you’re putting on your salad? 5lbs of salmon.<br>Americans are eating an estimated 15-25% of their entire diet from seed oils and derivatives. There isn’t enough salmon in the world to counter this, apart from the challenge of eating 5lbs a day.<br>The math just doesn’t work out.<br>That said, have I finally reached levels of omega-6 avoidance where eating salmon daily does make a difference?<br>I am generally skeptical of broad “omega-3/fish” advice, but I’ve also been working hard for 3-3.5 years on the other side of the equation, avoiding omega-6. I believe this to be the much longer lever.<br>My own...