ex150salmon review: Failure after only 14 days

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ex150salmon review: Failure after only 14 days<br>Fish is still trying to kill me

Experimental Fat Loss<br>Jun 07, 2026

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tl;dr: ex150salmon failed

Toward the end of my last ex150 run, I ate salmon for 5 days and saw a 1lb drop to a new all time low weight.<br>The following refeed I saw satiety from high-carb and swampy foods like I’d never experienced before: satiety from bread, from ice cream sandwiches..<br>Hence I decided to do ex150salmon. Could I break through my 207-ish plateau by eating salmon every day instead of beef?<br>In short, no. I didn’t even make it back to my previous plateau in 14 days of salmon. Not even close. I plateaued quickly, felt sort of a perennial background “dis-ease” and non-satisfaction from food, and got a sunburn - so I stopped after 14 days.<br>Details of the diet

I only used wild caught Alaskan sockeye salmon. There is quite a fat profile difference between farmed & wild salmon, so I made sure to get only wild caught.<br>I was frying my salmon at high heat in butter and/or beef tallow to get the skin crispy. I don’t know if that’s relevant, but it could be.<br>I also continued doing 2x my usual dose of apple cider vinegar capsules, one after waking up, one in the evening. This didn’t seem to help.<br>And, of course, I used no sauce during the experiment, similar to my recent ex150 variant.<br>The first week I was whipping my heavy cream in the evening, which I hadn’t done in a long time. But after even that didn’t seem to lead me back to even my previous low weight, I gave up on it. At this point I’m just so used to just drinking cream that the whipping seems like a huge amount of wasted effort, lol. And I’ve previously reached new lows, not having whipped it for like half a year now. I don’t think the whipping makes much of an actual difference, besides providing a different texture that feels more like a real meal.

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Why salmon?

In short, salmon is a pretty good natural source of omega-3 fats, specifically EPA and DHA. It’s thought by some that these can balance out the effects of excess omega-6 PUFA, mostly linoleic acid, from seed oils.<br>I’ve been on a mission for about 3 years now to deplete the high omega-6 levels in my body fat.<br>Some people claim this is not necessary because you can just eat some “oily fish, rich in omega-3 PUFAs” and you’re golden.<br>I didn’t believe this, and after this experiment, I believe it even less.<br>But what I did suspect after those 5 fish days at the end of last month’s experiment: maybe the combination of limiting o6 strictly had put me into a range where adding o3 might finally make a dent?<br>I had previously done a month of salmon on ex115salmon and ex115sardines for IIRC 20 days.<br>I didn’t really enjoy either much. Eating only fish, without any beef, is just sort of.. unsatisfying. Feels like something is missing.<br>It can’t be protein; salmon is higher in protein per weight than the fatty 80/20 ground beef I usually eat.<br>In fact, this is why I’d previously done 115 gram on ex115salmon and ex115sardines - 115g of either are about the protein equivalent of 150g of 80/20 ground beef.<br>You’ll notice that this experiment is called ex150salmon. That’s because, in the beginning, I thought I’d try 150g of salmon. It’s not that much more protein, after all, right? 115 vs 150g?<br>But the first 4 days of 150g of salmon left me with surprisingly bad satiety, and I noticed I was consuming way more heavy cream than I’m used to on ex150 with beef.<br>So I dialed it back to 115g of salmon on day 4.<br>With the higher protein per weight and 115g vs 150g, I was getting nearly double the protein from the salmon!<br>Starting day 5, my satiety was a bit better, but it never felt as good as I’m used to on ex150. I always felt somewhat unsatisfied or unfulfilled in a weird way.<br>A little bit like the very acute “protein hunger” when I don’t eat enough protein, but weaker and more in the background, and it didn’t get fixed by eating more protein.<br>I do wonder if there’s something in beef besides just protein and fat that I’m missing on these all-fish diets.

Results

Let’s take a look at the damage:

Toward the end of last month’s ex150 run, I was averaging about 208lbs. Using salmon instead of beef for 5 days got me just below 207lbs. (Or maybe it was just coincidence.)<br>After the refeed, eating salmon instead of beef, I only ever got back down to 212lbs on average, a whopping 5-6lbs higher.<br>I tried eating more salmon on day 12 or so, thinking that maybe my increased appetite for cream was caused by protein hunger, but it didn’t seem to do much.<br>So not only did I not get to a new all time low weight, I didn’t even reach my previous weight. Not even close! This is pretty bad, as I usually always get back to my previous low within 7-10 days of being back on ex150.<br>In addition, I just felt.. generally not great. Not super bad either, but I was always just at...