The Animals said:
But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
The trouble with saying anything is that it's very easy to be misunderstood, and I think there is a lot of misunderstanding about The List and what it is.
I will try to clarify a bit more, and hopefully we can all come to an understanding.
I agree that food should not really be about pleasure but about spare functionality.
This is not what The List is about. You are not an engine, and choosing food is not the same as choosing Unleaded 95 or Unleaded 98 for your car. Such a mechanistic and purely materialist idea is too weak to overcome a program in your mind. From a spiritualist point of view it is rather insulting to the universe and the Creator, and is a kind of consumerist idea of nature. Nature is not your personal grocery store, and you can't head to the Eco section, or the Bio section.
It appear that he is fighting fire with fire instead of finding a balance base on objectivity, knowledge and instead restrict the potentiality of the natural world and it diversity.
Balance is stagnation. Fighting fire with fire is a
common idiom in english because it is actually used to fight fire. From almost every strategic perspective, such tactics are always more successful than not. Bruce Lee built an entire martial art on the concept of the "Intercepting Fist", a fancy way of saying punch first.
The concepts of balance and moderation are liars, they trick you into thinking you can just have a little. That if you take equal parts of poison and antidote you'll feel no ill effects. This is how most people live and it isn't working, I don't think it is working for you at the very least.
I remember talking to a friend who was making a meal of some processed frozen burgers (the ones with the bun), but he assured me all was well because he was eating a piece of fresh fruit for desert, and that should balance it all out.
What I mean is that I'm quit sure that the Goddess did not create this whole fauna, this huge diversity and made us mono feeder.
How is this not hubris? Did you ever stop to wonder that maybe She created them because She wanted to, thought they were beautiful, or had some purpose for them, besides residing in your stomach?
So the list as fat and protein from animal and some fat from coconut oil, 0 carbs and 0 fiber so far.
You read only what you wanted to read, heard only what you wanted to hear. The list is not about carbs or fibers or animal fat. The List is a
fulcrum. It is a mental structure expressly for the purposes of having something against which to place a lever and bring about some change. The Lever is the diet, the research, the planning, the food selection.
You can put anything you like against The List, stopping drinking, stopping coffee, stopping any kind of addiction or poor behavior. You can use it to motivate any kind of change you like.
The List is a living structure in your mind, it's like an
avatar for a certain type of cognitive process through which you can interface with a specific desire in yourself to accomplish some goal. Another way to look at it is like the focusing lens of a laser. You have some energy that you wish to direct in some arbitrary direction, but to do that, you need a lens through which to focus it.
If you try to build this lens all hodge-podge from some used glass it will not be very good, so you have to manufacture it from some basic elements in your mind. If you take something like "carbs are bad" and use that as your lens, it doesn't work, it's just not clear/strong enough.
There are some structures in your mind that you can repurpose, or refactor, to be used like this, but often times it's better to start from scratch.
The list is doctrinal and dogmatic, and irrational. It's supposed to be that way, because the human mind is naturally irrational, or at least most of it is irrational. Since rationality began taking the forefront of human endeavor man has gone farther towards his own destruction and the destruction of others and nature than any and all religions combined. Rational thinkers have caused more pain and suffering that a million Torquemadas ever could.
I have personally worked with The List and seen great results, my counsel is to work with The List as I have presented it for a number of reasons:
Unless you are in enough pain right now to send you into a death bed confession (I was), I doubt you will have the motivation to really be as honest as you possibly can be with yourself. Nothing brings clarity like unrelenting and searing pain deep inside your gut. You think that you are being objective, let me tell you buddy, I've seen the other side first hand and I ain't goin back. A wise man learns from his mistakes, a genius learns from others, and I am telling you that following your current way of thinking is going to lead you to a very bad place. Believe me or not, in the end, it's your choice.
The fact that you can do something doesn't mean you actually should. Maybe you can eat a bunch of different things, maybe you'd be just fine like that, and maybe not, and maybe the universe doesn't care that you spent your entire life from one maybe to the next. Personally, I got places to be and things to get done, and I prefer to do what I have proven is right versus what could theoretically be possible. In the end, "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
If eating is that important to you, by all means continue doing what you are doing, thinking like you are thinking, and eating like you are eating. No one will stop you. Since I found The List I have been able to gets tons of stuff done and have plenty of energy to spare that I can spend on more projects, all because I'm not wasting it on food.
In fact, The List has just spoken: Explanations of The List are no longer on The List. I have said my peace/piece, take it or leave it, or do what you want with it