“Nonsense. I’ve eaten a gram of protein for each pound of body weight daily for the last 15 years. That’s more than 90% of the population consumes. If I don’t eat enough protein to trigger this then virtually nobody does.”
First of all, the example that prompted my original comment contemplated all the bacon a person could dream of eating, in other words upwards of 100 percent of a person’s daily calories on permanent basis. Such a diet would cause serious health problems for a variety of nutritional reasons, particularly with respect to the micronutrients missing from the lack of carbohydrates.
Second, your level of dietary protein is not problematical so long as it does not contribute to maintaining chronic elevated blood glucose levels and chronic elevated insulin levels. Your assumption that your dietary experience is comparable to the response of the general population to the same dietary experience is s false assumption. Genetic differences in the handling of metabolic functions is responsible for large differences in the metabolic differences to the same diets. So too does differences in exposure to cortisol as a response to systemic inflammation, stress, lack of sleep, and so forth.
If you happen to be more typical in your body’s metabolic responses, we can force your body to enter a condition of persistent metabolic syndrome by overfeeding you with greater than 1000 grams of carbohydrates per day for a period of years with meals and beverages at regular 3 to 4 hour intervals around the 24 hour daily cycle for a period of years. This chronic condition will over time fatten your liver just like a goose being fed corn kernals to fatten its liver to manufacture patie de fois gras liver sausage. As your liver becomes fattened, you will develop metabolic syndrome, then pre-diabetes, and finally full blown diabetes. However, if you are one of those rare individuals with the genetics does not permit your lipase levels to retain liver in the adipose tissues, it could prove to be very difficult to fatten your liver, force you into a chronic state of metabolic syndrome, and onwards into diabetes. If so, however, you would be a rare minority of the population who would instead soon find themselves in a state where there lipase triggers would not allow them to burn fat from the adipose tissues despite low calorie diets and/or exercise.
Are you one of these people who seemingly cannot gain weight no matter how much carbohydrates and other food they eat?
Not at all. It's always been very easy for me to add or lose as much weight as I wanted within a "relatively" (compared to others) short period of time. However, I generally focus on bodyfat percentage rather than weight because I have a large percentage of muscle mass and tracking only "weight" or BMI is generally very misleading. My Holy Grail is to shred bodyfat while maintaining or increasing muscle mass. A very difficult objective.