Merpig - congrats being on the cusp of 100lbs lost! That is SO awesome. You must be on cloud nine.
AND, thanks for the story about how the name came about.
I have a similar story about my black lab when she was a baby -total pig. Would eat anything. Even at 10 weeks old she dug under the fence to the neighbors and ate a FULL GROWN rotweiller's food right out of his bowl. She was SO FAT she couldn't get back through the hole she dug. I had to go over there and ring the doorbell. Talk about embarrassing.
Then, she was SO FAT after that I couldn't even bare to be around to watch her either explode, or throw up, so I left for two hours. Came home and she was fine and back to normal (wha?).
Anyway, even though her name was Sophie, I called her piggy, then (I was 18) she became such an eat-o-holic of all things edible and NOT edible, it turned to "f-ing piggy".
One day I couldn't get her name out fast enough and it came out "Fuggy". So for a long time after that she was just plain ol' fuggy.
Finally at 10 years old, she calmed down and got her REAL name back... amongst a trillion other nicknames, but still.
Back to ZC - for those of you using coconut oil and not liking the taste of it - you know they make refined coconut oil, right? Doesn't taste like anything. Oil is oil to me. UNrefined coconut oil is just plain gross. I don't like coconut at ALL.
Fauve - I had the same problem with eating as much as I wanted with protein and fat. Turns out the fat wasn't as satiating to me as most others. I can sit and eat an oil drum worth of bacon or other fatty meat and NEVER feel full.
Now, if I eat lean protein with a little bit of fat added, or just a leaner cut of beef with fat still in it, I can't eat a TON of it.
Protein is WAY MORE SATIATING to me than the fat is, so I've upped the protein and cut back on the fat.
That is NOT TO SAY that I'm doing "low fat" ZC - I still get around 100 grams of fat a day, I'm just saying that my food isn't swimming in it.
Like yesterday, I had a grilled chicken breast and 10 pieces of bacon. Ate the chicken breast first, then the bacon. Wasn't hungry for SEVEN HOURS.
If I would have eaten JUST BACON until I was "full", I could have eaten two pounds to myself and would have been hungry two hours later knowing damn well I just had about 2K cals.
Anyway, just tellin' *my* experience.
Y'all go on with your bad selves!