Posted on 06/13/2023 10:21:29 AM PDT by Phoenix8
Alcohol is only bad, all the time.
There is no good rationale healthwise long term for drinking alcohol in any form, ever. No exceptions.
After a few days your body gets used to the routine and you don’t feel hungry in the morning.
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Before I retired I never ate breakfast and didn’t feel hungry until 12 or 1 in the afternoon. My comment to friends at work was that since I didn’t do anything for eight hours the night before but lay in the bed, I hadn’t worked up any appetite. Recently I read somewhere that the emphasis on the breakfast meal was promoted years ago by the Kellogg Co. to sell more cheerios!
As a result, since Nov ‘23 my A1C went from 5.8 (diagnosed with pre-diabetes) to 5.4 (no diabetes)
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You did this in Nov ‘23 before that month even arrived? Fantastic!!
I eat a pint of white rice and a bottle of water for lunch 2-3 times a week. No change to breakfast or dinner. I lost about 6 pounds in week. Easy to maintain weight that way.
I go to vegan YouTube, men look puny.
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Maybe so, but one of the world’s premier long-distance (over 100 miles) marathon champions is an American vegetarian! Forgot his name but read about him recently.
I believe the worlds first scientifically proven diet, with clinical studies, was a rice diet.
It’s a shame people ever got hung up on “calories” - a unit of energy that has basically nothing to do with how the human body processes food, gains weight, loses weight, etc.
I have lost a significant amount of weight twice in my life - 2020 and right now. Both times a combination of (weak) intermittent fasting and cutting way down on carbs. Down 18 since start of April, and that’s with still drinking red wine like I always did.
Correct. I did make exceptions for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Years. Also, my sons' birthdays.
At the end of the first year, I asked my doctor to do a complete physical. I lost 150 pounds. My BP went from 180/90 to 118/80. A1C from 6.8 to 5.4. Triglycerides dropped from 365 to 136. LDL went from 138 to 43. He said KEEP UP THE FASTING.
I stopped when I started working from home during COVID days. I need to get back on it. I LOVED FASTING LIKE THAT.
I know that.. and if I had any hope of being perfect, I would certainly add alcohol to the list of things to abstain from.
However, I’m 71, far from perfect, and I just want to be a decent person, it hurt anyone, stay reasonably healthy and safe, while still enjoying the time I have left.
Cheers!
My opinion is that are many ways to skin a cat. Whatever diet you choose, you should stick to. But almost nobody does. At some point, people give themselves permission to backslide.
Everybody likes to share their diet stories, so here’s mine:
YES:
Small meals CHEWED SLOWLY and THOROUGHLY.
Mass quantities of water throughout the day, especially at bedtime and first thing in the morning.
Protein, fiber, vegetables.
NO:
Liquids consumed within half an hour before or after meals
Carbonated beverages (not even seltzer water).
Sugar (that includes corn syrup).
Yummy fat (New York strip steaks, BBQ, etc.)
Alcohol
LOW: calories, fat, carbs (not keto low!).
My plan is to continue this for the rest of my life.
Regards,
A Carb Counter
“Class? Class, please. The term for the day is “break fast”. Can anyone tell me what that means?”
Excellent write up.
so, what exactly do you eat in that 1 hour?
What type of Protein?
For the hour, typically a piece of beef or fish. I think 8 ounces is probably ideal but I go with more, trying to keep it under a pound. And a huge bowl, like the kind you would make cookie dough in (except don’t do that) filled with vegetables like kale, spinach, Brussels sprouts, broccoli (steamed in a rice cooker or roasted, doesn’t matter) with a handful of walnuts or almonds on top along with some shredded Parmesan cheese. For dressing, olive or advocaco oil with zero carb vinegar. Personally, I don’t bother adding up all the green vegetable carbs. Oh and I will throw a couple hard-boiled eggs on top. Sometimes some bacon (no sugar) also. So this is not exactly starving, as u can see. (And I have nothing against pork or chicken - it’s just habit I guess.) This will work if u do it exactly like that. On that you have my ironclad Freeper money back guarantee. And BTW my guess is that early in the day would be better for the one hour but that is too torturesome for me so I go with 7 pm or so. Final idea would be to warm up for a few weeks on 20:4 before jumping fully into it.
You don’t have to fast for days. Just one day per week works or intermittent fasting during the day. I only eat one or two meals a day most days. Many days I don’t eat from supper to supper. That’s a 24 houur fast.
I have eaten 1 meal a day for decades. It started with having no choice due to child support. Now I have grown used to it
Nice!
[Anyone try intermittent fasting?]
Sometimes. In between the Haagen-Daaz and the crunchy peanut butter.
If anyone needs to know how to GAIN weight, shoot me a FReepmail. I’m an expert!
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