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As I've mentioned (and risk sounding like a broken record...or a vegan, by keeping mentioning it) I stick to a meat based diet; carnivore.

This means unless it's meat, fish, eggs or dairy, I don't eat it. Mostly I eat beef, one meal a day.

I'm posting this as I know information is kept from us, than can be beneficial to us - it would be wrong of me not to share that. What you decide to do with it is down to you.

From looking in to this way of eating (WoE) it exposes the way big business, in this case big food and big pharma, produce govenment legislature in their favour, and to the detriment of the population they are supposed to work for, There is no better example.

Governments throughout most of the world addopted a set of food guidlines that they say provide optimal diet for human health. So did the governments employ independant scientists to research and devise these guidelines? No. Enter Ancel Keyes - a known fraudulent scientist who put forward the notion that sugar was ok, and that saturated fats were bad. He based this on a study (paid for by the American Sugar Association) that basically said people were healthier if they got most of their energy from carbohydrates instead of from protein and fat.

The study covered 7 countries. The fact that years later it was found that his study covered 27 countries and the results from the others showed the opposite to be true.

By then the damage was done, and the processed foods industry kept on lobbying governemnts to this day, and pay for nutritional research to create more fraudulent studies.

As the consumption of meat and fats decreased the past 70 years, and sugar (and by sugar that includes all refined carbs) has increased, illness has gone up at similar rates. Good news for big pharma, who claim that many illnesses are irreversible...so how are vast numbers of people reversing them by cutting out carbohydrates?

If something doesn't agree with experiment, it is wrong.

Calories are a pointless metric...calories in calories out does not work. How can I say that? Because my experiment showed it doesn't.

For about 12 years I've had a sedentary lifestyle. I work at a desk, and in the evenings I'd sit and drink a bottle of wine and eat nibbles. (Throughout my life I've been a yo-yo dieter. I could be strict and do what has become known as keto - just earting meat and veg. I'd lose weight through determination, but always craved the crap I was depriving myself of. I now know that was because the carbs from the veg were keeping me sugar addicted...and then I'd put the weight back on and more).
Two years ago I started playing golf - I thought that would help me get some exercise and lose weight. Well I got into it and through that summer I was playing 3, 4, 5 times a week carrying a bag of clubs 4 miles a time. This from doing zero exercise. I carried on putting on weight.

Forward to the beginning of this year. I was getting fed up of drinking wine and thought 'when I fill the glass jar on the kitchen side with wine corks, I'll stop drinking it for 100 days. I was 255lbs (5'10"). 30 days later having not had a drop, I didn't feel any better, and had lost a grand total of...nothing! Not a fucking pound.

So late February I went back to the keto diet to lose some weight for the upcoming WCP Ireland trip, knowing that with will power I can lose weight that way. So I did that, and three months later I was nearly 30lbs down, but still felt like I was depriving myself of the things I liked to eat.

I don't know how, but I came across people...doctors no less, talking about the benefits of sticking to a carnivore lifestyle. It made a lot of sense to me, and having been brought up by butchers and being one myself for 13 years from leaving school, I've always liked meat - a meal didn't seem right with it. So after the Ireland trip where I tried to keep to it but indulged in a few beers every night, on 1st June this year I cut out the veg and started just eating meat. And I haven't looked back since.

I'm now 73lbs lighter - I'd like to drop a few more, maybe get to 80lbs...it would be cool to see some abs again at 55yo. But for some reason my body wont shift the last few lbs. This is common, and I had plateaus while getting to where I am now. It seems the body will heal and work on areas it knows you need it, and when thats done, the weight loss starts again. If I never lose any more it really won't bother me - I'm happy where I am.

But more that weight loss, are teh other benefits. Personally I have become a lot calmer; brain fog has gone (i know if something has been cooked in seed oils when eating out as the brain fog returns); energy levels are increased and level throughout the day and into the evening; I sleep probably less, but deeper and feel refreshed; libido has shot up. There are loads more...the biggest thing for me though, is a desire to be better. At 55yo, I feel I can still become the best version of myself. I feel mentally sharper. I feel 10-15 years younger, and that's in 6 months; people who have been doing it for years say that the positive feelings keep getting better.

We're also lied to about how the meat industry is responsible for global warming...by the same people who create 'healthy plant based' garbage using dozens of ingredients from around the world. Did you know that broccolli is a man made vegetable...it is not found in the wild. It's been created by messing with some form of cabbage.

Anyway, the number of diseases that multiple people report they have reversed with carnivore WoE is huge, and include some that doctors say can't be cured;
Type 2 diabetes
Arthritis
Blocked arteries
Heart conditions
Fibromyalgia
Dementia
IBS
Chrones
Psoriasis
Excema
Other skin issues (skin tags, bags under eyes etc)
Autoimmune issues
Low testoserone
Alchoholism
The list goes on.

But what about cholestrol? Yes, we've been lied to about that too - there is no such thing as bad cholestrol. Cholestrol was put forward as a marker for heart disease...it isn't. People who stick to this WoE often have higher LDL cholestrol, but no signs of heart disease.

If this peaks your interest, then go to Youtube and look up these people - and best of all, read the comments under their videos;

Dr Anthony Chaffee
Dr Ken Berry
Dr Garry Fettke
Belinda Fettke
Dr Shawn Baker
Low Carb Down Under
Dr Robert Lustig


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Up until I retired at 50 my diet was high protein. I only ate meat or fish at lunch. Lots of peanuts. Breakfast was always porridge. Evening meal meat with veggies. My family has a history of Diabetes so I always made sure I had my veggies. I cycled 20 miles a day to work and extra miles on my days off. The outcome of the high protein diet was I developed Kidney stones. I would not wish them on anyone. When they ask you to do a pain scale then KS are 10+.
A change in diet (I am still a carnivore), stopped drinking alcohol, daily six mile walks with my dogs and 2 inches off my waist. No repeat of the dreaded KS. I am now 61.

You just have to find the balance for yourself
 
As I've mentioned (and risk sounding like a broken record...or a vegan, by keeping mentioning it) I stick to a meat based diet; carnivore.

This means unless it's meat, fish, eggs or dairy, I don't eat it. Mostly I eat beef, one meal a day.

I'm posting this as I know information is kept from us, than can be beneficial to us - it would be wrong of me not to share that. What you decide to do with it is down to you.

From looking in to this way of eating (WoE) it exposes the way big business, in this case big food and big pharma, produce govenment legislature in their favour, and to the detriment of the population they are supposed to work for, There is no better example.

Governments throughout most of the world addopted a set of food guidlines that they say provide optimal diet for human health. So did the governments employ independant scientists to research and devise these guidelines? No. Enter Ancel Keyes - a known fraudulent scientist who put forward the notion that sugar was ok, and that saturated fats were bad. He based this on a study (paid for by the American Sugar Association) that basically said people were healthier if they got most of their energy from carbohydrates instead of from protein and fat.

The study covered 7 countries. The fact that years later it was found that his study covered 27 countries and the results from the others showed the opposite to be true.

By then the damage was done, and the processed foods industry kept on lobbying governemnts to this day, and pay for nutritional research to create more fraudulent studies.

As the consumption of meat and fats decreased the past 70 years, and sugar (and by sugar that includes all refined carbs) has increased, illness has gone up at similar rates. Good news for big pharma, who claim that many illnesses are irreversible...so how are vast numbers of people reversing them by cutting out carbohydrates?

If something doesn't agree with experiment, it is wrong.

Calories are a pointless metric...calories in calories out does not work. How can I say that, because my experiment showed it doesn't.

For about 12 years I've had a sedentary lifestyle. I work at a desk, and in the evenings I'd sit and drink a bottle of wine and eat nibbles. (Throughout my life I've been a yo-yo dieter. I could be strict and do what has become known as keto - just earting meat and veg. I'd lose weight through determination, but always craved the crap I was depriving myself of. I now know that was because the carbs from the veg were keeping me sugar addicted...and then I'd put the weight back on and more).
Two years ago I started playing golf - I thought that would help me get some exercise and lose weight. Well I got into it and through that summer I was playing 3, 4, 5 times a week carrying a bag of clubs 4 miles a time. This from doing zero exercise. I carried on putting on weight.

Forward to the beginning of this year. I was getting fed up of drinking wine and thought 'when I fill the glass jar on the kitchen side with wine corks, I'll stop drinking it for 100 days. I was 255lbs (5'10"). 30 days later having not had a drop, I didn't feel any better, and had lost a grand total of...nothing! Not a fucking pound.

So late February I went back to the keto diet to lose some weight for the upcoming WCP Ireland trip, knowing that with will power I can lose weight that way. So I did that, and three months later I was nearly 30lbs down, but still felt like I was depriving myself of the things I liked to eat.

I don't know how, but I came across people...doctors no less, talking about the benefits of sticking to a carnivore lifestyle. It made a lot of sense to me, and having been brought up by butchers and being one myself for 13 years from leaving school, I've always liked meat - a meal didn't seem right with it. So after the Ireland trip where I tried to keep to it but indulged in a few beers every night, on 1st June this year I cut out the veg and started just eating meat. And I haven't looked back since.

I'm now 73lbs lighter - I'd like to drop a few more, maybe get to 80lbs...it would be cool to see some abs again at 55yo. But for some reason my body wont shift the last few lbs. This is common, and I had plateaus while getting to where I am now. It seems the body will heal and work on areas it knows you need it, and when thats done, the weight loss starts again. If I never lose any more it really won't bother me - I'm happy where I am.

But more that weight loss, are teh other benefits. Personally I have become a lot calmer; brain fog has gone (i know if something has been cooked in seed oils when eating out as the brain fog returns); energy levels are increased and level throughout the day and into the evening; I sleep probably less, but deeper and feel refreshed; libido has shot up. There are loads more...the biggest thing for me though, is a desire to be better. At 55yo, I feel I can still become the best version of myself. I feel mentally sharper. I feel 10-15 years younger, and that's in 6 months; people who have been doing it for years say that the positive feelings keep getting better.

We're also lied to about how the meat industry is responsible for global warming...by the same people who create 'healthy plant based' garbage using dozens of ingredients from around the world. Did you know that broccolli is a man made vegetable...it is not found in the wild. It's been created by messing with some form of cabbage.

Anyway, the number of diseases that multiple people report they have reversed with carnivore WoE is huge, and include some that doctors say can't be cured;
Type 2 diabetes
Arthritis
Blocked arteries
Heart conditions
Fibromyalgia
Dementia
IBS
Chrones
Psoriasis
Excema
Other skin issues (skin tags, bags under eyes etc)
Autoimmune issues
Low testoserone
Alchoholism
The list goes on.

But what about cholestrol? Yes, we've been lied to about that too - there is no such thing as bad cholestrol. Cholestrol was put forward as a marker for heart disease...it isn't. People who stick to this WoE often have higher LDL cholestrol, but no signs of heart disease.

If this peaks your interest, then go to Youtube and look up these people - and best of all, ready the comments under their videos;

Dr Anthony Chaffee
Dr Ken Berry
Dr Garry Fettke
Belinda Fettke
Dr Shawn Baker
Low Carb Down Under
Dr Robert Lustig


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Who's the gay bloke in the pictures :unsure: :ROFLMAO:
 
Up until I retired at 50 my diet was high protein. I only ate meat or fish at lunch. Lots of peanuts. Breakfast was always porridge. Evening meal meat with veggies. My family has a history of Diabetes so I always made sure I had my veggies. I cycled 20 miles a day to work and extra miles on my days off. The outcome of the high protein diet was I developed Kidney stones. I would not wish them on anyone. When they ask you to do a pain scale then KS are 10+.
A change in diet (I am still a carnivore), stopped drinking alcohol, daily six mile walks with my dogs and 2 inches off my waist. No repeat of the dreaded KS. I am now 61.

You just have to find the balance for yourself

My colleague has kidney stones - not overweight at all, but has been pescatarian (but 95% vegitarian by his own estimate) for about 8 years now.
 
The thing that stands out in both those posts is exercise or lack of
I’ve always been able to eat and drink anything I wanted never put weight on
but moving from on the tools to office and then into retirement has changed that
only difference is lack of physical work

Your body must have handled insulin well.

When I had an extrememely physical job, I could put weight on.

Introducing 12-16 miles of walking carrying a golf bag, from zero exercise...I still put weight on.

I've started doing a little gym work just to firm up...mostly bodyweight, pushup, pullups - and by little I mean 15 minutes a few times a week. That os over the last couple of months, so exercise plays little part for me with weight loss.
 
Your body must have handled insulin well.

When I had an extrememely physical job, I could put weight on.

Introducing 12-16 miles of walking carrying a golf bag, from zero exercise...I still put weight on.

I've started doing a little gym work just to firm up...mostly bodyweight, pushup, pullups - and by little I mean 15 minutes a few times a week. That os over the last couple of months, so exercise plays little part for me with weight loss.
I guess like Chris said everyone needs to find their own balance
being lazy ain’t working well for me 😁
 
I've always just eaten as and when, my diet is very eclectic and if you believe in the traits of your star sign i am a typical Gemini meaning all over the place and forever changing my decisions!! :) I like to cook my own food and my number one choice is a good chilli con carne.(y)
 
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The difference with me this time compared to the other times in my life when I've dieted to lose weight, is that now I have no cravings...no desire to eat anything other than what I do.

It sounds like it should be boring, but meat is all I want now. When you think of other animals, most of them only eat one thing.

We are constantly bombarded with being told that plants are healthy - all plants are toxic to some degree or other. Even organicly grown vegs have natural toxins in them. And anyone on a rigid vegan diet, can only stay alive if they supplement their diet, as they can't get certain nutrients from plants.

However we can get every nutrient that humans need from meat. And the nutients are denser and more bioavailable from meat that they are from plants.

I eat a lot in a meal - around half a kilo of meat, and maybe 70g of butter, but I never get a bloated feeling - I just feel 'comfortably stuffed' as Dr Berry calls it.

Apparently some ultra marathon runners have started to eat lots of meat the day before a race, and then nothing the day of a race, as the energy release is more constant. Carbs provide a quick release that soon crashes.
 
grass fed and as organic as possible is important to
beef fed on grain not so good of you (grass fed cows can live a much longer life than grain fed ones - if allowed lol)

we are lucky and have some excellent local butchers who know exactly the farm and animal that they are selling

local 'free range' venison is also very good :)

and of course a few back yard chickens here at Chez Char
 
The difference with me this time compared to the other times in my life when I've dieted to lose weight, is that now I have no cravings...no desire to eat anything other than what I do.

It sounds like it should be boring, but meat is all I want now. When you think of other animals, most of them only eat one thing.

We are constantly bombarded with being told that plants are healthy - all plants are toxic to some degree or other. Even organicly grown vegs have natural toxins in them. And anyone on a rigid vegan diet, can only stay alive if they supplement their diet, as they can't get certain nutrients from plants.

However we can get every nutrient that humans need from meat. And the nutients are denser and more bioavailable from meat that they are from plants.

I eat a lot in a meal - around half a kilo of meat, and maybe 70g of butter, but I never get a bloated feeling - I just feel 'comfortably stuffed' as Dr Berry calls it.

Apparently some ultra marathon runners have started to eat lots of meat the day before a race, and then nothing the day of a race, as the energy release is more constant. Carbs provide a quick release that soon crashes.
I think you left donuts out of your list of good food. Why even @Loz recommends them and he knows his onions ( and donuts ) .
 
How to improve the nutritional content of a jam doughnut:

1. Cut the doughnut in half
2. Scoop out the jam from each half and place it in the bin.
3. Place one half of the doughnut in the bin
4. Place the other half of the doughnut in the bin

Shame really as I remember how delicious I thought they were :(
 
As I've mentioned (and risk sounding like a broken record...or a vegan, by keeping mentioning it) I stick to a meat based diet; carnivore.

This means unless it's meat, fish, eggs or dairy, I don't eat it. Mostly I eat beef, one meal a day.

I'm posting this as I know information is kept from us, than can be beneficial to us - it would be wrong of me not to share that. What you decide to do with it is down to you.

From looking in to this way of eating (WoE) it exposes the way big business, in this case big food and big pharma, produce govenment legislature in their favour, and to the detriment of the population they are supposed to work for, There is no better example.

Governments throughout most of the world addopted a set of food guidlines that they say provide optimal diet for human health. So did the governments employ independant scientists to research and devise these guidelines? No. Enter Ancel Keyes - a known fraudulent scientist who put forward the notion that sugar was ok, and that saturated fats were bad. He based this on a study (paid for by the American Sugar Association) that basically said people were healthier if they got most of their energy from carbohydrates instead of from protein and fat.

The study covered 7 countries. The fact that years later it was found that his study covered 27 countries and the results from the others showed the opposite to be true.

By then the damage was done, and the processed foods industry kept on lobbying governemnts to this day, and pay for nutritional research to create more fraudulent studies.

As the consumption of meat and fats decreased the past 70 years, and sugar (and by sugar that includes all refined carbs) has increased, illness has gone up at similar rates. Good news for big pharma, who claim that many illnesses are irreversible...so how are vast numbers of people reversing them by cutting out carbohydrates?

If something doesn't agree with experiment, it is wrong.

Calories are a pointless metric...calories in calories out does not work. How can I say that? Because my experiment showed it doesn't.

For about 12 years I've had a sedentary lifestyle. I work at a desk, and in the evenings I'd sit and drink a bottle of wine and eat nibbles. (Throughout my life I've been a yo-yo dieter. I could be strict and do what has become known as keto - just earting meat and veg. I'd lose weight through determination, but always craved the crap I was depriving myself of. I now know that was because the carbs from the veg were keeping me sugar addicted...and then I'd put the weight back on and more).
Two years ago I started playing golf - I thought that would help me get some exercise and lose weight. Well I got into it and through that summer I was playing 3, 4, 5 times a week carrying a bag of clubs 4 miles a time. This from doing zero exercise. I carried on putting on weight.

Forward to the beginning of this year. I was getting fed up of drinking wine and thought 'when I fill the glass jar on the kitchen side with wine corks, I'll stop drinking it for 100 days. I was 255lbs (5'10"). 30 days later having not had a drop, I didn't feel any better, and had lost a grand total of...nothing! Not a fucking pound.

So late February I went back to the keto diet to lose some weight for the upcoming WCP Ireland trip, knowing that with will power I can lose weight that way. So I did that, and three months later I was nearly 30lbs down, but still felt like I was depriving myself of the things I liked to eat.

I don't know how, but I came across people...doctors no less, talking about the benefits of sticking to a carnivore lifestyle. It made a lot of sense to me, and having been brought up by butchers and being one myself for 13 years from leaving school, I've always liked meat - a meal didn't seem right with it. So after the Ireland trip where I tried to keep to it but indulged in a few beers every night, on 1st June this year I cut out the veg and started just eating meat. And I haven't looked back since.

I'm now 73lbs lighter - I'd like to drop a few more, maybe get to 80lbs...it would be cool to see some abs again at 55yo. But for some reason my body wont shift the last few lbs. This is common, and I had plateaus while getting to where I am now. It seems the body will heal and work on areas it knows you need it, and when thats done, the weight loss starts again. If I never lose any more it really won't bother me - I'm happy where I am.

But more that weight loss, are teh other benefits. Personally I have become a lot calmer; brain fog has gone (i know if something has been cooked in seed oils when eating out as the brain fog returns); energy levels are increased and level throughout the day and into the evening; I sleep probably less, but deeper and feel refreshed; libido has shot up. There are loads more...the biggest thing for me though, is a desire to be better. At 55yo, I feel I can still become the best version of myself. I feel mentally sharper. I feel 10-15 years younger, and that's in 6 months; people who have been doing it for years say that the positive feelings keep getting better.

We're also lied to about how the meat industry is responsible for global warming...by the same people who create 'healthy plant based' garbage using dozens of ingredients from around the world. Did you know that broccolli is a man made vegetable...it is not found in the wild. It's been created by messing with some form of cabbage.

Anyway, the number of diseases that multiple people report they have reversed with carnivore WoE is huge, and include some that doctors say can't be cured;
Type 2 diabetes
Arthritis
Blocked arteries
Heart conditions
Fibromyalgia
Dementia
IBS
Chrones
Psoriasis
Excema
Other skin issues (skin tags, bags under eyes etc)
Autoimmune issues
Low testoserone
Alchoholism
The list goes on.

But what about cholestrol? Yes, we've been lied to about that too - there is no such thing as bad cholestrol. Cholestrol was put forward as a marker for heart disease...it isn't. People who stick to this WoE often have higher LDL cholestrol, but no signs of heart disease.

If this peaks your interest, then go to Youtube and look up these people - and best of all, ready the comments under their videos;

Dr Anthony Chaffee
Dr Ken Berry
Dr Garry Fettke
Belinda Fettke
Dr Shawn Baker
Low Carb Down Under
Dr Robert Lustig


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Well fucking done pal 🙏
 
Up until I retired at 50 my diet was high protein. I only ate meat or fish at lunch. Lots of peanuts. Breakfast was always porridge. Evening meal meat with veggies. My family has a history of Diabetes so I always made sure I had my veggies. I cycled 20 miles a day to work and extra miles on my days off. The outcome of the high protein diet was I developed Kidney stones. I would not wish them on anyone. When they ask you to do a pain scale then KS are 10+.
A change in diet (I am still a carnivore), stopped drinking alcohol, daily six mile walks with my dogs and 2 inches off my waist. No repeat of the dreaded KS. I am now 61.

You just have to find the balance for yourself
It was the cycling in my opinion 👀😆
 
The one thing I missed on my keto diet was the bread to wrap round my bacon and egg or my burger or my bratwurst
After a lot of searching and wasted ingredients I found a recipe for a loaf with 1gm of carbs per slice
I also have a recipe for a yorkshire pudding that is virtually carb free
 

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Ok, 5 min read.

We’re all different. Our bodies deal with different foods differently. It’s not always a simple case of calories in calories out. It’s what’s delivering those calories that’s important.

Our muscles, including the brain, require glucose; glucose is the most basic of sugars and the building block for carbohydrates. However, our bodies assimilate the glucose at a certain rate (which is different for everyone) Let’s say we burn it off at the rate of 1 glucose molecule/sec for the sake of argument. Eat a spoonful of sugar (sucrose = 1 glucose molecule & 1 fructose molecule - fructose is equivalent to glucose just a different molecular structure) and we consume, for the sake of argument 10000 glucose molecules. Clearly it’s many many more but stay with me in this example.

There’s no way our body can assimilate that much glucose in the time we’ve taken to eat it. Our liver then takes the extra glucose in our blood stream and converts it into triglyceride, a fat. That fat is then stored in our body’s fat reserve areas, eg, belly, arse, moobies, boobies, hips, thighs etc depending on your biological sex, ready for times of famine. The trouble is, unless you live in sub-Saharan Africa, we don’t have times of famine anymore.

More sugar, same thing happens and so on whilst the pounds and inches pile on.

All ultra processed foods, ie something you could not recreate at home, are high in glucose & fructose. Eat processed foods and you’re doomed.

When eating a high protein diet our digestive system needs to break the protein down into glucose molecules, that takes time so the rate at which glucose is released into the blood stream is slower and becomes more in line with the rate at which our bodies need the fuel.

Eating fat, whilst deemed a no no by many is the same. Our body has to break the fat down into glucose molecules, (even though it may build them back up into triglycerides again if they’re not used up).

Some fats, eg saturated or animal fats, are slower to breakdown than unsaturated eg vegetable fats and it’s more beneficial to us if that breakdown is slower. But, bear in mind that runs the risk of increasing bad cholesterol - another topic of discussion.

Insulin plays a role in controlling the release of glucose from the food we’ve consumed into our blood stream regardless of what that food source is. However, our ability to produce insulin is limited - very simply speaking we can only produce so much in a given time, so have a high sugar, processed food diet, and you won’t be able to produce enough insulin quickly enough. Additionally, very very simply put, our bodies run out of the ability to produce insulin, hence the prevalence of diabetes type 2 because in the west we eat a diet of ultra processed foods.

The best thing to do is to eat little and often, with a lot of fibre in your diet. Eat 6 times a day not 2 or 3, but that’s not always possible. However, it’s still calories in/calories out it’s just you need to match rate of calorific intake with the rate your body is burning them, and, those calories need to be the right sort of calories.

Alcohol isn’t the right sort he says as he drinks another drink 😕
 
Ok, 5 min read.

We’re all different. Our bodies deal with different foods differently. It’s not always a simple case of calories in calories out. It’s what’s delivering those calories that’s important.

Our muscles, including the brain, require glucose; glucose is the most basic of sugars and the building block for carbohydrates. However, our bodies assimilate the glucose at a certain rate (which is different for everyone) Let’s say we burn it off at the rate of 1 glucose molecule/sec for the sake of argument. Eat a spoonful of sugar (sucrose = 1 glucose molecule & 1 fructose molecule - fructose is equivalent to glucose just a different molecular structure) and we consume, for the sake of argument 10000 glucose molecules. Clearly it’s many many more but stay with me in this example.

There’s no way our body can assimilate that much glucose in the time we’ve taken to eat it. Our liver then takes the extra glucose in our blood stream and converts it into triglyceride, a fat. That fat is then stored in our body’s fat reserve areas, eg, belly, arse, moobies, boobies, hips, thighs etc depending on your biological sex, ready for times of famine. The trouble is, unless you live in sub-Saharan Africa, we don’t have times of famine anymore.

More sugar, same thing happens and so on whilst the pounds and inches pile on.

All ultra processed foods, ie something you could not recreate at home, are high in glucose & fructose. Eat processed foods and you’re doomed.

When eating a high protein diet our digestive system needs to break the protein down into glucose molecules, that takes time so the rate at which glucose is released into the blood stream is slower and becomes more in line with the rate at which our bodies need the fuel.

Eating fat, whilst deemed a no no by many is the same. Our body has to break the fat down into glucose molecules, (even though it may build them back up into triglycerides again if they’re not used up).

Some fats, eg saturated or animal fats, are slower to breakdown than unsaturated eg vegetable fats and it’s more beneficial to us if that breakdown is slower. But, bear in mind that runs the risk of increasing bad cholesterol - another topic of discussion.

Insulin plays a role in controlling the release of glucose from the food we’ve consumed into our blood stream regardless of what that food source is. However, our ability to produce insulin is limited - very simply speaking we can only produce so much in a given time, so have a high sugar, processed food diet, and you won’t be able to produce enough insulin quickly enough. Additionally, very very simply put, our bodies run out of the ability to produce insulin, hence the prevalence of diabetes type 2 because in the west we eat a diet of ultra processed foods.

The best thing to do is to eat little and often, with a lot of fibre in your diet. Eat 6 times a day not 2 or 3, but that’s not always possible. However, it’s still calories in/calories out it’s just you need to match rate of calorific intake with the rate your body is burning them, and, those calories need to be the right sort of calories.

Alcohol isn’t the right sort he says as he drinks another drink 😕
Can't say I agree with all you said but I do agree with a lot of that 👍 get another drink you deserve it 😆😆
 
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