Thanks for this!!
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There's a woman on the other forum who lost quite a bit of weight on South Beach and maintained the loss. She swears by it. In fact she's a bit of a bore. The it-worked-for-me-so-it-will-work-for-everyone type.  |
I'm always a bit suspicious of people who swear by any particular branded diet. Most people eat so poorly that they will lose weight on almost ANY regimented eating system . . . witness: that guy at Subway, Jared or whatever. I believe somebody also tried it at McDonald's. McD's and Subway are hardly "healthy eating" at its finest.
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I'm going to eat clean for a while (well, there were croutons in my salad tonight), then experiment with adding in various grains one at a time.
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She's big on adrenal fatigue, stress hormones, cortisol. Somehow caffeine tortures your adrenal glands? I don't know.
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If caffeine is torture, then it must be that kind of self-flagellating religious torture that brings extreme pleasure and connexion with a Higher Power.
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I have tried IF. I've tried the version where you don't eat every other day - for 24 hours at a time. So let's say you finish eating at 7 pm Sunday. You resume eating at 7 pm Monday. Then eat until Tuesday evening, stop until Wednesday evening when you resume. Stop on Thursday evening and resume Friday evening. So you get three 24 hour fasts in the week. Of course, you could just do one or two fasts a week.
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That sounds unmanageable when one has to cope with a job/etc. Was it?
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There's a guy named (I think) Mark Mattson at NIH who does research in this area. But you know, fish, it's supposed (theoretically) to extend your life span.  That's why most people get excited about it. In mice it increases the life span substantially - almost as much as calorie restriction, but without restricting calories (the mice eat enough in their non-fasting times to make up for the calories they missed). The idea is that it reduces insulin levels and gives your pancreas a rest. |
Oh, I've been hearing lots of things lately about severe caloric restriction increasing life span.
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Bacon is ok on IF, paleo, and any of the low carb diets I'm familiar with. You shouldn't live on it, because it's a processed food, but it's not verboten.
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I wouldn't live on it, I was just dreaming of all the amazing foods I could eat if I switched
Bacon! Fresh mozzarella (when I'm bad)! Salmon! Scallops! Filtered yoghurt!!!!
I have a few more questions for you:
1. Natural peanut butter/nut butter -- OK?
2. What about soya milk? I imagine rice and oat milk would be a no because they're grains. And, indeed, I imagine coconut milk would be OK as coconut oil appears to be?
I tried googling these things but there is SO MUCH CRAP out there about this, I just got confused. Tell me if I'm annoying you. I'm trying to plan out a week of eating "low carb" to see if it's manageable for me, but I'm noticing most of my foods are going to be pitfalls.
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