I did a thing!

I didn't eat anything for 23 hours.  This should help reduce my insulin resistance. I'm not certain i did the thing perfectly but that's ok, i'll keep trying and tweaking.  

The issue might be the half and half i used in coffee this morning, that's not quite perfect, the fat half is ok in reasonable quantity, check, but the milk half probably has too much whey which might have been just barely enough to 'break' the 'fast' metabolically.  However, a huge part of doing this well is getting used to stuff you can manage to do every single day, just like training wheels, you learn do do most of the stuff well with the hardest part made easier for a bit.

so when i can I will switch to heavy cream and only do that with one cup in the morning to get closer to on it. and if im hungry tonight i will eat dinner, I just felt fine with a big glass of tea so I let that ride this time, the only thing that you really cannot be on again off again in this is upping the fat like i did here.

This is avocado, egg, mayo, salt. its soooo good. and its actually a lot lot better than the tuna I had yesterday, more fat, less protein. 

water, yea, I need to get back on top of having lots of water. I'll go do that now!

Happy Living!

So there it is.

This is lunch today, day 3 back on the way of eating thinger.   I got derailed, back on the horse after a year and a half with some new ideas.

Worth noting is that even after that long and after woofing all manner of snacks and candy and even after the holidays and a final round of mega extreme nachos... I weighed in for the restart and was still a few pounds lighter than I was the last time I started.

throughout the slacker 'off the way of eating' period I really felt like my body had changed substantially. when I'd get normal soup at a local deli I would add a couple packets of mayo to round it out, I craved the fat, like that balance was now ingrained. 

I suspect having been 100% for 5 months or so then really not so bad cheat wise for another several months reset my metabolism back to a place it had not been since the low fat craze of the early 80s took hold and messed everything up.  My next curiosity will be to see what impact that has on this new effort which will include the addition of intermittent fasting.  To start I skip breakfast, this is also counter to everything we've been told, but unlike before it has not been that hard at all to do.  So I get about 12-14 hours a day of not eating, this wont make a huge impact but it is a good stepping stone to extending that.

Check out Dr Jason Feng, he's got all the info on how this works and how it helps reset your insulin resistance which is what every one of us with fat in the middle suffers from thanks to our AMA FDA sanctioned food pyramid. 

The meal above was very satisfying, even though its small and has nearly no carbs and came after no breakfast after a simple meat and cream cheese dinner the night before.

For me I think the key is that there is flavor and color, looking at this lunch today felt satisfying, all those colors and their accompanying flavors really help that mental side of eating, I feel zero deprivation and I already have no cravings for carby food.

Bonus: one of the main reasons I jumped off the wagon last was the expense, partially psychologically I felt like I could not stick to it if I could not afford to load up on goodish stuff that was on the plan, now I have the savings of not eating a meal and thanks to my still altered appetite its not nearly as expensive.

So the meal above was about $3.50 and that was from a local deli who even charged 75cents for one skinny slice of bacon.  Even at that, their normal carb-laden (read much much cheaper to produce) meals run 10 bucks!

Thought of the day on the subject, when hungry and trying to do a meal, think a bit like you would if you were out real camping in the wild, gathering stuff to build a fire.  Think of carbs as wet moss on the sticks you find, not only does it not burn but it keeps the stick from even catching fire til you've consumed a lot of energy to dry it out.  After that focus on the stuff that burns with what you now have: a fat furnace.  Think of carbs as useless, because when it comes to how you want to feel, they are.  It has really worked for me, down at that deli i see the bags of chips and the fried rice the same way I look at the carpet or the chairs: not food. with that filter i no longer see 'nothing to eat' i see oh cool i could get those eggs and that cheese and they sell a side of avocado and a side of bacon... suddenly its a nomerific buffet tasty and free from guilt.

happy living!