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Ok, so I am interested in knowing if any of you do the 5 small meals a day. And if you do, how do you do it? Like what do you eat, when and how far apart?
Nice! Except for the hogs and lard which I don't eat for religious reasons, you're making me HUNGRY (and I just ate)!Mrs. R? I keep things like deviled eggs, hot wings (not breaded) & cream cheese spreads handy all the time so there's never any shortage of low/no carb choices. The GG bran crispbreads are the vehicle for the spreads.
My main cream cheese spreads are smoked oyster dip & smoked salmon spread, but any good cheese ball that you like which isn't loaded with carbs is good.
I understand why you'd need long stretches between meals, Salim, since you keep your glycogen depleted, you aren't at risk of a liver dump. Most of us run that risk when we go without eating too long. As for the evolutionary basis, this modern, spoiled, everything-always-available thing was never true in my household unless I produced it from scratch myself, because I sure wasn't going to give good money to some grocer for it. We ate plenty of fat, because we had access to raw milk, so we had fresh cream & churned our own butter - we grew our own hogs & had the lard rendered. That is what "spoiled" really means - being able to cook with the real components of nutrition. Having to contend with the self-proclaimed experts who say it's bad for us is particularly odious when you know from the ground up what honest good food is.
Yup, only beef ribs.Salim, I thought you ate barbecued ribs, or am I confused? Maybe beef ribs?
Shanny, can you expand on the above comment? What is meant by "keep your glycogen depleted" and what is a "liver dump." When I go longer than usual between meals I seem to have a much better BS reading.I understand why you'd need long stretches between meals, Salim, since you keep your glycogen depleted, you aren't at risk of a liver dump. Most of us run that risk when we go without eating too long.
I find that to be the case most of the time. Unless what I'm eating is just fat and no carbs or protein.If I try to graze, I never go down!
What she means is that since Salim eats only low carb - high fat, he is in a prolonged permanent state of ketosis. In this state, the body learns to depend on ketones rather than glucose for fuel. Once in this state for a long time, the glucose reserves (glycogen) of the body get depleted. Once that happens, the liver is not able to give you a glycogen dump everytime you run low. This seems to be what is happening to you when you don't eat between meals for long periods.Shanny, can you expand on the above comment? What is meant by "keep your glycogen depleted" and what is a "liver dump." When I go longer than usual between meals I seem to have a much better BS reading.