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U4EA_2

Donglemouse has a float of between £25K-30K. I can see now why he needs it. Still, I don't think £80 in one weekend is bad for poor soul like myself with only about 10% of that to play with.

What's even better is that it should all be free to use in my bank account again by mid week. Time for more arbs me thinks! :D:D

And time to open more accounts of course! :D:D

U4EA_2

BTW since getting back from holiday, I have got back on my diet again and feel great for it, still losing tonnes of fat.

The task set to complete the run is not on schedule, which is fine. I intend on keeping this diet until my body has fully adjusted to it before I try to add in exercise.

The languages are coming along nicely. I can now speak pretty good conversational Portuguese and I managed to get very accustomed to speaking German while I was on holiday. I think I will finish those before the deadline for sure (providing I put the work in).

Will that suffice as an update?

I will enter more when I have something more tangible.

Here's some handy advice - stop eating carbohydrates.

ricll

it depends on what kind of carbohydrates you're talking about. Sugar is pretty bad, but wholegrains (pasta, rice, bread,etc) in general are good, beans also. You can eat wholegrain stuff instead of white bread, white rice, pasta, etc. That's what I've done anyway.

U4EA_2

Not true. Human metabolism is not designed to process carbs - they were not part of our diet until about 10,000 years ago, which is a drop in the ocean of human evolution. Human metabolism is designed to process fat and protein as energy substrates. I feel so much better whem I don't eat carbs (which I don't now).

For more info...

Marksdailyapple.com
Arthurdevany.com

U4EA_2

I just did a final round up of my P&L figures for the weekend. I just realised that I forgot to back one of the arbs. It won at the exchange anyway, so it's all good!

Total weekend MB earnings (including profit from this mistake) = £95.

foofi22

U4EA wrote: »

Not true. Human metabolism is not designed to process carbs - they were not part of our diet until about 10,000 years ago, which is a drop in the ocean of human evolution. Human metabolism is designed to process fat and protein as energy substrates. I feel so much better whem I don't eat carbs (which I don't now).

For more info...

Marksdailyapple.com
Arthurdevany.com

I 'did' the Atkins diet a few years back (under the persuasion of my girlfriend).

After 5 days of no carbs I succumbed to the best plate of chips I have ever tasted

U4EA_2

Yeah, it's because your body needs about 7 days minimum to adjust. It's utter hell for the that period of time then *wham* you wake up feeling like a new person. It's amazing.

ricll

it is said by specialists you should eat twice as many carbs as protein. That's because they can be absorbed as glucose faster than can proteins or fats. The problem is when you eat too much bad carbohydrates, it makes you feel tired the whole day.

U4EA_2

...and you feel tired from the insulin response.

Experts also tell us to drink milk (which is not a food) and wheat (ditto - check the rates for gluten allergy).

If you watch Ray Meager's TV show and any of these like it, you will notice that native people almost never eat any refined sugars, carbs or starch. It's those three things that causes blood sugar levels to rise, insulin rises accordingly, which drops the blood sugar levels, makes you tired and stores the sugar as body fat.

The problem with modern human beings is the hormone profiles they have as a result of their diet. Insulin production is directly inversely proportional to the production of Human Growth Hormone (HGH) and Testosterone. HGH and Test to the opposite of insulin - they increase energy, burn dietary and body fat, increase muscle mass, virility and athletic ability.

Hormone profiles do not work in 24hr time periods.

For an athlete to get into peak condition, it usually takes 8-12 weeks minimum (this is what professional fighters train by). This is because it takes 6-8 weeks for your hormone profiles to switch from one with a high basal insulin production to one with a low basal insulin production. The 1 week period I mentioned about is what is required when you go cold turkey on sugar/carbs/starch to get start the reversing of the hormone secretions.

That is why you have 45 year old males on these Ray Meager type shows with six packs, tremendous muscle mass and a very, very low body fat %. It's because they never eat anything that causes the basal insulin production to rise and therefore spend their entire lives with very high (comparted to the typical "Western" male) HGH and Test production.

And one of the added advantages of high HGH/Test production is the ability to go long periods without food. A typical person on a paleo diet would carry 5-6% body fat. That would be roughly 10lbs on your average male. This work out as roughly 35,000. Your body needs roughly 2000 cals a day. So this 10lbs of stored fat would last you over 2 weeks.

Now, cals is all well and good bu it's the body's ability to use them that is important. If some is on a high-insulin diet and they don't get cals from food, they start to get tired very quickly. This is because they do not have the levels of Test/HGH high enough to burn body fat instead. People on a paleo diet do. If I have been on a paleo diet for a few weeks, I can do a day or two without eating and it doesn't affect me. And my body fat just melts away and I have loads of energy.

In the wild, you wouldn't be much use if - when you most needed to get more food - you were also the most tired.

The British swimmer Mark Foster never eats any carbs.

ricll

hmm interesting. can you tell us what do you eat during the day U4EA? What about cholesterol? Also, what about fruits such as banana and other vegetables which are high in carbohydrates, you don't eat none of them? I wouldn't mind trying this actually, I've been eating too much bread, pasta and rice I think.