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Have moved into eating much higher protein than usual as per the recommendations of the Data Driven Fasting program I'm on for another couple of weeks. It is challenging because I had my routine down and usually had all the components of meals pretty much ready to go and knew what proportions to make the meals in. This is of course taking a lot more mental real estate. It's like a part time job. Not necessarily the food prep but educating myself so that I'm willing to do what I'm told! I loved my grains and legumes, and I believed in them, and now those are being vilified. But I can't deny the labs that show my blood sugar is rising, my cholesterol readings are going in the wrong direction, and my body fat is going up.
Plus I found out that my father developed diabetes in the last years of life. I knew he had a quintuple bypass- can't miss that. But nobody talked about his having to read his blood sugar or take insulin. I never remember catching him. And he wasn't heavy, though he wasn't skinny. but he had some tough last years of his life, and this program is saying it's because of the bread, and potatoes as much as the dessert after every dinner followed by ice cream every night. He eventually died of bone cancer after apparently having cancer metastasize from his prostate. He did not fit the common profile of someone eating himself to death. The vegans will say it was the meat and the low carb-era will say it was the starch . And they both have a lot of evidence. I sure saw and heard a lot of pro-unrefined starch evidence over the past few years! And opted for it. But I have to admit, I often had food thoughts even though I wasn't particularly healthy. I thought (and still suspect) that was about other deficiencies in my life. But we'll see if things feel different after another week, or ten days. I am not planning to stay on this until I try blending the two and seeing what it does to blood sugar.
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137.0 lb
Lost so far: 5.0 lb.
Still to go: 1.0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entries for 08 August 2021:
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1091 kcal
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Fat: 25.32g | Prot: 126.57g | Carb: 95.89g.
Breakfast: Apples, Meyenberg Goat Milk, Carrots, Applegate Farms Uncured Sunday Bacon, Egg, Anthony's Pea Protein, Zucchini. Lunch: Walnuts, Townsend Farms Triple Berry Blend, Good & Gather Low Fat Cottage Cheese, Kirkland Signature Greek Yogurt, Cauliflower, Beets, Ocean Eclipse Wild Pacific Pink Salmon, Earthbound Farm Organic Mixed Baby Greens Salad. Dinner: Montezuma's Chocolates Absolute Black, Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Pound Plus, Turkey Dark Meat, Trader Joe's Organic Fat Free Cottage Cheese. more...
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1702 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Walking (moderate) - 3/mph - 1 hour and 15 minutes, Resting - 14 hours and 45 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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losing 0.4 lb a week
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