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High Protein = Glucose metabolism?Hi! I've been away from the list, doing research for a couple of months. I ate all meat for several months, but I didn't feel perfectly great. I felt fatigued a lot of the time, and even with potassium I kept having muscle cramps. So I've been experimenting.First I just added fruit back in. So lots of raw, fat meat, some rare, and some fruit. No veggies. I definitely got my energy back. But I also started getting hungry more often again. Darn. Then I got a tip from mercola.com about the Rosedale Diet. It's very low carb - no fruit, grain, starch, etc. But here's what got me: he said that eating a lot of protein keeps your glucose metabolism going, just like eating carbs!. He recommends a high fat diet (he calls it good fat), nonstarchy veggies, and only a limited amount of protein. This is to get your body to rely on fat metabolism. Well! That's what I was trying to do on all-meat. I thought I would shut down the insulin/glucose metabolism that way. I did find that I felt much better on 80% fat and 20% protein. But I still had little energy. That seems to me to indicate I was still relying in glucose. This information made sense to me, so two weeks ago, I started Rosadale's Diet. I eat only grassfed and pastured meat anyway, which he says is OK, though he is against the saturated fat that grain-fed animals make (it's like eating grain second hand). I'm eating the program as described, but no dairy, and no nuts (cause me severe constipation). So, lots of nonstarchy vegs, olive oil, walnut oil, a little meat, fish, or poultry, a little good salt, olives, avocados, and I can eat ghee now with no problem. I only take a few supplements: 2 tsp. fish oil, about 400mg Mg Malate, Vit E, and a multi., though I plan to try CoQ10 and alpha-lipoic acid. After eating so much meat, it was very hard to eat only a 2 ounce (raw weight) piece of meat at a meal. (I only need 45 grams of protein a day.) And I didn't really want to cook veggies again. BUT, I am satisfied easily, the food is gourmet quality, I'm not having muscle cramps--taking no potassium supplement. And I have plenty of energy. Yesterday I did heavy manual labor all day building a garden. I'm sore today, but I did not run out of energy. My skin/face is perfect, at last. No constipation. I think all-meat can work for many people, expecially if it's very high fat and modest in protein. Right now, this is working great for me. My sister is doing it, too, and losing a little weight. I don't need to lose, apparently. But when I ate high fat/all meat I gained several pounds in a couple of weeks. I didn't like that! Rosedale is trying to achieve the benefits of restricted calories without hunger. I'm sure not hungry! Many times I forget about eating cause I'm just not hungry, then I notice it's been 6 hours since I ate. I could go that long without eating on fat meat, but I usually felt too full for the first few hours. Not so now. OK, there's my check-in. Hope it's useful information. 
links to Rosedale articles : http://www.mercola.com/2004/dec/1/leptin1.htm http://www.mercola.com/2005/jun/23/leptin.htm |