march83 wrote:those servings are too small and don't account for condiments like cooking oils or snacks, etc
during exercise over 1hr i eat ~1 "piece" of food per hour where 1 piece may be banana or perpetuem bar and drink about 1 scoop of hammer. for exercise under an hour i make no intentional changes.
When I'm inactive i put on weight eating over 1800cals and I'm 186cm, 90kg so I figure my BMR is at the lower end of the normal range. fwiw, i'm trying to drop weight at the moment to get into the low 80s before the audax alpine next january and i'm dropping weight at the rate of about 1kg every 2 weeks.
If i were to eat 6 servings of grain a day I'd be fighting to stay awake after every meal. I already avoid bread, cereals, rice etc if i need to drive anywhere because i get drowsy otherwise.
I think the confusion created by your original diet report and the latter is rooted in
1.
comprehension of serve sizes.
i.e.
a serve of fruit is 1 cup, and a cup of mixed berries weighs ~150grams. and 150g = 71 Calories (from Calorie King - McCain Season's Choice 4 Berry Frozen Mix)
2.
appreciation of the additional Calories in processed foods
i.e.
- plain yogurt is never over 1 Cal/ml (or gram). if it is, it is not plain, but has other products added, such as sugars. yogurt generally has the same Calorie content as the milk it is made from. bacteria just convert some of the Calories into different forms of energy.
- muesli might have oats in it, but it is wrong to refer to it as oats, other ingredients like nuts and dried fruit blow its Calorie density out to a much higher level.
Regarding your going to sleep if you eat carbs, it sounds to me like you are taking 5 caffeine drinks a day to stave off fatigue anyway. This is often a symptom of insulin resistance and compromised ability to mobilize fatty acids stored in your fat cells. This is explained physiologically by having adrenal insufficiency, whereby your adrenal glands and sympathetic nerves do not stimulate fat cells to release fatty acids when needed. This is commonly seen with chronic stress when adrenalin pathways are countered by stress hormones like cortisol, and the autonomic nervous system is dysregulated.
In the old days, diet pills were sold that stimulated the adrenals and sympathetics. they were essentially amphetamines, and work like a strong dose of caffeine. But over time, they are no good for your nerves or endocrine function.
I just spent 3 months in the USA doing an internship at a specialist health center that deals with this stuff. And their solution for reliance on stimulants such as caffeine, salt, oil, and sugar is to remove them from your diet totally, preferably beginning with a water fast of 7-21 days duration. You'll go through 5-10 days of withdrawal, but then begin to stabilize. Unfortunately, most health care professionals have no education in the profound therapeutic effects of such simple interventions, nor personal experience even if they are chronically obese.
Finally, I think one of the points the low carb advocates are ill informed about is that fat is a comfort food used to quell psycho-emotional stress. Our closest genetic relatives, chimps and bonobos, thrive on a diet with trivial levels of high fat % foods. So, a high fat diet masks deeper chronic stressors that have dysregulated fat and glucose metabolism, and therefore will never restore someone to optimal long term health.
