Cirion
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So I've noticed something. When I feel "hunger", and I'm not actively holding a strict diet, I gravitate towards solid foods (protein, fats, starches) and while these reliably "satiate" me, they also reliably lower my metabolic rate, cause lethargy, depression, destroy my sleep quality, and also destroy my waking temperatures the next morning as well as any hope for restful sleep. This paradoxical effect makes it impossible to use intuition to decide what foods to eat, because intuitively I gravitate towards these foods when "hungry" which always is a disaster for me metabolically. This is why the Gywneth Olwyn approach will never work for me.
Conversely, things like sugar in particular, they have the opposite effect. They are "anti-satiating" (in that the more you eat, the more appetite grows) BUT they also are the only things that ramp up the metabolic rate, increase energy, eliminate depression, and improve waking temperatures.
What's the deal? Is it just not possible to satiate your hunger and also have a good metabolism? Yes, I have experimented with ample sugar in the presence of ample solid foods. It doesn't work. Proteins and fats are the most anti-metabolic substances for me in particular. Starches do have some place in my optimal diet, but not animal proteins or fats.
I must be experiencing what VoS/Sea noticed also. I think it was either (or both) of them that said that anything that builds appetite and doesn't suppress it is indeed something that is building/improving the metabolism and that anything that is "satiating" is in fact by definition something that suppresses the metabolism also because a slowed metabolism isn't a hungry metabolism.
Conversely, things like sugar in particular, they have the opposite effect. They are "anti-satiating" (in that the more you eat, the more appetite grows) BUT they also are the only things that ramp up the metabolic rate, increase energy, eliminate depression, and improve waking temperatures.
What's the deal? Is it just not possible to satiate your hunger and also have a good metabolism? Yes, I have experimented with ample sugar in the presence of ample solid foods. It doesn't work. Proteins and fats are the most anti-metabolic substances for me in particular. Starches do have some place in my optimal diet, but not animal proteins or fats.
I must be experiencing what VoS/Sea noticed also. I think it was either (or both) of them that said that anything that builds appetite and doesn't suppress it is indeed something that is building/improving the metabolism and that anything that is "satiating" is in fact by definition something that suppresses the metabolism also because a slowed metabolism isn't a hungry metabolism.