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Literally a 75% coca-cola diet for weeks, very low caloric intake, and loads of caffeine intake.
This really isn't what the Peat way is about. Why would you do this?
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Literally a 75% coca-cola diet for weeks, very low caloric intake, and loads of caffeine intake.
It's hard to know from that whether the problem was the sugar replacing starch, or the coca cola displacing minerals, vitamins and protein. Did you try other fruits and juices, or just give up and switch to coke when OJ didn't work for you?I started with milk and orange juice at first, but pretty soon I got so sick of them that I would get nauseous even just by looking at them. Plus milk gave me stomach pain, and orange juice gave me high blood pressure if I drank more than 1-2 glasses per day. Orange juice in particular was extremely bad for me... It made my blood pressure hover around 150/80. After stopping orange juice, however, BP is now back to 120/70! Coca cola was the only source of sugar which I could stand, but clearly I overdid it. It seems like starch is a necessary component of my diet.
Sliced up spuds baked with a bit of coconut oil or beef fat or sauted in butter taste great and beat reloading with PUFA. Yes, they make a meal. Go quite well with lightly fried eggs or liver. I believe poster Jenn has written about rebuilding her health largely on potatoes when she couldn't manage much else.I might just have to eat a few meals of just fries. I'm sure PUFA is better than no food at all, especially when I'm getting <1000 calories daily.
I imagine you may also be seriously mineral depleted too.If anything, I'm probably as PUFA depleted as I can get. Literally a 75% coca-cola diet for weeks, very low caloric intake, and loads of caffeine intake.
Seems likely.This is true, but without eating the proper food, I won't have the energy to change my life into what I want it to be.
Have you considered the possibility of gut overgrowth?-Have not eaten anything in 5 days, only drank coca-cola b/c I have no appetite for anything else (never hungry no matter how little I eat)
-Gained 25 pounds
-Lost muscle, gained a massive amount of stomach fat, now have a double-chin
-Lost all motivation, even to eat
-Have not eaten anything in 5 days, only drank coca-cola b/c I have no appetite for anything else (never hungry no matter how little I eat)
-No appetite, no motivation at all, super low energy, sleepiness, etc. are all a sign of massive dopamine receptor downregulation from sugar binging
-400mg of caffeine at once and I feel nothing
-Too lazy to type complete sentences (compare w/ the massive paragraphs I used to write when I first embarked on the Ray Peat journey when I hadn't begun to feel the after effects of replacing starch with sugar and instead felt hypomania like I was high)
-In short, I am a recovering addict
-Sugar really is a drug
I NEED my D2 receptors back, but they take months and years to regenerate even partially and most likely will never fully come back
+1
recently had poor digestion and wintery sickness. mcnuggets got my bowel movements on track. down with the sugar.
Do you still eat 200 grams of protein? What makes up your protein intake?Solid Evidence That Stress Causes Obesity
Your case----"Excess cortisol does not cause overeating, quite to the contrary - it is well known and undisputed that cortisol suppresses appetite because it raises blood sugar. Cortisol does lower metabolism and also raises estrogen. In addition, cortisol suppresses gonadal function, neurosteroid synthesis, and atrophies muscle tissue (which is the primary factor in RMR)."
And cortisol is main driver in craving junk highly palatable foods.
It raises blood sugar so it may be that you were really missing proteins.
I also had issues with table sugar until I upped my protein intake to close to 200 g . Were u eating meat and liver?
The way I see it, I agree with you in one way that sugar is not an addictive substance. Sugar is part of good food for humans. As shown by many here, eating a fair bit of it can be consistent with good health and function for many people. It's very unlikely that completely giving up all forms of sugar indefinitely would be a health-promoting path.Sugar isn't addictive. Correlation isn't causation.
Sugar really is a drug
replacing starch with sugar
Yes. The ones I've read involved adding sucrose to a diet containing lots of other nutritious food.Though he has mentioned studies where people were given lots of sucrose and got well.
I think you are confounding. Sugars containing fructose, which the OP distinguished from starches, are different in some respects from glucose-only saccharides.When they test your blood glucose, they are really testing for a drug?
high temp is from cortisol. gaining wait might be thyroid issue, and stress sending a message to your body stock fat.What I don't understand is how I'm eating so little but still gaining weight (and my temperature is higher than ever, so metabolism doesn't seem to be slowing...)
Coca cola was the only source of sugar which I could stand, but clearly I overdid it. It seems like starch is a necessary component of my diet.
You know you overdid...Literally a 75% coca-cola diet for weeks
Better to remember this instead of thinking "great, I can enjoy sugar on this diet", when you discover RP, and they just go lazy on food cooking at home... Coke is easier for sure!You missed this quote:
"Refined granulated sugar is extremely pure, but it lacks all of the essential nutrients, so it should be considered as a temporary therapeutic material, or as an occasional substitute when good fruit isn't available, or when available honey is allergenic."-RP
No, cortisol is, and a drug is useful in the right quantity.-Sugar really is a drug
ahahahahhahahahahahahhLiterally a 75% coca-cola diet for weeks, very low caloric intake, and loads of caffeine intake.
Food, diet, supps, cannot give you motivation for life. That comes from within, deep within. Food shouldn't be your God. A good diet MAY help some health related problem that was caused by a bad diet. But it can't cure a problem that was caused by something else. Eg incorrect thinking, incorrect philosophy, incorrect attitudes. Good luck.
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I suppose it's good that he is giving in to the mainstream notions if his unconscious was pushing for that. But it's a pity about the search engines, as the thread title will now be associated with this forum.I mean, I just... Why would anyone even do that?
It's like reading two sentences of a massive article about Ray Peat's approach, concluding 'sugar = great', going on a month long binge completely devoid of properly balanced micro and macro nutrients and then wondering why you feel like ***t.