Rinse & rePeat
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“The metabolic rate (eating more without gaining extra weight) and ability to regulate body temperature are increased by early tryptophan deprivation.” -Ray Peat
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“The metabolic rate (eating more without gaining extra weight) and ability to regulate body temperature are increased by early tryptophan deprivation.” -Ray Peat
Yes early in life. I have lowered my tryptophan consumption for more than a year now cutting out egg whites and just eating the yolks and cutting back on meat. Here is another good bit from him on tryptophan….What does he mean here? Early in life, as in childhood, or early in the day? And what would he say is the best way to be low in tryptophan - low muscle meat? Sorry if these are dumb questions! Love your posts
Thank you TradClare :)Love your posts
You look fantastic! We were camping this week and I ate pretty "normal" (for camping) but walked a ton and had a nonfat dry milk/collagen/sugar mixture I put in my coffee and tried to snack mostly on fruit and not over eat the chips and stuff like that...and I lost a couple pounds. Ready to get back on track though and get the pufa out of my bodyUPDATE:
Well my struggle to put weight on has been futile. Unless I start eating unhealthy foods, that slow my digestion, and bad oils too, from restaurant visits, I just keep losing weight eating simply. I thought taking an aspirin and rubbing on some vitamin E would cancel a restaurant visit out, but it still slows my metabolism down and causes inflammation. So this last month or so I have avoided restaurants and the weight I had worked so hard to put on came right back off. I am almost 142 now, where I was trying to gain weight from 141 to stay at a muscular 147.
The good news is I am good with this weight, since it is mostly muscle. The “skinny fat” 142 had my face looking hollow. Things that I am doing now is I swapped the sugar for raw honey, which means no more nightly ice cream and orange Julius’s. I was noticing that a high sugar orange Julius was a little too calming, and made me sleepy. Now I drink milk and pair it with honey, and maybe even shoot down two tablespoons of collagen powder and I am good to go, for 19 grams of protein just like that. If I have a starch carb I minimize it by having half a flour tortilla for my egg taco, which amounts to 14 carbs rather than 28 in one sitting. I have been enjoying white sweet potatoes in my bone broth soup or a bowl of them boiled with butter, sour cream and spring onion, or sometimes hot sauce. I eat sprouted brown rice cereal and milk again lately too. I have even made mashed potatoes and gravy a couple of times, which has the scale up the next day a half pound, but it is back off again the next morning. I do eat ground beef taco meat that I make with my gelatinous bone broth, shrimp more often and corn and soy free eggs everyday. I squeeze sweet oranges everyday too. I think having the sugar gone and lowering my fat intake has me more energized and my face looking healthier. I would say half of my days I am grain free, and on the days that I do have them it is minimal.
Thanks girl! I can see camping being a weight loss activity. You have to work harder to make meals and the brain is working harder, burning more calories, navigating the new environment. All the fresh air and vitamin D would factor into the equation too. I think giving up tv last September has really amped up my metabolism, because my mind is more active reading and doing other things…You look fantastic! We were camping this week and I ate pretty "normal" (for camping) but walked a ton and had a nonfat dry milk/collagen/sugar mixture I put in my coffee and tried to snack mostly on fruit and not over eat the chips and stuff like that...and I lost a couple pounds. Ready to get back on track though and get the pufa out of my body