Help Me Hack my Salad

(charlie3) #21

Part of the challenge for me limiting carbs is the number of calories I need to maintain. My BMR is only 14-1600 calories, a price of being 69. But last week for instance I averaged 2600 calories a day via exercise and walking on the job. The exta thousand calories include some carbs. Insisting that carbs must be an absolute number regardless of calories burned seems contrived. Of course insulin is elevated by eating more carbs and protien but how long does it stay elevated when there is lots of tissue eager to restore stored energy levels?

(Heather Meyer) #22

To be specific

  1. my body can not break down and digest beef. Eating ground beef leads to a trip to the ER.
    Pork is the same issue. I also have an inability to digest most raw veggies or fruits. Any veggie with lots of fibre is hard for my body to digest.

So, sadly… eating more meat is not a beneficial thing. Chicken…yes… turkey…yes… salmon and other fish…yes… but other then that… im out of luck

(Katie) #23

Chicken, salmon, turkey, tuna, shrimp, sardines…all of those sound great to me! That is mostly what I eat actually anyway. :woman_shrugging:

(Bob M) #24

You could add olives.

Personally, I’ve gotten rid of the vegetables most times. Tomorrow morning, my “salad” will be shrimp, mussels, canned fish (tuna or salmon or anchovies or herring or others, or some combination of these) with apple cider vinegar and red wine vinegar and olive oil. No vegetables at all. If I can remember to bring them in (eating at work), I’ll add some olives.

Can you eat something like pemmican? (Made from dried beef but with a lot of fat.) Not necessarily for a salad, but gives you another additional calorie source.
Can you handle nuts or other seeds? You could add those. (Normally, I stay way from these, as they are too high in omega 6, but you’re running out of options if you can’t eat beef or pork.) You could add shredded coconut (though does have carbs).

I personally eat red onion and the like, as I don’t worry too much about minor amounts of those. But only you can determine what your carb limits are.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #25

Really? Too high a concentration of serum glucose can be deadly, so the body mobilizes insulin to deal with it before the concentration rises enough to be a danger. Granted, the threshold above which everyone’s pancreas starts to panic is different, but as someone with a very high incidence of diabetes on both sides of his family, I want to keep my insulin level at the minimum necessary for good health. And of course, my insulin resistance means I secrete more insulin for a given amount of glucose than people who are more insulin-sensitive do.

But hey, you do you. :bacon: