It’s one of those comments where I feel I should warn everyone but it contains nothing just me overthinking things and try to go over the mild shock I got after tracking (without real surprise, is that a thing?).
And why I do this, normally I have enough meat to eat so overanalyzing this abnormal day can’t help so much.
So if you don’t have time to waste on my inner chaos (and why would any of you have), don’t read. I suppose.
I tracked. Ooops. But not surprising. I lacked satiation for long, had 4 meals, not so much meat but everything was fatty… I don’t have regrets though.
Guesstimation says 2717 kcal, 227g fat, 133g protein and 27g carbs. (5g carbs from plants, ouch. My catfish spread wasn’t so great but I forgot and was desperate without meat and of course my sausages had spices too. Mostly just very much paprika, I only eat Hungarian sausages, after all. with some exceptions, I had some cute white ones in my life but I strongly prefers ours.)
Me and fat… And I am in a permanent fat minimization attitude. Sometimes I forget about it or I have circumstances though. Oh well, it’s not THAT high… That would be over 300g Not like that feels much fat to me but I don’t need nearly as much.
But the fat isn’t my problem, it was a single day with difficulties.
The problem is that from my own viewpoint I ate quite little dairy. They were mostly very creamy and I was hungry, it was easy to eat… They still brought a lot of fat and 19g carbs (the latter probably doesn’t matter, I still couldn’t experiment enough to figure that out. maybe I never will as fatty low-protein dairy doesn’t satiate me and it easily have nothing to do with the carb content, I have fats and even proteins not being satiating). So I kept myself from my precious lovely dairy as much as it was possible in that day without frying meat (but I really didn’t want to bother with it) - and it still proved to be quite much. I finally have my favorite brand of sour cream, it’s awesome but 172g is simultaneously much and almost nothing. And it was one dairy item from 6… And I felt I ate little dairy… But it was surely my lack of satiating talking as normally I am very pleased with way, way less.
I already decided to keep ready to eat meat in my freezer ALL the time yesterday…
So that’s why I had 4 meals. I just didn’t get my minimal protein until midnight… Aka why I should just eat a pound of meat during the day as I can’t even remotely guess if I had enough protein. A pound of meat or more and some eggs and whatnot, that should be enough. And it probably usually is.
But today there is a new experiment! Do much non-satiating low-protein dairy mess things up even in the presence of a substantial amount of lean pork? Or the proper amount of meat and calories do the trick? It’s an old question of mine. I give my body the meat and protein it apparently always wants, it gets it calories too - but a big part of the latter comes from non-satiating items. What happens then?
But much fat almost inevitably comes from non-satiating sources. Very fatty meat doesn’t seem to satiate me as well as somewhat leaner meat, that’s why I easily overate it in the past. So maybe some part of the fat may come from not satiating sources, it’s still okay… Oh indeed, there were all my days when I only ate until I went over 120g protein, no matter how much fat I had (as long as it wasn’t super low but I hardly can eat that lean. but it happened and didn’t work, unsurprisingly).
But what if much dairy still messes with my satiation?
I go and plan some nice day and tomorrow I track and see how seriously I messed it up. But it definitely helps when I see (and eat) my pound of meat. Things tend to get insanely difficult on lower-meat days and I dislike getting an overeating, hungry/not satiated, not satisfied day. I want my nice, blissfully satiated and satisfied ones. Not like I don’t have mixed combos but I very often get more satiated and satisfied on more modest days and I had seriously overeating days where I felt starving all day on low-carb (of course I blame the carbs and I am right. okay maybe non-satiating fats too. but maybe the carbs caused that too :)).
I am sorry I will try to keep my thought process to myself in the future. I won’t but I will try. (I will try not to think about this even in my own mind, actually.)