Need Help with Energy!

#61

Makes sense, thanks!

(Khara) #62

As time goes by you’ll probably venture into intermittent fasting, eating only 1-2 meals a day and no snacks. For me that just happened naturally. I didn’t make a conscious decision to do it. I just wasn’t as hungry so meals became fewer and bigger.

#63

Awesome — hope that works for me. I’m notorious for constantly snacking and stuffing my face because “it sounded good at the moment even though I wasn’t hungry”.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #64

As your insulin drops, your hunger/satiety hormones can register more accurately in your brain. When we eat a lot of carbohydrate, the resulting high insulin level blocks the signal from the fat tissue that all that carbohydrate has been turned into fat and stored, and that we have plenty of energy on board. The result is that we are always hungry.

But satiety is a powerful signal, when it’s permitted to work, so if you cut the carbs and increase the fat, you will have plenty of energy to work with and won’t be hungry. It took me a few weeks for my satiety signal to kick in, but it was an amazing experience when it first happened. And it’s only gotten stronger since then.

I still get cravings, mind you, but they are a lot easier to resist now that I’m not hungry most of the time and I’m clear that they are just my carb addiction talking.