Wet Ingredients
1-1.5 Tablespoons melted butter
1-1.5 Tablespoons heavy whipping cream
2-3 eggs (I use 3 to help me get enough protein) (.6 to .9 g carbs)
1 splash vanilla
Mix ingredients, microwave for 4 minutes
I eat about half of this per day. I suppose I could make half a recipe and eat it fresh, but I’m basically lazy and prefer it this way. I get a tablespoon each of inulin and allulose and it really tastes great. If I’ve had enough protein, I can have just this for dinner and be happy about it.
Hi, I’ve been following this topic for a while, but have been mired in crunch time at work for the past several weeks, so now that it has let up, I thought I’d weigh in on my experience. After years of various experiments in low carb, fasting, keto, fasting-mimicking diets, carnivore, etc. I found some success, but couldn’t seem to take it all the way with just dietary and exercise strategies alone, and would rebound very often. My brain often seemed to not let me go back to certain strategies like doing full 42+ hour fasts or super low calorie days or pure carnivore. It can depend somewhat on my stress levels. When I first read about GLP-1 meds, I was biased against them when I read they increased insulin and could cause muscle loss. (Later digging deeper I read that they increase insulin secretion at meals, but overall insulin decreases as you become more insulin sensitive, and muscle loss can be prevented with proper strength training and eating sufficient protein.) I know they aren’t popular on this forum because people think you should be able to make these changes with just our willpower and avoid medicine. I felt the same way. I finally added metformin over a year ago and that helped a little. I got my A1c to the bottom of the prediabetes range, but couldn’t drop it below 5.7 after a couple years. This spring I decided to go ahead and try my own GLP-1 experiment. I started on tirzepatide in May. It happened to coincide with the start of a stressful long-OT work period, so I haven’t always stayed consistent in my diet and exercise. Even so, I have slowly lost a little over 8 lbs over the summer, after I had been gaining weight when I started. My weight kept going up, peaked, and then slowly started going down. This in contrast to what has happened during stressful work OT sprint periods in the past, where I have been known to gain 10+ lbs. I’ve been checking my morning glucose all summer, and my readings have slowly decreased to the high 80’s and low 90’s now. I’ll be getting some bloodwork in a couple months. I’ve been a slow responder in terms of weight loss, but I don’t have bad side effects and I have gotten some other benefits. My menopausal night sweats disappeared almost immediately. My husband says I seem much less anxious. I have also noticed that I’m not doing as many impulse purchases online. I don’t know how related that is. Now that I’ve finished my big work crunch, I will get my workout schedule back in order and make healthier overall food choices. The medicine has seemed to curb my desires to stress binge, and seems to make it easier for me to make healthy food choices. I’ll report back in a couple months whether it helps me achieve my A1c goals.
Can you try adding allulose, say at 2 tsp or so in something? What these drugs do is give you more GLP-1 receptors, I think. Adding additional GLP-1 hormone via allulose might make your results even better.
When I tried allulose, I initially got a large satiety. Over time, however, that seems to be lessening.
I love allulose, that’s my favorite low carb sweetener. I recently found some keto-friendly protein bars at Costco called Magic Spoon Treats. Their second ingredient is allulose. They also have inulin as an ingredient. Those taste pretty good. I’m trying to rely more on real food than bars, but they are nice as an occasional treat and protein boost.
From what I have read, what the drugs do is stimulate the GLP-1 receptors. They are man-made peptides based on GLP-1, but with some added amino acids that prevent them from breaking down as fast as the natural GLP-1 hormone. Tirzepatide, the one I am taking, is known as a dual agonist because it targets both GLP-1 and GIP receptors. GIP is also an incretin hormone, and stands for gastric inhibitory polypeptide, also known as glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide. Hitting both of those receptors makes it a little more effective on average than just a GLP-1 agonist. There is even a triple agonist in clinical trials now that adds glucagon to the other two and that appears to be even more effective.
I think you meant glucagon raises blood sugar right? The new medicine with the glucagon receptor agonism is called retatrutide. I found an interesting write-up on the retatrutide trial subreddit that tries to explain the differences between semaglutide, tirzepatide, and retatrutide, and what activating each of the three hormone receptors GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon, will do: https://old.reddit.com/r/RetatrutideTrial/comments/18fbvem/comparing_the_big_3_semaglutide_tirzepatide_and/
In my local Costco I have found the Magic Spoon bars in a center area where a lot of other protein bars are found. I have also recently seen those bars sold individually at my local Ralph’s (California’s version of Kroger).
I’m definitely late to this party, but I figured I put some thoughts in anyway.
I don’t have clinical depression, so I cannot comment on that. I have had what I call “bottomless pit” days when I believe my body is lacking something and I have to keep on eating until it gets what it wants. Something similar could be happening to you, especially if you are following 2mad/16:8 protocol. You are probably not eating enough and probably not getting enough protein. You may find if you add in a protein heavy breakfast along with your other two meals of the day, you may have fewer binging days.
While these drugs do have positive effects on insulin, appetite and impulse control. At the end of the day, they are causing a calorie restriction which is contributing to the weight loss. I think if you were already eating very low calories when you started the weight loss drugs, there was nowhere for your calorie intake to go. You metabolism may have already been slowed due to not enough caloric intake.
Earlier this year, I really upped my protein intake. Previously, I was mostly eating 2 - 2.5 MAD. Now I eat 3MAD. I have not had a “bottomless pit” day since. My skin and hair are healthier.
I don’t know if you track. I gave it up several years ago, but I did it for a week earlier this year. That is how I realized I was undereating. You may want to track what you are eating for a week, just to get a baseline average. You may find you are not getting enough protein, vitamins, and minerals.
@VirginiaEdie
I’ve never been on calorie restriction and also never had much if any weight loss. I gain and lose the same 5 lbs for years. The best I can say is that I haven’t gained weight for the last 5 years on keto. My HUGE successes are no weight gain year on year and a normal HbA1c, so no kidney, eye, etc. damage from my Type 2 DM.
There are also some bars by RxSugar.com called Swealthy Snax that use allulose as their sweetener. I’ve ordered some and can’t yet say if they taste as great as they sound. For now, I’m using my allulose, inulin, psyllium powder brownies I gave a recipe for above. For carbs, it has the 1g from the 3 eggs and 2 g from the 2 teaspoons coconut flour and 2 g from the Cocoa powder - so 5 g for a high volume, low carb, sweet small meal/ large snack.
Those are interesting, thanks. Their chocolate syrup is interesting, too. I give my daughter chocolate milk with Hershey’s zero sugar chocolate syrup, which has way more stuff in it than theirs. Theirs is way more expensive, of course.
My main issue with allulose is too much can cause some gastric issues. I just don’t know how much that is though, as I don’t capture good enough data.
This was a great study, the most interesting thing that I found, unsurprising, was the stupid western diet is the key factor.
What is the human race doing?
I do like Allulose and use it often, but once you’ve been on this eating plan for a long time, your sweet tooth goes away.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if all products switched from High Fructose Corn syrup to Allulose for a year? How much would the western countries save on health costs?
I avoid most commercial SAD sweetners. I do use erythrotil, allulose, monk fruit, stevia and xylitol (watch out if you have dogs). Articles like this one (which was the first thing that came up on a search) are the reason
