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I am a big consumer of Greek yogurt, and I have some excellent local raw honey, so that recipe is for me. 🙂
After a break over the holidays, I tried the jumping again. Once a day, twice a day, and once three times in a day. Sometimes a rest day in between. I might still be damaged, because I can’t see how I did it five times a day for three weeks. LOL.
Ray did not like jogging/running. And I’ve heard Georgi/Haidut talk about the toll the jolting takes on long-distance runners. Bad for the gut. It’s like using a jackhammer.
@Lilac Ray Peat said that being fit is 90% diet and 10% exercise which includes just moving around and doing things, not sitting so much. I had trouble for years with my weight and now I never have to worry about my weight anymore and it is because of the food I eat and the timing of it. I haven’t been to the gym since my late 20’s. Starches and a high fat diet is the biggest culprit. In my twenties I lived on starches and butter and I was so thin, but not a healthy thin. My hair and skin was not as good as now at 61 and that is really unbelievable to me. I think consistently has paid off for me. Somebody said to me the other day talking about Club crackers and how delicious they are and I said how they just aren’t worth it to me. He said, “Oh come on you have to have cheat days!” I said why would I give up my high end delicious food for bottom l-of-the barrel cheap food?” No way! I just don’t see unhealthy snack foods, fast food and such the same anymore. I have been away from it for so long now that I am almost scared of it, it is just creepy to me now. My point being here is that no amount of exercise will make up for a wrong diet. I think not eating my biggest meal of the day at night, getting my sleep right, grounding everyday and getting sunshine and getting off all of my supplements helped too to get my metabolism revved up.
I agree with your take and have a similar routine. I never eat processed junk. I like Peaty foods, and I like to cook. That helps,
It seems that life gets easier and easier sticking to my “Peaty” ways with my food choices, the environmental changes that I have made and because of my good habits. I still make food timing and pairing important and I stick to my 10:30 bedtime. My sleep is excellent and I am back to dreaming this last couple of years, something I hadn’t really done since my early thirties. I took this photo yesterday. It was 80-degrees here and whereas in my thirties, forties and fifties I would have not dared to get into shorts until June, here I am in February feeling great in them. Back then I would have dine some crazy dieting and a tanning cream to get bravely into that pair of shorts. Below my knees would be hard to tan back then too and I would get sunburns in the beginning. Since “Peating” and depleted my skin of the polyunsaturated fats I had been I haven’t had to use any sunscreen in years. My skin seems to have a natural good and even color to it all year round now. Where so many are struggling with their New Year’s resolution to get that holiday weight gain back off I never gained a pound. I spent much of my life trying to like my body and could never have imagined I would, finally, at sixty-one years old. I am forever grateful to Dr. Ray Peat.
P.S. My legs are not as dark as they look in this photo, it is just that my bathroom is a little dark at certain times of the day.
Here is a good example of a swap. Scrambling my egg in the fat that came off of my beef brisket bacon gave me ten extra grams of protein than if I had fried it in butter with cream…
“Protein deficiency creates an inflammatory state, and since stress causes tissue proteins to be destroyed and converted into sugars and fats, it’s common to underestimate the amount of protein needed. One of the functions of sucrose in the diet is to reduce the production of cortisol, and so to spare protein.”-Ray Peat
Hello everyone! I have an update. I previously posted that I was having a hard time with my diet, and being post-menopausal, I had started noticing fat accumulation all over my body and specifically in the abdomen area. Cari and others suggested I limit the starches. Being Latin, I thought it was impossible for me to give up my rice or yuca, etc. but I did it, and I must say it worked! The fat layer disappeared from my body and my muscle mass has increased dramatically. Thanks guys!
I now have a different issue. My boyfriend (who doesn’t understand/agree with the Ray Peat way of eating yet) has told me he’s worried about the amount of animal products I am consuming. He also told me, while being very careful not for it to sound like criticism, that my breath has changed its smell. He says he doesn’t think it’s an oral hygiene problem. He thinks it’s coming from my lungs directly, and he thinks that the animal products I’m consuming are the reason.
Has anyone else heard of this? Perhaps I’m overdoing the meat or the protein? I do eat a lot of fruits, but I hardly eat green salads or veggies, which is what he prefers to eat. Perhaps there’s more fine tuning that I need to do. I start most days with eggs, cheese and OJ, then have lamb with fruit (like stewed apples) for lunch, I have a carrot salad, fruit and goat cheese and home made bone broth as a snack, and then dinner with seafood with stewed fruit for dinner, with milk, honey and collagen as a before sleep snack.
Any ideas? I have noticed a strong taste in my mouth when I wake up in the morning.
Hi @yelka I am so happy to hear that you shed your unwanted fat! How is your transit time? I find that having a chlorella source like Sun Chlorella, a parsley sprig or baby greens when I am heavier on the meat is helpful to disinfect the gut. Even a cup of rosemary tea will help disinfect the gut. Most off smelling breath comes from the gut unless one has dental problems.
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