[ExI] Frequency vs. quantity: paleo diet again

[J. Stanton]

Originally posted by spike:
> JS if you ever want dramatic confirmation of that notion, try a four night
> backpacking trip with only freeze-dried foods. ...
> Too many dieters have never had the backpacking experience, and don't
> understand why their weight-loss plans consistently fail.

I understand completely!

Even back when I was trying to eat the 'healthy' version of the SAD 
(Standard American Diet), only dinner would be freeze-dried on 
backpacking trips: the rest would be peanut butter on some sort of 
bread, plus "energy bars" that were ~30% fat.  I never liked oatmeal as 
a backpacking breakfast.

Fortunately I never totally bought into the low-fat hype (though I was 
bamboozled into vegetarianism for a while) because I always figured as a 
very active person I was just burning it off anyway.  But I still felt 
vaguely guilty about it, and spent a lot of time eating way too much 
pasta and bread and way too little meat.

The biggest dietary difference for me has been cutting 'carbs' to 
perhaps 15-20% of calorie intake (though I don't count anything), 
keeping the remaining ones gluten-free, and replacing them with fat: no 
more 'food coma', and I can skip meals at will.

I ate a bunch of pizza recently as a cheat.  No matter how much I ate I 
still felt hungry, and I felt like crap afterward.  Slow, tired, sleepy, 
almost drugged...like I had hand and ankle weights on.  Then I 
remembered: this is how I always used to feel after big meals.  I just 
defined it as "normal".

JS
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