[ExI] Frequency vs. quantity: paleo diet again

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 20:07:59 UTC 2011


On 3 April 2011 20:50, J. Stanton <js_exi at gnolls.org> wrote:
> 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.

I have always hated gastronomically and ideologically hi-carbo diets,
but at a time I thought that it would be best to reduce fats as well,
and try feeding as much as possible on lean proteins, and I have to
thank Atkins for making me see the light in this respect... :-)

> 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".

Indeed.

-- 
Stefano Vaj




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