euheideの日記, 2014年 02月 19日

inaccurate body fat percentage from body composition scale: 9.2 % (down by .8)

inaccurate waist measurement over navel: 81.6 cm (went down by .2)

blood pressure and heart rate (before getting out of bed): 100/54 - 61 bpm


Today is weight training day. Gonna eat some rice before so I get a good amount of energy and then wait a couple of hours before training. :)


I've just read in Wikipedia that you can get intoxication from eating too much protein without enough fat or carbs (if you'd only eat extremely lean meat and nothing else, for example). The reason is, supposedly, in the absence of carbohydrates or fat as a primary energy source, your liver works too much, through gluconeogenesis, to convert protein into your primary energy source (glucose). They say the only reason why the Inuit don't get protein poisoning is because their diet, though very poor in carbs, is very high in fats (monounsaturated fats in this case), which supposedly saves the liver a great deal of work. The Inuit also don't get some nutrient deficiencies they should have (since they have no carbohydrate sources) due to the fact they get these nutrients from eating fat and raw animal parts, including brain and liver (yikes). (I don't know how they don't get poisoning from the animal derived vitamin A found in the liver though...)

links from where I got this information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_diet#Nutrition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-carbohydrate_diet

The supposed maximum limit for protein is 285–365 g of protein per day (for an 80 kg person) so, if this is true, this is still not a problem (not even remotely) for any of us unless, that is, we eat only extremely lean meat and nothing else by our own initiative (or we ingest a huge amount of protein shakes, bars, etc). I also have to add that, at least for me, it's difficult to reach as little as 100 g without feeling differences in the digestive system, if you know what I mean lol (if you don't know, I mean flatulence).

They also say the Inuit only get away with eating so much fat and not have problems because the fat they eat is monounsaturated because their position on saturated fats is the standard applied by nutrition these days (which is difficult to know whether it's right or wrong given so much conflicting information heheh)

I should probably add that I'm not considering, in any way, to adopt a diet like this. I was just reading this for information sake ;)

59.1 kg これまでの減量分: 6.3 kg.    残り: 3.1 kg.    ダイエット続き: まあまあ.

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2058 kcal

脂質: 91.48g | たんぱく質: 108.47g | 炭水化物: 219.06g.   朝食: cherry tomato, goji berries, Water, Pistachio Nuts, Hazelnuts or Filberts Nuts, Cashew Nuts, Dried Pumpkin and Squash Seed Kernels, Raisins, Sesame Seeds, Walnuts. 昼食: Egg White, Bell Peppers, White Rice. 夕食: Bananas, Vinegar (Cider), Soft Boiled Egg, Lemon Juice, Ramirez Sardinhas em Tomate, Whole Milk. 軽食/その他: Whole Milk, Queijo Serra da Estrela (DOP) Queijo da Serra (DOP), Whole Foods Market Goji Berries, Cashew Nuts, Cherry Tomatoes, Dried Fig, Water (Bottled), Pistachio Nuts, Cashew Nuts, Whole Foods Market Goji Berries. もっと...