So the mega meal caused a spike from 4.4 to 6.1 45 minutes after I began and drop to 5.2 at two hours and 4.2 yesterdays average overnight fasting - by 3 hours.
My morning liver dump took me to 5.4 mmol, a full 1.5 mmol lower than 3 days ago.
Cherry, how do you propose proving your theory whilst in a calorie deficit, or do you intend to target a period on weight maintenance post your experimental period of 1000 calories a day.
I appreciate we're all different, and might want to try a personalised approach to achieving however we want phrase your goal. How do you feel it differs from IF, bearing in mind Dr Fung's use of IF was originally explored to find a way to address the HC content of some non-indigenous dietary cultures making LC tricky (for them to follow), if I recall correctly.
I massively respect Dr Fung, but haven't done more than superficial reading around his work, because it's not a lifestyle I would care to follow closely, given the options I appear to have.
For me, I know that I would really, really struggle to take on board my personal level of maintenance calories within a one meal window. I have never, ever been a snacker, so, for me, I've never had to address that challenge. For me, my calculated BMR, by calculation using the usual calculations and metrics is well, well adrift of what I need not to lose any further weight.
As I have suggested before, the more I read, the more I am convinced there are potentially many ways to skin this particular cat, and many seem to include variations on themes.
In arriving at my current strategy I combined stuff from everywhere -
VLC -, the only reason I haven't settled on trying to get to a VLC level of 800 calories for the one meal is that in the first day I got it a bit wrong but the weight dropped off anyway and I keep reading how its possible to lose weight on way more calories than has been my experience. I figure that when it stalls - I will then try to get lower calories overall.
LCHF - cut the carbs, and all processed foods and sugars add natural fats,
Intermittent fasting = one meal a day,
Paleo guys - don't be frightened of protein.
The nature of nutrition -let your appetite guide you as to what proportion of real foods -
spices > add in as many as you can,especially curcumin and pepper nuts, use sparingly but they are good for you ,
Saturated fats - good for you so use butter/ goose fats, natural saturated fats PURE study show inc to HDL and reduction in Trigs. A
void omega 6 vegetable oils like the plague - numerous studies . deliberately adjust your intake to try to match om 3 and om 6. deliberately add in cod liver oil to try to get Vit D deficit up and vinegar to try to get insulin sensitivity up.
There is nothing particularly new in any of that. its just that now having read as much as I have, I understand why each component is useful and see the commonalities.
Plus then Personal taste - I like cooking and a sense that maybe one meal a day might work for me to lose weight by helping me stick to the binary choice.
There have been maybe a dozen times today when last week I would have helped myself to something in the fridge - just small piece of cheese, a bit of avocado, a lump of chorizo, parma ham- all tiny all low carb. My thinking is - Assemble the food, look at it - see just how much it is, recognise its 100% of your nutritional needs and then eat it. and stop.
IF I can lose weight on this diet ( which remains a big IF ) then I can do it forever because I like the food. Currently I've got to a higher level of ketosis than the whole of the last year, and because I'm not eating for 23 hours a day, I assume that is quite high all the time- which should help weight loss .
I would far prefer to eat it in two lumps instead of just the one. However I can well see why the theory of one meal should work better than two in dealing with circulating insulin - which I am personally now convinced is the key to overall good health and longevity.
So far there has been a significant reduction in my morning liver dump in 4 days. (6.9 mmol to 5.4mmol) IF I get to the stage that there is no discernible liver dump, then it would be my intention to do another OGTT test at home to check if I'm now showing any better response than the first time.
If its getting better but not there yet. I would hope to continue until I have truly normal responses i.e. the Kraft curve 1glucose. at which point I would pay for a full kraft insulin assay . To my mind that is " cure" - and may not actually be attainable at all. If its not curable doing this diet then I doubt it is full stop.
I wouldn't propose to suddenly start eating the processed foods again even if it was a " cure" its quite clear that processed foods are damaging the human race, so there is absolutely no need to rejoin that particular merry go round just to prove a point.
I do intend to try the odd - mega meal - eg restaurant night out, fish and chip supper etc to see if they are copable with in this strategy ( I suspect they might be )
If nothing else I'm hoping the diet will reinforce the wisdom of the "no snacking rule " and help me to eat more sensibly with two or three meals a day in the future.
Obviously the dynamics of all this may well look very different depending where you are starting. I still have upto 20 kg of excess weight that I've had for nigh on 40 years - so I might need be more drastic at fixing it than many. if I ever get to the point where I can't stop losing weight - that is so are beyond my personal experience that I cannot currently imagine how I would deal with it - though clotted cream,peanut butter, pork scratchings and battered fish might get a look in !