Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Which foods hold you the longest?

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Re: [fast5] Which foods hold you the longest?

I studied this for some time, starting 10 or so years ago because
I was ALWAYS hungry. In particular, I'd have a good breakfast
and be starving by 11. So I asked: "What breakfast will keep me
fed til noon?".

The answer eventually led me to intermittent fasting (and other stuff).
But it did convince me that WHAT you eat matters a whole lot.
And the answers aren't always obvious and don't even always make
sense.

Does steak work better than hamburger? I'd tend to believe it ...
it's also true that hamburger in the US is made from some really
weird stuff which might affect hunger apart from it being ground.
Hamburger tends to come from used-up dairy cows, for starters,
and they are full of chemicals, hormones. It gets mixed up with
other scraps. To do a real test you'd have to use steak, and
ground up steak. But even then: yes, the ground up steak
would digest quicker.

With apple juice, it's been shown that the "clear" apple juice
digests differently than the "brown" apple juice. The fiber
in the juice affects how your body responds to it.

Anyway, the meals that work the best for me are:

1. Meals centered around fish/seafood
2. Meals with konjac
3. Meals with beans or whole grains (certain grains: others don't settle well).

High-fat diets don't work well for me at all, because I just
don't handle large amounts of fat well. Fish is sort of interesting:
the cultures who eat the most fish have the lowest rates of obesity,
and I think this might be because fish just triggers "satiation" the best.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:53 PM, HELENA <hastings.press@virgin.net> wrote:
> When doing the 19 hour fast, which foods "hold" you the longest?
>
> I have found that an 8 oz sirloin steak smothered in butter does it for me.
>
> I have tried 200g prawns with mayonnaise on a bed of salad and was
> hungry after 5 hours. I also found pork steaks don't last as long.
> Strangely, even ground beef does not hold as long as a steak. I am
> assuming that this is because the meat is already ground down for you,
> and so requires less processing inside the body? A steak is very dense
> meat and needs a lot of work!
>
> Any other theories?
>
> What holds YOU best?
>
> Helena
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