Bunny and Tamara-
Both of these meals contained large amounts of sugar. The cheesecake is full of sugar and the truffles are full of sugar. Any sugar at all will quickly raise blood sugar levels especially in quantities over 20-25 grams. When your body senses that it's blood sugar is going up, it sends out insulin to remove the excess sugar from your blood. First, it will try to use the sugar to replenish muscles, or liver glycogen supplies. If those are full, the body then converts the unused sugar to triglycerides and promptly packs it on your butt, your belly, your legs, your chins, or just about every place you really don't want it as fat. The reason this makes you tired is because insulin is very effective in lowering blood sugar and after eating such dangerously high amounts of sugar, the insulin removes enough blood sugar so as to make you feel sleepy. This occurs more and more as we age because your muscles, liver, fat cells become insulin resistant from so many years of sugar abuse in modern eating. Most people have high insulin levels from dealing with so much sugar for so long, the cells start "covering their ears" from the noisy insulin. So your pancreas puts out more insulin to do the job of controlling blood sugar and you get increasingly more tired and fat as time goes on.
One AWESOME effect of Fast-5 and calorie restriction in general is that this insulin sensitivity tends to reverse itself over time. By eating less food and allowing the body 19 hours to rest, your cells start "listening" for insulin again which eases the burden on your pancreas, thus lowering insulin levels in general.
-Rick Stewart
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Bunny Jeffryes <bunnyjeffryes@...> wrote:
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> Yesterday I had a steak, salad, asparagus and cheesecake at 5, by 5:30 I was asleep. So I can hardly wait to hear some answers on this, as I am clueless.
>
> --- On Tue, 3/2/10, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@...> wrote:
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> From: tamaratornado <tamaratornado@...>
> I have trouble with insomnia off and on...
> Today, I fasted, and around 4:30 I went to the health food store - they were giving away free samples of vegan chocolate truffles - close enough to break-fast time, so I ate a few, they were delicious.
> Then I came home and ate a big plate of beef, and a leaf of lettuce. I ate til I was very full. About 40 minutes later I became very, very sleepy. I went to bed and fell into a deep sleep. I would have slept all night, but my guy called and woke me, he needs to come over and borrow something.
> I am wondering, a big meal seems to do a blood sugar thing on me. But I wonder if it's the answer to my insomnia problem. Is that a healthy way to fall asleep?
I would not make a habit of starting the meal with chocolate truffles, LOL.
> Thank you,
>
> Tamara
>
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