Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Re: Post-break-fast wipeout and the coffee creamer question

What I have found is that I don't digest certain starches well. Some people lack some sugar digesting enzymes. When that happens, the undigested sugars become food for bacteria or yeast, and it's their growth that causes the issues. You do want to feed your gut bacteria, but sugar and simple starches are not the correct food for them. Fructose, for some reason, is one of the sugars that many human beings have a hard time digesting. Which seems odd, because it is very common in nature.

One of the solutions for that issue is to get your stomach to empty less quickly. The two methods I know for that are 1) vinegar (dunno WHY it does that, but it does according to what I've read) or 2) konjac/glucomannan. There are probably other ways too: combining starches with protein and oils, for one. Eating salad with vinegar and oil first. Eating proteins and green vegies first. Slowing down gut motility also helps with the insulin surge.

Some foods also cause serotonin production, which just plain makes you sleepy. It's not just in insulin-sensitive people: animals will often eat and then sleep afterward. In the case of a snake, they sleep for like a week. Digestion takes a lot of work, and some of your blood supply is rerouted to your gut. Personally I think a siesta after a meal isn't a bad idea. Some foods also have tryptophan which makes you sleepy: turkey is noted for this! There are foods that do the opposite though. Fish has proteins that make you more wakeful. Turmeric too: a good curry will make you more alert.

The other common issue is an actual immune reaction to the food, esp. IgA and IgG reactions. IgA reactions happen in the gut, and they are the gut version of, say, sneezing when you get around ragweed. The IgA reaction to wheat is very, very common. That particular reaction is known to make one foggy-headed. The wheat/gut reaction causes the tight junctures in the gut to temporarily open, which leads to a host of other issues too. (You can read about Fasano's work online: google "Fasano zonulin".

I think milk is designed by nature to be sleep-inducing too, at least for humans. The baby drinks, gets full, and zonks out, which makes babies a lot easier to schlep around on your back, which is what humans did until they invented car seats.

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:04 AM, RickS <rstewart@iaff.org> wrote:

Welcome.

1) An apple has a glycemic load of 6 which is low so that shouldn't be an issue. Rice can have a medium to high glycemic load depending on the variety. Wheat varies from whole grain wheat bread with a low glycemic load of 7.6 to white wheat bread with a high glycemic load of 25+. So I would definitely forgo any rice or white bread while trying to lose weight (or any grains for that matter). But if you feel like you HAVE to have some kind of bread, stick to the whole grain style. Whole oat bread seems to have a pretty low glycemic load. I just find that eating grains makes me crave more food.

2) I noticed that using cream in my coffee or tea had a VERY negative effect on weight loss for me. One tbsp is something like 50 calories. But I can't wrap my head around using just one tbsp so I would just use what made it taste good. To me, that was an extra 300-500 calories a day as I used to drink a lot of coffee. Eventually I started adding brown sugar to my coffee and cream during my window, which couldn't be good for my arteries or my waistline. I thought, "Well, it's my window, I can have what I want". But I sat down and took inventory and figured out that I was eating and drinking WAY too many calories during my window. So I cut out coffee, cream, beer, wine, grains, dairy, and just about anything that doesn't grow outside in nature that our paleolithic ancestors would have eaten and the weight just flew off. But to answer your question, yes, cream made a big difference in my weight loss because I can't just have a little. :)

Rick Stewart

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "foxchyck" <foxeye@...> wrote:
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> 1) When I break my fast, if I have certain foods, I feel pretty crappy. My heart pounds/races and my brain is extremely foggy for an hour-ish. Much more extreme than any post-prandial slump I've ever had.
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> So far I've correlated these foods, I *think*, to those which are high GI. Rice, apples, and wheat so far. So my question is...is this an insulin spike, do you think? IE, my blood sugar is low from the fast, but the food spikes insulin anyways when the food hasn't actually gotten to the blood yet, so it crashes my blood sugar? Or could it be that my stomach is just working really hard and demanding all the blood? If I eat only my favorite break-fast (avocado and bacon and maybe fried eggs), then wait a while, I can then eat high GI foods in small quantities with no problem.
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> Obviously this is a case of "well, don't do that then!" *grin* But I am curious whether this is an indication of my general state of health. IE, am I actually insulin resistant?
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> 2) Everything I read says NO CREAMER WHILE FASTING! I did well with that for a while, but eventually I caved and had creamer. And for a few weeks it didn't seem to make diddly-squat of a difference. But then the loss slowed down. I'm inclined to think that some sugar that I ate was the cause, but still, I wanted to ask...has anyone here ever personally found that adding/removing creamer changed their weight loss?
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