My Filipina Wife Does Low Carb

You sounded like you didn’t feel too good…..

I tend to eat larger portions. I don’t weigh out or anything either. I find it easier to keep busy and not raid the fridge or larder and skip a meal in the middle of the day if poss. If I am busy I find it easy to work through. And just drink through the morning while working from home. I don’t go hungry at all and probably eat too much still.

I'm a little stressed out with all this stupid noise ( Filipino music loud bass thud, thud for hours on end) Got used to the roosters, barking dogs, even the wife's dogs (3 of them)
Then I'm busy re-painting the house from the damaged walls when water came in.
Sorry to go off topic.

Soldier Magazine

With international distribution to every base, barracks and theatre of operations, we are the official magazine of the British Army.

Kev Mason writes in the magazine on nutrition in the British Army. Click on the link for the detail. This cult seems to have percolated into the British Army. Not quite there yet with one or two lads who drive big trucks.

Page 24 and 25

https://edition.pagesuite-professio...me=&edid=2adc2f27-8b1a-4180-be11-ee7182c12011

Meanwhile elsewhere in the world some wives are getting a holiday with their husbands

https://www.the-sun.com/health/5289078/food-delivery-boom-fuelling-obesity-crisis-britain/amp/

Writing in the Sun today, one of Mattecube’s wannabes…

Good news. Mrs Ash weighed in at 48.5 kilograms today. She had plateaued a bit for about 3 months and now her weight has started to drift down again. No rice, no pasta, just a little bread and no potatoes. It obviously works.

I doubt anyone on here cares.

We know you don’t, as you haven’t a clue. A fairly dumb kind of guy, are you not?

Tell you what mate, I can’t for the life of me see why anybody would want your opinion on football.

Something Mattecube won’t understand. But on Monday a small team of will be setting off from Scotland on a 500km bike ride, as an experiment to see how the body reacts to cycling for 5 days on zero incoming food or calories. This appears similar to the experiment carried out a couple of years ago involving Olympic Gold Medallist James Cracknell setting out to prove that we all can survive without carbohydrates.

The difference is that this experiment will involve a different set of muscles.

I know @oss had a lot to say about the first experiment. I hope you see the significance of the outcome of the first and the relevance of this one.

These guys will demonstrate that body fat and not glucose will be used as fuel. Anyone with excessive body fat might be pleasantly surprised by that.

Headaches, nausea, fatigue,i trekked before with minimal food, not nice.

That’s because you weren’t used to it. Once your body has become fat adapted it becomes second nature. Humans are hybrids, that run on either glucose or fat as fuels. However we are primarily designed in evolution terms as fat burners. Just like the Stone Age hunters. Fat adaption with fat as fuel was part of the natural existence of our distant ancestors.

If you watch the video summing up the first experiment they report back that they all felt surprisingly good, just a few kg lighter.

https://primalliving.com/blogs/news/zero-calories-5-days-100-miles-challenge-steve-bennett

James Cracknell (Olympic Rower) gives it the thumbs up! Why not you?



@Druk1 Sure you weren’t dehydrated?

They were hunter/gatherer/scavengers,with only primitive weapons they would have starved if hunting were their primary source of food.

Before that?
Exactly, so they were meat eaters during the good times. Topped up on berries and stuff in the tougher times or in between. Nothing like what most western people consume today.

You sound like you were dehydrated though. See what the video says as they explain in simple terms that most people can grasp. Lots of people are fat burners now to provide longevity as they get older. They find not only that it works but they have none of the side effects you mention except when they first start and then just for a few days.

Anyone here interested in longetivity? No? Well there are some that aren’t. None of us want to enjoy our Filipina wives for as long as possible? No? Really?

I certainly wasn't drinking enough, the odd thing is I didn't feel thirsty, just eating a little sun dried fruit I bought in a valley down below.

Need to be fat-adapted for at least 6 weeks, remain in the fat burning zone and have enough salt in your water, perhaps some magnesium, too.

If this guy can do it then you can to. I have a near neighbour who trains cyclists using keto.

https://seansako.com/


A whole new world of performance
My journey was profound to say the least, from experiencing bouts of hypoglycemia or the dreaded hunger knocks or what’s commonly known as the “bonk” I no longer was encountering these sensations.

In fact I hardly if ever experienced “the bonk”

It was if I became finally free, not encumbered by my constant need for refuelling. No longer having to pack my back pockets full of some type of nutrition in order to stay fuelled.

My fascination consistently increased, with wanting to find out, where does it end, when does the energy run out?

In 2019 the Jordanian Tourism board invited me to compete in a race that crossed the Jordanian Desert, starting at the Dead Sea and finishing 198km later at the Red Sea.

My goal was not to win but to ride at a respectable pace and not refuel by taking on board any calories, but yes just water.

To my astonishment I competed the ride finishing 5th overall and averaged 211 watts for 5hrs 46min.

I wasn’t hungry at all post the event.

This really intrigued me to say the least, once again how far could I push this ?

2020 arrived and so did COVID-19 and the mandatory lockdowns.

Like so many I was not able to leave my apartment, so I embarked on the next journey of my discovery into the advantages of being fat fuelled on a set of rollers.

I started riding on the rollers, and built up to riding for 2, 3, 4, 6 hours and then 9hours without refuelling.

Linking my rides to my Stages Cycling Gen 3 Dual Stages Power meter and the Zwift Cycling platform.

Now anyone can claim they have ridden great distance or time without refuelling.

So on the 29th of May 2020 I embarked on an event to honor all the first responders in the COVID-19 pandemic and the Noakes Foundation, the goal was 9hours on rollers without refuelling with witnesses.

I had Mr Lance Allam of MedWay who hosted the event at his offices who witnessed amongst several others my 9hours ride which I managed 10hours with nothing but water. The coffee machine on that day was broken.

It was a 6000 calorie effort.

Since then my performance has slowly started to increase and also my mileage per week and I continue to improve on my adaption into being fat fuelled.

I ride nothing less than 100km on the road, and the last 6 months my average distance is around 150km with regular rides of 200+km all without having the need to refuel, with my average power output being slightly below 200watts or above.

This practice of nutritional strategy is not isolated to me, my fiancée who adopted the diet eight months ago has excelled in her cycling, smashing almost everyone of her PB in power output

He had no breakfast. No refuelling en route. He is fat adapted. 50 years of age.

https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2021/09/07/keto-diet-for-cycling-what-are-the-benefits/


Keto Diet for Cycling – What Are the Benefits?

Quite illuminating stuff. It will be no use for those that enjoy snacking while on the road all day!

@Druk1

I believe a lot of the success at the London Olympics in the velodrome was down to the use of ketones:

https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/8436/british-cyclists-part-of-ketones-trial-at-london-2012-olympics

You will recall how massively successful we were in cycling, prompting the French to accuse us of cheating.

BREAKING:

‘Fast Food-addiction fuels nation’s obesity disaster’

The Public Health Collaboration team are making waves in today’s Daily Express. Ahead of the worlds first food addiction conference an excellent article from Dr Jen Unwin & comments from Dr David Unwin, Dr Campbell Murdoch & myself

Dr Aseem Malhotra *, consultant cardiologist and president of the public health collaboration said,

‘ This ground breaking conference will expose the elephant in the room; that a major root cause of the obesity epidemic are edible products that are deliberately engineered by the food industry to become addictive. Addiction is the opposite of free will.
The result is devastating consequences to society, driving diet related disease through overconsumption of addictive nutritionally poor ultra-processed food products that have been made available to anyone anywhere at any time.

As a doctor what particularly appals me is that the very institutions that are supposed to be beacons of health, our hospitals have become a branding opportunity for the ultra -processed food industry making up 75% of what’s purchased on premises. It’s no wonder more than 50% of medical staff are overweight or obese. An unhealthy NHS workforce is also a less productive one so everyone suffers.

The solution is to regulate these fake food products like tobacco through taxation, banning of advertising and stopping the sale of such products in public places such as schools, hospitals and sporting venues’



* Mattecube’s “wannabe”