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Sugar is poisonous and it promotes the growth of harmful gut bacteria that influence your brain chemistry to make you crave more sugar. Cut out all sweets and sweeteners except raw honey for a couple weeks and you'll feel like a different person. You'll sleep better, you'll have more energy, and pretty quickly you won't crave sugar. I broke my sugar fast a bit over the last week visiting with some friends and I immediately felt gross. Be careful to not replace those sweets with extra carbs.

Sugar is poisonous and it promotes the growth of harmful gut bacteria that influence your brain chemistry to make you crave more sugar. Cut out all sweets and sweeteners except raw honey for a couple weeks and you'll feel like a different person. You'll sleep better, you'll have more energy, and pretty quickly you won't crave sugar. I broke my sugar fast a bit over the last week visiting with some friends and I immediately felt gross. Be careful to not replace those sweets with extra carbs.

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Raw honey is sugar.

"Honey is sugar-rich nectar collected by bees from a wide variety of flowers. Fructose is the main sugar found in honey, followed by glucose, and sucrose. The sweet taste of honey is attributed to its higher fructose content, and fructose is known to be sweeter than glucose or sucrose. Honey is about 17% water."

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Refined or artificial sugars are more the problem. Just eating some grapes, molasses or honey isn't that bad for you. The exception appears to be diabetic, pre-diabetic or anyone else with insulin problems (fat people).

My eating schedule looks like this: I eat one meal per day at about the same time six days per week. It consists of a glass of milk, a two scoop whey protein shake and somewhere around 1200 calories of mostly protein. The other day I eat nothing until that same time, but this time I eat whatever I want (or drink) until I fall asleep. This alone is enough to yank my insulin levels down (which is how you lose weight) and would easily work for anyone else. I'm officially down 100 pounds as of last week. I never stopped eating sugar. I eat pretty much whatever I want but I do try to keep the carbs nice and low on the six days per week I fast.

I've also done a few 36 hour fasts. I'd highly recommend it even if you don't consider One Meal A Day. This is all you really need to counter the insulin spikes from eating shitty sugars.

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100 lbs...Bravo! Insulin sensitivity is one of the biggest keys to the kingdom. Kickin' the sugar habit and Extended and/or Intermittent Fasting are the healthiest way to get and stay there. OMAD obliterates the "hunger" ghrelin jones/insulin junkie cycle. "Yo man, come on man, I suck yo dick fo' a jelly donut! Jus a taste. Jus lemme get summa dat suga' man!"

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You've got it. Insulin spikes after you eat, especially sugars/carbs. You can reverse this process by not eating for long enough, ketosis. The main factor in weight reduction is Insulin and Cortisol. There's lots of ways to reduce the both of these, but I think you'll find that some of the best ways to reduce Insulin is through limiting carb/sugar intake, fasting and being more active. As for cortisol, a good night's sleep, physical activity, adaptogens and fasting. There's a lot I do for the fitness side too, but this is more the nutrition/endocrine part of it.

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I ordered some Honey the other day. It was supposed to be a special honey that gets you high but the brand I got clearly wasn’t. It was still good though.

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Killer bees.

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I can agree with that. Only thing is I use maple syrup maybe once a week, a tbsp or so.

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Meat.

Meat with cabbage.

Meat with cabbage and whiskey.

Yogurt.

Yogurt with plain bran.

Yogurt with plain bran and berries.

Seaweed.

Seaweed with fish.

Seaweed with fish and duck eggs.

The perfect diet.

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I tend to agree but I have modified that a good amount.

  • Bran is a starch, so that is out.

  • Berries are fruit == sugar, maybe once a year when my ancestors had natural access to them.

  • Eat 75% to 80% of what your body wants you to eat.

Health seems to be tied to keeping our bodies in a fasting state most of the time and avoiding things that trigger our cells into growth mode. Sugar and starch are the main trigger. However, apparently, protein from meat and other sources is also that trigger.

Healthy fat is not a trigger, so that is apparently good.

That is my take.

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Every august i gorge on fresh berries. Im out in the mountains hunting, and i just eat the fuck out of huckleberries, blueberries, thimbleberries, service berries all day. Thats what keeps me going when im bear hunting. No need to carry food in my pack. Guarantee primitive man feasted on seasonal fruits too. Humans are opportunistic omnivores. At least we were. Ow it seems were mostly walking garbage disposals

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Heh! Yup.

That was an interesting read. Question, I haven't spoken to a bear hunter before. I presume you cook bear, is that correct? Can you describe what cooked bear tastes like? I hear bears that have had access to blueberries taste the best ... is that true?

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Bran is a starch, but it is mostly fiber. Bran, along with the Germ, is one of the things that they remove from processed flour.

Bread ain't bad for ya, it is just the way they make bread now that is bad for you.

Berries are great, and fuck you for not thinking so.

I don't eat that much.

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I don't think I've ever eaten seaweed outside of a sushi-esque application.

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Probably because it sucks. I think theodore kent is a manatee or something

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Eat the seaweed

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Full of minerals. When I start feeling like I'm catching something, I would walk to the corner for a a bowl of Japanese style soup heavy on the seaweed broth and with a little soy bean cake pieces. I would down that and then go home to sleep. That kills anything.

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That reminds me I need to get more seaweed from Costco next time I'm there.

Thanks fren.

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I just kicked nicotine. Am going to kick sugar starting tommorrow. If I survive, caffeine is next. Nicotine was no problem. Im hoping the sugar crash doesnt kill me, lol. What about beer? Does that count?

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Quitting beer will actually make you crave sugar so I suggest doing beer first to to taper off sugar.

I've had some crazy episodes of sugar when not drinking for long periods. I finally have a steady handling.

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Moderation is key. If you're cutting sugar suddenly, make sure your diet is high quality and you have a good battery of vitamins and minerals. I gave up all alcohol almost 2 years ago and I've never felt better. I need to cut caffeine next as well.

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Here's the terminology that bothers me. "moderation". This isn't a vague guideline and it's more like empty marketing.

The real key to getting and maintaining a health life is LIMITATION. Having the ability to stopping yourself from shoving calories into your face. Also, understanding how food breakdown works, and finally how burning calories and weight strengthening/lifting shape you.

Anything that promises a specific aspect of any of these or tries to get you to remove any of these is a fucking thinly veiled scam. Sadly , the market of people who've been conditioned to believe that they can have a regular body through reading a book, swallowing pills, starving themselves and laying around all the time is simply too large a mental opiate.

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Here's the terminology that bothers me. "moderation". This isn't a vague guideline and it's more like empty marketing.

When you're dealing with fats, moderation is the code word for stop being fat. Stop eating shit you know that's bad for you every day. If you eat sugary stuff once a week or one a month, that's going to be 'moderation' for most people relative to their current diet.

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I'm kicking coffee by degrees. I first stopped putting cream and sugar and switched to raw honey in the coffee. I drink one big cup in the AM and sometimes we have coffee time mid afternoon. Cutting carbs has been tough for me. I had to force myself to eat more meat.

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A reminder that sugar and plant is synonymous.

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You will eat nothing, and you will be happy.

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Eat protein instead, it keeps you full for longer and eventually you will crave it instead of sugar.

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I couldn't agree more, cancer food.

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I mean sure if you want to bake and cook all your own food good luck

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