Daily Fast
Posted by adminFeb 1
Going into my third week here, I’m settling into a routine. I ride Monday thru Friday, and find something else to do when the crowds move in on the weekends. When I ride, I get up in the morning, suit up, ride, and cook when I get home. Usually just one meal a day, which means frequent 24-hour fasts. I haven’t yet tried a 36-hour fast, but it’s tempting.
Every day that I’m on the mountain, there’s tons of people eating bagels, candy, breakfast bars, etc. They gotta take lunch, they gotta eat breakfast first, they gotta snack when they’re on the mountain… I really don’t feel it. Fasting is cake. But then, I’m on a 100% fat diet — burning off body fat the whole time.
IF is easy. I don’t feel hungry when I’m riding. I’m losing weight – is it the fasting, or the fact that I’m calorie-deficient?
4 comments
Comment by gilliebean on February 2, 2010 at 10:46 am
100% fat? What are you eating? Pemmican?
Comment by admin on February 2, 2010 at 11:04 am
No – I mean, while fasting, the energy I burn is stored body fat, hence 100% of energy from fat. Peter et al have mentioned that low-calorie starvation diets are “high fat” diets, because one gets their energy from fat stores. Same can be said for fiber that gets fermented into palmitic acid by colonic bacteria.
Pemmican is jerky + fat at a 1:1 ratio, anyway, so that’d be 70%
Comment by gilliebean on February 3, 2010 at 8:59 am
Ah! I thought you were saying that fasting was easy because you were on a 100% fat diet for the rest of the time. I read too fast. And yes, pemmican isn’t 100% fat, I just couldn’t think of anything that was!
Comment by admin on February 3, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Ghee or clarified butter is pretty close, maybe 99%. Tallow and Lard would be 100%. I was tempted to make pemmican today, but jerky is too expensive… bleh.
I can tolerate lactose, so I tend to use butter instead of other cooking fats. Richard seems to suggest that more coconut oil/butter/milk might produce good lipids, but then again recent posts in the paleo community suggests that lipid numbers are meaningless by themselves.
re: weight-loss being “high fat,” these posts by Richard:
http://freetheanimal.com/2008/12/all-diets-are-high-fat-diets.html
http://freetheanimal.com/2009/04/losing-weight-is-pretty-much-like-eating-lard.html