Update from Scottsdale

So the first week are almost completed, great days, alot of movement and interesting education. On saturday I will do my bloodworks test here in Scottsdale at www.macrotherapy.com. There have been some discussions over meal frequency here at the education. So I was met with skepticism, which is a normal reaction. But a better sign is that the teacher” started to make some investigations about it, so today she handed me a bunch of studies that supports the breakfast, so I will now reply on those studies, more about our discussions regarding this later.

Now, I have allways been eating breakfast the years before starting the IF regim, I used to wake up hungry, and I never skipped breakfast. I was in to the thinking that this actually was a meal I wouldn’t want to miss. Then I remember when I was working as a plumber, there was particulary two weeks (summer time) that I overslept and didn’t have time for breakfast so I skipped it and took a caseinshake instead. Funny feeling, I didn’t feel tired at all, anyway this was an intense period where I rebuilded my apartment. So after this intense period was over I was on the breakfast again. I remember thinking about it as something odd, since I was hungry when I left the apartment but when I arrived at work I wasn’t hungry at all, not tired as I used to be and in a pretty good mood. Odd feeling but that didn’t made me a “skipper”.

Now from a evolutionary standpoint a breakfast is a odd thing, who the hell hunted their pray and saved it to the morning to feast on it? Well a breakfast really does refer to a break – fast, so what ever time this comes in to play is irrelevant. And if we wake up late one day, did we miss the breakfast? Certainly not. There are no magic mechanism regarding eating in the morning, and not so ever with a later breakfast. However we know that there are advantages with staying in a “not fed” (fasting) state due to hormonal responses. Blood sugar levels are maintained in a narrow range no dips. I have meassured alot of clients and myself throughout my years on IF, with most people I have seen about 4,9-5,7mmol/l during the fast (9-14hours, 48clients meassured). Then we have some people who doesn’t feel that good, one component I never could meassure is the mental aspect of it. So many people are affected by the medias hype around how important breakfast is and this could truly affect peoples mind. There couold also be an adaptive component involved, many clients has a better feeling after just a couple of days. And I’m not suprised, to eat breakfast at a given time for many years has a behavior, which we all know are hard to change.  In tems of cognitive effects the fasting don’t have any negative effects either:

Lieberman et al. A double-blind, placebo-controlled test of 2 d of calorie deprivation: effects on cognition, activity, sleep, and interstitial glucose concentrations. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Sep;88(3):667-76

Not to say breakfast is bad for you, I totally agree that while working with those types of clients ATP do breakfast could be a great thing to fill up all the calories they need. But for people like me who isn’t a top athlete working out several hours aday, filling up my calorie demands sure isn’t a problem. 

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Today we went out for dinner, and everytime we have I get stomachache. I just can’t handle all this fat at once. Even though I make ”healthy” choices. I orderd a chicken and rice with a sallad, and after that meal I have pretty much filled upp all my demands for olive oil for the entire trip.

I filled up my fridge with some “better” stuff. I truly miss swedish cottage cheese, this one is not that good but it works.  

Oh gotto go to bed, another day is ahead of me.

//SR