Fri, May-30-03, 18:53
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Mad Scientist
Posts: 4,402
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Plan: Healthy eating/lifestyle
Stats: 156/115/115
BF:
Progress: 100%
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Hi Cinmin:
Only people who have burned out adrenal glands need to count their minimum protein intake. It's b/c too much protein at one time increases adrenaline and our feedback mechanism is screwed up so that it makes us feel better instead of worse. Spacing it evenly throughout the day is important.
I personally tried following the menu in SPII and found it to be way too much food for me as well. I'd love to address this on her site. I found I had to force feed myself, eating when I was totally stuffed. I was bloated and I was also waking up with food hangovers, which I took as a bad sign. I figured I can cut down on some of the food as long as I get my 5 servings of veggies/day as well as all my carbs and adequate protein. What I sometimes find helpful is to double up the carbs for a meal and then divide it in half for my meal and snack. That way, I feel like I am eating 3 meals instead of 5 meals.
Having said that, some days you will find that you are ravenous while other days, you won't be hungry. It seems to change from day to day.
As for the snacks, they should ideally be balanced with a protein, carb, nonstarchy carb and fat. If you can't do that, at the minimum, you should have a carb and protein together for a snack.
HTH,
Wanda
Last edited by wcollier : Fri, May-30-03 at 18:55.
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