For a while I strategically leveraged white rice to help replenish my glycogen stores before bedtime. I work out most days but don’t consume any carbs until later afternoon. Even then, my daily carb intake is usually below 150 grams. Often, that results in my body running out of glycogen...
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At 6:00 pm on Saturday, February 14th, I stopped eating. I didn’t pick up a spoon, fork, knife, pair of chopsticks, beer bottle, or finger-food for 120 hours until 6:00 pm, Thursday, February 19th. Which raises the obvious question: “Why would you do that?” Let me explain. ...
Urghhhh a few months ago I was doing well getting down towards a healthy BMI by eating healthily and roughly in a calorie deficit but not too strict...
1. I stopped drinking milk. If you had asked me 10 years ago if I would even consider giving up milk, I’d have thought you were crazy. I was raised thinking that skim milk was the “perfect food”–> a good balance of carbs and protein, with no fat. (At the time I...
kept G. stopped . tried 33. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about? . How much weight the writer lost. . How the writer's mother lost weight. . Why the writer wanted to lose weight. . How the writer managed to lose weight. 34. The writer started eating more vegetables because ___. A...
There's also some evidence that sebaceous glands can shrink by eating a low GI diet for a while too. As for me, I have noticed a dramatic improvement in my skin and acne since going on a low GI diet. I don’t get the big cyst anymore since I stopped eating refined carbs and ...
I’m also not eating carbs for the most part. I’ve lost about 50 pounds so I’m a big fan of intermittent fasting but I still feel pretty hungry in the mornings and at night if I’m up late. I can tolerate it and it’s only really bad if I’ve cheated and had carbs or ...
By completing this challenge, it’s solidified to me that eating something before I work out works better for me — both for my body and mind. However, to do so, I’ve had to alter the time I work out slightly. Shifting my exercise half an hour to an hour later has meant I’ve ...
Why I’ve Finally Stopped Eating Oil By: Matt Frazier There was a time when going vegetarian seemed extreme. Impossible. Where will I get protein? Forget protein, where will I even get the calories? Then I did it, and it turned out not to be so hard. Going vegan, though … that was...