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Mutant Diet Phase 3 Day 76
So this weekend is a planned bust because damn, what the hell, eh?
Monday, however, I’m going to be all ready for a variation on the so called “Slow Carb Diet”. See medium.com/@erinfrey/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-slow-carb-diet-a67062761d92
I’m going to do a two-week experiment. You see my theory is that, despite my efforts, I am taking in too much refined stuff (wheat, rice, corn, sugar) to trigger the use of fat. My personal trainer has been telling me this all along but the impact of removing this stuff on my mood and head is so intense that I’ve been “cheating”.
What this means is that I have to go after anything with even a hint of refined carb or sugar. From the link above they summarize the diet as follows.
Follow these rules if you want to lose weight on the Slow-Carb Diet:
- Stick to Slow-Carb Diet approved foods 6 days a week: lean meat, beans, and veggies and no white foods like sugar, pasta, rice, bread, cheese.
- Eat the same few meals over and over again, especially for breakfast and lunch. You probably do this already; you’re just picking new default meals.
- Don’t drink calories. 1-2 glasses of red wine is okay.
- Start your day with protein, shooting for 30g within 30 minutes of waking (boosts success rate by 11%).
- Don’t eat fruit. Tomatoes and avocados are allowed in moderation.
- Take one “cheat day” a week: Eat whatever you want on cheat days.
I do most of this anyway. However, to avoid sugar completely, it means no ketchup, really looking at salad dressing labels, no eating late unless it’s bacon or some other non-dairy protein.
My cheat day is going to be Sunday. I want to see if I feel a difference in 6 days.
What’s going to be tough is taking dairy out of my coffee and my eggs. I’ve been relying on scrambled eggs in the morning and it does a good job of keeping me away from food until lunch.
More interesting is the cheat day. I don’t want a stupid cheat day where I go berserk. What I want is to be able to tell myself, when struggling with food choices, “it’s only until Sunday.”
Tonight however … beer. And steak.
