Day 21, Post 169

 Goal Weight: 188 pounds  

Today's Weight:        201.2 lbs
Yesterday's Weight:    199.6 lbs
Net Loss/Gain:         + 1.6 lbs

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Do not focus on weight. Do not focus on weight.  Do not focus on weight... 

Focus on: Grains and the day after carb-loading


How do I feel the next day, after consuming a meal with three times the number of carbs (including sugar) as in a whole day that doesn't include a meal like that? I feel... just okay.  To be honest, I think the reason is lack of grains, flour, and the foods I love that I'm not eating because of that. And, really, it's a personal decision, not part of the diet, that has led me to give up grains. 

Humans seem to have been formed on this planet about 2-1/2 million years ago (sorry Creationists). In the current form of human, about 200,000 years, give or take. In that time, grains have only been part of the human diet for the last 10,000 years, since the agricultural revolution, which involved not only the cultivation of grains but the herding and domestication of livestock. Before then, humans were hunter-gatherers. They ate caught or what they found (usually above-ground or in shallow water). 


We have not evolved as a grain-eating species. There are many indications that eating grains has not been good for human beings. Our lifespan has actually decreased since the introduction of grains as a foodstuff. All that stuff about cavemen living only 40 years is distorted by high death-during child-bearing. Men lived longer, women who survived child-bearing lived long, healthy lives, longer than until very recent times, where improvements in medicine have prolonged the average age - but according to forensic anthropologists, a 70-year old human living 15,000 years ago was stronger and healthier than the average 70-year old living today.


Yet, I do crave grains... So, I think I will adopt the following compromise: Grains only in carb-load meals. That would seem to be a very small dose in the scheme of things.

Food Log

Breakfast

Breakfast smoothie: 6 oz almond milk, 1/2C yogurt, 1C blueberries, 2C Kale, 2 eggs, 3T chia seeds, 1/2t stevia/erythritol blend.

    Carb count: 18 g. Net

Lunch

Tuna salad (1 hard-boiled egg, celery, onion, home-made mayonnaise) on Spinach and Field Mix greens.

     Carb count: 1 g. Net

Dinner 

Chili (grass-fed organic ground beef, mushrooms, tomatoes, kidney beans, tomato paste, spices) with mashed broccoli. Not shown: Pepperoni and aged Gouda cheese (before and after dinner, respectively).

    Carb Count:  20 g. Net

Snack
Almond butter on celery.
     Carb Count:  6 g Net

Day total carbs:  

    ~48 g. Net carbs. 
Net carbs = total carbs - fiber 

The approximation "~" includes an amount added for calculation error and unknown (therefore, uncounted) carbs.

Liquid Intake
    Coffee:  36 oz,   Water: 96+ oz.

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