Re: The Warrior Diet - that ONE meal

[Guest guest]

>Hey all, seems to me there's a lot of focus on the fasting/feasting, without

>looking much at the actual feasting meal. Could there be something

>*magical* in it? <VBG>

I think in the FRD version there are a couple of things:

1. The vegies. The two cuisines I KNOW have big dinners both feature

big quantities of vegies. We had a Turkish lady cook for us once --

she would make these huge 6-course dinners with basically

nothing but vegies and olive oil, with a little feta, meat, and rice

maybe thrown in.

2. The high calories.

3. The slow pace.

What I THINK happens (based on previous pig-out dinners I've

gone to) is that the food sits in the gut for about 20 hours or more.

Certainly into the next day and the next morning. Vegies

have lots of fiber, so by the next day, it is fermenting,

producing more food (butyrate at least, probably other things)

plus vitamins. Plus the whole digestive process would slow

down, because foods that are combined don't reach the

bloodstream so quickly. So you have nutrients " leaking "

into your blood for many hours after the meal, though

I'm not sure on the rate or which ones are digested when.

Also, since your brain/appestat is " satisfied " , it releases

the hormones you need to release fat from the fat cells

( " Hmmm ... obviously we aren't starving here so

lets use up that fat while we digest this big meal " ). Also

a big meal in company is RELAXING so cortisol levels

are likely to be less, and cortisol tends to make you

hungry. Whatever insulin rebound there might have

been would be gone by the next AM anyway, but if

you produce " too much " insulin it would probably

be used up better by a BIG meal.

And yes, I'm just theorizing! Big meals DO seem

to stabilize my blood sugar well, even without the

fasting.

-- Heidi

[Guest guest]

What is FRDing?

> Hey all, seems to me there's a lot of focus on the

fasting/feasting, without

> looking much at the actual feasting meal. Could there be something

> *magical* in it? <VBG>

>

> The reason I ask is that both my daughter and I were of the type

who woke up

> and if we didn't eat something right away, we started to feel

sick. If my

> daughter went too long (which could be quite fast by the clock)

she'd be on

> the verge of vomiting. When I switched to FRDing it, that

completely ended

> for me! I was thrilled to not wake up hungry and to not HAVE to

eat right

> away. But there was my daughter (only 8) with it still going on.

I was

> (and still am) NOT comfortable with putting her on a fast/feast

schedule,

> but I did wish that she too could be free from that terrible need

for

> calories first thing in the morning.

>

> The only thing that changed for my kids is that they eat the

evening meal

> with us, in the same order and over the same amount of time that we

do.

> They may not eat as much salad as the adults, but they sit with us

and wait

> for the meat course. They general finish it before us also, but I

don't

> serve them their next course until we are all ready to eat it. In

general

> they eat more of the third course (potato for example) and the

occasional

> fourth course (an NT dessert) than the adults. Here's the kicker!

My

> daughter is no longer feeling nauseous in the morning and having to

eat

> right away! I no longer have to immediately cook up the oatmeal (or

> whatever). The other day I decided to see just how long it would

be before

> they asked for food - TWO HOURS! They had been up for two hours

when they

> asked about breakfast, and it was because they were hungry, not

because

> they were feeling sick and needing to eat right then.

>

> The difference in the evening meal is the order the food is eaten

in (not

> all served on one plate at one time) and the length of time we

spend eating

> (has increased). Any thoughts?

>

> A lighter, flatter stomach, more energetic, FRDing it,

> Rhea

[Guest guest]

> What is FRDing?

French Riviera Dieting : )

I actually prefer French Riviera Living ; ) but FRD is in use here so I go

with it.

Rhea

[Guest guest]

I knew it was going to be something I should know : )

Thanks.

Del

>

> > What is FRDing?

>

> French Riviera Dieting : )

>

> I actually prefer French Riviera Living ; ) but FRD is in use here

so I go

> with it.

>

> Rhea