Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "Effects of Fasting u0026 Time Restricted Eating on Fat Loss u0026 Health | Huberman Lab Podcast #41" video.
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If you are doing intermittent fasting or time restricted eating, you don't eat half a croissant. You generally don't eat croissants at all.
A croissant is made of white flour and white sugar. White flour and white sugar are highly inflammatory. Our bodies have not evolved to eat the amount of refined highly processed carbohydrates that is in our diet. If you are going to engage in intermittent fasting and time restricted eating, you do not want to be eating croissants at all.
It is important to bear in mind that there is a difference between high fat and high carbohydrate diets. If you are doing intermittent fasting for health and weight loss you do not want to be eating a high carbohydrate diet. I know there will be some people who benefit from it but most of us do better on a high fat, moderate protein, low carb diet. High fat does not mean unlimited fat.
For me that means a six to eight hour eating window with a main meal of grass-fed beef for example, spinach or other greens and cherry tomatoes sauteed in butter, half an avocado with lemon juice and salt, perhaps oven roasted green beans with a little balsamic vinegar and olive oil, maybe a kiwi or a handful of berries at the end of the meal. I am getting lots of vegetables but staying below that 25 to 30g net carb a day. I will have an ounce of heavy cream in my coffee in the morning and if I'm very hungry before the main meal I might have an ounce of macadamia nuts or perhaps a piece of beef jerky without sugar.
This is a weight loss regimen. It is not intended for maintenance. It comes in at about 1,500 to 1600 calories a day. I have lost half my body weight, I have another 20 to 25 lb to go, my goal is 160 lb and I am almost there.
I get moderate exercise, I bike, work out and try to get good restorative sleep. If I really want something sweet and I know I'll be in danger of breaking further down the line, I'll have a little bit of it and then stop. If I want a drink once a week or once in two to three weeks, I will have a single drink. The goal is eventually no alcohol but the amount that I drink is so minimal that there is no deleterious effect.
Real food. Not packaged foods. Grass-fed beef. Wild caught salmon. Pasture raised eggs. Dairy products from grass-fed cows. Organic vegetables and fruit where possible.
These foods are more expensive but if you aren't eating junk and you are eating one main meal a day you can afford to spend a little more on quality food. It is very important. Our food provides the building blocks for our cells. Eat the best quality food you can afford. If you really want a croissant every now and then, enjoy it and then don't have another for the next month. Croissants and other processed carbohydrates should not be a part of your daily diet. They can be a celebratory food, something you have very occasionally and enjoy when you do have it but not something you eat every day or even every week.
White flour, white sugar and pro inflammatory omega-6 highly processed vegetable seed oils should be avoided. Olive oil, butter, ghee and animal fats are healthier. If you are going to have vegetable oils make sure that they are cold pressed not extracted with hexane and then deodorized.
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