RRM wrote:How strict did you do the diet?
Extremely. The first week I ate some unshelled nuts and some store bought juice. But then when I found out I shouldn't, I stopped doing that. The next 7 weeks, I followed the diet perfectly.
How much protein did you eat?
Every morning I'd eat 3 or 4 egg yolks. And maybe every second day, I'd have some raw fish (salmon).
How strictly did you control your blood sugar level?
Very poorly. I didn't give it much effort, I didn't think that it was important as long as I didn't have any much foods. I tended to have big breakfasts and big dinners. But nothing in between. (Although sometimes I'd bring an apple or orange to snack on for lunch)
Let us analyze your version of the wai diet first.
What do you eat exactly on any given (Wai) day?
I was never into the whole eat-the-same-thing every day thing. I pretty much just ate what ever was around that I could get. The only consistency was my morning egg yolks. (For the first week, I also ate egg whites but I stopped that too).
I also was big into the green apples, I'd eat about 4 of them a day.
RRM wrote:havas wrote:
I gave it a solid two months without a mouthful of compromise
What does that mean?
You didnt do the diet that strictly?
100% is key here...
Means I did it 100% strict. Without compromise. I didn't have a mouthful of crap
RRM wrote:The only way to find out whether this diet works for you, is doing it 100%.
Doing it 99% may have exactly the same results as doing it 0%.
Only 100% strict can do the trick for sure.
I did do it 100%. The only thing I perhaps didn't do was keep my blood sugar constant, but I didn't know that was such a big deal
You think 30 gram is little?
Not for the blood. Think relative (to as how much protein there is in the blood), then 30 gram really is a lot.
It really is tiny. And that's not 30 grams of protein the blood, that's 30 grams of protein getting broken down over a period of 24 hours. While the liver constantly is converting the byproduct into glucose.
RRM wrote:Huh?
I dont follow your reasoning here...
Please explain.
I'm saying that not eating, cannot elevate blood protein level. The body breaks down muscle protein into amino acids, which are right away converted by the liver into sugar.
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Anyway, I respect your opinion so I don't want to turn this into a debate.
I've tried literally dozens of ideas, and followed the all as strictly as I believe I could've. They're all so time consuming, most of them say give it months. So trying them all, I've spent years of my like (as in, like 6 or 7) with no results to speak of yet. I'll keep trying things, and I'm open minded (Why I'm at this site). But I don't want to get bogged down on an idea for too long, that's not working.
So I'm happy to redo the Wai, but I'm not sure what would be different this time? Would keeping my blood sugar constant really make that much of a difference?
Or maybe you're aware of a way to keep inflammation down? Perhaps that would be a far more effective way at lowering blood protein.
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