adefwebserver's Journal, 09 Jun 20

Day 2 of a planned 2 days of mostly ‘no solid food’ fasting

I had been hitting the protein powder hard the last few months. This causes 'excessive' protein consumption that most people never encounter.

I remain unconvinced that papers like this: https://bit.ly/3heIIfA that acknowledge that through gluconeogenesis up to 50% of protein can be converted to glucose in the liver, the observation in the study that it did not increase blood glucose levels has them conclude that it is therefore not a problem?

If the glucose was sourced by carbs or protein the end result is the same once it is in the liver.

For me, low glucose means "lose weight", high glucose means "gain weight". Why? In *my* body (I can only speak for myself), my cells require glucose/glycogen for energy. When I limit the glucose source my body must burn fat to produce that glucose.

And, where does it do that? That's right, in my liver...

A great article about the liver is here: https://bit.ly/2XMYw17

😎 Life is Good! Have a great day everyone!

82.6 kg Lost so far: 11.3 kg.    Still to go: 8.2 kg.    Diet followed: Reasonably Well.

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915 kcal

Fat: 60.00g | Prot: 68.00g | Carbs: 16.50g.   Breakfast: Quest Vanilla Milkshake Protein Powder, Land O'Lakes Heavy Whipping Cream. Dinner: Slim-Fast Keto Shake, Quest Vanilla Milkshake Protein Powder, Land O'Lakes Heavy Whipping Cream. Snacks/Other: Slim-Fast Keto Shake, Quest Vanilla Milkshake Protein Powder, Land O'Lakes Heavy Whipping Cream. more...

2144 kcal

Exercise: Walking (moderate) - 5/kph - 40 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 20 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...