Today I am going to be a little bit more specific about what I eat, but before I do I would like to make a point. This is what I do, what works for ME and how I feel. I am not saying this is what YOU should do.
In fact, if you start the day by snorting a few lines for breakfast, drop a couple of tabs of a acid for lunch and finish off the day by shooting up what ever, that's fine with me so long as you don't expect me to follow suit. It's your choice and I will try not to judge. After all, who says good health is a prerequisite for life on this planet. Now, if you beat up some old lady in order to feed your dietary needs, or subject your children to your drug habit, I will judge, like I do when I see the morbidly obese ADHD children, filled with Ritalin and sugar in the supermarket; little people at the beginnings of their lives pushed into ill health and probably early deaths for the sake of a little "easy" parenting. I watch them clinging on to the pudgy fingers of their mum as she pushes a cart loaded with processed, easy to eat, sugar-filled crap, while at the same time drinking a bottle of diet coke. I will judge then! And as you might guess, I do. Not only the parents but the food manufacturers, advertisers and "big pharma" who relentlessly promote this stuff as healthy and natural. Not nice of me, but I get mad! What you do to yourself is your business but kids need a good start in life and good food to develop their full and healthy potential. Did you spot the flaw in this rant...!? One hand for little Jimmy, one hand for the cart and one for the coke...! But you get the point. What you eat is truly up to you and that is fine with me, because it is your life. Also please don't say to me "I can't do that" then ask me over and over again what you should do instead. That pisses me off big time. If I could have one wish it would be that I could solve all the hunger and ill health in the world with one tap of my magic wand. Everyone happy and healthy. But that would be a wish wasted, because unless one stops doing that which is causing ill health, high blood sugar, wars, etc., all will return, only with greater strength. Remember the 80 / 20 ratio... first stop doing, then do.
BREAKFAST
Breakfast is the hardest meal of the day to change as it is so set in our minds what constitutes a healthy and proper breakfast. All the things that are promoted as a healthy breakfast are so often high in sugar.
Now I will let you into a secret that makes all the difference in stabilising my B/S.
Start off the day correctly balancing your blood sugar and the rest of the day will follow along nicely.
If you start off with your cereals, fruit juice, fruit, porridge, toast and marmalade you are starting off your day with sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar and sugar! Up swings the pendulum high on the sugar side, in comes the insulin to counter and as the previous meal seems to affect the body's response to the next meal, the apple and cheese at lunch time gets a hammering. Also, before you even get to that, come 11am you are ready to kill for a bun with your coffee...
So back to ME. I start the day before I do anything, with a glass of Sole (warm water and a half teaspoon of Himalayan salt) then after I have fiddled around for a bit I have a mug of buttered coffee that is freshly brewed, mould-free coffee (not your instant, toxic stuff). Into this I blend 25 grams of grass-fed butter and a couple of teaspoons of coconut oil. Zap it hard with a hand blender and off you go. And before you say ugh! Have you tried it? If not, have a go. It's amazing, but start gently and check out "Bulletproof coffee/disaster pants"!
On one of these I can go quite easily on 'til about 2pm or so. Sometimes I will have three eggs made into an omelette, scrambled eggs or some bacon and eggs, not the stuff that is full of sugar but bacon, proper!
In fact and here is the important thing, start the day with a Protein breakfast not a Carb one. You then don't get the swings in your blood sugar levels and it sets you up for the day.
Now before you also say..."all that fat, all those eggs, etc." please go with me for a bit.
Up to now we have been advised to eat according to the standard food pyramid. You've all seen the diagram. Base layer, Carbs, making up the main part of your diet. The next layer, fruit and veg. Next small layer, lean protein and smallest top layer, fats and oils. This has been the norm we have all lived by, has been and still is, in some cases, promoted by the medical profession as a healthy diet. Fats are always seen as bad. Check out where this model comes from. Check out Ancel Keys. It gives you a food plan that is based on sugar, follower by more sugar in the form of fruit and root veg, followed by protein with most of the good stuff removed and topped off with truly toxic fats; the highly refined polyunsaturated!
Now take that pyramid and turn it on it's head and there you have my diet. Sort of high in good fats, a moderate amount of good quality protein, lots of above-the-ground vegetables (root veg are very high in sugar), good amounts of nuts and seeds, but very little fruit. Check out fructose.
The important thing is to eat real food, the best you can afford, the highest quality you can get.
I have also cut out wheat but this deserves a blog of it's own as, for me, it has done so much and I feel it's of huge importance. In the meantime have a look at Tom O'bryan's and David Perlmutter's videos and stuff.
One thing folk keep telling me is, "I don't eat much sugar!"
Just check out this list of a few staples,
1 cup of milk = 2 teaspoons of sugar
1 bowl of breakfast cereal with milk = 8 teaspoons of sugar
1 cup of rice (cooked) = 9 teaspoons of sugar
1 banana = 5 teaspoons of sugar
1 baked potato (not including skin) = 7 teaspoons of sugar
2 slices of bread = 4 teaspoons of sugar
1 average soda/soft drink = 8 teaspoons of sugar
1 large soda/soft drink = up to 32 teaspoons of sugar
then add up your daily intake. They reckon the average American eats 150/160 lbs of sugar a year. In the UK... I don't know, but judging by the rise in diabetes and the general shape of folk, we must be getting on that way. 150 lbs of sugar is nigh on 75 bags!!!
It has been said that genetics is the important factor in T2D. Genetics might supply the gun, but lifestyle pulls the trigger! Also, I would recommend reading some of the latest studies and reports about genetics and epigenetics. It's turning out to be not quite what we thought it was.
And that's it for today... but before I go, one of the "secrets of the universe" explained.
What is a Pufflet?
A Pufflet is one of my inventions for breakfast. It consists of 2 to 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon of turmeric, a good grind of himalayan salt and a good grind of black pepper.
Put into a jug and blend hard with a wand blender.
Heat a frying pan with a good knob of butter, until butter is melted.
Pour in the mixture.
Put on the lid - and a lid is important for this to work, you could use an upturned plate.
Turn down the heat to about half.
Go make the coffee.
Wait until Pufflett puffs up as in the photo.
Then take off lid and watch in disappointment as it sinks.
Eat and fill your internal cavity - not your wall cavity!
This is not an omelette as the turmeric seems to change the texture a lot. I find it more filling and turmeric is, itself, amazing stuff. As an aside, have a look at the research on turmeric.
See you soon, love and light and all good stuff.
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