Category Archives: Diet

sugar diet issues

Sugar Diet Sugar Fasting Issues

Have you heard of the latest fad – the Sugar Diet or Sugar Fasting?

If you have, you may not have heard the Sugar Diet issues that go along with it!

In a Ray Peat inspired Pro Metabolic Diet, we are encouraged to eat fruit for carbs and even sugar for optimal health –  so that lines up with our beliefs so far – sugar is not the problem.

If you have already been following my ZEN Beach Diet version of a pro metabolic diet, you would already have lost weight, improved your health and wouldn’t need to search for other alternatives. You can find the guidebook here.

In these two different versions of a sugar diet though, critical changes and omissions are made. This demonstrates a lack of understanding of how the body works to raise metabolism without harm, and what is required to gain and maintain health, while losing weight for the long term.

Let me explain:

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calorie intake a day

Calorie intake a day. What I eat in a day updated 2021.

One of the most visited articles on the slimbirdy.com website is this one – What I eat in a day. People are trying to see what others eat on a Ray Peat style diet as well as their calorie intake a day. Just to see how it differs from what they are doing, to get the results they want.

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macros

Macros. Are all macros necessary at all meals?

At the start of my Ray Peat style diet journey, everything I read at the time said to balance your macros at every meal.

So that’s all three macros – protein, fats and carbohydrates.

One reason was blood sugar balance.  The other main reason, was to make sure you were getting all your macros in for the day in the correct proportions to be beneficial.

So far so good. Logically it makes sense.

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Lose weight

Lose weight – Summer Diet RESTART

 

Hands up who’s eating has been a little all over the place lately and needs to lose weight and get back on track with a Summer Diet Restart that’s Dr Ray Peat Inspired?

The good news is that I’ve just created the new Zen Beach Diet 3 Day Summer RESTART book and double bonus – you can even get it for FREE! Read on to find out how.

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cheeses

Cheeses Protein vs Fat

There is no doubt that cheese is a wonderful food in the Ray Peat line up. When weight loss is a consideration however, the protein vs fat equation comes into play in all the cheeses you are eating.

This post was inspired by two of the members of our private Facebook group who were discussing cottage cheese and the fact that it was awful and tasteless. Another issue was gut irritation.

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low fat diet

Low Fat Diet – A Health Perspective

I just wanted to give everyone an update on my super low fat diet experiments.

As you may or may not know, since about June 2020 (4 months,) I have been trying to have only 20g fat a day, (10% of my 1,800 calories.) This was spurred on by the desire to lose about 5kgs (10lbs) within a Ray Peat diet framework.

(10% of calories was deemed to be the magic level where weight loss was more likely, along with a wider margin of calories allowed to no adverse effect.)

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what I eat in a day

What I eat in a day – Ray Peat Inspired

I frequently get asked what I eat in a day. So I thought I would document it, to help others out.

  • Note I have updated this to reflect the fact that I am not doing super low fat of 20g a day (or 10% of calories any more.) Click here to read why this came about.

So overall I aim for 1,800 calories – 100g protein, 40g of fat and the rest carbs per day. I won’t always hit these targets, as measuring and counting every ounce of food I eat is not conducive to a balanced, happy life for me. However every quarter or so, I plug everything into cronometer.com to see what’s what, and if anything needs adjusting.

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