No butter, cheese or fattening dressing. If in weight loss mode, 1 cup veg with 1 serving of fruit. In maintenance or race season training, full 2 cups and fruit. At this point after 2yrs of my fitness and nutrition journey, it's all done by eye and how full I feel.
Where do you come up with this shit? Bowl of sugar and grapes are the same thing? Go read a biochemistry/physiology textbook, or take a class.
The only thing I really prep is always having some sort of cooked protein in the fridge mostly chicken. I work a weird schedule with lots of oncall shifts and I'm on the road all day. If I have protein cooked ahead of time I can easily throw something together and run out the door.
agreed....im probably in the minority on this...But I found that if I stack it with the oatmeal on the bottom....when im done mixing it will be thick enough to eat it with a spoon...Which I like better for whatever reason? Maybe my old fat person brain thinks im eating cake icing, or cake batter lol.
Fructose, glucose, sucrose are sugars. Eating sugars forces your body to dump insulin into the bloodstream because sugars are poisonous. The insulin does 2 major things, first it tells the cells of the body to absorb the sugars and use them for fuel, second it tells the bodies fat cells to store the sugars that the cells do not use. There is a condition where the body looses the ability to deal with sugars, it’s called diabetes and there are 2 types. Type one is where the pancreas beta cells stop producing insulin and the body has no way deal with the sugars and parts of the body start failing from sugar poisoning. The second type of diabetes is called type two, with this type the body’s cells become insulin resistant, that is when the body pumps insulin, the cells in the body absorb less and less sugar, the body’s only option it to produce more and more fat cells . This is why most “heavy” people show signs of insulin resistance. You ever wonder why people with diabetes start loosing fingers and toes? Simple, as the condition worsens, the body has no choice push the sugars to the extremities and the cells start to die. You ever wonder why it gets harder and harder to keep the weight off, it’s insulin resistance, as some people get older, the cells become more and more insulin resistant and the sugars are pumped into the fat cells.
I don’t think anyone is arguing (most of) this, but usually the next argument is “a calorie is a calorie” blah blah blah.
I mean have read and listened to Dr. Robert Lustig too, but even he disagrees with you.
This a crude and over simplified Google explanation of diabetes. Sugar isn't poison, although excess everything could be considered a "poison". You need glucose to be converted to ATP to provide energy for just about every metabolic process in your body. So no, not really a poison. And just because you get put on weight doesn't mean its because you're insulin resistant. That is a result of getting heavy, not the cause. Excess sugar is bad, but some is ok. You completely overlook the worst part of excess sugar, which is lipogenesis. Go Google that.
But then where would the entertainment value be? Seriously though, DT should speak to sports dietician, not nutritionist, but dietician. Diets are individualized.
