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Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« on: January 06, 2010, 10:25:41 pm »
I'm interested to try this daylight diet.
The simple instruction to eat only during daylight ours.

Has anyone tried this?  Feedback please.

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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2010, 11:52:10 pm »
Well, I usually eat up until 8:00 pm so in the summer there is daylight until 8:00 pm. That means I've been on this diet for most summers, by that logic.

I think this is trying to respect specific organs circadian rhythm.




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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2010, 01:31:15 am »
    I didn't read his book, but there are plenty of times in my life I didn't snack and didn't eat outside of normal mealtimes.  If I wasn't snacking, it's most likely cause I felt fine without extra food.  So, I'd say it works, for vegetarians.  I don't think I've ever felt good eating cooked meat nor good at night during those times without snacking or night eating too.  I'm not sure I've ...well, yes, I have not eaten at night most of the time with RAF.  I have used raw dairy most of RAF time.  I have wondered if some hunters, if it would be more natural for them to eat at night and healthier?  I know I need to eat less often when I don't eat as many carbs.     
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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2010, 05:15:12 am »
I know katelyn/klowcarb has reaped much success following something like 'the warrior diet' protocol (as such) eating 1 large meal in the evening, she said between 5-10pm. I must admit I like this idea, although i would e'r (sp?) on the earlier side of those times, simply because i have it ingrained into be still that going to bed on a full stomach is not a good thing. However thats based on little experience with RZC...yet. Nice idea of finishing a day with your earnt meal, and i do know in that respect I function alot better when I work and have my day and then eat, as opposed to eating and trying to go back to work or whatever it is I'm doing. That said I don't think paleo people would follow any such rules, but, I would think after a succesful hunt with plentiful food, a group would (in my opinion) have certainly relaxed and not jumped straight back into 'work'. After all, what would be the need.

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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2010, 10:20:22 am »
I do the opposite--the Warrior Diet. We were designed to be light and alert during the day, and feast at night.

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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2010, 02:40:39 pm »
I do the opposite--the Warrior Diet. We were designed to be light and alert during the day, and feast at night.

Sounds interesting.  I will have to experiment with this as well.
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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2010, 07:30:26 pm »
I used to eat my 1 large meal of the day in the evenings or even late at night(11pm, going to bed usually around 1am/2am). Because it was raw food, it wasn't an issue for me(the daylight diet, I think, subscribes to the modern notion that sleep interferes with digestion, but I think that's only an issue with cooked diets).
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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2010, 08:32:49 pm »
If I eat late, I wake at 1 or 2 AM feeling too hot to sleep. This might be a detox, but how to know?

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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2010, 08:36:59 pm »
If I eat late, I wake at 1 or 2 AM feeling too hot to sleep. This might be a detox, but how to know?

You've over eaten. Pretty easy with pemmican.
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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2010, 09:37:24 pm »
re: william's hot food sleep,

i think this is a nice inbuilt survival mechanism.  i know that when i have lived places with no heat during the winter i would have a huge urge to binge on fat for dinner and then i burn it up in my sleep keeping me nice and toasty(even in the coldest sleeping situations, and often a little too hot)...same with bike commuting/hiking in below freezing weather, always want to eat a lot of fat and then always feel my body heat up to digest it.  its nice to think how serendipitous this is with the availability/storeability of food, especially animal source, that we should have fat stored to eat in the winter because that is what is easiest to render and keep and the natural inclination to eat lighter far in warmer seasons

Re:  mealtime:  i usually eat two meals, one between 11-2 that is pretty small and then a dinner meal between 4-8,  i prefer to eat my last meal quite a few hours before bed though so on the earlier end of that range if its possible, the sleep is more refreshing

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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2010, 12:07:02 am »
I used to eat my 1 large meal of the day in the evenings or even late at night(11pm, going to bed usually around 1am/2am). Because it was raw food, it wasn't an issue for me.

You write this in "the past"; I thought you still eat 1 meal in the evening?

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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2010, 12:33:25 am »
You write this in "the past"; I thought you still eat 1 meal in the evening?

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  Yes, I normally do, it's just that it's more usually 5pm to 8pm in the evenings.
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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2010, 01:58:46 am »
i think this is a nice inbuilt survival mechanism.  i know that when i have lived places with no heat during the winter i would have a huge urge to binge on fat for dinner and then i burn it up in my sleep keeping me nice and toasty(even in the coldest sleeping situations, and often a little too hot)...same with bike commuting/hiking in below freezing weather, always want to eat a lot of fat and then always feel my body heat up to digest it.  its nice to think how serendipitous this is with the availability/storeability of food, especially animal source, that we should have fat stored to eat in the winter because that is what is easiest to render and keep and the natural inclination to eat lighter far in warmer seasons ...

    I've done that.  When outdoors all night in the snow (and no sleeping bag tent blanket or pillow), before I fall asleep I eat like a pound of raw animal fat.  I sleep fine with no stiff joints in the morning.
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« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2010, 03:20:18 am »
    I've done that.  When outdoors all night in the snow (and no sleeping bag tent blanket or pillow), before I fall asleep I eat like a pound of raw animal fat.  I sleep fine with no stiff joints in the morning.

I give up - how did you sleep in snow without shelter?

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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2010, 05:49:37 am »
I give up - how did you sleep in snow without shelter?

    I wore jeans, a t-shirt, a jacket with a hood and sneakers, no long johns or any warming apparel.  I didn't sit in the snow.  I sat on a dry spot.  If the snow was coming down, I sat in a spot with a thin roof above.  Otherwise, the raw fat I ate seemed to work.  I might pull my arms in my jacket or whatever I needed to just stayed warm.  It wasn't very windy though.  I bent a little, didn't lay flat as if it were warm, laid against whatever (not heated), to block a little wind.  I can't guarantee with lowered wind chill factor that it would have worked.  It probably would have been a lot warmer if I wasn't alone, Idk.  I don't know why it worked, but it did.  I did this a bunch of times last Winter. 
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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2010, 09:07:54 am »
Gnarly rawzi!

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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2010, 10:40:56 am »
I used to eat my 1 large meal of the day in the evenings or even late at night(11pm, going to bed usually around 1am/2am). Because it was raw food, it wasn't an issue for me(the daylight diet, I think, subscribes to the modern notion that sleep interferes with digestion, but I think that's only an issue with cooked diets).
Interesting hypothesis, but then how do we explain Paul Nison, a mostly-raw, mostly-vegan who says he does better on a daylight diet. I'm not convinced of the value of eating only in the daylight, but he seems like an honest person, so I believe that he believes he feels better on it. He has interviewed other all/mostly-raw-vegan dieters who also claim they do better following a daylight diet.
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Re: Daylight Diet? Have you tried it?
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2010, 05:46:12 am »
I try to do a Warrior type diet myself, I think it makes more evolutionary sense, which to me is what raw/paleo is about. I think people would do well on the "daylight diet" when eating "normal food" because it would give them all night to digest things that are hard to digest and rest their bodies against that digestion. I might add detox, but I'm not too keen on that concept right now. I think things like grains, cooked and for some people raw dairy, etc (neolithic foods mostly) are very hard on digestion and the body does much better when given a good long break from them. If there's one thing I can say about eating raw meat (muscle, fat and organs) it's that it digests more quickly and easily then anything else I've ever eaten.

Also for me I work during the day and can't eat all my food then. It's so much easier to eat lightly during the day and then eat a large meal at night after your work is done and before bed. This seems to really jive with the natural human condition. Right now with work I take a lunch sometime between noon and 2:00 pm, which is usually raw meat and fat with some kind of sauce. I usually eat the same thing at night but more of it, as I have time to eat more. I might eat several things and wait a little bit in between each one. This wouldn't work at all during the day for me.

 

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