breakfast

[TheWayCreatesTheWarrior]

whats your typical breakfast?

do you even eat breakfast?

i feel best with a light, late breakfast of berries or none at all. heavier breakfast make me alittle sluggish throughout the beginning of the day.

i havent read the book, but what ive read of The Warrior Diet makes some sense to me, just snacking throughout the day with a large dinner. digestion just doesnt seem to get along with activity to well.

[Raw Kyle]

Usually skipped. I break my fast with green juice a little after rising, depending on when that is.

[Satya]

whats your typical breakfast?

do you even eat breakfast?

i feel best with a light, late breakfast of berries or none at all. heavier breakfast make me alittle sluggish throughout the beginning of the day.

i havent read the book, but what ive read of The Warrior Diet makes some sense to me, just snacking throughout the day with a large dinner. digestion just doesnt seem to get along with activity to well.

Usually I skip.  Or it is usually light like yours.  This morning after a 4 mile jog I had 4 strawberries and some thin raw beef slices (1 oz maybe).  As I have more workout to do later today, I will not eat much until tonight.

The Warrior Diet is not a bad book, and it's not a new idea.  Harvey Diamond, who writes the foreword to the book, came up with a very similar plan called Fit for Life years ago.  The only thing about WD is the overeating - I don't gorge myself at night.  It's not a raw diet necessarily, except in the undereating stage, but you could make it all raw no problem.

[xylothrill]

I usually only eat one meal per day in the afternoon or evening.

[Justin]

Right now, I down three beef meals. Breakfast, lunch and dinner; totaling about 2 1/2- 3lbs of meat a day.

[xylothrill]

Right now, I down three beef meals. Breakfast, lunch and dinner; totaling about 2 1/2- 3lbs of meat a day.

Justin, how much do you weigh? Quantity of eating has actually become the current conundrum for me as it relates to others. I could NEVER get three pounds of beef in me in a day!

Thanks,

Craig

[Raw Kyle]

Food amounts and bodyweight is certainly a mystery. I've seen people who outweigh me by a lot who eat a lot less. Crazyness.

[xylothrill]

Food amounts and bodyweight is certainly a mystery. I've seen people who outweigh me by a lot who eat a lot less. Crazyness.

I've seen the opposite too, all to often! Skinny people eating a lot no matter what their energy expenditure!
How much do you eat for the day and how much do you and Justin weigh... Just for curiosity's sake?

Craig

[TylerDurden]

Breakfast has never been a meal I liked, even in pre-raw days. I usually skip it as otherwise I feel bodged for the rest of the day.

[Raw Kyle]

I've seen the opposite too, all to often! Skinny people eating a lot no matter what their energy expenditure!
How much do you eat for the day and how much do you and Justin weigh... Just for curiosity's sake?

Craig

I haven't been perfectly consistent recently but I'd say minimum 1 lb of meat with other odds and ends (sometimes pineapple or salsa and other such stuff with it). And then either 4 or 8 ounces of butter. Lots of calories there. Also eggs with the butter, and honey.

[xylothrill]

I do eat a lot of suet so that may be one reason I don't seem to need as much in quantity of food.

[lex_rooker]

I only eat one meal per day, and like Craig, it is in the late afternoon between 3pm and 5pm.  I eat between 1 3/4 and 2 lbs of raw grass fed beef. 

If I am doing a lot of heavy physical labor (digging sprinkler trenches, taking out a tree stump etc) , then I find I get hungry earlier in the day - say around 1pm, and I eat my normal ration at that time.  Then I'll have another 1 lb or so around 5 or 6 pm.

I can't eat more than 2 lbs at one sitting - just can't get any more down.

Lex

[Metallica]

I usually have 2 different breakfasts.

RAW: 5 raw egg yolks, 1TBS coconut oil, 16oz green juice, possibly some fruit such as berries or a banana

Cooked 4 cooked eggs, 1/4lb thick bacon.

[Nicola]

Yes I do have a problem understanding the different ideas of (IF) food: we all fill our stomachs but for me digestion is more than that.

It seems to me just like salt; different ideas - some with carmps others with out!

Nicola

[TheWayCreatesTheWarrior]

Food amounts and bodyweight is certainly a mystery. I've seen people who outweigh me by a lot who eat a lot less. Crazyness.

i agree,

ive spent weeks at a time eating 1500cal(sometimes only 1000cal)a day, and didnt drop below 170lbs(5'8"). ive also eaten close to 3,000 cals a day for weeks and didnt break 180-182lbs. exercise, relatively, stayed the same.

i also, thank god, build muscle and lose fat quicker and easier than most. genetics are definitely a factor, i believe.

[Justin]

Justin, how much do you weigh? Quantity of eating has actually become the current conundrum for me as it relates to others. I could NEVER get three pounds of beef in me in a day!

Thanks,

Craig

Hey Craig,
I do a lot of heavy lifting and anaerobic exercise so I eat quite a bit otherwise, if I were to take a break, I would probably be consuming 2lbs of meat a day. Right now I weigh 160 at 5'10.

[xylothrill]

My body has probably become more efficient as a result of starving at the cellular level. I do notice that when I eat even rare meat, I have to eat more of it to feel satisfied. There's something about it that fails to signal when to stop eating.

[whitebuffalo]

raw milk kefir smoothie:  with spirulina, blueberries, and coconut

[livingthelife]

I'm still having a hard time with breakfast.

This has gotten better since I cut out a lot of high-glycemic foods; I don't wake up all wacked out of balance.

I'm afraid to eat just fruit for fear of a blood sugar spike. I feel nauseous on raw meat or fat first thing in the morning.

I have to have something or I don't feel so well.

Raw Kyle: are you still doing green juice and then a later raw meat meal? Maybe if I make the juice fairly low-fructose it will satisfy for a few hours. How much juice are you drinking in the AM?

[Ioanna]

I've read a lot of posts of people feeling sluggish after eating and so waiting until later in the day for that main meal.

I've always found food to be stimulating, and still do.  I like eating breakfast, but only after a workout or some kind of activity.  I don't wake up hungry per se, but wake up and feel like doing something.  If I don't eat soon after that I just constantly think about food all day and feel lethargic.  A small meal even and my energy is back to normal pretty quickly and I don't have that feeling like I'm forcing my eyes to stay open. 

I've been trying to convert myself to the heavy meal in the evening, to see if I can and how that would feel. It does seem to make sense and is definitely convenient. I'm having trouble though for the reasons above. 

[Michael]

Interesting to resurrect this old thread livingthelife.  I wonder how other's breakfast habits have changed over the last year?

Personally, I've always enjoyed breakfast.  In my early RAF days, when following an AV-style primal diet, I would have raw goat kefir with butter, berries, honey, coconut oil etc.  I sometimes enjoyed this poured over homemade granola (soaked/dehydrated nuts, seeds, dried fruit etc) which was a hangover from my raw vegan days.

Ever since moving away from the primal diet and eating mainly paleo foods I've tended to eat 3 large raw meat meals per day - including breakfast.  Now vlc/zc paleo, I'm eating 2 meals per day.  I have beef or lamb with suet for breakfast at around 7am and the same again as an evening meal around 6pm.  My blood sugars are no longer a problem and, as I don't eat late, I'm usually hungry in the morning after 13 hours or so of intermittent fasting.

I am now noticing that ANY high-carb food has almost instant negative effects.  The other day I ate a raw 'energy ball' when out with my partner at an organic vegetarian cafe.  It consisted of coconut, nuts and dried fruit.  My blood sugar absolutely crashed within, perhaps, half an hour!  I had a headache, dizziness and fogginess for hours afterwards.  Similarly, although not quite as extreme, I tried eating a handful of organic blueberries after my evening meal tonight.  Again, my blood sugar noticeably crashed and my brain went fuzzy.  I'm only now recovering almost 2 hours later.  I'm going to be sticking to my vlc/zc paleo foods!

[djr_81]

I don't eat first thing in the morning but almost always eat my first meal by 11am. I get a bit nauseous at ~10am if I haven't eaten anything and have been active. If I eat my stomach settles right down.

[livingthelife]

headache, dizziness and fogginess

I get these symptoms almost daily as I'm slowly cutting back the carbs. I didn't notice it before when I was eating cards all the time, but now that I've upped the RAF I am in these awful cycles. I didn't intend to cut carbs, I was just trying to make sure I got more quality RAF and when full on that I wouldn't eat carbs as much.

Morning is worst.

I'm not going ZC, I believe in greens     but I need to get this leveled out.

djr_81, are you drinking anything in the morning? Water, juice, tea/coffee... ?

Wow, RAF for breakfast - don't know if I'm man enough for that !!

[djr_81]

djr_81, are you drinking anything in the morning? Water, juice, tea/coffee... ?

Usually a glass or two of water. I don't ever drink anything other than water.

[goodsamaritan]

I usually have some kind of hydrating fruit in season in the morning.
Plus some raw duck eggs, how many depends on my expected level of activity.