Posted in Healthy Living
In August, I read the book Mastering Leptin
by Byron Richards. The book is linked in my sidebar under
"Healthy Living", as well as a short summary of the way of eating
advocated in the book (scroll down a little if you click on the summary
link, and feel free to ignore the ads 
.)
As a bit of background, I have had to take a medication which is notorious for its side effect of weight gain. I think it messed up my metabolism to some extent. One effect that I noticed was that I would get ravenously hungry AFTER I ate supper in the evening and I would snack to avoid the hunger pangs. It was very annoying and I did gain too much weight.
Even before finishing the book, I implemented the five simple principles of eating contained in the book. The main "rule" which has helped me is to eat three meals a day and wait five hours between meals. This way of eating goes against the current conventional nutritional advice of eating frequent small meals throughout the day supposedly to keep the metabolism "fired up." However, the author argues that snacking in between meals actually prevents the liver from doing its job.
After less than a week of following Richards advice, I rejoiced to discover that my desire to snack went completely away!! I no longer had/have those gnawing hunger pangs, either in the late afternoon or after supper! I even attended a church conference a week after beginning this meal plan and was not tempted in the slightest to eat the homemade ice cream which some of my relatives were gracious to share with others.
Since August, I still feel free from snack attacks. I eat plenty of calories at meal times which sustains me for the five hour intervals between. For example, for breakfast I usually eat two eggs, a piece of Ezekiel bread and butter (or almond butter) and a piece of fruit and tea. If I eat sweets, I just eat it as dessert with one of my meals as opposed to an hour later.
As far as weight loss, I've lost at least ten pounds since August! Some of this is also due to my ttapp workouts, but prior to following the Mastering Leptin way of eating, I did ttapp fairly regularly without the weight loss. With exercise alone, I did gain in muscle tone, but not in weight loss.
This way of eating does not follow the conventional widom, but it does follow the pattern of eating which my grandparents' generation practiced (for the most part) and their generation was not marked as a rule by obesity, as mine is.
.)As a bit of background, I have had to take a medication which is notorious for its side effect of weight gain. I think it messed up my metabolism to some extent. One effect that I noticed was that I would get ravenously hungry AFTER I ate supper in the evening and I would snack to avoid the hunger pangs. It was very annoying and I did gain too much weight.
Even before finishing the book, I implemented the five simple principles of eating contained in the book. The main "rule" which has helped me is to eat three meals a day and wait five hours between meals. This way of eating goes against the current conventional nutritional advice of eating frequent small meals throughout the day supposedly to keep the metabolism "fired up." However, the author argues that snacking in between meals actually prevents the liver from doing its job.
After less than a week of following Richards advice, I rejoiced to discover that my desire to snack went completely away!! I no longer had/have those gnawing hunger pangs, either in the late afternoon or after supper! I even attended a church conference a week after beginning this meal plan and was not tempted in the slightest to eat the homemade ice cream which some of my relatives were gracious to share with others.
Since August, I still feel free from snack attacks. I eat plenty of calories at meal times which sustains me for the five hour intervals between. For example, for breakfast I usually eat two eggs, a piece of Ezekiel bread and butter (or almond butter) and a piece of fruit and tea. If I eat sweets, I just eat it as dessert with one of my meals as opposed to an hour later.
As far as weight loss, I've lost at least ten pounds since August! Some of this is also due to my ttapp workouts, but prior to following the Mastering Leptin way of eating, I did ttapp fairly regularly without the weight loss. With exercise alone, I did gain in muscle tone, but not in weight loss.
This way of eating does not follow the conventional widom, but it does follow the pattern of eating which my grandparents' generation practiced (for the most part) and their generation was not marked as a rule by obesity, as mine is.
~ 1 Comments
~ Post A Comment!
~ Permanent Link
Date: Oct. 6, 2005
I Feel Great Thanks to T-Tapp!
Posted in Healthy Living
I had one of my "I wish I could just fall asleep!" nights last night and then could not drag myself out of bed to go exercise this morning. Not good, because I'm in the middle of a T-Tapp "boot camp" (see sidebar if this sounds like a foreign language) which just means that I do my T-Tapp workout everyday for a certain number of days, as opposed to every other day.
This is an illustration of the only thing that might help me go to sleep some nights: 
Failing to do my exercise this morning worked out nicely, however. I just received my T-Tapp to Tempo dvd today. I've been doing the T-Tapp Total Workout which takes 50 minutes (not everyday unless it's a bootcamp), because there are lots of form reminders and breaks. I popped the tempo dvd in the player this afternoon and worked out for 40 minutes with less breaks etc. I loved it! I was afraid I wouldn't be able to keep up, but au contraire. Now, I have that T-Tapp energized feeling and am pleasantly sore.
And this is me doing hoe-downs (except I have proper form!)
