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Sometimes something just sounds right so I give it a try. Take eating like a mouse for instance or to be more precise a mouse that fast for sixteen hours a day. Yep, that's me. Reading the paper last week I came upon the article Nighttime Fasting May Foster Weight Loss by LA Times writer Melissa Healy, not to be confused with Major Healey. The deal is you only get to eat during an eight hour period of the day. That might sound crazy to you but I don't like eating an early breakfast so waiting till 11:00AM-ish isn't a biggie for me, it's how I roll.
Where I thought I'd have a problem is with my late night snacking. As it turns out it's been a week and I only snacked once, almonds around 4:30AM. In the past I'd get home from my nightly constitutional (yes, I'm being a smart ass here, I mean my nightly walk) somewhere around 10:00PM. After a cold bath (I really do take cold baths) I would have a snack. Plain, with fat yogurt (I like Mountain High Original Style All Natural Yoghurt) with fresh pineapple and frozen blueberries is a favorite of mine. I also like nuts, pumpkin seeds, cheddar cheese (Tillamook), peanut butter toast with real butter and popcorn with real butter and cheddar cheese added. I didn't eat these snacks out of hunger. I assumed it was stress eating but now I think I was doing it just for the bad word of it.
So now, after my late night constitutional and arctic dip, standing around in a soft hooded bath towel I do still get that I wanna eat signal. Instead of food I have a drink of water and while the urge may hit once or twice another drink will suffice. Only once have I been hungry eating this way. It was just past eleven in the morning (my breakfast time) and my stomach actually felt what I think was a hunger pang. Note, I usually don't feel hunger, I just eat 'cause that's what I do, it's how I roll.
So, why the bad word am I doing this? The article states, "The difference was astonishing. Even though they ate a high-fat diet, the mice who wrapped up their eating day early and were forced to fast for 16 hours were lean — almost as lean as mice in a control group who ate regular chow. But the mice who noshed on high-fat chow around the clock became obese, even though they consumed the same amount of fat and calories as their counterparts on the time-restricted diet.
Extra weight wasn't their only problem. The obese mice developed high cholesterol, high blood sugar, fatty liver disease and metabolic problems. The mice who ate fatty food but were forced to fast showed hardly any signs of inflammation or liver disease, and their cholesterol and blood sugar levels were virtually indistinguishable from those of mice who ate regular chow. When put on an exercise wheel, they showed the most endurance and the best motor control of all the animals in the study.
The data suggest that the stomach, the brain and the body's digestive machinery need to take a break from managing incoming fuel; otherwise, we may be working ourselves into a state of metabolic exhaustion. When combined with high-calorie, high-fat diets, the result is weight gain, a liver clogged with fat, accumulation of cholesterol in the arteries and unused glucose in the blood.
In the mice who fasted for 16 hours daily, measures of digestive hormones, cholesterol and glucose suggested that liver enzymes were working hard to break down cholesterol into bile acids. The body's stores of "brown fat," the stuff that converts extra calories into heat, were revved up, and the liver ceased production of glucose. As they burned fat, their body temperatures were actually higher, Panda said.
The results of daily fasting were "phenomenal," he said." I think it's phenomenal that we have health conscious mice and pandas who do scientific research. Note, pandas are not bears but more closely related to raccoons and while they eat some bamboo, their diets consist mainly of house cats. Yeah, I know, yuck. Notice also that Panda's first name is Satchidananda. I couldn't make this bad word up if I tried.
Not snacking at night has me eating a bit less, smaller portions for sure. This morning it looked like I may have lost a few pounds but I just weighed in and was my normal 170-ish pounds fahrenheit celsius megatron. I wouldn't mind losing some weight around my gut but here's the thing... I'm feeling much much better eating this way. My gut used to bother me, especially after dinner. Sometimes I'd bloat or sometimes it would feel inflamed and often much of the day I was just uncomfortable. Right now I really don't miss my old ways and I'm looking forward to getting healthier and healthier as I eat like a fasting mouse. Maybe someday when I'm a badass lean fighting machine I'll get to meet the talking research Panda and let him feel my abs.
I'm a special case, the way I roll and so you may not be able to fit this diet into your lifestyle, but then again ya might.
The above statements are neither endorsed or approved by Kaboodle. I have not been paid or reimbursed in any way for my review. Before starting this or any other diet please consult with your musician.
Where I thought I'd have a problem is with my late night snacking. As it turns out it's been a week and I only snacked once, almonds around 4:30AM. In the past I'd get home from my nightly constitutional (yes, I'm being a smart ass here, I mean my nightly walk) somewhere around 10:00PM. After a cold bath (I really do take cold baths) I would have a snack. Plain, with fat yogurt (I like Mountain High Original Style All Natural Yoghurt) with fresh pineapple and frozen blueberries is a favorite of mine. I also like nuts, pumpkin seeds, cheddar cheese (Tillamook), peanut butter toast with real butter and popcorn with real butter and cheddar cheese added. I didn't eat these snacks out of hunger. I assumed it was stress eating but now I think I was doing it just for the bad word of it.
So now, after my late night constitutional and arctic dip, standing around in a soft hooded bath towel I do still get that I wanna eat signal. Instead of food I have a drink of water and while the urge may hit once or twice another drink will suffice. Only once have I been hungry eating this way. It was just past eleven in the morning (my breakfast time) and my stomach actually felt what I think was a hunger pang. Note, I usually don't feel hunger, I just eat 'cause that's what I do, it's how I roll.
So, why the bad word am I doing this? The article states, "The difference was astonishing. Even though they ate a high-fat diet, the mice who wrapped up their eating day early and were forced to fast for 16 hours were lean — almost as lean as mice in a control group who ate regular chow. But the mice who noshed on high-fat chow around the clock became obese, even though they consumed the same amount of fat and calories as their counterparts on the time-restricted diet.
Extra weight wasn't their only problem. The obese mice developed high cholesterol, high blood sugar, fatty liver disease and metabolic problems. The mice who ate fatty food but were forced to fast showed hardly any signs of inflammation or liver disease, and their cholesterol and blood sugar levels were virtually indistinguishable from those of mice who ate regular chow. When put on an exercise wheel, they showed the most endurance and the best motor control of all the animals in the study.
The data suggest that the stomach, the brain and the body's digestive machinery need to take a break from managing incoming fuel; otherwise, we may be working ourselves into a state of metabolic exhaustion. When combined with high-calorie, high-fat diets, the result is weight gain, a liver clogged with fat, accumulation of cholesterol in the arteries and unused glucose in the blood.
In the mice who fasted for 16 hours daily, measures of digestive hormones, cholesterol and glucose suggested that liver enzymes were working hard to break down cholesterol into bile acids. The body's stores of "brown fat," the stuff that converts extra calories into heat, were revved up, and the liver ceased production of glucose. As they burned fat, their body temperatures were actually higher, Panda said.
The results of daily fasting were "phenomenal," he said." I think it's phenomenal that we have health conscious mice and pandas who do scientific research. Note, pandas are not bears but more closely related to raccoons and while they eat some bamboo, their diets consist mainly of house cats. Yeah, I know, yuck. Notice also that Panda's first name is Satchidananda. I couldn't make this bad word up if I tried.
Not snacking at night has me eating a bit less, smaller portions for sure. This morning it looked like I may have lost a few pounds but I just weighed in and was my normal 170-ish pounds fahrenheit celsius megatron. I wouldn't mind losing some weight around my gut but here's the thing... I'm feeling much much better eating this way. My gut used to bother me, especially after dinner. Sometimes I'd bloat or sometimes it would feel inflamed and often much of the day I was just uncomfortable. Right now I really don't miss my old ways and I'm looking forward to getting healthier and healthier as I eat like a fasting mouse. Maybe someday when I'm a badass lean fighting machine I'll get to meet the talking research Panda and let him feel my abs.
I'm a special case, the way I roll and so you may not be able to fit this diet into your lifestyle, but then again ya might.
The above statements are neither endorsed or approved by Kaboodle. I have not been paid or reimbursed in any way for my review. Before starting this or any other diet please consult with your musician.
In full disclosure tonight was kind of chilly and I did not bathe after my walk.
