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Originally Posted by Ms Arielle
ken, did doc have anthing to say about LC and GI?
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If you are referring to the doctor that performed my colonoscopy, he didn't really say anything. I only had a few minutes with him before and after the procedure. I'm not sure if he even knew much about my weight loss story. It was the nurses and other technicians that heard it before things got started.
After yesterday's big workout I had a very large dinner with lots of fat, protein, and fiber. According to the MY PLAN calculations I burned more than 2000 calories in yesterday's workout. I ate 3500+ calories yesterday, including well over 200g of both fat and protein. My BMR is supposedly somewhere between 2200 and 2400 calories per day, so by the numbers it was still a weight loss day.
A few days ago I watched a Diet Doctor video related to protein intake. It was taken from Ben Bikman's presentation at the recent LC Breckenridge conference. In a nutshell, he recommends not being paranoid about eating too much protein, as seems to be the trend in the current popularity of ketogenic diets. He talked about several processes, including how getting enough protein will make white fat behave like brown fat - generating heat and burning energy. He mentioned 'meat sweats' that some people get - people that are often feeling warm when others around them are not. It was a good presentation.
The reason I mentioned this is because I appear to be a prime example of who Ben was talking about in his presentation. When I fast I feel cold. When I eat deep keto and limit my protein I feel cold. Last night after the workout I ate a boatload of protein and fat. I went to bed at 10pm feeling fine (not cold and not hot). I pulled the extra blanket off the bed and fell asleep quickly. Then at about 2am I woke up roasting and sweating like a pig. The room was colder than it was when I went to bed, but I was hotter. I wasn't sick, either. I felt fine in the morning (falling asleep again after shedding another blanket). I think that it was just my normal reaction to eating a lot of fat and protein after a hard workout. I don't know if it was a rebuilding lean muscle process or that "white fat behaving line brown fat" thing that Ben talked about. But I most definitely had the "meat sweats."
The plan for today is to just get my 10K steps in. The legs are not sore, but they were a little sluggish this morning. Depending on how I feel this evening I may spend some time on the elliptical at the gym.