Anyone else eating red meat, lots of fat, high protein and little sugar/carbs?

[AnonChick]

Pulse lower than 75-85? Anywhere from 60-100 is normal, according to the first dozen google searches I found (for resting heart rates). Which obscure source are you getting your information from? Or should you just add a tagline to all your posts saying "courtesy of Ray Peat?"

And if you are athletic, then it's not uncommon for your heart rate to be slower. That is a sign of *good* physical health, not bad. If your resting heart rate is at 85bpm, you probably could use some cardio exercise to get that stamina up.

[missik999]

Originally Posted by markymarc

I ate this type of diet for 10 years, very stressful & unhealthy. You need to start monitoring your pulse & temperature to see if you metabolism is dropping. It will. A pulse lower than 75-85 beats per minute indicates a slow metabolism.

A low pulse rate is usually a sign of a healthy heart. People who are very athletic often have heart rates less than 40. In our clinic we see some men who are exceptional fit who have resting heart rates of 35 to 39 beats per minute.

Occasionally there can be health issues that are associated with bradycardia but a slow heart rate by itself is not a problem.

[Woof]

Originally Posted by Woof

Everyone has a diet theory.

I remember reading about some guy who was at one time the oldest man in America. He still lived independently, and if I remember correctly said that he'd been eating his meals mostly out of cans for decades. I think it was only one meal per day.

If I could rep myself I would. I've finally come to the conclusion that diet is not nearly as important to health as I once thought, unless you become overweight. I mentioned above that the Japanese are long-lived, but Icelanders, Australians, and the Swiss live almost as long on diets that are fairly heavy in meat, dairy and saturated fats (especially the Swiss with the world's highest consumption of dairy products). There's really no significant difference in the longevity of those nations even though they traditionally eat extremely different diets.

[yellowsnow]

A diet similar to this is what works for me. But I do exercise. After being fat all my life, I finally figured it out. For me, carbs were the villain. I tried low fat, low cal for years and got no results at all. I did it because that's what was SUPPOSED to work. Now, I finally know what works.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by doss1

Humm. Did they smoke? Red meat eaters tend to smoke, and also often ate other bad foods. Red meat eaters don't really care about their health...so that's why you get all of that bad press on how red meat is bad for you.

Not necessarily. My ancestors didn't smoke, but beef was their main protein source and the center of the main meal. People didn't eat as much chicken as they do now until the 80s when the whole hoopla about cholesterol came out. If you could fly back in time to the early 70's or before, you'd have a hard time finding something called "boneless chicken breasts" in a supermarket case. Chicken was sold whole or cut up into parts, on the bone.

Before the 80s, nobody had ever even HEARD of cholesterol and nobody thought red meat was "bad", whether they were smokers or not, so to say red meat eaters didn't really care about their health is kind of silly.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by doss1

Basically, I've been eating what our ancestors ate: lots of fat, butter, cheese, fish, red meat (I eat mostly bison), ton of eggs, dark chocolate, heavy whipping cream protein shakes, and a little bit of yam and veggies here and there.

I eat virtually no sugar (though I do have to have it in my tea, but it's not much) and drink lots of tea. My carb intake is extremely small.

results? Best shape of my life, blood tests are spectacular, no longer take Omega3 fish oil.

Back in the early 1900s, a French explorer met with the Eskimos in the Yukon and he subsisted on nothing but fish and red meat. There were no other forms of foods. No veggies grew up there. The result after 2 years? Extremely healthy and became a major study that is now known pretty much as the Atkins or even parts of the South Beach Diet.

I do exercise, but we're not seeing evidence exercise helps with weight loss. The only real reason that exercising seems to help with weight loss is because people generally eat healthier. Exercise is important for a number of reasons, but weight management and controlling disease risk are not on the list, at least according to the best available evidence.

Here's a good infographic on this topic: Massive Health - Carbs Are Killing You [infographic]

I'm guessing you're a guy. The high protein, low-carb diets work great for everyone, but women usually can't do the extra fat, like whipped cream, and so forth, because it causes them to stall in their weight loss. But I've done the meat, cheese, fish, very low carbs, and gotten spectacular results. However, I must add that it is important to work out 3x/wk, but not so much for added weight loss, though they say that building lean muscle mass does burn more calories. The main reason working out is important is that building the lean muscle mass helps you trim up. Without that muscle mass, people tend to turn to jello when they lose weight. This may be more true of women than men, but the book I read (Protein Power) had photos showing that men, too, got a little dumpy. If you build lean muscle mass, you'll actually come down more sizes, because you're trimming up as well as losing weight.

Your experience sounds like it was different, hard to say.