“Mark, I thought you were a healthy eater, why are you eating a Peperami?!”
Those were the words of my female boss as I sat at my desk the one day last week at break time.
I had just finished scoffing down a low-carb wrap filled with tuna, mayo and mozzarella cheese 🙂 I wasn’t quite full as my muscles had
taken a pounding the night before and were begging for nutrients.
So I did wha
t any self-respecting bodybuilding low-carber would do, I reached for a Peperami, you know, the wee spicy pork salami snack.
So, I’m sitting there minding my own business when this comment is made. I reply,
“What’s wrong with peperami?”
“They’re full of fat”
“Yep!”
“I suppose you eat low-fat the rest of the day though?”
“Nope. Most of daily calories come from fat actually.”
“eh?!”
“Did you know that it would appear that the body literally needs carbohydrates to gain fat?”
“You mean if I ate a diet devoid of carbs, that I couldn’t gain fat?”
“Pretty much, though it’s yet to be tested whether there is a limit on that”
“So, what if I want to lose weight?”
“Well, I suggest that you eat low-carb, do weekly weigh-ins and adjust portion sizes as time goes by to keep losing weight for as long as you wish.”
“Hmm, sounds interesting”
“Yeah, I think your weight is most likely due to a high sensitivity to carbohydrates”….
The conversation continued and within a few minutes a new low-carber was born.
Funny how such a small thing can turn into something totally unexpected.
PS If you eat low carb and want a snack, why haven’t you picked up a pack of Peperami yet?
Do you do any cardio?
Yeh interesting. You might be interested in this.
https://forum.dragondoor.com/nutrition/message/85932%5C
My experience is a lot like yours, after corresponding by writing with Blair, who always wrote long, comprehensive answers, and who demanded much detail in tailoring nutrition. My only carbs were greenish bananas, sparingly a few nuts and grains, and sometimes sweet potatoes. Zero sugars. Fat, and more fat, cream, butter, meat, eggs, fat with every meal… fat before sleeping. I was super cut, enough to get plenty of comments, whilst growing rapidly, from super skinny, to 225 lbs.
Blair did push ‘supplements’. Mainly his protein powder, but he loved special oil fractions as he called them, for vitamin E etc. However, he was huge on vitamins C and B, particularly B, and wanted a constant ready supply of B. He always reminded and recommended that water soluble vitamins be kept up as a constant trickle, along with protein for super recovery. Easy and cheap. And then the dietary fat, creating a fat burning machine, a fat burning machine with rampant hormones… fat and hormones, fat and hormones, indesputable connection… think about it… no dietary fat (and no protein) you die, major, desperate emergency state, major… shut down hormones, stunt growth and activity, survive the emergency… pygmies, hottentots, if it gets bad enough, androgeny.
After around 15 years I became a vegetarian, (except for milk products) and to compensate, started barfing carbs. Slow learner eh! Gee, where are my abs going! How come I don’t have the same hardness, or mmm… zoom… hormones! Then I had to figure out how to up my fat and nutrient (Vitamin B) levels without meat and eggs.
@ Darin – only when cutting before summer. My low-carb diet keeps me lean throughout the year without all the cardio.
@ Uplift – Thanks again for your contribution. Your story is great and thanks for the link.
I’m glad you see the correlation between dietary fat and anabolic hormones, I have an article coming up on that. Just curious, did you find a way to replace meat and eggs?
Mark
To an extent I have replaced meat and eggs. I rely heavily on whey and casein protein powders, particularly fortified with B vitamins. Cream, yoghurt, milk and some cheeses… cottage and non animal rennert varieties, (Paris Creek have excellent quality, along with King Island) and flax oil and avocardo’s supply fats…Sani Hemp make a deluxe hemp oil, but it is illegal to eat it. I have to eat more nuts and legumes for vitamin B, and oils, but have small amounts. I also eat more berries, blueberries, strawberries and wolfberries, and use ‘green drinks’, such as Vital Greens. I use vitamin B and C and ZMA, and creatine and beta alanine work well for me, along with Tribestan. To be honest it is the best compromise I have found, but, it is a compromise. If it weren’t for my moral reasons, I would eat meat and eggs in that Blair style, like I did for 15 or so years. The recovery, energy, health benefits and results were ridiculous. Easy. And that was when I competed in top level sports, with a massive training, and personal activity load, including weight training, commencing the eating style as a virtual pretzel, who had found out the hard way about ‘overtraining’… basically lack of recovery. I was dramatically ‘cured’ and literally transformed overnight. My recovery rapidly became awesome, I felt invincible. In my fifties I still feel deluxe, but I know how easy it would be with the meat and eggs. I feel not just to get the nutrients, but importantly the overall way you get them, the unique style of digestion and delivery and that ‘x’ factor long associated with meat and eggs and hard work.
The Peperami Incident – sounds like a 1940s detective film noir!
Good to know about peperami as I quite like them and they are about the only thing I can stomach for breakfast.
lol, it does. Never thought of that.