debrafrederick- Журнал, 10 июл 16

Not me! Chow, baby! 

With all of the water I drank Kes, I would be very surprised if my tummy shrunk but I guess it's possible, I say that I felt full, but I was not uncomfortable or anything...I just did not want to eat any more food, I made myself eat the two fat bombs. I'm sitting here now and it is time to eat...nada, I'm not hungry. I cooked yesterday and while the good smells were wafting around I was hungry. After a cup of broth and a pear, I was no longer hungry but ate dinner anyway, every forkfull was tasty, but I didn't want it. This was the longest fast I have done to date so I have not been here before. My four day fast....sheesh, I killed almost 1400 cals and never blinked about it. I don't know what the difference is. The only thing I can think of is that the lack of interest in food I was experiencing randomly before is some type of side effect? I was not expecting it to occur at the end of a fast. We will see if it passes in a couple of days. Meanwhile I have to go tease myself into eating something! 

I think there's a hunger signal chemical in the brain that gets switched off. I remember something in one of Dr. Fung's talks about that. I know it took me about 3-4 days to get it switched back on, and I managed to do it by 'grazing for abut 6-8 hours each day. The last couple of days, I've inadvertently gone back to 23:1, and once again, my capacity has gone way down.I'm absolutely stuffed on 6 chicken wings and a stalk of celery. LOL 

Great job, Debra! You are killing this! Let me know how those onion rings turn out and what recipe you end up using. I want to make some, too! I ended up pulling my onions from my garden because they bolted, but I will make a special trip to the store to buy some if it gives me fresh onion rings. I find that a lot of the low carb recipes that I find through google don't really seem to be that low carb. I would much rather get the tried and true recipes straight here from my FS buddies, especially after seeing such amazing results like yours! You are doing awesome! 

Thanks Mousy! I'm hoping to make a grocery run on Wednesday, maybe for Thursdays dinner we will have fried chicken and onion rings, bad thing about onion rings is, they have pretty steep carbs all by themselves. Onions average 1 carb per slice for a 2.5 inch diameter 1/8th inch slice, so depending on how big of a pile you have..it could add up pretty quick. 

Kes, I'm gonna have to re-watch all of the videos then reread the book and match up some of my experiences to what he says again, when I did it the first time around I had no experience to compare to what he talked about, now I will have a better comprehension of exactly what triggers what. 

Easing my intake up a little over several days....I'm almost back up to being able to eat 1400! 

Check out something called "CarbQuick" for the onion ring batter! It's a LC version of Bisquick, and it's GOOD! Amazon has it, but Netrition is cheaper. For the onion rings, I use 2 eggs, 2 tbs CarbQuick, onion and garlic powders to taste, and a splash of soy sauce for umami. That's enough to coat 1 large onion in rings. And fry in lard....oh, boy! YUMMY!!!!! And yes, direct experience with an prolonged fast will make what he talks about much more understandable. Oh, and another use for all those lovely onions is to caramelize them in the crock pot. Put them in on high with about 1/4 cup of water, cover and cook for 2 hours. Then tilt the lid, lower the heat to low, and leave them 8 hours (or overnight). The water will evaporate, and the onions will end up a succulent addition to burgers, chops, etc. I have a dehydrator, so I dehydrate mine. They come out like the French's Fried Onions, without the carby breading. I have to be careful, because they are like chips and candy all rolled into one! LOL 

Update, I did the Deep fried naked chicken and the pork skin coated onion rings and they were delicious. I put the pork skins in the food processor and chopped them up real fine, dipped the rings into the egg wash then dredged them through the "pork flour" sit them in the refrigerator for a half hour, fried them up in the deep fryer and hubby was starting to gobble them as fast as they came out of the lard. I hadda smack his hand with a spoon and send him to his room! LOL! It was really good I highly recommend it for those of you jonesing for some onion rings. 

That's great Debra - glad you found a substitute for normal carby onion rings.