Cool.

You will need to shop for meat and coconut oil. You also need to make a zero-carb, 50-gm-of-protein, 1-tablespoon-of-co breakfast plan before going to bed. There's no time to figure it out on the morning you start. Consuming 50 gm of protein in 30 minutes from the time you wake is an athletic event.

I also suggest giving up butter. We're supposed to be paleo on this thing but sometimes people on paleo include butter, which I'm newly suspicious of. Maybe butter has been holding me back all this time? I can't think of much else that's different. The only things I've changed are: 1) eliminating butter, 2) adding more coconut oil, and 3) the Big Ass Breakfast. I'll keep going with it, but I don't understand it.

Weird, he says:


That's not what I'd call little to no carb. Later he says to limit carbs to 25g if you're trying to lose weight.



So it sounds like the 50g is a guideline.




Uh, that's like the whole day and fits right in with my notions of working out. Okay, I know what he meant, but I found it funny.

He's inconsistent. There are other places where he is very clear that breakfast is zero carbs. He spells it out "zero".

In the pages I've read the 50 gms of carb is for the whole day for someone who isn't trying to lose. The 25 gm carb is the upper limit for the whole day for someone who does want to lose weight.

I'm surprised at the passage you found that says you can have less protein for breakfast. In what I was reading yesterday he was positively ranting that you cannot possibly eat less protein than that for breakfast no matter what your size or sex and expect to reset your leptin, you have to do things differently than you've done before, and on and on.

He contradicts himself here and there but on balance he directs people to follow the stricter guidelines; that's what I've been doing.

My sense of it is that he never set out to create a "program". I think he might have just started writing stuff to be helpful and then people wanted him to give more direction and it just evolved.

One point he is consistent on so far in my reading: no snacking ever period. This black & white emphatic rule has been good for me. I've discovered that I mindlessly reach for a handful of nuts or a bite of salami more often than I realized.

I wish it was laid out in one coherent book.

28 grams per ounce..
3 oz of meat, fish or poultry (about the size of a deck of cards) is approximately 20 grams of protein.
got it.

There's other stuff in meat like water, fat, a bit of fiber. 3 oz of flank steak, trimmed of fat is 18g of protein.

I found this on his facebook page:


as of 19 hours ago he still has not found his candidate.

I'm finding the information he presents very interesting, though much of it is over my head.

Well, I bbq'd a brisket last night and it's as tough as shoe leather, so I'll try to slow cook it today. But I chewed through 6 oz of it and then ate 3 eggs. I figured I'd be superstuffed, but I'm not.

Or 4 very large eggs and some meat. I do that every morning.

Okay, I did 6oz of brisket and 3 jumbo eggs. Man!

Nice snack.

Oops, I may have goofed up. I had some sugar free mints. Is that a no-no? What about de-caf tea? My mouth wants to be entertained. :\

OMG! Just read Dr. Krause's story about how he stripped down to his speedos at Nordstrom's... not in a fitting room! The guy is a nut.

Yeah, I read that one too. How embarrassing for the poor salesclerk. I like eccentrics but I hate people being put on the spot and not being able to escape because they're in some position of servitude. She has a great story to tell at parties now.

Saturday I messed up at that big Christmas party. I had planned to drink wine -- and I did -- but that clouded my judgement about dessert. In all, I ended up drinking 5 glasses of wine (too much, even if planned!), a slice of gluten-free cake, and a serving of some kind of weird pudding thing. I'm too empathetic -- someone made this horrible green pudding (maybe from a pistachio pudding mix? with cool whip, canned pineapple, nuts) and no one was touching it so I felt sorry for her and took a big scoop and told her how great it was. It was awful. Then someone poured me a glass of murky brown chocolate wine and spiked it with Kahlua and I drank that to be polite too. It was sickly sweet, I didn't like it and I drank every last drop of it. I need to develop a backbone, a backbone that can withstand a few glasses of wine. Or maybe I need to learn to turn down the first glass of wine and keep my wits about me.

Then, yesterday, I ate some samples at Whole Foods. Why do I do these things? Am I so cheap that I can't pass up a few free bites of cheese, which I've sworn off of?

I'm having some hunger issues too. These meals are filling but then I'm hungry 2 -3 hours later. I suppose he would say that's more proof that I'm leptin-resistant.

Wouldn't he say you should eat a bigger breakfast? It's about 6 hours now and I'm still good.

Yes, I guess you're right. I'm having a hard time eating the 50 gms early in the morning as it is, but I guess I should try to increase it anyway.

Okay, tomorrow I'll go for 70!

Man, it was harder this morning. Of course, I woke up late so that didn't help. 3 jumbo eggs and 6 oz brisket. At least the brisket wasn't tougher than jerky today.