Rinse & rePeat
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To your first point Steve, I don't recommend having two fats in the same meal WHEN YOU ARE WANTING TO LOSE WEIGHT. If a wonderful opportunity came yours or my way with those wings and stuffed peppers presented themselves like wonderful gifts from above, the strategy wouldn't be to pass them up, like other restrictive diets would tell you to do. Sooth your soul and switch into portion control mode. That would mean if I wanted a 1/3 pound lettuce wrapped burger WITH cheese and I am trying to LOSE weight than I would eat half of it. If i wanted a BLT, heaven forbid, I would make it open faced. Otherwise when considering only yourself and preparing something for YOUR weight loss goal, it is a good strategy to have one fat source and one sugar source when losing weight, keeping it simple for your body.So don't have two fats in one meal? I saw some of your recipe's had 2 fats such as beef & cheese stuffed peppers, steak with garlic butter, wings with alfredo sauce. Do you not recommend that anymore?
And it's ok to have Mexican coke on it's own? I thought you should always pair sugar with protein, or bad things happen.
To your Coke point, being hungy and having Coke without a protein is a blood sugar crash soon after. If I am going to be on the road, like yesterday for many hours, I eat my protein meal and sip on the Coke I would normally pair it with for many hours, like an IV drip, until the next meal. I'm not having a Coke with my meal and then having second one on the road, i am just extending the first one over a long period of time. Keep in mind I don't have health issues or blood sugar problems. I don't drink sugary drinks all day to give myself diabetes. A slow steady form of sugar keeps blood sugar stable like an IV, so blood sugar levels don't crash with angriness or headache hunger. That is why Ray Peat doesn't specify a diet, our, age, our gender, our weight and our health requires different and desires strategies. For me, sometimes I am trying to lose a few pounds and sometimes i am trying to gain a few pounds. I have 100+ Ray Peat recipes I rotate that are mostly designed to feed a family of 4, many with starches, many without starches, many high in fat and many low in fat, something for everyone! They are scattered throughout this forum to fulfill a variety of needs. I am just as much a "foodie" as I am a "Peater". I think constant denial of pleasures creates more problems, so live a little and care a lot! Please feel free to keep asking questions, you come up with good ones that everyone needs answers to :)