Re: Beta endorphin spiking and 4 day crash

The food you eat looks really good Jeffrey. And a big well done on eating healthfully when you are craving/hungry. Does it feel like hunger or does it feel like a real craving. Do you feel really good the next day and have heaps of energy?

I wonder if it is an effect of having no sugar and your body is just going through a few months of balancing out? Or whether it is a true beta endorphin spike and 3/4 day crash or whether it is just as JoEllen says when she needs to eat more on some days.

I am interested because I can do a similar thing. I can think I am eating really well and enough and then I have a period of time where I just eat and eat. Sometimes I trace it to what I think is a spike and 3/4 day crash but other times I feel fatigued as well as needing to eat and eat and eat when this happens and the day after I usually feel really good which makes me think that it may have something to do with not eating enough on the previous days.

You have achieved so much Jeffrey. Your posts are so different to where they were 6-8 months ago. I am sure that you will wok this out too. Please post and let us know how you go.

Fiona

: The cravings come every 4 days (3
: days if my workout is heavy),
: sometimes in the morning, but
: usually late in the afternoon.
: Some days they are really intense.

: Here is my food journal. You can see
: that I really stuffed myself at
: dinner on Day 4. This seems to be
: the pattern. Nothing weird in my
: food journal that I can pick out.
: Feeling pretty good all day and
: then boom that night (wanting
: sugar).

: Jeffrey

: Day 1
: Breakfast:
: 2 eggs with 3 oz cheese
: 2 cups oatmeal + 1tbs protein powder
: + handful of sunflower seeds
: 1.5 cups broccoli

: Snack after gym (1 hr. weights / 30
: min cardio)
: 1/2 cup unsweetened frozen berries
: 3 Tbs of protein powder
: 2 tbs. of ground nut powder
: 2 slices wholegrain bread

: Lunch:
: Can sardines
: 2 cups brown rice
: 2 cups salad
: 1 apple
: Dinner:
: 8 oz. lamb
: 2 cups mixed salad
: 1.5 cups brown rice
: Handful of hazelnuts
: Small potato before bed

: Day 2
: Breakfast:
: 3 scrambled eggs
: 2 cups Oatmeal with 2 tbs. protein
: powder and handful of sunflower
: seeds
: 1 cup cauliflower
: Snack
: Protein Shake with fruit, 2 tbs.
: protein powder and 2 tbs of tahini
: 5 oatmeal crackers

: Lunch:
: 8 oz tempe
: 2 cups brown rice
: 2 cups salad
: 1 apple
: 2 handfuls of roasted almonds

: Dinner:
: 8 oz turkey
: 1.5 cups brown rice
: 1.5 cups steamed mixed veggies
: tomato and avacado salad
: potato before bed

: Day 3

: Breakfast:
: 2 hard boiled egg
: 1.5 cups oatmeal
: 2 Tbs. Protein powder
: 2 tbs. Ground chia and flax seeds
: 1 cup broccoli

: Snack after gym (1 hr. weights, 35
: min, cardio)
: Protein shake with 3 tbs. protein
: powder
: 1 pear
: 5 oatcakes cakes w 2tbs. Tahini

: Lunch:
: 6 oz can of tunafish
: 2 cups rice
: 2 cups salad
: 2 handfuls of almonds and 1 apple

: Dinner:
: 2 cups salad with 2 oz. ground up
: cheese
: 1.5 cups quinoa
: Large chicken breast and thigh
: 1 cup cauliflower
: 2 handfuls of hazelnuts

: Potato before bed

: Day 4

: Breakfast

: 2 eggs

: 2 cups oatmeal with 2 tbs protein
: powder, 2 tbs seed powder
: 1/2 avocado
: 1.5 cups broccoli

: Snack

: Protein shake with l piece fruit, 3
: tbs. protein powder

: 3 slices wholemeal bread
: 2 tbs. almond butter

: Lunch

: 8 oz tempe
: 2 oz cheese on 2 cups salad
: 2 cups quinoa
: 1 apple

: Dinner

: 6 oz turkey
: 2 cups brown rice
: 3 slices wholemeal bread with 3 tbs
: tahini
: 2 cups broccoli with 3 oz melted
: cheese
: 1 apple with 3 large handfuls of
: almonds

: potato before bed with gobs of butter

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