I Am The Locust

[realexplodingcat]

The next experiment in my constant quest to feel awesome involves a diet adjustment. For years, I have been more often tired than not. Discovering my reactive hypoglycemic tendencies helped me shake out the worst of my heartbreaking highs and lows (mostly lows). Still, I typically feel just shy of good on a good day. Also, it seems I can tire myself rather quickly and severely if I attempt to step up my exercise habits (which I really want to do).

Occam's Razor states: Given two equally predictive theories, choose the simpler.

So, the simplest possible solution to my fatigue might simply be: eat more. I did some research, talked to some doctors, and learned that someone my age and height who wants to maintain his weight (which is a nice number) and exercise several times a week should consume as much as 2200 calories. I added up what I consume on a daily basis and it only added up to 1800.

WTF? I eat six meals a day already!?! Apparently, my genetic predisposition to being a new age hippie, which requires me to eat all whole grains and absolutely no sugar to keep my blood sugar happy, also makes it challenging to load up on calories. Well, that answer seems simple enough. If I've been shorting myself 400 calories a day, that could explain some extra fatigue.

But I already eat six meals a day! I wish it were as simple as going to Burger King and eating a couple Whopper's a day. That would screw up my blood sugar. So, it's going to be tons and tons of beans, grains, veggies, nuts, and (yes) meat (protein is essential for balancing the blood sugar) for me.

I will be the scourge of Virginia's organic farms, upon which I will descend like a plague of insects, consuming all and rendering the land unfit for use. I will be to produce stands what the woolly adelgid beetle is to hemlock trees. If a nation refuses to free its slaves, prophets will call me down from the sky to blight the land. Eat all I can eat. I am a plague of one.

I am The Locust.

Comments

[parhelion-spark.livejournal.com]

I dont actually know. Could, possibly, but I'll likely not know for another few years at the least. More likely I've just been unintentionally starving myself forever.

I'm a vegetarian, so HUH THAT EXPLAINS ALOT. Evidently I need to look into..er..shake things, too, since it seems that after doing all the irksome mathy stuff about how i eat, I've been averaging less than 1300 calories a day. X.x;;

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

I did the unintentional starvation diet for awhile. My wife is (was) vegetarian, so that made me a vegetarian for awhile. Then she developed an extremely bad allergy to soy and then eventually wheat, which pretty much left us with rather limited sources of protein (no tofu and seitain...i miss it so. I honestly do). I cruised like that for awhile, eating the same old diet without much protein, but I didn't last long before fatigue and hypoglycemia set in.

While I am eating more meat these days, there are some other healthy ways I'm getting more calories that you could look into. The protein shakes, for one. Also, more fat. Fat is dense with calories. Good fat like flax seed oil, olive oil, and nuts. Nuts are great, protein and fat. Eat your tofu! There's extra, because I'm not allowed to eat it anymore!

I miss pudding made with tofu.

[parhelion-spark.livejournal.com]

I didn't know there was ever a thing such as tofu pudding. Intriguing!

haha, i took forever getting back to this, sorry. I actually have been getting more fat as of late, and it's increased my energy level significantly, which is yay!

The best bit of all this, is of course, it doesn't at all seem to interfere with my old ability to metabolize sugars to a frightful extent, which equates to having lots and lots of cake...and aliveness!...without need for guilt.. muahaha..

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

Yay fat!

Boo sugar!

Well, you can eat all the cake. That leaves less of it sitting around to tempt me. Glad to hear you have more energy.

I can't remember the brand name. But there was this powedered pudding mix that you dump in a blender with a block of tofu, sooo goood.

[parhelion-spark.livejournal.com]

Aww, sugar is fun! It makes one so boingy and disturbing to others.
*nods happily*

Hrm. I must investigate this. For pudding is joy.

[explodingcat.livejournal.com]

See, I've never experienced a sugar high. My system clobbers it and causes my blood sugar to plummet. I only get sugar lows.

I found the pudding! (http://www.morinu.com/product/mates.html)