Comments on: What Happens to Your Body When… You Carb Binge?

By: Zhua Zi

Zhua Zi — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:11:49 +0000

Sometimes I overeat nuts/ seeds and get similar effects, dried fruit/ bananas give me some bad vibes, but I overate sesame seeds this morning (bad bulimia problems) and feel some of these effects.

If I eat refined sugar, I regret it within seconds, so there’s no chance of me eating more, but for me, the carb-like non-carb foods (nuts, seeds) are the real problem.

By: Lucinda

Lucinda — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:39:44 +0000

I once went an entire month with eating nothing else but macaroni and cheese. Drinking water. I became sick and laid in bed for another month. I have never physically felt normal again. What has happened and what would you do. This has been 30 years of feeling “under the weather”.

By: Lenae

Lenae — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:32:17 +0000

So I need some desperate help. I’ve been doing Paleo for over a month and was doing quite well actually and seeing good result. But, recently things have seen better days. I’m a college student so things are always tight, and I’m a woman, so sweets are my fall back on a tough day. Like today. Where (knowing better and continuing to indulge) I made dinner with ice cream, brownies, and a all natural root beer. Disgusting right? I know, but I keep having these super cravings for something sweet. I try to subdue them with almond/sunflower seed butter but then I can’t stop myself for that either. What is going on here? Any help!!!! Lol, to much work to let it slip away now.

(I’m going to be feeling all this pain tomorrow I already know it…sigh)

By: Daphne

Daphne — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:41:51 +0000

Hi Mark,

This website has been very enlightening, but I still have a couple of questions. Usually I eat until I stop and my eating schedule varies dramatically depending on how much I eat, from 3 hour grazings to 24 hour fasts due to one excessive meal. However, I realised that while eating sugary things does make my heart speed up, it also makes me quite happy. I’m 24 and under 5′ (~100lbs); I don’t get sugar crashes and I usually eat under 70g carbs per day or less. Is it too much of a carb allowance? Should I give up the cheesecake/ice-cream/cookies etc? Or is it all right to do a weekly indulgence without causing my body to convert everything I eat to fat…

By: Andre

Andre — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:05:19 +0000

Mark,

You forgot to mention that eating sugar depresses testosterone levels for a number of hours, which is detrimental for maintaining muscle and bone structure.

Bodyfat (thats what you will get when you eat sugar) changes testosterone into oestrogen. An obese male produces more oestrogen than a regular woman! No wonder they start growing breasts.

Nice posting!

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The Sleep Experiment – Conclusion « The Sutherland Soapbox — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:38:07 +0000

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By: chris

chris — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:49:02 +0000

i don’t know what everyone is talking about…..i can kill a box of oreos and sleep like a baby for the next 3 hours. wake up feeling sick and swear not to ever do that again(for at least 2 weeks). I gots to get crazy every now and then(for my sanity).

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By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:42:28 +0000

Your brain prefers, and runs more efficiently, on ketones, not glucose.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:34:43 +0000

All I know is that adding FAT to CARBS is a recipe for disaster and weight gain. Carbs should be rarely, if at all, eaten and should be isolated from fat. Read “Primal Body – Primal Mind” by Nora Gedgaudas.