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Food & Diet / Phase 1????
« on: June 01, 2012, 11:20:30 PM »
Hi, I'm quite new to this forum, but I have been eating "paleo" for awhile now. I have understood that skipping meals or fasting for a day can be beneficial, I do not fully understand the reasoning behind phase 1. When I started I immediately cut out grains and anything processed or that had to be cooked, but I still ate regular meals throughout the day while teaching my body to burn fat. I found it harder to initially stick to the diet if I let my stomach stay empty for too long, and my hunger pain and lack of carbs would drive me straight to the grains. And how, when you are able to gorge on grains and other processed foods during phase 1, does that teach your body to burn fat. It seems to me that it would just cause a sinusoidal graph of blood sugar vs time. But how does it effect your metabolism?