Learning, slowly.

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So many things to learn, so few good sources with all of it together, and correct.  I learned a few thigns last night.  Some of it was review, some of it was new.  Oils, cooking oils, or fats... a review.  Sure, yes, I know, seed oils, for the vast majority, are simply terribly unhealthy.  Animal fats, for the most part, are better.

But, some things I learned, and was backed up by other of my own research?  There is one vegitable oil that is good, coconut.  If it is processed cold, virgin.  As well, while avocado virgin, cold pressed, oil is good, it is NOT good for cooking.  It has such a low smoke point, that using it to cook, minimum of 300 F is needed, and that makes avocado oil toxic.  Good for cold uses, such as in salads.  If the avocado oil is made to be sold for cooking, and is plain tasting?  It is just as bad as seed oils.  Ugh.

The best, from what I could find, is ghee.  It has a high smoke point (over 500 F), is of animal fats, and hits every positive health need and want.  Super.  I am hoping to get my shit together, and get some ghee made up.  I'll... add a vid.

Oh, but something else I learned?  The best oil or fat for deep frying?  None.  Don't deep fry, certainly not regularly.  Quarterly?  Okay.  Not the best, even so, but... okay.  Life happens.  Oh, and for best oil?  At that point, it doesn't matter.  Peanut is probably easier to find, cheaper.  But from a health standpoint, it doesn't matter.  Further?  Don't filter and save the oil.  That is far worse.  Just don't do it.  Bacon grease is different, that you can do.  But that is rendered, not truly deep fried, or refried.

Enough about oil.  But I did look up things regarding acetic acid and lactic acid... basically the acids involved in kefir and kombucha/vinegar.  Lots to learn there.  Acetic acid helps with a number of things, mostly in a pre and probiotic way.  It goes into the gut and helps the floura and fauna.  Lactic acid doesn't survive in the body, but does some good things as it is dissassembled in the body.  I just... went looking for clarity on some things.  

I have pretty much decided to start making and using kombucha.  Why?  Another... good food.  A slightly different process.  Sure, there is the vinegar, but I am thinking a bit of that, a bit of this, some kefir, and regular food.  Right, right.

From this lesson, I am going to begin adding two tablespoons of vinegar to an eigth to twenty ounce glass of water before or after meals... and at bedtime.  It is said to help with weight loss?  Sounds bogus, but I can check blood sugar while at it, see if that shows a difference.  Why would blood sugar (thus insulin) levels make a difference?  Ah, because insulin is the hormone which turns excess fuels into fat on the body.  Right, right.

Another topic is protein utilization.  Ugh.  The deeper down the rabbit hole one gets, the further there is to go?  Blarney!  But, so be it.  The best food, for protein utilization, is eggs, at 48%!  The next tier is meat, fish, and poultry at 32%, and the last reasonable tier is whey, soy, and plants at 17%.  Ugh, that means that my protein powder is only 17% utilized.  The rest has a reasonable risk of being turned into insulin.  So, maybe that isn't the best.

Watch this whole video.  It's... a bit longwinded, at times.  But the information is... very good to know.  Especially if you are diabetic and are doing what you can to fix that, through food.  Though, if you are a musclehead, this would be good too.  It means, if you want to pack in protein to pack on muscle, eggs are your friend.  Don't kid yourself.  And, more, sticking with the whole egg, or even concentrating on the yolk, may be the way to go?  I'm... thinking.  If I suspect pure numbers aren't... the whole story, always, so perhaps the mix of the whole egg would be best, or mostly?  Dunno, dunno, digging, looking learning.

So, yes, there.  I went to bed at ten, noon?  Somewhere in there.  Hoping to take a simple nap.  Didn't wake until 22:00? 23:00?  Midnight?  I just... can't be sure.  After 22:00 for sure, before 1:00 I am positive as well.  I slept well.  Closed the door, opened the window, slept cooler.  It got down to 59 up there.  Nice, for me... or... for the moment.

Kefir first.  Didn't check blood sugar.  Then had vinegar right away, after looking over the research.  It was 318, 326, 245, and 334 (had pizza the day before that last reading) the last four days of fasting testing.  I found some test strips, will begin using them.  Seeing about some things anyway.  Want to test vinegar, after meals.  And, see if reheated potatoes, rice, and some other things actually are better for diabetes.  Volume might be a part of it, or not.  I'll... have to study the notion with regards to my body.

Yes, I... am thinking about how to improve my life, become healthier, lose weight now that that is moving if seemingly on it's own.  Yea, I... think I can.  We'll see.  Maybe everything is a fiction, or a short term thing, or maybe it truly does work.  Any improvements mind just be of the mind?  I don't know.  Though, to be honest, I am a non-believer.  The data either proves things out, or doesn't.  All I am doing is experimenting.

What I do know, is as I headed more into unprocessed foods, including making my own sausages without sugar, and other such, and getting closer to keto, and on into carnivore, and eating four eggs once or twice a day?  Satiation seems much easier to obtain and I have lost weight.  I am still a bit hungry, but not hungry enough to cook more?  I would like to sort out the satiation.  And get intermittent fasting mixed back into things.

I might even try to get to one meal a day.  And, possibly, to the lion carnivore diet.  No sauces, no condiments, no... nothing... but meats (to include eggs, and probably kefir).  But, just... one meal a day.  And, not worry about calories or volume, if work completely, eventually, of satiety.  The complete consumption dependent on whether I am hungry or not.  As well, I'd like to begin fasting a few days every other week.  I think once a week, the way I do it, is too much.  Two to three days of not eating anything, twice a month.  Yes.  Well... learning and planning go hand in hand.  Both could be and/or go terribly wrong, but they are a start.  It is where I am starting.

Looking forward to see what the blood sugar reading is.  Oh, only twelve minutes away.  I will just do the reading a bit earlier, so I can share it... if with nobody.  That isn't always the point.  Blood sugar is 287.  Since I didn't get a fasting, I can't be sure?  But, I feel slightly confident that the number went down with the meal.