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“Good morning Maria, I had to share some exciting news with you! This morning I weighed myself like I always so and for the first time in over three years, I weighed UNDER 200lbs. 199!!! It’s been three and a half weeks since I started eating your way and reading your metabolism book.

I just got your HAQ assessment over the weekend and finally just got all the supplements in the mail yesterday. I have lost 24lbs in 3.5 weeks but most of all I feel incredible and have a healthy happy relationship with food that I have never had before. I know this is just the beginning, but I had to share my milestone with you! I had many days before I found you that I thought I would NEVER weigh under 200 again. You have given me hope and empowered me to take back my health. Thank you!! With my warmest regards, Shauna”

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GLUCOSE NUMBERS and KETOGENIC DIET

When eating a ketogenic diet, the most exposure to carbohydrates is overnight especially towards morning as the liver produces glucose to keep your brain fueled and to prepare you for getting up. Therefore, if you are eating a very ketogenic diet, the blood ketones go up during the day as you burn more fat for fuel (as apposed to a high carb diet where the opposite happens).

Something to consider, a ketogenic diet rapidly induces insulin resistance.  This is a normal physiological response to carb restriction.  Carb restriction drops insulin levels.  Low insulin levels activate hormone sensitive lipase.  This breaks down fatty tissue into ketone bodies (blood ketones).  Your muscles prefer to run on ketones and so they become insulin resistant leaving the glucose in your blood for other cells (like the brain).

However, while muscles are in “refusal mode” for glucose any glucose put into your bloodstream, from food or gluconeogenesis (blood glucose made from protein or other tissues), will rapidly spike blood glucose. This is fine if you stick to LC in your eating. It also means that if you take an oral glucose tolerance test you will fail and be labelled diabetic. In fact, even a single high fat meal can do this, extending insulin resistance in to the next day.

So if you are getting a blood glucose test, you can increase your carbs to 150 grams a day for 3 days prior and your blood glucose levels will show normal according to the standards.  Otherwise, you can look at a better marker for metabolic syndrome which is you HbA1c levels.  If these are low (5.5 or less is what a doctor will define as low diabetes risk, 5 or less is ideal), it doesn’t matter what your fasting blood glucose levels are.

Also an interesting note, when mice in a recent study by Ortman, Prinzler and Klause were allowed to select their own diet, lo and behold, the mice chose (by calories, not weight!) 82% fat and 5.6% carbohydrate. Sensible mice!

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Corned Beef and Hash

Maria Emmerich

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 15 minutes mins

Servings 4

Calories

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ HERB MUSTARD VINAIGRETTE:
• ▢ ¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon olive oil
• ▢ ¼ cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
• ▢ 2 tablespoons coconut vinegar or apple cider vinegar
• ▢ 1 tablespoon finely diced onions or shallots
• ▢ 1 tablespoon whole-grain mustard
• ▢ 1½ teaspoons lemon juice
• ▢ Fine sea salt and fresh ground black pepper
• ▢ ¼ head green cabbage
• ▢ 1 tablespoon coconut oil or butter if not dairy-sensitive
• ▢ 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic
• ▢ 1 1½-pound corned beef brisket, cut into bite-sized pieces
• ▢ 1 avocado halved, pitted, peeled, and cut into chunks
• ▢ 4 poached eggs for serving (optional; omit for egg-free)

Instructions

 

• To make the vinaigrette: Place all the ingredients in a food processor and puree until smooth. Set aside.
• To make the “hash”: Slice the cabbage into noodle-like strips or small pieces. Heat the oil in a sauté pan over medium heat and sauté the cabbage and garlic until the cabbage is very tender and soft, about 8 minutes.
• Add the corned beef and toss gently to combine and heat the beef, about 4 minutes. Gently mix in the avocado and sauté for another 2 minutes, just to warm the avocado.
• Drizzle each serving with the vinaigrette and top with a poached egg, if desired.

Notes

NUTRITIONAL INFO (per serving)
calories
532
fat
46.3g
protein
22.8g
carbs
4.1g
fiber
2.8g