The past three days have been phenomenal eating sessions - large breakfasts, lunches and dinners everyday. I love it.
What's more, I have been very much off diet. My usual diet, which is based on my blood type and genotype, has helped me to maintain a healthy weight, reduced my allergies, controlled what seemed like the onset of asthma and eczema, made my joints more supple, improved my stamina, eliminated soreness in my back and solved a number of other gripes.
Here in Alpine France though, the diet is basically wheat, dairy, pork and potatoes. At the chalet, they have a chef that cooks thick wholesome foods using the above ingredients in the most impressive combinations: tartiflette, lasagne and lamb shank with potatoes so far. On the chef's off day, I went and ordered the world's largest pepperoni pizza made with local sausages and cheese. I have washed down every dinner with a half or full pint of Kronenbourg beer. Dessert is mandatory with a banana cake in cream, chocolate mousse and frozen yoghurt with fruit already consumed. Steak frites for lunch twice so far. A raclette or fondue (sp?) looms in the near future. Off diet to say the least.
The toxicity load would be low compared to buying these ready made in supermarket packages. Being made from scratch by someone who knows how to cook would mean that "flavours", preservatives, fillers like tropical gums and calorie boosters like corn starch and glucose are not in the ingredients.
All together, I have easily added an additional 1500 calories (kcal) to my normal London consumption. I do have itchy eyes and skin - sure sign of wheat intake for me but luckily the catarrh and back pain associated with too much wheat and dairy haven't kicked in yet. Two nights ago, I definitely felt the effect of sodium overload. The giant pizza had enough salt to make Lake Geneva into an inland sea. My tongue was dry and my heart thumped hard enough to keep me awake for most of the night!
Is the high fat high kcal diet likely to make a difference on the body composition front? Well, I have been doing a lot of snowboarding here, of course. About 5 hours a day of riding bumpy, powdery terrain and skating around on my board in between descents. Today I did 6 hours. I reckon averaging about 400kcal/hour. That's an average 2000kcal from exercise rather than my UK average of 250!
So let's do the maths. I need 4050kcal to maintain my weight. In London I eat that amount more or less because my weight is pretty stable. Up here I eat 1500 calories more per day, yet burn 1750 more! So I would lose weight - fat and muscle weight but probably more fat than muscle due to daily anaerobic exercise - at a rate of about 1lb every 12 days. Five months of this would cause me to lose 1 stone (14lbs or a little more than 6kg). When I get back to London, I'll check the scales, body comp and compare notes to reality.
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