Sunday evening, ten Tupperware containers in the fridge.
Rice, chicken, broccoli.
On Wednesday, you look at it and no longer feel like it.
On Thursday, you do not eat anything until four.
And that is the problem.
Meal prep is an all-or-nothing project for most people.
And when it all collapses, nothing remains.
Your body does not care about your system.
It only cares about the gap.
When blood sugar falls and nothing follows, it switches to emergency power.
Then your body breaks down muscle protein to make glucose from it.
At the same time, free fatty acids flood into the blood and inhibit the
glucose combustion in the cell.
That is the point Ray Peat keeps returning to: energy from
Sugar is clean; energy from stress is costly.
You notice it as irritability, cold hands, and evening cravings.
What is interesting is that it is not the amount that determines it, but the
Regularity.
eat regularly and irregularly for two weeks, with the same
Diet.
Only the pattern was different.
And now comes the part that sticks.
Over the course of the week, the women in both phases ate
exactly the same number of meals.
Same food, same amount, same number.
Only the distribution was chaotic.
Fourteen days were enough for the values to worsen measurably.
The irregular phase worsened insulin sensitivity and
increased fasting cholesterol levels.
Meaning: the body burned less after eating.
Same food, chaotic rhythm, worse metabolism.
The good news is, that you do not need a Sunday ritual for.
You need mini basics to fill the gap.
