That isn’t to say I have completely cut off from eating Somali food. I am trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle and I am also inspired by our ancestors and how they looked before colonialism. My diet is mainly protein and healthy carbs, even in Ramadan I hardly made samosa and buur. I also don’t drink Somali tea. It was hard cutting off these foods but it gets easier and when I have a cheat meal and I am craving Somali food, I will either make it myself or buy it from the Somali restaurant.
I no longer eat Somali cuisine
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I mostly do the whole carnivore thing. Have for many years. Aunt who visited me years ago when I was living in the UAE saw my daily meals which at the time consisted mainly of fatty camel meat cuts and dairy (yogurt and milk) and she was like, "Wallahi, all you eat is camel meat and milk. A true Somali man! Not like these ciyaal cheeseburger. You would survive in the baadiyo!"
One of the loveliest compliments anyone's ever paid me.
One of the loveliest compliments anyone's ever paid me.
The happiest I ever felt was eating fatty cuts of meat, and Greek yoghurt, full-fat cheese and coffee with butter ghee.I mostly do the whole carnivore thing. Have for many years. Aunt who visited me years ago when I was living in the UAE saw my daily meals which at the time consisted mainly of fatty camel meat cuts and dairy (yogurt and milk) and she was like, "Wallahi, all you eat is camel meat and milk. A true Somali man! Not like these ciyaal cheeseburger. You would survive in the baadiyo!"
One of the loveliest compliments anyone's ever paid me.
How does your body look??!!I mostly do the whole carnivore thing. Have for many years. Aunt who visited me years ago when I was living in the UAE saw my daily meals which at the time consisted mainly of fatty camel meat cuts and dairy (yogurt and milk) and she was like, "Wallahi, all you eat is camel meat and milk. A true Somali man! Not like these ciyaal cheeseburger. You would survive in the baadiyo!"
One of the loveliest compliments anyone's ever paid me.
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I'm noticeably less defined and muscular now as I don't live near a gym and just do some pullups, chin ups, pushups and bodyweight squats when I get the chance and haven't been as strict (family gatherings and such) but still overall the same weight range, fit into the same clothes, still rather visible abs, veiny arms and healthy.
I tend to feel my absolute best when I only eat meat with maybe some eggs. Dairy is hit in miss. Sometimes I still feel just as amazing and sometimes it brings me down a few pegs. But overall, this way of eating makes me feel every year of my life before it was basically me being "cheated" out of my birthright.
It's really baffling to realize this level of comfort and happiness is our natural state and we're just bogging it down with glycation from carbs; all sorts of inflammation and derangement from seed oils, phytotoxins and antinutrients; and reward system haywiring with poisons like alcohol, weed, p*rnography and so on.
You know how the average person describes just having unexplainable "lows" where they'll just feel down and almost depressed sometimes for no reason? I get the opposite very frequently. I'll just be sitting doing mundane work at the office or watching a show at home or reading a book in a park and I'll just feel happy for no reason at all. A genuine joy in the sensation of being alive. Thank God for it everyday.
You hit the nail on the head, I literally just went out and bought like 5KG of fatty beef, beef tallow and eggs xD
Being on no carbs just feels so good, consistent energy throughout the day, the voice inside my head that would keep me doing something at every waking minute of the day just shuts off, after 4-5 weeks on keto.
No wonder our forefathers were so happy, compared to me chugging down 2-3 cups of coffee per day to just stay functioning.
It's made me rather skeptical of most psycho-babble as well. I really don't think that unless you have deep, actual trauma (molested as a child, brutally beaten, war trauma etc.) that anyone really needs therapy, for example. These modern people are so over-medicated and therapized precisely because they are poisoning their bodies on a daily basis.
Wakes up and immediately eats a carb rich meal -> blood sugar-spike, glycative damage, elevated insulin, low glucagon in comparison to insulin = inflammatory state -> eventually sugar crashes and needs more carbs for another spike -> yo-yo energy all day, chronically high insulin, chronically inflamed-> piles onto inflammation with aldehyde and all other nasty stuff laden seed oils that even cause mitochondrial damage -> barely exercises so no real relief in terms of healthy steady-state feel-good hormones releasing -> probably addicted to something that is a super-normal stimuli like refined sugar, alcohol, weed, doomscrolling or -> spikes brain's pleasure/reward system obscenely -> brain responds with overtime developing a comparatively bad low and the overall baseline happiness declining -> dependency on super-normal stimuli develops just to feel okay -> on top of this dealing with gut damage from too much fiber and general bodily damage from antinutrients and phytotoxins on a daily basis (go greens!) -> anti-nutrients and shitty plant heavy diet means brain and body aren't getting enough of many key nutrients like Vitamin D3, cholesterol, fatty acids in general, choline or even just quality protein.
And on and on it goes. Then they wonder why they all have anxiety, can't sleep without some sort of pill and can't get over even the most mundane unpleasantness in life. Modern folks are truly COOKED, man. Zombies...
No, you sad bastard, you don't need to maintain a positive mindset and smile more. You don't need to read self-help books and journal; you don't need to meditate 24/7... you just need to eat your species appropriate diet. Keep in mind that I don't think any of those things are bad. Meditation, mindfulness, wearing brighter colors, self-grooming, self-care and so on; all excellent and important for quality of life but when you're poisoning yourself on a daily basis you basically throw yourself into an uphill battle where you are constantly negating the benefits those things could have. Where they could actually help you reach a truly higher form of yourself, you're probably just using them to get by and it's sad and pathetic.
Spot on, in all my life I've probably eaten breakfast at most 50 times, I can't stand eating in the morning, I drink water or coffee, but like usually eat at noon or some days at 4-5pm.
People need to go back to a simpler diet, read up on what your ancestors ate, and if the
ingredient list starts sounding like a lab experiment, best drop that shit.
Working out isn't that hard either, get a small treadmill for walking, get those 10k steps in, get some cheap dumbbells and work out in the morning before work, focusing on different muscle groups daily, restrict calories if your overweight and track it all with a smart weight scale, have a app like calcam which tracks calories via photo and uses A.I algrorithim to track calories.
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your in great shape bro do you count calories or just avoid carbs and eat fatty whole foods?
I've shared my views on calories before:
Calories mean pretty much nothing. They are a measure of heat energy. You put food in a closed system like a bomb calorimeter, essentially blow said food up, and see how much heat it produces. Needless to say, it's absolutely absurd to look at such a metric when assessing human nutritional needs.
Despite the terminology people use, you don't "burn" anything in your body, and we sure as hell are not a closed system. You metabolize fatty acids or glucose through processes like lipolysis and glycolysis to produce ATP, the energy currency your cells use to do the work they need to do.
You digest grams of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. Ask GPT to run lipolysis or glycolysis as a chemical process for you—calories never come up. At best, you can argue that some heat is released during these chemical reactions, so there are "calories" in there, but at the end of the day, your body is using grams of lipids and/or glucose to produce ATP, not heat energy. Niggas thinking they're internal combustion engines or something.
What then causes excess fat gain is the activation of a process called the Glucose-Fatty Acid Cycle, otherwise known as the Randle Cycle. If you consume an excess of fats and carbs together, your cells prioritize glucose metabolism to prevent blood sugar from spiking too much, which could otherwise be fatal or cause excessive glycative damage. Insulin is released to facilitate glucose uptake, which in turn suppresses lipolysis (fat breakdown) and promotes fat storage in both visceral and adipose tissue, leading to excess weight gain. Meanwhile, your body attempts to manage the surplus glucose through whatever other means it can such as glycogen storage, pissing it out, or conversion into fat, further contributing to weight gain.
Even worse, if glucose levels are excessive enough, they still wind up causing glycative damage to red blood cells and the endothelial lining of arteries. This glycation process deforms the arterial lining, making it more prone to trapping LDL particles—lipoproteins that transport cholesterol through the bloodstream. That wouldn't be catastrophic in itself, but glycation also leads to the formation of Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs), which, when they interact with LDL, trigger oxidation and inflammation. In response, the body sends in white blood cells called macrophages to deal with the oxidized LDL, engulfing them and forming what are known as foam cells. These foam cells accumulate in the arteries, and if the cycle of damage continues unchecked, they calcify over time, progressively narrowing the arteries and reducing blood flow. This leads to higher blood pressure, increased resting heart rate, and, if the damage becomes severe enough, a cardiac event.
And this is to say nothing of the glycative damage and excess fat accumulation around critical organs like the liver and pancreas, impairing their functions and eventually leading to issues like type-2 diabetes and all the fun that comes with that.
You know who's known all of this since before the 1960s? The sugar industry. It's why they've bribed key researchers even at Harvard since back then to shift the focus on nonsense like "cholesterol" and "saturated fat":
Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents - PubMed
Early warning signals of the coronary heart disease (CHD) risk of sugar (sucrose) emerged in the 1950s. We examined Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) internal documents, historical reports, and statements relevant to early debates about the dietary causes of CHD and assembled findings...pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Why do this? Why obfuscate the main cause of atherosclerosis, obesity and type-2 diabetes? Well, if you've never heard of the "bliss point", it's the exact right mix of sugar, fat and sometimes also salt that they know will be "hyper-palatable" and addictive, keeping consumers consistently coming back for more. It's why most junk-foods are rich in both carbohydrates and fat and sometimes also salt:
Unfortunately for the sugar industry and the food industry as a whole, these highly profitable foods are exactly what you should eat on a daily basis if you want to develop atherosclerosis, obesity and type-2 diabetes. But they don't truly care because... profits. That's why they did this.
- Pepperoni Pizza from Domino's (14-ich, 8 slices):
- Carbs: 310g
- Fat: 101.2g
- Beef Big Mac from McDonald's:
- Carbs: 46g
- Fat: 34g
- Wendy's Chicken Nuggets (4-piece):
- Carbs: 9.6g
- Fat: 13g
- Oreo Ice-cream 14 fl oz:
- Carbs: 78g
- Fat: 18g
- Burger King French fries (large):
- Carbs: 64g
- Fat: 23g
- Popcorn at AMC (Plain medium):
- Carbs: 82g
- Fat: 27g
The solution is to simply eat either a low fat or low carb diet. Both will solve the randle cycle stimulation issue and lead to the gradual loss of excess body fat. The former strategy, however, will still age you faster in the long-term via glycative damage and nutritional deficiencies which is why low-carb, like our lipivore ancestors, is the way to go:
Low-calorie and caloric restriction are also a joke. They work for reasons not involving calories. If you look closely, most "low-calorie" diets are inherently low-fat diets. Here’s why:
What are most people going to logically do to "calorically restrict" given the above information? Reduce fat, maybe keep carbs moderate and just prioritize protein. I actually just googled "Caloric deficit meals" and look at what Google Gemini gave me:
- 9 calories per gram of fat
- 4 calories per gram of protein
- 4 calories per gram of carbohydrates
"Meals for a calorie deficit can include foods that are high in protein and fiber, and low in fat and calories*. Some examples include:*
These examples show that caloric restriction pretty much works by restricting fat. And of course, reducing overall food volume, which can lead to both fat and lean mass loss. Most CICO advocates fail to understand the Glucose-Fatty Acid Cycle, or if they do, they don't appear to understand it well and overlook how fat restriction contributes to weight loss.
- Oats: High in fiber, low in fat.
- Kimchi cauliflower fried rice: Low-calorie, high-fiber.
- Beans, peas, lentils: Low-fat, high-fiber.
- Fish: Low in calories, moderate in fat.
- Lean meat and poultry: High protein, low fat.
- Low-fat or fat-free dairy: Minimal fat.
- Egg whites: High protein, zero fat."
Calories legit mean nothing once you're not stimulating the randle-cycle. I was this lean eating 3,500-5,000 calories per day and often going weeks without exercise:
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You can arguably overeat fats and aminos when having them despite not stimulating the randle cycle but when you're not deranging your metabolic processes with all the carbs and fats mixed up, especially all the carbs, your natural satiety hormones kick-in. You ever heard of someone eating steaks endlessly? But you've surely heard of people endlessly eating biryani or cheeseburgers... exactly. Those steaks will fill you up quick. Good luck consuming over 500 grams of protein and fat in a day, tbh.
Tl;dr: Fook calories. Eat hilib iyo baruur, throw out the bariis and prosper!
They are meaningless and I have never counted them. Even when I used to be 80 and 50 pounds (35 and 22 kgs) heavier than now (all fat) and leaned down.
