What would happen if I ate a protein only meal?

[mcr]

i believe it acts as a low gi carb source because the whole process takes a long time.

eating table sugar will raise your insulin levels quickly because it is rapidly absorbed and digested enters teh blood stream

this process takes much longer if its chicken

again i might be wrong but i would guess im at least close?

That makes sense bro - thanks. I was kinda getting worried because I'm eating a shitload of protein right now and was concerned that I might as well have been eating sugar!! Good to know that it's more like eating extra oats/rice/etc though.

 

[gonelifting]

IN layman's terms:

Roughly 40-70% of it would turn into glucose to be used as fuel (depending on a number of different factors), and would act as a low GI carb (unless its whey protien which might yeild a higher GI due to its absorbsion rate).

The other thing that would happen quite fast is a noticable drop in testosterone productions, and elevated SHBG levels. This almost always happens with men when they eat a meal that contains less than 20% of its calories from fat. So that anabolic effect of the protien be reduced. And without EFA's present, new muscle tissue doesn't grow anyways. So if one were to go on a protien only diet (zero carbs and fat), one would gain virtually no muscle mass during this time. It would eventually kill you of course. Not the lack of carbs, which can be sythesised from protein, but lack of fat.

I was hoping to get your input on this. Thanks. But I did NOT mean I would be eating protein only for every meal of the day. I was thinking of when I down a shake because of lack of time and I happen not to have some flax or olive oil with it.

Right now my diet is (I know you disagree with this because I`ve seen your previous posts on this subject) Protein and carb meals exchanged with protein and fat meals throughout the day. I actually, primarily have pro/fats all day and save the pro/carbs till after my workouts for 2 meals where I load up on them. Then I start off the next day all over again with Pro/fat again for the days meals. What do you think of that?

I`m doing slightly different than that right now, but it was my diet at one point.

 

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I was hoping to get your input on this. Thanks. But I did NOT mean I would be eating protein only for every meal of the day. I was thinking of when I down a shake because of lack of time and I happen not to have some flax or olive oil with it.

Right now my diet is (I know you disagree with this because I`ve seen your previous posts on this subject) Protein and carb meals exchanged with protein and fat meals throughout the day. I actually, primarily have pro/fats all day and save the pro/carbs till after my workouts for 2 meals where I load up on them. Then I start off the next day all over again with Pro/fat again for the days meals. What do you think of that?

I`m doing slightly different than that right now, but it was my diet at one point.

The first two effects I decribed will happen even if its just an occasional meal.

 

[gonelifting]

The first two effects I decribed will happen even if its just an occasional meal.

How about the diet I posted above? Do you think seperating them like that with the carbs at the end of the day would still be OK?