Jeffrey Jaime, CISSPServant Leader & CEO Driving AI Innovation and Team Excellence

Avoiding the Stress of Restricted Eating

13 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube conversation (uploaded Feb 13, 2025 by Jeffrey Jaime, CISSP) about the costs of overly strict dietary rules and a physiological explanation for how macronutrient use at rest shifts with carbohydrate restriction. Speakers argue that rigid avoidance (e.g., avoiding charred meat or plastic bottles) can create a stress response that outweighs benefits and reference the 80/20 rule as a pragmatic approach. One speaker explains respiratory quotient (RQ): a lower RQ indicates relatively greater fat burning and less carbohydrate burning, and restricting carbohydrates during the day can lower RQ and increase fat oxidation.

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The stress response that you get if you get super fixed, sated on don't touch receipts and don't drink out of a plastic water bottle if it becomes where it's more stressful than it's worth. And I think you're what you're saying, your approach is so logical because like, okay, maybe you like having a charred piece of meat and you don't want to feel stressed out about it. So maybe having the rosemary and having these other things, knowledge is power. They take that 8020 rule and also remembering that stress is also something that's very damaging to the body.
The technical term for this from a physiological standpoint would be your respiratory quotient, your rq. The lower your RQ the greater amount of fat and the less sugars that you're burning at rest. So by lowering your RQ you're going to increase fat burning by restricting carbohydrates for example, until the evening. You'd have a lower RQ during the day.