I have been trying the Rosedale diet for a couple of
weeks and have a question about protein comsumption. 
Rosedale warns about consuming too much protein
because excess protein is converted to sugar which is
not desirable to keep the body in the mode of
fat-burning.  My question is if I am eating liberal
amount of fat, enough to supply all of my energy
needs, how does excess protein get metabolized?  Here
is a for instance

Breakfast:  8 oz (pre-cooked weight) ground lamb cut
into links.  About 40 g protein.

Lunch:  6 oz (after cooking weight) duck, turkey
drumsticks, goose or beef stew.  2-3 tablespoons of
fat/oil.  About 40 g protein.

Dinner: 6-7 oz (after cooking weight) meat of some
sort.  2-3 tablespoons of oil.  

Leafy and non-starchy veggies usually at two of the
meals.  

I ask this question because I have often woken up in
the middle of the night sometimes wide awake and
sometimes cannot go back to sleep.  For a while I was
eating a very high protein diet with insufficient fat.
(And before that I was eating lots of carbs in various
forms.)  I suspect I was keeping my body in
sugar-burning mode.  I have cut back on my protein a
bit and have upped my fat intake.   There have still
been some nights that I wake up after 3 - 4 hours of
sleep.  Rosedale recommends 15-20 grams of protein 3-
4 times a day.   So again my question is if I am
eating lots of fat does excess protein still get
channeled into gluconeogenesis?

Mike

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