According to CAD, eating carbs only once a day, and all within an hour,
mitigates the insulin response.  I guess I'm hoping to "have my cake and eat
it, too," by eating enough carbs to avoid an anxiety response without
impacting my weight-loss goals.

Any comments from research or personal experience would be appreciated.
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It is certainly possible to combine the paleo and CAD approaches, and in
fact I find that this is the combination that works best for me.

By eating carbs only once a day, you pretty much guarantee that the carbs
you do eat will get sucked right into glycogen storage in the liver, and
then trickled out during the course of the remaining 23 hours as needed. 
This is why the insulin response should be less, because it takes little
insulin to mediate the uptake of glucose by the liver, providing there is
room for it.  And if you're only eating one meal with carbs per day, there
will be.

The advantage of this system, from my perspective, is that it makes it much
easier to be done with eating for the night at dinner.  If my evening meal
is too low-carb, and (normally) I have mental work to do at night, I will
get strong cravings by 8 or 9.  If I'm going to have a problem, this is the
time.  But if I get a solid amount of carb at dinner, such as a sweet
potato, I'm done for the night.

Plus, doing this seems to minimize the need for gluconeogenesis, which in
turn should help to keep the cortisol level down.  Being up late at night
is already a cortisol trigger, but we have to live our lives.  To combine
it with glucose depletion so that our livers have to be pumping out glucose
seems to me pointless.

I think that the people for whom the CAD approach fails often misunderstand
the "reward meal" concept as an invitation to binge on heroic amounts of
carbs.  I find that 30-50g is plenty at that meal, and during the day I
have almost none, except for some berries and maybe a small piece of fruit
in the morning.

Todd Moody
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