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The Two-Week Test marks a period of time in which your insulin levels are moderated because your carbohydrate intake is decreased. It is not the purpose of the test to restrict calories or fat. It merely restricts moderate- and high-glycemic carbohydrates. Nor is its purpose to avoid all carbohydrates, or go into ketosis (a metabolic state where chemicals called ketones are produced in the body due to an extremely low carbohydrate intake) like other low-carb diet regimes. And there’s no need to weigh food or count grams or calories. Most importantly, this is not a diet. Just eat what you’re allowed and avoid what should be avoided, properly snack, and don’t get hungry, all for two weeks. The Two-Week Test is best performed during your aerobic base period, and periods when you’re not competing or involved with anaerobic training. However, many athletes have successfully completed the test during these phases of training without problems. Before you start the test, ask yourself about the signs and symptoms of carbohydrate intolerance described above. Write down the problems that you have from this list, along with any and all other complaints you might have. This may take you a few days as many people are so used to certain problems they can’t recall them all at once. This is very important because after the test, you will review these complaints to see which ones have improved. Next, weigh yourself before starting the test. During the test you may lose some excess water your body is holding, but you’ll also go into a high fat-burning state and lose body fat. I’ve seen some people lose only a few pounds during the test, and others twenty or more pounds. This is not a weight-loss regimen, and the main purpose of weighing yourself is to have another sign of how your body is working, especially after the test. ARE CARBS ADDICTIVE? Carbohydrates, especially sugar, can be addictive. Some people have trouble accepting this notion because, surprisingly, there are no clear scientific studies to demonstrate that claim. Many health-care professionals have struggled to help patients who could not reduce or eliminate sugar despite its unhealthy hold on them. While we don’t have a clear scientific study that shows addictive properties of sugar or other refined carbohydrate foods, studies do show that sugar and high-glycemic foods can trigger the brain’s reward centers. These are the same brain areas stimulated by cocaine, nicotine, and other widely accepted addictive substances. The fact that sweet-tasting and so-called comfort foods can be addictive is well accepted—and even proven—by the very companies who employ marketing as a powerful tool to sell these products. Food advertisers who spend billions of dollars each year know very well about addiction and how to tease and tempt you with foods that can end up killing you. These ad campaigns are especially successful with teens and children, and they are not unlike those used by the tobacco industry for so…
The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing
Philip Maffetone and Mark Allen
The first is that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. And second, that we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong. We misread them. We misinterpret them. Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.
David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell
Whatever small doubts they might have harbored over RKO’s prospective publicity efforts, however, the Disneys had a much greater issue with their new distributor—one they almost seemed afraid to broach. As naïve as it may have sounded after their nearly fifteen years in the film business, they had no idea what to charge exhibitors for the film and no idea what RKO’s return to them might be, which they fully realized made them vulnerable to RKO’s machinations. The larger studios typically sold their films in blocks, so their advice wouldn’t have been particularly helpful to a studio with only one feature to sell. What the Disneys needed was an independent producer to guide them, of which there were very few in Hollywood at the time. As it turned out, the knight who rode to their rescue was Walt’s old idol, Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin offered to give the Disneys all his “records and experience,” most importantly his ledgers from Modern Times, which permitted Roy to press RKO to “go out and ask Chaplin prices” and to get the same terms in foreign markets as Chaplin had gotten. Thanking Chaplin after Snow White’s release, Walt called it an “invaluable service” and wrote, “Your records have been our Bible—without them, we would have been as sheep in a den of wolves.”
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