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Originally Posted by fishsandwich
I wish your son would do the things, too. I would poke him with a stick for you if I could!!
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I wish you could!
He does take a stab at it occasionally, but things like this need to be done consistently. And they take time. It's not like taking a pill that changes everything fairly quickly. Lifestyles changes take effort applied consistently over a period of time. And they tend not to completely cure so much as to make things better. My son tends to be an all-or-nothing type of guy. If he's still struggling with issues, then "it didn't work"!
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And I'm looking to change my diet because I'm so hungry all the time, but I don't know to what? Wheat is out for sure; I think meat and dairy are too because they make me quite ill. But that leaves me back where I am now??
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It's surprising to me how many people who've used lifestyle changes to recover from MI say they don't eat meat. It doesn't make sense to me from an evolutionary point of view, but I guess you can't argue with success?
I don't know. Seems weird to me, but who am I to say different.
I feel most sated on a diet with adequate protein and lots of fat. The "healthy" diet currently pushed by dieticians would make me feel hungry all the time because it would keep my insulin levels too high. I'm insulin resistant and would be diabetic pretty quickly if I ate that way. Since I've been eating more fish, I've been hungry more, so I added back in quite a few carbs (last night I had chowder, for example, and the night before that tuna casserole - potatoes and noodles). I've gained weight and my energy level - which is never high, in the best of times - has slumped.
In short, I don't know what to tell you about that. I've played with my diet a lot, and I'm still stratching my head. Of course, I'm a 50 year old menopausal woman. My hormonal challenges are going to be different than yours.
Good luck!
