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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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I said it in your other thread, but I don't think you should have to help people who aren't helping themselves. It's not your battle; you can only be an ally.
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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.
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I've been a vegetarian since I was 9 or 10 years old; long before any mental illness. Well, I was diagnosed with Autism/Asperger's but the vegetarianism was because I just flat-out refused to eat meat. It gives me a terrible stomach ache; I've never figured out why.
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Originally Posted by costello
I feel most sated on a diet with adequate protein and lots of fat.
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I do too. It's perfectly possible to get enough protein on a vegetarian diet. I also eat some fish, but eh. I still get very hungry.
I think part of that is that I'm convinced (though medical science is not) that anti-psychotics mess with hunger hormones. Some of those drugs were like on-switches for my pasta gene.
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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.
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My hormones are little bastards. I'm considering using a diet recommended for women in the menopause because I just don't know what else to do.