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How did I beat sugar? If you willpower through the first few days (weeks?), it gets lots easier. The cravings die down a lot.
Of course, as I said in my other post, I'm off the wagon right now. Here's what happened: I wanted to improve my son's diet. So I started cooking for him. I figured I wasn't going to get him to stop eating sweets, so I started baking chocolate chip cookies. I use really good ingredients. Omega 3 eggs. Grass fed butter. And I sustitute white wheat flour and ground flax seed for some of the flour. And, of course, I add walnuts. But here's the flaw in my plan. No way I'm baking chocolate chip cookies and not eating some of them myself! ![]()
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Ummmmm so can you be my mum too? THOSE SOUND AMAZING!!! I have no willpower. (See: I started smoking again.) I have read every book about willpower but it gets lost somewhere in my perpetual exhaustion haze.
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Do you (ideally) cut out all carbs, or just refined ones? I'm curious.
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My pain's in my lower back. I think it has to do with pushing a large baby out through my pelvis.
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They are so frickin' good!
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![]() She doesn't call it Atkins because it's so stigmatized. When I was at my best - before I fell off the wagon - I ate lots of meat, eggs, and veggies plus some cheese, cream, butter. No sugar. Virtually no grain.
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For me though, I think it's that I work in an office where smoking is the norm. Everybody smokes, which then triggers me to "just bum a fag" (and amuse you Americans in the process) once or twice, then buy "just ten", then suddenly I'm back up to 20+ per day. Man, I feel terrible about myself even writing that.
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The latest diet craze here is Dukkan -- cause of the infamous Pippa Middleton buttocks -- which is also low-carb. I'm convinced people just re-package the Atkins thing now to make the money without the stigma. Quote:
I just . . . don't know what I'd eat if I didn't eat carbs.
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I'm not sure how he explained away the 13 month pregnancy, but he must have been right. After all he was the one with the medical degree - not her.
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Yeah, you've mentioned your diet before. I'd be diabetic in no time eating the way you do.
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Low carb diets vary a lot. Even what people define as low carb varies. Some say under 30 g of carbs per day. Others allow 100 or more. And everything in between. I used to be active on a forum for people eating low carb diets of various stripes. It's interesting, but honestly some of those people have some serious food issues IMO. There are some who are grain-free and dairy-free. At some point you've eliminated so many food groups, there's not much left to choose from. ![]()
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I do know somebody who eats only fruit "willingly offered by the tree". He also works in derivatives trading. I strongly suspect there is cocaine involved in that scenario somewhere.
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Oh, and I know you mentioned fats like cheese, butter and cream -- what about things like olive oil? Are those OK in your low-carb diet?
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Atkins has basically two books: Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution from, I think, 1972 and Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution from 2001. The diets are slightly different. Some people swear by one or the other. There are a number of other popular low carb diets. They basically come down to the same thing with various tweeks and quirks. I don't know that I could pick one over the others to recommend. I think of myself as following Atkins. That's sort of my home port. ![]() South Beach - maybe a bit higher in grains I think Protein Power Carbohydrate Addict's Diet (CAD) - I think they allow one carb binge a day but they may have taken that out of later editions, this is the low carb diet Oprah tried and it didn't work for her - not surprising that falling face first into a bowl of mac and cheese once a day will spike the old insulin levels Schwarzbein Principle - she's really into adrenal fatigue as well as low carb, she has you eliminate caffeine (Atkins does too, but I ignore that part, harder to ignore with Schwarzbein) Some of the paleolithic diets are popular in the low carb world, but there was a huge break fairly recently with the paleo folks disavowing low carb. Intermittent fasting is popular because you get the effect of lowering insulin levels. I love Gary Taubes's Good Calories, Bad Calories (my copy was in my car when it went into the lake ![]() Taubes has some very good lectures online. I don't have time to track them down now. The man is very, very smart. He's worth listening to. But the lectures are generally over an hour long. ![]() Quote:
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Olive oil - yes!
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anyway.
thanks...everyone...
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Oh, praise be! My "salty" craving is always vegetables in olive oil, salt and some kind of herb (or garlic). I love it, best salad ever.
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![]() I worry that I obsess about my diet and my weight because I was made fat on the drugs. It scares me, how obsessed I get. I tried the South Beach diet, actually -- when I was fat. It did nothing, but I was on the drugs at the time and this I would have noticed neither health effects nor weight loss. I remember there being quite a bit of grain, actually. Certainly not less grain than I would normally eat. This appeals to me in name only. CAD!!! ![]() Quote:
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Somehow I get the feeling bacon is not involved :'( I did love bacon. Quote:
I'll look him up, thanks. I always like science more than I like enthusiastic bantering about how great everything can be and how much better I will feel and how tasty everything is and how I'll **** diamond dust and piss unicorn tears if I eat just so.
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Oops! I guess we hijacked your thread, sorry.
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..i was happy to see over 40 responses. but then none were for me...
my online presence always imitates my real life presence around people ignored ignored ignored
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Trigger Warning: ER incompetence/testing?
Newtus, I'll see if I can't look up some of that stuff for you. I'm not a doctor or anything, but I am apparently a master at google. I'm going to be getting some blood work myself after I see the neurologist tomorrow to see what my EEG said. My psychiatrist wrote down a huge list of levels we could check for psychosis. Like...things to check to see if what I have is physical instead of mental. I also has a CT scan on my head done at the ER when I went in, to rule out sudden brain issues (I was presenting with loss of speech...when really I was just...very slow to respond, I became convinced my brain was dying). That's when they pulled the whole 'welp, nothing showed up on the CT, so to the psych hospital you go!' But...yeah, legally they couldn't -make- me, and there weren't any beds free anyway, so luckily I went home with my mom. Who has been trained to be a psych hospital tech, so...there wasn't much difference besides me being more comfortable/feeling safer at home with her while I waited a day before being rushed into my psychs office and put back on anti-psychotics. So...basically we're treating 'as if' I have schizophrenia, due to my symptoms, but we're also currently testing for a bunch of other stuff, which I think is what doctors are -supposed- to do, since a lot of physical stuff can cause psychosis, from what I've read. And there I go, typing a huge thing again when really I meant to say 'yes, they should totally check for stuff'. xD; |
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I did respond to you, newtus.
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thanks
he actually wasnt checking for things causing psychosis. ive been through that a long time ago before. he was checking to make sure i didnt do drugs. he sent me through a drug urine screen and i told him seroquel almost gave me diabetes so he did lab work for that but i just caught that CO2 stuff by myself. seriously. thank you but im done here. im done caring for myself. i went off my meds. if i have a mental problem and im not helping myself im not gonna go get help for anything like diabetes. i just dont care about myself or my life. i just dont. im not planning on committing suicide but if i die from diabetes so be it. im in a lot of physical pain right now and its prob that. costellos story about her aunt or somehing pretty much is how mine goes. plus more. im not committing suicide unless you say letting myself die from a sickness is suicide since i DO plan for that. its just all games this world.my life. ill nver be taken seriously ill always be ignored. it doesnt matter what i do my life is going to be not only te same for now but its getting worse. i doubt anyone here can relate to me. i have no insurance anymore. im headed down a homeless path that is largely outt of my control. i cant work on or off meds so i just stay off. i just sick of trying to care. its time i go down the rabbit hole for good. idc anymore guys...sorry... my time on this forum is coming closer and closer to a close. i have not much to say anymore and theres nothing for me here.
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