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Post by studentofthegame on Sept 26, 2011 6:30:08 GMT 10
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/hypoglycemic_diet.htmli have felt much better on this diet when i've used it in the past but i have never been able to stay on course for very long. i'm starting again tomorrow and gonna try and stick to it as closely as possible. if anyone can clarify the avoidance of sugar - i avoid it in tea, don't eat chocolate, fizzy drinks, cakes, simple carbs etc... but something like a small tin of baked beans contains 5gs of sugar - is this too much? because baked beans are seen as a superfood in certain sections of nutritional literature and it seems a shame that the sugar in the tomato sauce means they are to be avoided. what are we saying about sugar quantities? is there an acceptible amount of sugar to consume or is it a case of have none at all? cheers guys 
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Post by dave1307 on Sept 27, 2011 4:01:21 GMT 10
5g of sugar is nothing basically. You are doing great if you avoid the foods with added sugar. If you eat whole foods, then you don't really need to count your sugar carbs. Except if you are really sensitive to sugar, then you would have to make sure to avoid high sugar whole foods like carrots, and certain fruits.
With the baked beans, and stuff like that, if you get organic then it is generally good to go.
Good luck! Do you know why you haven't been able to stay on the diet in the past?
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Post by studentofthegame on Sept 27, 2011 6:28:57 GMT 10
Good luck! Do you know why you haven't been able to stay on the diet in the past? i think its the following reasons: 1.i live with the parents and i'm not always doing the shopping 2.i find it difficult to ignore sweets and deserts, even if its only once or twice a week i'll eat some 3.alchohol - again, may only be a few drinks on a friday or saturday night, havent been able to avoid it! |
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Post by dave1307 on Sept 27, 2011 14:30:26 GMT 10
Yep that's tough. For me, the only way I've been able to stay steady is because of the reasons that I do so. If I eat something I'm not supposed to, I will feel the negative effects which will be like a traumatic event. So then every few months I'll test it, like with a pizza, and so far the effects have not gone away, so then I avoid those foods for a few more months and try again. My situation is a bit different, where my test foods are usually pretty healthy anyway, I couldn't test like dessert foods or alcohol even.
So maybe try to narrow your focus on the reasons that you want to maintain a healthy diet, and on why you want to avoid certain foods and alcohol. It might be motivational even to just realize that this is your life, and you are going to take action to improve it, or die trying (as the saying goes). It's like you can almost get a glimpse of how you're life would be different (maybe it's just a small change you're looking for or a huge transformation) and then you act because of that goal.
That's kinda the way I see it. Put in the work now, see the benefits later. Be creative if possible.
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Post by studentofthegame on Sept 27, 2011 20:48:56 GMT 10
yeah that's a great way of looking at it.
perhaps the fallout i get when i eat the wrong food is less noticable than yours, i think it's an accumulation of letting the bad habbits creep back in that catch up with me eventually. what are the symptoms you get when you eat a pizza for example?
first day of the diet yesterday, ate very well, lots of water, and when i woke up this morning at 6.30 am i ate breakfast and went back to sleep until 11.30. i don't know why i am sleeping at strange times, especially as this year is the least phsyically active i've been in about 4 or 5 years
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Post by dave1307 on Sept 28, 2011 1:58:22 GMT 10
yeah that's a great way of looking at it. perhaps the fallout i get when i eat the wrong food is less noticable than yours, i think it's an accumulation of letting the bad habbits creep back in that catch up with me eventually. what are the symptoms you get when you eat a pizza for example? first day of the diet yesterday, ate very well, lots of water, and when i woke up this morning at 6.30 am i ate breakfast and went back to sleep until 11.30. i don't know why i am sleeping at strange times, especially as this year is the least phsyically active i've been in about 4 or 5 years I don't really like to talk about my symptoms to certain foods, because most of the time people don't believe me, and they tell me to not take food so seriously etc etc. The pizza that I would test would be gluten free, without tomatoes even, with cheese. Basically, I eat the pizza, these toxic food particles get into my blood, wreak havoc on my brain, and cause several hours (even days) of related anxiety. Believe it or not! Haha. My condition can be described as hypersensitivity. Where it gets kinda complicated is before I did this elimination diet. I think I was eating these foods so often, that my body had built up and was used to a ton of antibodies. So I was operating at a very low immune function, because my immune system had to deal with these toxic food particles all the time. At least now I understand things more. |
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Post by studentofthegame on Sept 29, 2011 7:27:50 GMT 10
i hear ya. my reasons aren't stuff i especially like to talk about either, essentially i think i'm more prone to depression and anxiety than i would like to be, i'm trying to cover all my bases and self-help as best i can. it's always a conflict in my mind though because one part of me wants to live as clean as possible, with correct diet, early morning runs, early nights, living like an athlete. the other part of me just wants late nights, out with the boys, drinking too much and eating crap food. sounds to me like you are pretty clear in your own mind what is good for you and what needs to be done
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Post by dave1307 on Sept 29, 2011 13:39:04 GMT 10
I understand what you mean! The thing is, getting diet in order and other things like that, you can be creative and still do the fun stuff that you love. I still go out to bars etc., but I just drink water. Granted, my life is a bit limited in some ways because of my food issues, so I need to get things to a healthier state to be able to do more things.
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Post by studentofthegame on Oct 6, 2011 7:16:38 GMT 10
do you have a fairly rigid diet then dave or does it change day to day?
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Post by dave1307 on Oct 7, 2011 10:41:34 GMT 10
It's fairly rigid. It changes though over a few weeks or a month or two: because I change strategy slightly.
Right now I eat backwards, so I eat dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner. So a typical day might be (not including various spices etc): (organic) broccoli and ground beef for breakfast, brown rice for lunch, and fruit for dinner.
--->This is also basically a combination diet
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