OWL: How do you know a food is a problem?

[MarlaSinger]

How do you tell the difference between problematic foods and normal weight loss variance?

I've had wine twice in a week. My scale is up by 3 pounds for the week. (I am not sweating the change in pounds, it's also near tom, I have made flax meal a more regular part of my diet, I am exercising more - all of these things together seem to make a 3 pound 'gain' meaningless.) What should my next step be with wine? I don't want to banish it until I know for sure. I feel it's important to have a good process for the rest of OWL. I don't want to cross foods off my list that are beneficial only because I jumped to the wrong conclusions. I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking that oats or strawberries or almonds will cause weight gain just because I falsely attributed a normal weight holding pattern to it - and then watch that falsehood confirm itself in a woosh of loss showing on the scale.

I guess what I am asking is, for those of you who've successfully pinpointed foods your diet can't withstand, how long was the process before you ruled it out?

[not2late]

Re: OWL: How do you know a food is a problem?

How do you tell the difference between problematic foods and normal weight loss variance?

I've had wine twice in a week. My scale is up by 3 pounds for the week. (I am not sweating the change in pounds, it's also near tom, I have made flax meal a more regular part of my diet, I am exercising more - all of these things together seem to make a 3 pound 'gain' meaningless.) What should my next step be with wine? I don't want to banish it until I know for sure. I feel it's important to have a good process for the rest of OWL. I don't want to cross foods off my list that are beneficial only because I jumped to the wrong conclusions. I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking that oats or strawberries or almonds will cause weight gain just because I falsely attributed a normal weight holding pattern to it - and then watch that falsehood confirm itself in a woosh of loss showing on the scale.

I guess what I am asking is, for those of you who've successfully pinpointed foods your diet can't withstand, how long was the process before you ruled it out?

I knew what my body did during my TOM. So during that time, I avoided adding anything new or changing anything around.

As for individual foods, I looked at my loss (inches and pounds) and also the Blood Sugar Instability Symptoms Test. I found that the blood sugar symptoms gave a "faster" indication if a food was a problem, than the foods effect on the loss.

[liv]

Re: OWL: How do you know a food is a problem?

I did not use the scale as an indictor. I lose very slow and what happened on the scale seemed not to matter except that I believe that there is a CLL somewhere and that when I hit it I was more careful. Did you add more carbs with the 5th rung as well?

As for individual foods it was more how I reacted to them. Some give me what I call "sugar shock" I can just feel the woo from them. So those (like brown rice or cantaloupe) I can only have in tiny quantities or not at all. Or maybe with a piece of fat (like cheese or butter or something)
Other things cause cravings for more of the same or for more foods. Coffee is one of those items for me - most nuts, salty stuff.