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Re: Don't want to lose weight
No, the problems I listed are not specific to mental health and even anxiety is actually caused by overeactive countegulatory hormones (epinephrine) a problem commonly lamented by and see on people who suffer from the same glucose metabolism impairment I suffer from. There's a good book by this poor english woman who was diagnosed as mental ill because of reactive hypoglycemia and went through **** and overprescriptions until she found out what she suffered from and cured everything with diet. I don't want to risk being misdiagned by someone who doesn't understand my glucose metabolism problems.
On pag 89 I have a sample menu for a diet of 20 grams of carbs.
On pag 112 I have the carb ladder
I was tracking my carbs on a meal by meal day by day basis, by mind or writing it on pieces of paper I throw away. I'm not taking a diary. Should I?
More might mean like an extra peach, two slices of whole wheat bread instead of one, adding legumes to my meal. Like 15 grams of carbs more.
I also realized that balancing meals is psychologically hard for me.
What I mean is that when I used to eat an high carb diet, it was hard for me to think of something to add to my main carb meal (i.e pasta and veggies, rice and greens) and the idea of cooking a piece of meat, sausage or boiling an egg to balance the carbohydrates seemed complicated and annoying.
Likewise on a low carb diet, it is hard for me to think of something to add to my main low carb meal (i.e meat and veggies, eggs and greens) and the idea of cooking a bit of beans or whole grain, toasting a small slice of bread or boiling half a sweet potato seems complicated, counterintuive and annoying to me.
Clearly the "extremes" are more practical and less limiting. Eat everything as long as is low fat. Eat everything as long as is low carb. Don't think about combining, balancing or having a main serving and a side dish.
Intuitively the eating system that makes more sense is a main dish of meat and vegetables plus one or two pieces of fruits after your meal.
At this point I just need to find the amount of carbs per meal that works for me. On induction you have probably 7 grams of carbs per meal. At the point I reached in OWL I was probably on 15 grams of carbs per meal. On an high carb diet I was consuming 70 grams of carb per meal.
So I need to find a good compromise between 15 and 70 while also finding a practical way to eat based on such levels (i.e. based on normal servings and not on micro-portions to weight, with the rest spoiling in the fridge and one flavour covering the rest: a "zone" sandwich with 15 grams bread and 30 grams ham anyone?)
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As I've said in my previous post, that's because the way you've been adding carbs back is not how you should have done it if you were following Atkins.
Can you open your book on page 89 and check #1 and #2 there? And then open it on page 112 and read the section that starts there? Also, just to make sure we're talking about the same book, could you tell me what you have on this pages in your book? I wouldn't want to give you advice from a different book as your problems are already very serious.
Can you open your book on page 89 and check #1 and #2 there? And then open it on page 112 and read the section that starts there? Also, just to make sure we're talking about the same book, could you tell me what you have on this pages in your book? I wouldn't want to give you advice from a different book as your problems are already very serious.
On pag 112 I have the carb ladder
You said you're tracking your carbs. So can you post here a graph showing your carbohydrate intake since you began low carbing? Like, day on the x-axis, carb intake on the y-axis?
What does "more" mean? More than what? More by how much? And from what foods?
I also realized that balancing meals is psychologically hard for me.
What I mean is that when I used to eat an high carb diet, it was hard for me to think of something to add to my main carb meal (i.e pasta and veggies, rice and greens) and the idea of cooking a piece of meat, sausage or boiling an egg to balance the carbohydrates seemed complicated and annoying.
Likewise on a low carb diet, it is hard for me to think of something to add to my main low carb meal (i.e meat and veggies, eggs and greens) and the idea of cooking a bit of beans or whole grain, toasting a small slice of bread or boiling half a sweet potato seems complicated, counterintuive and annoying to me.
Clearly the "extremes" are more practical and less limiting. Eat everything as long as is low fat. Eat everything as long as is low carb. Don't think about combining, balancing or having a main serving and a side dish.
Intuitively the eating system that makes more sense is a main dish of meat and vegetables plus one or two pieces of fruits after your meal.
At this point I just need to find the amount of carbs per meal that works for me. On induction you have probably 7 grams of carbs per meal. At the point I reached in OWL I was probably on 15 grams of carbs per meal. On an high carb diet I was consuming 70 grams of carb per meal.
So I need to find a good compromise between 15 and 70 while also finding a practical way to eat based on such levels (i.e. based on normal servings and not on micro-portions to weight, with the rest spoiling in the fridge and one flavour covering the rest: a "zone" sandwich with 15 grams bread and 30 grams ham anyone?)
). Did you decide what your strategy will be from here? Will you keep doing what you've done until now and just randomly test foods? Will you increase your calories from fat and protein and add just a few more carbs from the foods you learned you can tolerate? Will you test new foods in correct OWL amounts? 
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