Low Carb Support Group

i eat ww pasta once in a while, but i really have to watch my portions or before i know it, i'm really overdoing it.

and i bake ww sourdough bread for my kiddo, so once in a while, i'll indulge in a slice hot from the oven.

i really try to get my extra carbs from veggies though--squash and sweet potato especially. or from nuts and seeds.

i'm still recovering from my fudge fiasco. i think i caught it in time though. my IR seems to get better once i've been lc'ing for a while, so that i seem to be able to tolerate the carby's for a little while. but again, i have to really watch it, or i've got cysts again and reactive hypoglycemia, and i get super moody.

 

Yeah, I did notice my hypoglycemia is a LOT more under control when I am lc'ing. I also have LVAS and that seems to be a lot easier to handle when I avoid a lot of carbs.

When I am eating healthy, all I really eat is raw veggies and tiny amounts of meat if any. I do eat peanuts or peanut butter (raw) if I don't eat meat though. And I add a tablespoon of olive oil to my daily salad. I don't do fruit, I don't really care for it that much and I get my fruit needs met with the two cups of orange juice I drink per day. I add liquid vitamins to my orange juice. As for my carbs, I eat either rice, a rice cake, or a rice noodle dish about once a day. Although lately I've been eating it more than once a day but you get the basic idea.

 

sure, diane schwarzbein is excellent and she outlines a vegetarian low carb plan and has a lc veggie cookbook. I think out of all the lc 'plans' i like hers the best. she talks about healthy fats vs trans/hydrogenated fats, puts an emphasis on organic foods, etc...

even if a person doesnt want to follow a lc way of eating, there's a lot of excellent information about nutrition and body chemistry in most of the low carb books that i've read. some of the books seem to be more of a sales pitch than a sharing of information and that really turns me off (the guy who wrote the south beach diet comes to mind).

i eat a lot of protein. i find that my body functions better with ample protein on board. i'm careful about the protein that i eat though. my hormones can go out of balance really easily so i avoid soy, and try to eat hormone free meat.

 

what? i dont really understand what you're trying to say here. it sounds like you have some pretty serious issues with your kidneys. it also sounds like you should be following the advice of your friendly health care provider as far as diet and nutrition goes. be well!

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anyways, my sugar holiday is officially over. whew. i've gotta hit the veggie market tomorrow. i just spent a few days at my mom's place...she works at a pasta factory, so you can imagine what meals are like at her place.

 

fave carbs are brown rice, tortillas,popcorn, & corn muffins

 

There will probably always be debates about which is more important carbs or protein. I found this info about protein online about protein....yes I know this thread is about low-carb. Usually a low-carb diet means most people will have a high-protein intake.

How much protein do we need? The RDA recommends that we take in 8/10ths of a gram of protein for every kilogram which we weigh (or about 0.36 grams of protein per pound that you weigh) (1). This recommendation includes a generous safety factor for most people. When we make a few adjustments to account for some plant proteins being digested somewhat differently from animal proteins and for the amino acid mix in some plant proteins, we arrive at a level of 1 gram of protein per kilogram body weight (0.45 grams of protein per pound that you weigh). Since vegans eat a variety of plant protein sources, somewhere between 0.8 and 1 gram of protein per kilogram would be a protein recommendation for vegans. If we do a few calculations we see that the protein recommendation for vegans amounts to close to 10% of calories coming from protein [For example, a 79 kg vegan male aged 25 to 50 years. His RDA for calories is 2900 calories per day. His protein needs might be as high as 79 kg x 1 gram/kg = 79 grams of protein. 79 grams of protein x 4 calories/gram of protein = 316 calories from protein per day. 316 calories from protein divided by 2900 calories = 10.1% of calories from protein]. If we look at what vegans are eating, we find that between 10-12% of calories come from protein (3). This contrasts with the protein intake of non-vegetarians which is close to 15-17% of calories.

So, in the US it appears that vegan diets are commonly lower in protein than standard American diets. Remember, though, with protein, more (than the RDA) is not necessarily better. There do not appear to be health advantages to consuming a high protein diet. Diets which are high in protein may even increase the risk of osteoporosis (4) and kidney disease (5).

 

i'm lovin all of this turkey i stocked up the freezer with a couple of extra birds. BUT, i was talking to my brother, who just spent a year working in the turkey and chicken feed industry, and he told me that the factory farmed poultry in canada is mostly fed soy~60% of their diet! that's not what birds are supposed to be eating! and another 25% of their diet is made up of shorts (waste from flour refining, it's the wheat husk and some flour), also not what birds should be eating. At least here in canada, they dont feed the dead birds back to the rest of the poultry...he was telling me about the "protein recovery plant" ::shudder:: any birds that are sick or that have died before they're supposed to are sent to the protein recovery plant and then they're sent down to the states to be fed to birds in poultry plants there. yumm!

i wish i could afford to eat only organic range meats or wild meats. i've read a lot of info about soy and what it does to hormonal balance, and i choose avoid it in my own diet. it seems ridiculous to be eating 'soy' chicken and 'soy' turkey. it makes me wonder what all the soy does to the normal hormone levels in the poultry. and then in turn what it would do to my own hormone levels.

 

'Twas on Atkins fer about 3 months, an in that time, I lost about 30 pounds, got more muscle, and shrunk my man-boobs to a managable size. Since then, my metabolism's picked up, an now i can eat jus about anythin without gainin weight.

 

that's cool, FreakyJoeMan. the same kind of thing happened to my ex. he's one of those tall lean types who's never had a problem with being overweight in his life. when i started making lc meals all the time, he bulked right up, and gained a lot of muscle mass.