CentralCoastIan
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I will preface my comments saying that keeping grains to a low definitely makes me feel better overall--less endotoxin symptoms, lessened weight gain, and lowered appetite. I would also like to state that a lot of this will be speculation, and I will be using anecdotal evidence; so, keep that in mind.
I would like to point out that minimal grains combined with large amounts of sugar might be beneficial for some coming off a low-carb of very low-carb diet. When I first reintroduced carbohydrates into my diet after being low-carb, I tried a low-fat vegan diet hoping it would give me more energy. I failed terribly and it only lasted a week, on top of that it left me with worse constipation, stomach cramps, depression, and fatigue. This is when I found Matt Stone's work, I was extremely skeptical at first, but I was intrigued and though, "Well, I've tried everything I can think of... Why not?" So, and mind you this was late at night when I was reading his work, I decided to just completely pig out on the cupcakes my father had just gotten from the foodbank. Why? Well, nobody was awake, so I didn't have anybody scrutinizing my decision, and my body was in such dire need of sugar that I basically cried when I ate them. Sugar. For the first time in over a year. I knew they were littered with PUFAs, grains, sugar, and other ingredients I considered garbage at the time. I proceeded, though, and good thing I did! Well, to my family's astonishment and disapproval, I told them I would begin embarking on carbohydrates again, but in forms many would consider junk (sugar, turnovers, donuts, pie, cake, any sort of pastry), and so I did. They were worried, "Oh, you worked so hard to lose weight," and, "Dude, you're just gonna gain the weight back," and other variations of these statements. Well, I followed through with my statements and began to eat all kinds of sweets and junk-food sweets--utter bliss!
I'll make a side note that I also was drinking less fluids and eating a lot of salt (though, I reintroduced coffee after a few weeks of RRARF, mostly in the form of buttered toast with salt and sugar, and buttered potatoes.
Anyway, I was having a lot of insomnia problems with my low-carb diet, waking up in the middle of the night feeling like my heart was about to pop right out of my chest, despite my "kickass, grok inspired, low-carb paleo diet". Well, my family had been going to a lot of foodbanks around this time--the sweets they have are actually quite delicious--they give out a lot of bread. So what did I do? I ate copious amounts of buttered toast with salt and sugar, I mean 10 pieces at a time (sometimes 15!). Well, this surely had the effect of quelling my anxiety and stress hormones, additionally it warmed me up (the first time I had been warm for about 4 months!). As I continued to do this, I did gain weight indeed, and I honestly told myself, "**** IT, I've dealt with this crap long enough, and I will stick with this program because it makes me feel 'right'." This feeling of "right" was a feeling of warmth, calmness, general well-being, fullness, and energy (I believe this is what we should be achieving on a Peat diet).
So as time went on, I happily went to the foodbanks every weekend, and continually pigged out on apple turnovers, muffins, cupcakes, cookies, cake, pumpkin pie, cherry pie, donuts. I could easily down 4-6 large apple turnovers (holy ***t, what's the calorie and PUFA count of that?). I noticed I was eating a lot of grains, so naturally, I praised them; however, I didn't notice at the time, these items were also very high in sugar, if not higher. Over time, I gradually lost the weight I had gained still eating 3000+ calories a day, and I basically praised Matt Stone like someone would a deity. My libido was very high, I gained muscle I never had before, I looked pink and healthy, I lost the dark sunken circles and wrinkles under my eyes, hell, I didn't even have to concentrate that hard on my schooling and still received good grades (A's and B's) in my Chemistry, Biopsychology, English, and Music Theory classes. I felt alive!
This, I guess, is where my speculation comes in and says that in the right context, sweet/pastries (made with saturated fat) can really help somebody that cannot handle many liquids/fruits (as I couldn't) and needs a lot of sugar to help their thyroid heal. Eventually, I would recommend switching to more fruits and liquids once the thyroid has healed.
So my story seems paradoxical with what many Peat members seem to believe, high calories and starches, yet losing weight, not a lot of mineral/vitamin consumption. I would like some thoughts on this belief of starches with lots of sugar for some who are underweight and eating low-carb.
I would like to point out that minimal grains combined with large amounts of sugar might be beneficial for some coming off a low-carb of very low-carb diet. When I first reintroduced carbohydrates into my diet after being low-carb, I tried a low-fat vegan diet hoping it would give me more energy. I failed terribly and it only lasted a week, on top of that it left me with worse constipation, stomach cramps, depression, and fatigue. This is when I found Matt Stone's work, I was extremely skeptical at first, but I was intrigued and though, "Well, I've tried everything I can think of... Why not?" So, and mind you this was late at night when I was reading his work, I decided to just completely pig out on the cupcakes my father had just gotten from the foodbank. Why? Well, nobody was awake, so I didn't have anybody scrutinizing my decision, and my body was in such dire need of sugar that I basically cried when I ate them. Sugar. For the first time in over a year. I knew they were littered with PUFAs, grains, sugar, and other ingredients I considered garbage at the time. I proceeded, though, and good thing I did! Well, to my family's astonishment and disapproval, I told them I would begin embarking on carbohydrates again, but in forms many would consider junk (sugar, turnovers, donuts, pie, cake, any sort of pastry), and so I did. They were worried, "Oh, you worked so hard to lose weight," and, "Dude, you're just gonna gain the weight back," and other variations of these statements. Well, I followed through with my statements and began to eat all kinds of sweets and junk-food sweets--utter bliss!
I'll make a side note that I also was drinking less fluids and eating a lot of salt (though, I reintroduced coffee after a few weeks of RRARF, mostly in the form of buttered toast with salt and sugar, and buttered potatoes.
Anyway, I was having a lot of insomnia problems with my low-carb diet, waking up in the middle of the night feeling like my heart was about to pop right out of my chest, despite my "kickass, grok inspired, low-carb paleo diet". Well, my family had been going to a lot of foodbanks around this time--the sweets they have are actually quite delicious--they give out a lot of bread. So what did I do? I ate copious amounts of buttered toast with salt and sugar, I mean 10 pieces at a time (sometimes 15!). Well, this surely had the effect of quelling my anxiety and stress hormones, additionally it warmed me up (the first time I had been warm for about 4 months!). As I continued to do this, I did gain weight indeed, and I honestly told myself, "**** IT, I've dealt with this crap long enough, and I will stick with this program because it makes me feel 'right'." This feeling of "right" was a feeling of warmth, calmness, general well-being, fullness, and energy (I believe this is what we should be achieving on a Peat diet).
So as time went on, I happily went to the foodbanks every weekend, and continually pigged out on apple turnovers, muffins, cupcakes, cookies, cake, pumpkin pie, cherry pie, donuts. I could easily down 4-6 large apple turnovers (holy ***t, what's the calorie and PUFA count of that?). I noticed I was eating a lot of grains, so naturally, I praised them; however, I didn't notice at the time, these items were also very high in sugar, if not higher. Over time, I gradually lost the weight I had gained still eating 3000+ calories a day, and I basically praised Matt Stone like someone would a deity. My libido was very high, I gained muscle I never had before, I looked pink and healthy, I lost the dark sunken circles and wrinkles under my eyes, hell, I didn't even have to concentrate that hard on my schooling and still received good grades (A's and B's) in my Chemistry, Biopsychology, English, and Music Theory classes. I felt alive!
This, I guess, is where my speculation comes in and says that in the right context, sweet/pastries (made with saturated fat) can really help somebody that cannot handle many liquids/fruits (as I couldn't) and needs a lot of sugar to help their thyroid heal. Eventually, I would recommend switching to more fruits and liquids once the thyroid has healed.
So my story seems paradoxical with what many Peat members seem to believe, high calories and starches, yet losing weight, not a lot of mineral/vitamin consumption. I would like some thoughts on this belief of starches with lots of sugar for some who are underweight and eating low-carb.