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Haha, jag, you should've mentioned stuff about tumors only AFTER she showed you high results, which probably wasn't even going to happen.
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leo said:When many of you say "I can't handle" or "I don't do well" or whatever when talking about foods...you are referring to digestion? Gas? Bloating? My problem is I can eat anything and not get a bad reaction so I cannot say if something is doing me service or not. The only thing that has ever caused me diarrhea was eating a huge mango in one sitting. And now on peat I have off on constipation which I never had in my life so I'm figuring due to low fibre. I don't eat now...but used to eat starches and also did not get digestive reactions.
j. said:leo said:ITOO MUCH PROTEIN. Yes....and not followed by enough sugar!!
I think it's more important for protein to be preceded, not followed, by sugar. Glycogen stores (sugar stores in the liver) should be full when you consume protein, otherwise the protein will be wasted as energy. That's why RP advises one glass of orange juice (fructose) and of milk (lactose) about 15 minutes before eating an egg.
Often, when I consume fruit juices or milk, a few minutes later I'm craving an egg. I think that's because the glycogen stores are full and my body is ready to process that egg.
leo said:Frustrated is an understatement.
Is there one soul out there that continues to eat in this way and not inflate like a balloon??
I cannot continue to gain weight like this. Fundamentally anything that causes this much weight gain cannot be healthy....I cannot accept that I have to get fat to get high temps. And what has me second guessing this is that I considered myself very healthy prior to peating. It is only now, that I get flagged labs. Only now high blood sugar. Only now that I had issues with bp. Only now that I am constipated. My only improvement to how I was prior to peaking is better sleep and better energy.
My greater problem however, is after having read Peat and wanting to believe it is the better path, and then now having to return to a lesser path. I wanted peating to work...but I cannot go back to being overweight. I do not understand the people here who are doing so well and not gaining weight? The minute I try to space more time between meals, or try to reduce portion sizes, my temps plummet. I am so tempted to throw that damned thermometer away and never even give a flip about my temperatures! I feel I am missing out on life...trying to get this perfected. My friends are out lunching and I am at home counting macronutrients.
Sorry to rant. I really had high hopes. I love sleeping better. I love eating fruit again as well as milk. There are things about this I truly appreciate more than my other way of eating. But for all the hype about how unhealthy low carbing is, no one can deny it is the best tool to lose weight. I lost over 35 lbs and have kept it off effortlessly for over 4 years. Only now have I begun to gain....had I stayed at it I believe I would have been a success story and not a yo -yoer.
I also feel lost of this forum. I'm not complaining....only frustrated at not having what I need when I need it.....I like to have a plan always. I know everyone is busy....everyone is finding their own way. But there are not a lot of answers for me. It is as vague as Peat himself. Try this...maybe that...give it time. If I give it time I may be overweight (not healthy) again very soon. So many of you are young....and male.....and that makes it all the more easy. I am 61 yr old female....it takes a lot more for me to lose a pound. I think Peat has always been one of those skinnie minnies who doesn't gain a pound ever with that amount of milk he drinks...unbelievable. I have to be very careful not to enter my senior years with excess weight and flagged lab tests. I do not want to undo all the good I've done over these past few years when I finally got into taking care of my own health.
So you see I am on the fence and frustrated. I fundamentally believe in Peat, yet theoretically it is not working for me. If there were a way to fine tune this for my needs, but I haven't been able to find it. Lowering calories lowers temps...it's a plain as that. Lowering sugar lowers temps. How to lose weight without lowering temps?
Million dollar question.
frustrated said:3) Focus on fruit,milk, starches (starches are perfectly fine if you don't have symptoms)
leo said:If I ditch refined sugar how do I sweeten the coffee?
leo said:What??????
Tumor???
Well that settles that. I will NOT test for prolactin now thank you very much. I am not going to go looking for a tumor now, when all I'm feeling is frustration over gaining weight.
Jeez. I appreciate your time, but really. Tumor???
j. said:Haha, jag, you should've mentioned stuff about tumors only AFTER she showed you high results, which probably wasn't even going to happen.
leo said:ps. years ago I developed bad rhinitis from living in tropics and many places being mold infested. A naturopath put me on lemon water and a combo of histamine 1 and 1 blockers. I had never heard there were different kinds. Most otc brands are 1, and zantac which is for acid reflux is a 2. The combo did wonders...it went away....and did not come back when I revisited the moldy places. I took atarax/zantac combo for 5 days. I know healing through nutrition is best, but when all else fails......
sara n. said:It can be very helpful and even necessary to take an H2 blocker like Zantac, and I do when the itching and formication get bad, but I think it is important to note that H2 blockers (and even all H1 blockers to a minor extent) reduce stomach acid. This can be really bad for someone like me with digestion and GI problems. After years of taking high dose Zantac, I developed a very nasty reflux problem. Now, when I take Zantac, I have to take Betaine HCL, or I get bad reflux again, which really complicates my need to reduce iron absorption. I also do take hydrocortisone in physiological dose daily, and also take prednisone as needed when in a bad flare. I try to avoid doing high dose pred tapers though, but have had to do many in the past, and will no doubt have to do them in the future. This also complicates my "peating" because when I push trying to incorporate allergen containing Peat foods too hard, I end up having to do higher doses of antihistamines, higher dose HC, and maybe even some pred doses or a full on pred taper. Which doesn't improve anything.