You see all the ads on TV about eating cereal in the morning. They make me cringe when they suggest it's a good way to lose weight.
Not cereal. Cereal of most types is a bowl of sugar. Even with some whole grains, it's still a sugary way to start the day. And it will for sure spike your blood sugar and you'll be hungry.
A better breakfast would be cottage cheese, some berries, coffee with sweetener....or even eggs and bacon with most of the fat drained away.
No orange juice. I admit I take a mouthful of OJ with my iron pill in the am. Can't give that one up.
I continue to be horrified at the diet advice given to Type 2 diabetics. Cut down on those carbs and cut down on your insulin and metformin, I say. And 30 minutes at least on the treadmill every day even if you are active.
In Canada, the RDA for carbs is 300 grams! Yikes. We try and stay under 50. My husband has lost 30 lbs. and my father 22, and I'm hovering still at the 65 mark. Need to get at it.
Watch those carbs. Eat as few as possible. My husband has a piece of toast with peanut butter on it in the am, none at lunch, and a bun or something at supper with his protein and veggies. He's a big blueberry eater. We both take vitamin D, 2 grams a day, as we live in Canada well North of the Mason-Dixon line.
In the winter I will have oatmeal once in a while, with ground flax added, and a sucralose brown sugar. Maybe a few almonds thrown in.
We also eat a lot of Greek salad. Can't get enough. So we eat a modified low-carb Mediteranean diet. It is the best.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
They just don't get it, or don't want to.
They just don't get it. Or they don't want to.
I'm starting to be a conspiracy theorist. Or maybe people simply don't want to believe that our bodies haven't had enough time to evolve to process carbs that well. Oh well.
If you read what Jennifer Aniston or any other normal weight adult, with a few exceptions, eats, they just don't eat MUCH and they eat extremely carefully. She talks about watching the carbs.
The simple fact is that our body burns fat when it doesn't get carbs. For almost everyone except Type I diabetics, this is a good thing. Two thirds of us are overweight. Designers are going into the large sizes because there are fewer and fewer small people. That is not a good thing.
For those of us with BMIs over 30, we need to burn fat. The only way to do that is to deprive our body of carbs so it switches to burning fat. And our body is well able to do so. It always gets its fuel. That is why anorexics die -- the body, lacking fuel from either carbs or proteins, starts using lean muscle mass for fuel, including the liver and heart. But we are not going there.
I was looking at my favourite yogourt at the store. It has 25g of carbs per serving. Too damn much. Very few options for low carb yogourt. I could only have that one yogourt, a slice of bread, and a few other incidental carbs during the day to stay under 50g. And half an hour on the treadmill plus taking a lot of steps during the day will burn several pounds a week. I stay satisfied with some lean meats and right kinds of fats like olive oil and avocados, or nuts.
When people talk about ketoacidosis roll your eyes as it's not likely you are going there. You do want to burn fat and eat lean protein. I prefer South Beach to Atkins, but that is my preference. I lost my gall bladder a few years back (and am glad of it) so like to keep the balance of digestive fluids at the optimum.
It's biochemical truth that carbs make fat. If everyone ate half of their daily carb intake for several months, North America would lighten up considerably. Archer Daniels Midland or the other big food companies might not like it, but it would be a good thing.
I'm starting to be a conspiracy theorist. Or maybe people simply don't want to believe that our bodies haven't had enough time to evolve to process carbs that well. Oh well.
If you read what Jennifer Aniston or any other normal weight adult, with a few exceptions, eats, they just don't eat MUCH and they eat extremely carefully. She talks about watching the carbs.
The simple fact is that our body burns fat when it doesn't get carbs. For almost everyone except Type I diabetics, this is a good thing. Two thirds of us are overweight. Designers are going into the large sizes because there are fewer and fewer small people. That is not a good thing.
For those of us with BMIs over 30, we need to burn fat. The only way to do that is to deprive our body of carbs so it switches to burning fat. And our body is well able to do so. It always gets its fuel. That is why anorexics die -- the body, lacking fuel from either carbs or proteins, starts using lean muscle mass for fuel, including the liver and heart. But we are not going there.
I was looking at my favourite yogourt at the store. It has 25g of carbs per serving. Too damn much. Very few options for low carb yogourt. I could only have that one yogourt, a slice of bread, and a few other incidental carbs during the day to stay under 50g. And half an hour on the treadmill plus taking a lot of steps during the day will burn several pounds a week. I stay satisfied with some lean meats and right kinds of fats like olive oil and avocados, or nuts.
When people talk about ketoacidosis roll your eyes as it's not likely you are going there. You do want to burn fat and eat lean protein. I prefer South Beach to Atkins, but that is my preference. I lost my gall bladder a few years back (and am glad of it) so like to keep the balance of digestive fluids at the optimum.
It's biochemical truth that carbs make fat. If everyone ate half of their daily carb intake for several months, North America would lighten up considerably. Archer Daniels Midland or the other big food companies might not like it, but it would be a good thing.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)