"douglerner" wrote in message
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On Apr 9, 10:44 am, "Stormmee" wrote:
at least you have your blood sugar down, and cravings have stopped. maybe
instead of freaking out think of "reasonable" protions, and start
eliminating things like mayo, chicken skin, do that for a bit and see what
happens, increase water when you start reducing these other things, and
also
maybe start journalling now so you are in the habit if you decide to
return
to calries, truth is doug, anything you do no matter how small in the
right
direction is an improvement, i mean, while you prefer to lose, not gaining
is better than gaining, good luck and please post often, Lee
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"Thanks, Lee. Yes, getting back to journaling - which I've been doing
the last 3 weeks - is an important step for me.

And what you say about cutting out the most outrageous things on
Atkins, such as mayo, chicken skin, etc., might not only be helpful,
but be sort of like WW "Filling Foods" but avoiding all the high-
glycemic trigger foods on the WW list."
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** What are the high glycemic trigger food on the WW list? I'm really
curious to know.
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Maybe the WW list needs to be poured over and some things removed (for
me). I think they just tried to keep it simple by saying "all fruits"
and "all veggies" even though some fruits and veggies clearly have
different "sugar load" effects than others, and some can be very high
calorie.
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**You ate: "All the butter, mayo, fried chicken skin, thin slices of
fried pork (zero sugar bacon essentially) and all those things..." (quoted
from your post)
while trying to get back on track, but won't eat some fruits and veggies
because they have
too many calories?Bacon has high calories, no nutrition, no staying power.
Avocado
are high -ish calories, lots of staying power, full of nutrition...
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If you eat strawberries, broccoli and spinach you are going to eat
less calories and less carbs than if you eat bananas, corn and mashed
pumpkin. But the "filling foods" lis treats them all the same way,
which I think is odd.
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**Because they are worth the calories. They are full of nutritional values
will keep you from getting hungry quickly. That's the whole point, eating
the
right foods in the right quantities. If I eat pumkin, I'll be filled with
less than
if I eat let say chips.

To come back to the avocado, compared to the strawberries it takes a lot
more
strawberries to be satisfied (as in not hungry anymore) than it does
avocado. I'll
sit and eat 1+ cups of strawberries. a serving of avocado is 1/4 of an
avocado.

Again Doug, it's all or nothing, bacon, fried chicken, butter and mayo...
or no pumpkin, banana, avocado because they have too many calories.. that
doens't make sense to me.

Maybe if you let yourself eat bananas, and pumpkin, and grains, the fatty
stuff won't be calling your name so much.