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Well guys - have discovered something interesting.
Like I said I was losing a pound a day, but that was while I stayed dairy free, no soda, and no coffee, not even decaff. But in the last three weeks I have gained 3 pounds back, and all I did was add dairy back in. Not added back in huge amounts either. Typically a spoon of cream on a very few berries, or a little cheese, a few ozs a day that's all. And I also have started to feel spaced out and brain foggy - so I'm quite sure it's the dairy. I recognise this may be candida from googling around. So, today I start back dairy free - shame as I love the stuff. thanks Martin |
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Martin Barrett wrote:
Well guys - have discovered something interesting. But in the last three weeks ... all I did was add dairy back in. Not added back in huge amounts either. Typically a spoon of cream on a very few berries, or a little cheese, a few ozs a day that's all. Using the eliminate-and-challenge principle to find personal problem ingredients it doesn't take much. And I also have started to feel spaced out and brain foggy - so I'm quite sure it's the dairy. This shows an interesting feature of eliminate-and-challenge processes - It is much easier to notice a symptom returning when an ingredient is added back in than it is to notice a symptom disappearing when an ingredient is removed. And to think that "spaced out and brain foggy" likely used to be your normal state back when you regularly had dairy. Intolerance to dairy proteins and to lactose are common. You will want to double check at some point - In a few months of dairy free try adding a little dairy again and see if the same thing happens. You don't want to drop dairy forever if you just happened to suffer an alergy from pollen this time! To be extra sure a few months down the line you may want to try it a third time "three strikes and you're out" is a lot more certain than "one strike and you're out". After you've done those experiments you may want to consider some variations on the theme each a couple of months after the previous experiement. Try parmiaganna as the cheese with the lowest lactose - If you have no reaction to it you are likely lactose intolerant not dairy protein intolerant. Then try goat milk or cheese made from it (several types of spreadable goat cheese are delicious), then sheep milk or cheese mae from it (the finest romano is made from sheep milk for example). That will cover all the easily available options and take about a year for trying something every other month. I recognise this may be candida from googling around. Given how common intolerances to either dairy proteins or lactose are, there is no reason to think this before isolating dairy proteins and lactose. So, today I start back dairy free - shame as I love the stuff. My sympathies. I'm wheat intolerant so I need to permanently consider wheat a personal poison to be avoided. The only breads I can have are ones that are wheat free and those aren't ever low carb. The only pasta I can have are wheat free and those are high carb alternate grain ones like quinoa or the Japanese shirataki noodles. And so on. What helped for me - As soon as I discovered that for me wheat is poisonous I scheduled a confirmation test a month or two out and then a "three strikes and you're out" triple check a month or two after that. When both repeat tests gave the same symptoms so I could be certain it was wheat specifically, I decided that wheat is toxic for me. A personal poison. All of the bad symptoms it triggers are how my personal poison hits me. I made a huge adjustment to my attitude based on those tests. Wheat for me went from yummy but missed high carb temptation to evil poison lurking on the ingredients list lurking in there to make me sick. Attitude *matters*. Finding such a personal poison and permanently avoiding the toxic stuff made a permanent improvement in my helath level and I'm sure you'll experience the same. Even better news - I'm more than 9 years into avoiding toxic wheat at this point. In my first years I avoided anything that might even have a trace of wheat. After about 5 years I got a little lax and tried some cream of vegitable soup at a restaurant without asking how it was made. I got tiny symptoms not huge symptoms. Very cool - I need to actively avoid wheat my whole life but if I get accidentally dosed by a trace amount that 5 year of avoidance was enough that the intensity of symptoms from an accidental dose is now lower. There's some sort of system that regular dosing increases the reaction and regular avoidance decreases the reaction. |
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Martin Barrett wrote:
So, today I start back dairy free - There are dairy free alternatives you may want to check out. "Chreese", soy based cheese alternative, milk made from soy or nuts, tofu isn't the only bean curd that can be found just the most common. shame as I love the stuff. A common feature of food intolerances - They trigger addictive behavior patterns. It's not just that I love wheat, it's that wheat is my worst binge trigger of any food I've ever tried. The good news is that once I had detoxed off wheat for several weeks I found that I had stopped craving the evil toxic stuff. It became easy for me to avoid it. The bad news is one bite is enough to redose me into addictive behavior patterns. Avoidance is key for me when it comes to my trigger food wheat. I bet you will experience the same pattern with dairy. And yet, and yet. Certain substitutes don't trigger addictive behavior patterns in me. Pasta made from the rare grain quinoa doesn't trigger a binge in me at all. It's just carby enough I need to limit it to a meal every couple of months. But if I eat it it doesn't trigger a desire for real wheat pasta. My best guess is you'll be able to use substitutes to some extent, and since they won't trigger addictive behavior reactions you'll find it easy to only have substitutes most weeks or most months easily limited. It may not seem like it now, but I think discovering a personal poison like this is going to be very good news for you in the long term. Symptoms to enforce avoidance. Getting spoiled by a permanent improvement in health. Using substitutes that taste good but don't pressure you to eat them more often. |
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Have you ever tried Carbquik or Carbalose flour? It's wheat but something
has been altered. Doug Freyburger wrote: | | The good news is that once I had detoxed off wheat for | several weeks I found that I had stopped craving the evil | toxic stuff. It became easy for me to avoid it. The bad | news is one bite is enough to redose me into addictive | behavior patterns. | | Avoidance is key for me when it comes to my trigger | food wheat. I bet you will experience the same pattern | with dairy. | | And yet, and yet. Certain substitutes don't trigger | addictive behavior patterns in me. Pasta made from | the rare grain quinoa doesn't trigger a binge in me at | all. It's just carby enough I need to limit it to a meal | every couple of months. But if I eat it it doesn't trigger | a desire for real wheat pasta. | | My best guess is you'll be able to use substitutes to | some extent, and since they won't trigger addictive | behavior reactions you'll find it easy to only have | substitutes most weeks or most months easily | limited. | | It may not seem like it now, but I think discovering a | personal poison like this is going to be very good news | for you in the long term. Symptoms to enforce avoidance. | Getting spoiled by a permanent improvement in health. | Using substitutes that taste good but don't pressure | you to eat them more often. |
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"FOB" wrote:
Have you ever tried Carbquik or Carbalose flour? *It's wheat but something has been altered. I haven't tried it. I know some ultra-refined wheat flour does not have whatever makes me sick - A low pizza change carried a "lower carb crust" for a while. When I tried it it did not trigger any symptoms so I concluded it was wheat free. Made with soy flour or something. One day I called it wheat free and the guy behind the counter scowled and read me the details on the label. It had wheat flour in it that had been treated somehow. I guess the "lower carb" claim was part how cracker thin the crust was compared to normal (I used to like the rare true cracker crispy thin crust pizza when I could find it) and part something like that pasta that claims the carbs aren't digested. No way the crust had actually been low carb, just "lower" like the menu said. The chain has since dropped the product and I now get pizza from a place that does a crust of pressed sausage. Thanks for the suggestion. Homemade pizza crust. Worth trying. Worst case is a day of indigestion and fever, two days of triple farting, several nights of very loud snoring, a bit of detox to turn off the cravings. I've been there, done that, got that teeshirt so it wouldn't be a disaster for me at this point. |
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