Re: diet help and carb cravings!
From: tera (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:52:16 -0600 (CST)
Hi!
I agree that we should not be cutting out veggies and fruit and that we
need to be smart as to which ones we choose to eat. For help, go to
atkinsfriends.com. That site has a carb counter that lists almost every
food known to mankind! This counter has helped me make smarter decisions
with my food.
About the breads and pastas. Lowering your carbs in general is good for
your health and good for your PCOS. If weight loss is your goal, some
women can lose weight by including breads and pastas and some cannot.
You'll have to test it out and see how low you have to go with your
carbs in order to lose. God bless, Tera
At Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Anne wrote:
>
>Victoria,
>
>I'm glad you're not giving up fruits and veggies, but you do need to be
>careful about which fruits and veggies you eat.
>
>I recall that bananas and grapes are high glycemic and should be
>avoided, at the least moderated. There are lists on the internet of
>high glycemic fruits and veggies.
>
>Fruits and veggies contain high fiber, antioxidants, and vitamins. The
>antioxidants in them cannot be bottled - many have not yet been
>discovere/isolated. The incidence of diabetes in true vegetarians is
>very low.
>
>I tried doing a "balanced diet" that was low glycemic, eating lean
>meats, a tiny amount of rice - unless it was brown, and veggies and
>fruit, but, for me it didn't work, my glucose continued to go up despite
>being on glucophage. I guess I'm beyond the point where I can eat that
>way, otherwise I would eat as you are.
>
>The high fiber approach is working for me. I am feeling great on a
>mostly veggie diet. I do eat chicken when I go out, but I'm not eating
>red meat - don't seem to want it anymore.
>
>Cutting out caffine is a really good thing to do too. The other thing
>to do is limit diet drinks to those that contain splenda (diet rite has
>splenda and no sodium), otherwise you might as well be drinking the
>sugary ones - our bodies respond just the same to neutrasweet as to
>sugar.
>
>You can have bread, pasta and rice if you have them as unrefined as
>possible.
>
>Best bread - stone ground sprouted wheat
>Best rice - brown basmatic rice (takes 45 minutes to cook, make it on
>the weekend, refrigerate it and nuke it when you want it).
>Pasta - wheat pasta (but only on occassion - for me at least).
>
>Good luck with the diet changes, they aren't fun, but life is, so eat to
>live.
>
>Anne
>
>At Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Denise wrote:
>>
>>Hi Anne,
>>
>>That's very interesting that you should say that. I've started to modify my eating to remove as much bread, pasta and rice from it as possible. I'm going to eat more protein. The difference is I'm not giving up fruits and veggies. I'm munching on apples, grapes and bananas, to give my body healthier carbs. I'm also working on cutting out as much caffeine as possible and drinking more water. I don't know if it will work or not, but I think maybe the natural types of carbs might be something worth trying. My body needs some carbs for all the exercise and extra curricular activities I do.
>>
>>Victoria
>>
>>> From: anonymous@medispecialty.com (Anne)
>>> Subject: Re: diet help and carb cravings!
>>
>>> I can't understand how not wanting a vegatable can be good, it seems
>>> that the good carbs are being forgotten in low carb diets and
>>> potentially increasing risk for other diseases such as cancer.
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Tera
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