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Re: Michelle - Re: ADA Diet and PCOS
From: Michele (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:46:38 -0500 (CDT)
Hi Molly, What happened with me is when my endo confirmed the pco
diagnosis and put me on met, I called her back and said shouldn't I be
on some kind of diet. She said yes and had me make an appointment with
the dietician at her office. Most endo's do specialize in diabetes, so
this is a diabetic dietician, I did have to challenge her a little on
how many carbs, that is when she showed me the diet she set up for me
was low carb, then she said it was okay to increase my protein a bit
more and not be so strick on the no fat. I have added some fat back
into my diet. Anyway the whole thing is covered by my insurance. So if
you have an endo who has already prescribed glucophage for you, call
back and ask her for a referral to a dietician on your health plan.
There are also books in the book store, but many of them use artifical
sweetners in there recipes and I don't use artifical stuff. So I am
just careful about the sweets an sugar added to dishes. This is where
the exchange part of it is helpful, because if you do cheat some, you
can compensate by adjusting somewhere else during the day.
At Wed, 26 Jul 2000, molly wrote:
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>Michele,
>
>Is there info somewhere on the net for the ADA diet? What type of
>dietician would I look for who would know about this? What does ADA
>stand for? American Diabetes Association? Or is it easier just to read
>Sugar Busters?
>
>What do you think?
>
>Loads of thanks,
>
>--
>Molly
>
>At Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Michele wrote:
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>>Hi I am on the ada diet. My dietician and I tweaked it a bit. My ada
>>diet does not have 300 grams of carbs per day. I am on a 1200 calorie
>>diet at that level, I am only taking in 100-120 carbo grams a day. We
>>are focused first on complex carb veggies, then protein, then whole
>>grains, and 3 to 4 small pieces of fruit. This is working for me I have
>>lost at least 8.5 pounds. And along with the meds my insulin has come
>>down 9 points. Also I am trying to avoid foods that have a high
>>glycemix index, even though I have not cut out all sugar from my diet I
>>am still losing weight. The ada diet is most similar to sugarbusters.
>>Sugarbusters is more extreme with it's limits on intake of sugar based
>>foods. Also my endo and dietician said 100-120 is low carb, anything
>>lower then that is extremely low carb. They told me when you eat less
>>then 100 grams of carbs a day, the liver starts thinking it needs to
>>produce more glucose to make up for what your not taking in, more
>>glucose means more insulin, which we don't want. The trick is to eat
>>small frequent meals to keep your hormones level.
>>
>>At Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Linda wrote:
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>>>>Does the ADA diet work better than low carbing? Any success stories with it?
>>>
>>>I'm on the road right now and can't access my files at home. But my
>>>recollection with the ADA diet is that the amount of carbohydrates each
>>>day is about 300 grams (and that's just counting the strictly carbo
>>>foods, not the carbos that are present in other foods). I've tried that
>>>diet for the better part of 4 years with little or no success in losing
>>>weight. (At least I didn't gain!)
>>>
>>>--
>>>Linda
>>>
>>--
>>michele
>>
--
michele
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