At least from what I see what you post about food, you still eat a high amount of starchy carbohydrates (white flour, potatoes, etc). These can really affect your blood sugar levels as well...I notice even when I eat rice pasta that I get a little weird.
Have you thought about perhaps taking a week or so off of these things to see if that helps?
No, I mostly eat vegetables. I almost never eat potatoes (where are you getting this?) Everything I make at home with flour is using soft whole wheat flour. I don't get any sort of mood change or what-have-you after eating, say, pasta or whatever... I feel just the same as after other food, although like most people a large amount of pasta will make me a bit sleepy.
When I do eat "white starches" they are in a smaller proportion to the other food involved.
I did cut those things out in 2000, for months, along with dairy, and it made no difference in my body.
Btw, since potatoes are full of vitamins, fiber, and phytonutrients, I think it is silly to lump them in with processed carbohydrates like stripped white flour and processed sugar.
I have just been going by what you've listed in your journal, which I'm sure is nowhere near a complete list of what you eat -- but there are several mentions of pasta, sugar free whatever (but usually some form of cookie), breads...
Since you brought the issue up in relation to the sugar-free cookies, it just alterted me to the other mentions of food in your journal and i went back and looked throughout the past 2 weeks.
I find it very difficult to eat on the "go" being gluten free and often find myself just eating french fries and a salad because it is easier when i'm swamped with 100000 other things to do and my office is filled with cakes and brownies and other things I do not want to eat right now.
I think this is a pretty good example of your food issues, not mine: I have had sugar-free cookies (and indeed, cookies at all) only once in the last month, and that was Wednesday night.
I just went back through the last two weeks of my journal (as you say you did), and found two mentions of pasta (egg noodles) and one mention of cookies (the entry you originally responded to.)
So really, it looks from here as though this is all you, not me; I mean, your perceptions are way off.
WRT eating on the go, I find that packing my lunch is ideal. It means I have nutritious and interesting food at my fingertips.
Good questionbrandywilliamsNovember 9 2007, 16:42:07 UTC
I wonder what Splenda is made of. Have you read Twinkie, Deoncstructed? It sources the polysallbic ingredients which are in most of our food. We're mostly eating rocks, tree bark and petroleum, no wonder our food is weird.
I have found that when I'm feeling like I have low-blood sugar (which for me manifests as whacked out emotions,) the best thing for me to eat is something with protein in it. I usually reach for something like a bit of ham and cheese. If I'm really on the edge and need something that will be absorbed quickly, I'll have a glass of milk or some yogurt.
Smell is the sense most closely tied to memory. Maybe you have good memories associated with eating pastries. :)
Good luck--you sound like you are doing a kick-ass job with this!
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Have you thought about perhaps taking a week or so off of these things to see if that helps?
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When I do eat "white starches" they are in a smaller proportion to the other food involved.
I did cut those things out in 2000, for months, along with dairy, and it made no difference in my body.
Btw, since potatoes are full of vitamins, fiber, and phytonutrients, I think it is silly to lump them in with processed carbohydrates like stripped white flour and processed sugar.
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Since you brought the issue up in relation to the sugar-free cookies, it just alterted me to the other mentions of food in your journal and i went back and looked throughout the past 2 weeks.
I find it very difficult to eat on the "go" being gluten free and often find myself just eating french fries and a salad because it is easier when i'm swamped with 100000 other things to do and my office is filled with cakes and brownies and other things I do not want to eat right now.
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I just went back through the last two weeks of my journal (as you say you did), and found two mentions of pasta (egg noodles) and one mention of cookies (the entry you originally responded to.)
So really, it looks from here as though this is all you, not me; I mean, your perceptions are way off.
WRT eating on the go, I find that packing my lunch is ideal. It means I have nutritious and interesting food at my fingertips.
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Hope you feel better!
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Smell is the sense most closely tied to memory. Maybe you have good memories associated with eating pastries. :)
Good luck--you sound like you are doing a kick-ass job with this!
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