I have to say I'm starting to get into the swing of eating low carb. I went shopping today and I looked at the old junk foods I used to like and I kept seeing them as OMG, I can't eat that poison anymore. There was a touch of wistfulness, but mostly I felt aghast that the foods I used to love, pizza, bagels, etc, were so very bad for me.
I'm having more energy and less hunger. My hunger is of a different quality too. I don't feel ravenous and I get full much quicker. I'm not used to it. I keep serving myself too much food, expecting that I'll want the same amount as I did before, but with the absence of carbs prompting insulin appetite surges, I'm satiated much more easily.
I went to see a nurse this morning and she was telling me that I should be eating 40 to 60 grams of complex carbs, per meal, and did the usual thing of showing me the portion plate with it's small servings of meat and carb next to double veggies. I told her that carbs send my blood sugar up. She said I need carbs for energy. I said you should watch Sugar is Toxic, and told her about how fructose doesn't bump your blood glucose because it is turned to fat in the liver. She was all hmmm... and wrote down the youtubery names I dropped. She scratched the bottom of my feet and wrote a bunch more stuff on my chart. I asked for a referral to a bariatric specialist and she said that sounded like a good idea.
After getting some history - I'm a new patient to her - I told her about how I've got a rare disorder, one in a million and they don't really know a whole lot about how it comes about. Just as an aside, because the diagnosis - Lawrence Seip syndrome - doesn't seem very relevant, except if it would be helpful treating it. And so far it hasn't helped at all. I was asking about fat panels and lipid profiles, because I wanted to know if they tested for the differing sized LDL particles, since the pattern B - for bad, small dense ones are more closely associated with Coronary Heart Disease. I have high triglycerides, and there's a correlation between them and the LDL pattern B, so I'm assuming I gots bad levels. Anyhow, at one point she said something like "maybe we are putting too much pressure on you to exercise and lose weight, maybe your weird metabolic disorder makes that impossible. I gave her a look I'm sure.
It's bizarre that when I'm finally gaining some traction in terms of doing summat effective around my health, through the simple act of changing what I eat, the nurse lady, is well you should just not even bother worrying about it. She's a nice lady, just she seems very much stuck in the typical paradigm of all calories are equal, lose weight through exercise etc. That's another thing, I think when you are burning fat, or when you're body is in balance you naturally have more energy and exercising is not an exhausting chore. You do it for the good endorphins and it makes you healthier and just plain feels good. I'm thinking I'm gonna like using my body again, because I already feel better doing stuff.
Anyhow, I was telling her I want to take less drugs - the diabetes drugs, the cholesterol, blood pressure, etc meds, do I really need ALL of them? And she said I'll print out a list and you can show it to your specialists and see what they think. Hmmm...I'm going to see what my next blood tests say and go from there. I really think that by 6 months time, I'll be able to stop with the medications, and my fatty liver will have shrunk down from biggie sized. Knock on wood and all that. Seems to be working.
WHAT I ATE TODAY
10:00 am
2 jumbo eggs
50g mozzarella
1 cup cauliflower
butter, oil, salt, pepper
2 cups coffee
2:50 pm
100g smoked salmon
2 T cream cheese
sprouts
3 cherry tomatoes
75g strawberries
5:20 pm
can of jalapeno sardines
6:15 pm
1/2 of McDouble no bun, 3 slices pickle, titchy bit of mustard
1/2 a piece of grilled chicken
1 and 1/2 regular coke zero
7 - 12 pm (movie)
1/2 cup peanuts
1/3 cup almonds
a little more than half of the total 8g
1 1/2 cups coffee
1:10 am
2 oz striploin, cold sliced
1/2 chicken thigh, cold sliced
1 1/5 oz cheddar and mozzarella
1/2 boiled egg
3 T cream cheese
5 cherry tomatoes
daikon
alfalfa sprouts
ice berg lettuce
pickle
mustard, salt, pepper
diet cola
BLOOD GLUCOSE - INSULIN DOSING
9:30 am
before breakfast
7.4
2:49 pm
before salmon plate
6.8
5:10 pm
after salmon etc
7.3
1:20 am
just after meat and cheese plate
5.9
I'm having more energy and less hunger. My hunger is of a different quality too. I don't feel ravenous and I get full much quicker. I'm not used to it. I keep serving myself too much food, expecting that I'll want the same amount as I did before, but with the absence of carbs prompting insulin appetite surges, I'm satiated much more easily.
I went to see a nurse this morning and she was telling me that I should be eating 40 to 60 grams of complex carbs, per meal, and did the usual thing of showing me the portion plate with it's small servings of meat and carb next to double veggies. I told her that carbs send my blood sugar up. She said I need carbs for energy. I said you should watch Sugar is Toxic, and told her about how fructose doesn't bump your blood glucose because it is turned to fat in the liver. She was all hmmm... and wrote down the youtubery names I dropped. She scratched the bottom of my feet and wrote a bunch more stuff on my chart. I asked for a referral to a bariatric specialist and she said that sounded like a good idea.
After getting some history - I'm a new patient to her - I told her about how I've got a rare disorder, one in a million and they don't really know a whole lot about how it comes about. Just as an aside, because the diagnosis - Lawrence Seip syndrome - doesn't seem very relevant, except if it would be helpful treating it. And so far it hasn't helped at all. I was asking about fat panels and lipid profiles, because I wanted to know if they tested for the differing sized LDL particles, since the pattern B - for bad, small dense ones are more closely associated with Coronary Heart Disease. I have high triglycerides, and there's a correlation between them and the LDL pattern B, so I'm assuming I gots bad levels. Anyhow, at one point she said something like "maybe we are putting too much pressure on you to exercise and lose weight, maybe your weird metabolic disorder makes that impossible. I gave her a look I'm sure.
It's bizarre that when I'm finally gaining some traction in terms of doing summat effective around my health, through the simple act of changing what I eat, the nurse lady, is well you should just not even bother worrying about it. She's a nice lady, just she seems very much stuck in the typical paradigm of all calories are equal, lose weight through exercise etc. That's another thing, I think when you are burning fat, or when you're body is in balance you naturally have more energy and exercising is not an exhausting chore. You do it for the good endorphins and it makes you healthier and just plain feels good. I'm thinking I'm gonna like using my body again, because I already feel better doing stuff.
Anyhow, I was telling her I want to take less drugs - the diabetes drugs, the cholesterol, blood pressure, etc meds, do I really need ALL of them? And she said I'll print out a list and you can show it to your specialists and see what they think. Hmmm...I'm going to see what my next blood tests say and go from there. I really think that by 6 months time, I'll be able to stop with the medications, and my fatty liver will have shrunk down from biggie sized. Knock on wood and all that. Seems to be working.
WHAT I ATE TODAY
10:00 am
2 jumbo eggs
50g mozzarella
1 cup cauliflower
butter, oil, salt, pepper
2 cups coffee
2:50 pm
100g smoked salmon
2 T cream cheese
sprouts
3 cherry tomatoes
75g strawberries
5:20 pm
can of jalapeno sardines
6:15 pm
1/2 of McDouble no bun, 3 slices pickle, titchy bit of mustard
1/2 a piece of grilled chicken
1 and 1/2 regular coke zero
7 - 12 pm (movie)
1/2 cup peanuts
1/3 cup almonds
a little more than half of the total 8g
1 1/2 cups coffee
1:10 am
2 oz striploin, cold sliced
1/2 chicken thigh, cold sliced
1 1/5 oz cheddar and mozzarella
1/2 boiled egg
3 T cream cheese
5 cherry tomatoes
daikon
alfalfa sprouts
ice berg lettuce
pickle
mustard, salt, pepper
diet cola
BLOOD GLUCOSE - INSULIN DOSING
9:30 am
before breakfast
7.4
2:49 pm
before salmon plate
6.8
5:10 pm
after salmon etc
7.3
1:20 am
just after meat and cheese plate
5.9
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