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Post by mobeach on Nov 13, 2013 5:43:03 GMT -6
If so have you felt the benefits shortly after starting it? I was recently diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes, even though I powerwalk daily, eat all wheat pasta, wheat bread, and no junk food. My doctor said to cut out the bread and pasta completely, and upon browsing the web and researching paleo diets that's the route I'm going to go, as well as keeping my workouts. No more crap for me. There's so much out there that poison our bodies that have previously been called healthy.
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Post by svart on Nov 13, 2013 7:45:46 GMT -6
I did the Atkins type diet many years ago. i lost 50 lbs.
I fell back into eating poorly and gained weight, but i also started hitting the gym a lot more heavily so I've generally been able to maintain weight though.
My dad had bad blood pressure and cholesterol and was put on many different medications. He was on 6 different meds at once and started to have near-fainting spells and feel tired and all kinds of strange things. He kept going to his doctor about this and the doctor would just add another drug to the regimen to "cure" the new symptom.
After moving to a new job, he was no longer in the health network for his old doctor and had to go to a new doctor, a young and fresh doctor.
His new doctor looked at all the meds my dad was taking and exclaimed "I don't know how you are alive with all the medical reactions you could have had between these drugs" and immediately took my dad off of all the drugs.
After 2 weeks of clearing the drugs, my dad was feeling great again. He went back to the doctor who gave him one pill to take and most of all, his own cardiologist told him to do a combination of Atkins and Paleo diets.
Of course, as with most people, he was skeptical of the "Fad" diets and all the supposed horror stories floating around, but he did as the doctor ordered.
Within a month he had lost 30lbs and his blood pressure and cholesterol were back to normal, which was NEVER the case when he was on all those medications, and he was able to do more exercise due to his lighter weight not killing his knees.
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Post by svart on Nov 13, 2013 7:57:05 GMT -6
I don't necessarily endorse a full Atkins diet or a full Paleo diet, but I think there is promise from the essence of both of those, which is: We eat too much processed foods with too much sugar and chemicals. Processed foods pack in so many carbs and sugars because those make us feel good, and therefore make you BUY more of them through psychology. There has been a link found between blood sugar/insulin and cholesterol that is stronger than any supposed link between fat intake and cholesterol (which has been recently debunked, but the statin industry is paying big money to keep that a secret)... www.jlr.org/content/45/3/507.full.pdfarticles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/05/28/cholesterol-heart.aspxwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8721938Low fat foods just replace the fats with sugars so the net effect is even worse than just eating fats! In fact, the brain uses ketones for energy which is made from fats. People who do not get enough fats but eat too much sugar have "sugar crashes" (which I think we've all heard about) because their brains are starving for energy and the sugar burns out much too quick. I'd just make sure you get enough fats in your diet when you cut down on your processed foods. That's the biggest problem people have and the source of a lot of the "headaches" and hunger that people have on these diets, the underestimate the amounts of fats they need to eat to supplement the lost sugars. |
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Post by mobeach on Nov 13, 2013 11:19:33 GMT -6
It's what my doctor suggested and I've heard a lot of good things. Paleo is beyond "fad" now, it's supposedly the real deal among gym goers. The general rule is, if it comes in a package, don't eat it.
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Post by tonycamphd on Nov 14, 2013 12:01:27 GMT -6
i blew up to 252 at 6' tall on a thicker than average middle linebacker frame. On december 31st 2011 i quit eating sugar all together, i haven't had it since, i dropped to 208 in a few months, and have been there since. I basically look at food and ask myself.. "can i pick this or kill this?" if the answer is NO, i do NOT eat it. It's basically the caveman diet. BTW, my cholesterol dropped from 212 to 166, my blood pressure and blood sugar levels are statistically perfect, and an unexpected side effect is i totally hate the taste of sugar now??? I seriously have 0 desire for anything with added/concentrated sugar in it, that includes the biggest con...fruit juice of any kind. I would have never believed this possible...yaaay!  Sugar is the Devil |
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Post by mobeach on Nov 14, 2013 19:13:58 GMT -6
I'm 6' and was up to 225 a couple years ago, I started eating better and walked a lot and got down to 196, back up to 205 now, but I was eating a lot of wheat pasta and wheat bread, it doesn't help! I was drinking a lot of beer to, that has to stop.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2013 12:32:16 GMT -6
Well,
due to a medication i have to take permanently, i had a problem gaining weight while eating exact the same as before.
And i am a really slim and huge type of guy, leptosom by nature.
+10kg in less than 2 months!
First thing i quit was buying or eating anything that contains sugar and fat at the same time, so goodbye beloved chocolate.
Sweets altogether -> near zero.
Only eating what can be called *real food*.
Meat, potatoes, vegetables, taking care about dips and sauces.
Only good oil to make veggies tasty and split vitamines like A and stuff. A bit of butter, shure. No margarine! And just as much, as is needed to make the food tasty - not less, not more.
No sugar surrogates! Not even stevia.
No half-fat products!
If something tastes sweet, you burn the blood sugars faster because your metabolism thinks "hey, there comes some more".
Say, your mouth is watering if you taste sweet. Because alot of sugar can be absorbed right in your mouth...
All those "pseudo-healthy" "fat reduced" products just masks the real problem, i.e. eat instinctively what is good for you. Sugar surrogates make hunger attacks. You can't trick your body. If you use a 50% fat product, it normally tastes half as good. The problem is not that the products have too much fat or sugar, the problem is, you eat too much of it.
If you trick at this, you will get the yoyo effect as soon as you end a diet.
As for carbs - not bad at all, but not too much white wheat products, carbs with different length to be sated for a longer time and give your body enough energy constantly, so you don't get hungry as fast...
Major message - eat "real" food. Everything else must be an exception that mostly makes up for a full meal (speak: sweet soda/coke, chocolate, sweets, cookies etc.)
I got back to my old weight despite the constantly dampened med-induced metabolism (around 60-70% of normal!) in 3 month again. And I stay like this constantly for about 2 years now.
Well, ok, still not easy but for me there is no workaround...otherwise diabetes II is just a matter of time for me, i already have a higher risk...
So - good health to everybody and eat quality food with pleasure :-)
BR,
Martin
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2013 13:22:19 GMT -6
great stuff! Who would have thought that a gear forum could be so informative about health issues!!
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Post by mobeach on Nov 16, 2013 17:28:56 GMT -6
I've lost 10 lbs since writing this post.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2013 17:41:38 GMT -6
That's a pretty good start!
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Post by tonycamphd on Nov 16, 2013 19:12:06 GMT -6
I've lost 10 lbs since writing this post. seriously? i believe it, the weight fly's off when you get started..good for you mo |
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Post by svart on Nov 18, 2013 9:12:01 GMT -6
Yeah, after going low carb for a while, I realized that going low carb shows you all the foods that are bad.
When I made the choice to do this, I went to the pantry with a garbage bag and went through each item looking at the ingredients with the intention of throwing away anything that is high in sugar, carbs and HFCS..
I ended up with an empty pantry.
That's when I realized how much processed crap we really eat. It truly is crazy.
When I did this, I posted about it at the old GroupDIY site. I immediately got scathing replies about how much damage I would do to my body and how stupid I was and that these ideas were nothing more than pseudo-science.
I replied with scientific studies of the time but they were rebuffed by at least one "nutritionist" and a few "personal trainers". I could see that these folks were holding fast to their beliefs, but i think the time has passed to believe in things like the "food pyramid" anymore.
I also steer clear of anything with HFCS in it. That stuff is the devil, and it's in EVERYTHING, even stuff that isn't sweet at all. It is metabolized in a completely different way than sugar and leads to immediate body fat gain. The industry knows how bad this stuff is, but it's cheap and some evidence seems to support that it actually causes people to eat MORE, thus buying more products..
I've also tried to cut out the artificial sweetener stuff too. That's getting just as hard as cutting out HFCS because so many things now use these artificial sweeteners after people started to rebel against HFCS and sugar.
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Post by mobeach on Nov 18, 2013 16:02:43 GMT -6
HFCS is very bad, makes you wonder if they use it to thin the herd a little..
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