The scale is down a LITTLE from yesterday, but more progress is to come. Right now, i'm here to talk shit about vegetables!
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Just like with the Salad of Doom a few months ago, the increased "good" vegetable fiber i had over the last week is STILL making me feel weighted-down. The paleo world is inclined to damn the insoluble fiber from grains -- it's like taking a wood-rasp to your villi, they say -- but to praise in very CW-like fashion the soluble stuff in fruits and vegetables. My colon begs to differ.
Just like Donaldson said, when i'm eating a diet of meat and fat i don't have a retention problem -- my gastrointestinal system is like a greased chute. I would be tempted to say that it IS a greased chute, except for the fact the fats are ABSORBED, not just sent straight through. But although i'm eating my usual healthy quantity of nutritious satfats and omega-3s, they're not able to do ONE of their jobs ... because of the interference of the foods that Mark claims should be the major part of my diet.
If i ate "mostly plants" as ALMOST EVERYONE says, i'd be utterly miserable. There's no excuse for needing additions of magnesium or probiotics or such aids to push out the waste-products! Thank god i finished the soup last night, which was merely flavored with a small quantity of carrots, onions, celery and mushrooms -- today will be solid meat, fat and coffee, just what has a track-record of making me feel good!
Odd you posted this today. Monday I wasnt getting along with my rommy so I spent the day at a movie theater. Free refills on my large popcorn and diet coke so you can imagine how "interesting" things got this morning. Lets just say, I got my exercise in. Meat/tea the rest of the week.....ugh, TMI (blush)
ReplyDeletelol -- i feel your ... discomfort! :-)
ReplyDeleteWow...I'm tending to agree that veggies and plant based foods are highly over-rated...at the same time, it is hard to let go of this last bastion of dietary "wisdom"...it's kind of like when I was 27 and left the church...for a few years I was occasionally overcome with attacks of fear that I really was going to go to hell...
ReplyDeleteYES. i keep finding myself defending vegetables IN MY OWN MIND.... :-) how brainwashed we get! it makes me feel more understanding about people who STILL fear fats.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been eating many greens for the past few months because of my dental issues. I don't seem to be any better or worse for it.
ReplyDelete:-) what was the first thing you ate, when you were able to again?
ReplyDeleteAlthough I don'r actually like them, if I go more than a day or two without a minimum of greens/veggies, I get a craving for them. I don't have to eat a lot of them to be satisfied and I try to go with what my body is calling for. Lettuce/Kale/Mushrooms/Veg soup is my goto.
ReplyDeletewhen i was doing "ordinary" LC, i'd occasionally get cravings for things like kale or mustard greens, but i haven't done that in a long time.... hmmmm, interesting, i haven't thought about that recently!
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I ate after my accident was low-carb dairy-free sanguinaccio (an Italian pudding made with blood). I had some blood saved from liver packages in the freezer.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as my canines and molars fit together again, I celebrated with a LC cheeseburger with all the fixins (lettuce, tomato, onion, etc.) from Carl's Junior.
other cultures may sneer, but ... i DO love a good burger! :-D
ReplyDeleteThe discipline it must take to order a burger without the bun must be insane. I am very disciplined but that means never eating out unless on vacation. What I am really interested in is the dialogue about eating your veges. Or not. I am sure one can not eat veges for many years but at some point down the line you may find yourself lacking many nutrients? I am one who questions everything and have had it drilled into me to eat my fruits and veges. Each time I decide I do not want to follow those rules I get sick and then run back to them as my saviors. Did you hear about the oldest yoga teacher age 93 who never drinks water? Remember how water was supposed to be the answer to all our ills and still is to some I guess? She is a vegetarian however.
ReplyDelete:-) at first, one feels weird ordering sandwiches without bread, but i've never felt like i was denying myself anything i WANTED. there's a really good burger place in downtown StL that even offers a decent gluten-free bun, but after trying it the first time, i decided i liked the burger better without it. (free advertisement: http://baileysrange.com/menus/Range-Food.pdf -- YUM!)
ReplyDeleteif one eats organ meats occasionally, there's nothing the body needs that isn't in the animal. but i ALWAYS plan to eat garnishes of veggies regularly -- just not in quantities too large at once.
I find veggies to be over rated too ( for me) or should I say cellouse fiber. My GI system does not like it. It took me a while to figure this out. I still eat veggies just the kind with more soluble fiber, or I peel off the skin (peppers tomato cucumber) and I don't eat them every day. My digestion is better then it's ever been since I've been an adult.
ReplyDelete[nodding] when i eat mostly meat, my intestines are happy, but when i eat lots of higher-fiber veggies they're not -- it's that easy for me!
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