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UllrsIshtar -> RE: Healthy Submissives (9/30/2015 11:44:52 AM)
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ORIGINAL: shiftyw
I don't personally feel better off grains entirely. In fact last time I tried it, I didn't have the energy to make it through the work day. People can tell me six ways to Sunday this isn't true, but having experienced fatigue like that, I choose to ocassionally have unprocessed homemade bread, brown rice, quinoa, polenta, etc.
Some people tolerate stuff better than others. I can tolerate dairy just fine, my husband -to his surprise- found that eating just a little throws his digestive system off completely.
I know this thread has been focusing a lot on blasting carbs, and bitching about grains, but when I advice people to switch diets, I actually almost never advice them to cut them out completely.
Instead of focusing on eliminating stuff from your diet, focus on adding in high nutrient dense foods.
By high nutrient dense foods, I means foods that have a lot of nutrients in them per calorie they have.
So fresh fruit, vegetables, meats, fish, seafood, nuts, berries.
Eat more of those.
It doesn't matter really in what combination or which category of those you pick, just try eating more of them than you currently are, and historically have. Try to make it so that you eat about 80%-90% of being full on any given meal, from those categories.
And then, if you're still hungry, and you feel like you want grains, or potatoes, or rice, or desert, or a processed snack, or whatever it is that you think you shouldn't be eating but really want to eat anyways, by all means, go ahead and eat it and don't worry about it.
If you manage to eat 80% of your diet from high nutrient dense foods, you'll be off a lot better than before, and the extra stuff won't hurt you.
One of the primary issues with grain is that they're so high in calories and so very filling in the moment (though they later cause blood sugar crashes) that when we eat them, we tend to eat them INSTEAD of eating high nutrient dense foods. Because we eat them instead of other foods, we end up with deficiencies, because for every hundred calories in grains we eat, we get only a small fraction of the nutrients we would have gotten from eating a hundred calories in fruits, vegetables, or meats instead. We need to get all of the nutrients we need from the food we eat in a day, and filling up on carbs prevents us from doing that. High carb diets can cause you to starve on a micro-nutrient level, while eating an excess in calories every day. That in turn, makes you more hungry, and creates a vicious circle of overeating on foods that don't give you the nutrients you need.
If you stop eating carbs instead of other foods, and instead use them to complement other food for their taste and the pleasure they offer you in eating them, you'll be a long long long way there.
Some of this stuff requires you reprogramming the way we've been taught to think about carbs.
For example:
- When making a sandwich, it's better to have one sandwich/burger and load it up heavier with all the toppings you like, and eat it with a side of the toppings if you want more of those, than to have to split the toppings over two sandwiches. Don't feel obligated to have more bread when you really want more burger/cold cuts.
- Don't serve sandwiches/burgers with a carb side, like fries or chips, pick a salad, or pickles, or onion rings/sweet potato fires (if you must go fried) instead.
- When eating spaghetti and meatballs, add in more meatballs, and less pasta.
- Same for chicken alfredo, more chicken/sauce, less pasta.
- When you're eating dishes with rice, serve a smaller portion of rice, and don't feel obligated to eat it all. Just use whatever rice you like to enhance the dish.
And so on...
The typical American diet has ratios in their head of "this meal goes with this much bread/rice/pasta/fries". Challenge those believes and load up heavier on the other stuff instead.
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