Posted by Zarah78 on October 14, 2003, at 18:49:43
In reply to Re: low-carb and higher calories loses more weight » Zarah78, posted by Larry Hoover on October 14, 2003, at 17:50:39
That would probably explain why the low-fat & low-cal diet has been getting me nowhere. It actually makes sense that my body would hoard the necessary building blocks my diet lacks. However, I'm now addicted to low-fat milk! But at the same time, I love real cottage cheese so I'm sure there's a compromise there somewhere. In reviewing my eating habits, I think much of my blood sugar issues also lie in the fact that I'm just not eating enough protein. A couple of years ago I tried vegetarianism, but I've also been taught that when the body craves a food, there's a reason. Eventually, my cravings for meat became strong enough for me to overcome the things my ex-boyfriend told me about the "evils of eating flesh" (including something about how eating pork makes your stomach eat itself?? -- I don't really get many pork cravings anyway with the exception of occasional bacon). So, once again, I'm a carnivore, but it seems its on a limited basis.
I just need to start enjoying cooking for myself. I have fun when I cook for others, but I dont get to do that very often. Maybe take a cooking class.. meet more people.. make friends (eeek! strange people who actually /want/ to know me?).. get out of the house for something besides work or absolutely mandatory errands, like, groceries.
Completely off topic for a moment: I'm watching an episode of a WB program called Everwood that's focusing on the stigma of antidepressants. I think there may be a replay of this program on Sundays sometime if anyone is interested. Girl's boyfriend dies, her father is the town doc and refuses to prescribe ADs to her, but she finds out he's given them to her best friend (dead boyfriend's sis) and he still refuses to prescribe them for his own grieving daughter.
Anyway, thank you once again for what is beginning to be a bit of an overload of info.. now to just put it into practical use! :)
Thank you! :)
-Z
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