Comments on: I feel awful – bad sugar!

By: Colin McNulty

Colin McNulty — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:47:01 +0000

Ah I see, that’s good. I too mostly avoid the major starchy carbs. The Crossfit one sentence diet sounds very close to what you’re going:

“Eat meat and veg, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, no sugar.”

By: Alunh

Alunh — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:32:37 +0000

Colin,

it appears that the bunged up is a phase in the body adjusting to a different diet. I now have no problem in that area.

I’m not doing a Aitkins – just avoiding the major carbs but trying not to be too anal about it. So no pasta, rice, bread, spuds, avoid sugar. Lots of veg, salads, cheese, eggs, meat.

Alun

By: Colin McNulty

Colin McNulty — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:10:32 +0000

Hi Alun,

That’s good to hear that you’re doing better having reduced your carbs. When I did Atkin’s I “got bunged up” as you put it, but now I follow the Zone Diet, I have no problems in that department. Zone is more “carb moderate” than low carb, given that 40% of your calories still come from carbs. Worth a try perhaps?

Colin

By: Alunh

Alunh — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:04:57 +0000

Colin,

fellow PCGer and now fellow anti carbs man.

I had a bit of diabetese scare, checked with the GOV guidance and decided that I was doing that already. My wife spotted the low carb approach – so now I have been on a low carb diet for around 15 months now.

Things I have found –
1 ) fairly immedaitely got completely bunged up.
2 ) I did get achey legs at night – this stopped almost immedaitely.
3 ) dropped about a stone in weight – I feel I could drop more but I’m happy with my weight so I eat lots.
4 ) I miss cake and chips – the rest isn’t too bad.
5 ) developed a taste for pork scratchings.
6 ) still drink alcohol – generally red wine with occassional beers.
7 ) feel much better.
8 ) blood sugar back under control

Enough for now – keep on going – sugar is evil.

Thanks

Alun

By: Soraya

Soraya — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:32:21 +0000

I don’t know what else the lab rats were able to eat. I think they just had to incorporate the special diet with whatever they would usually have. The quantities of the additional food though were so large as to make little room for much else.

By: Colin McNulty

Colin McNulty — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:21:15 +0000

Good post Soraya. You didn’t say what else the fit lab rat was eating on the high meat diet?

By: Soraya

Soraya — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:01:47 +0000

Did you ever watch “Diet Doctors”? They would have a person with health issues and basically link the problem to diet. They would do the food diary bit and recommend healthy eating and exercise but they would also get a super fit volunteer to eat vast quantities of whatever the unwell person was eating most of for a fortnight. This was to show how tolerant we ordinary people get to poor diets and how badly excessive amounts of sugar etc can be on our health.
One week they got some athlete to only eat microwave meals, another time it was chocolate and sweets, another it was alchohol and a very interesting one where the fit “lab rat” had to eat a lot of meat.
Without fail the fit person would be ill, suffer from constipation or the other extreme, feel lethargic, bloated and generally crap. The meat experiment was interesting as it made the athelete agressive. Also their blood pressure would go up, they would put on seruous amounts of weight and their lung capacity would diminish. On one programm the fit person was told to stop the experiment by her Dr as it was so detrimental to her well being.
Worth a watch if you haven’t seen it yet.

By: Colin McNulty

Colin McNulty — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:35:05 +0000

Still no booze Steve, that bit’s going quite well.

By: Wifey

Wifey — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:46:42 +0000

Uh Oh! Mr Mc what are we going to do with you? Actually I cheated this morning and had a pint of coffee with 2 sugars in, it tasted even worse than coffee without and now my mouth feels like a monkey did something REALLY bad in it.

xxx

By: Stephen J

Stephen J — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:55:40 +0000

What about the booze? How goes that?

I’ve cut back a lot since Jan. Its helped with my sleep and my training, sugar? Well thats not so good to be honest, oh well.