Low-carb diets support thread

confused76

Edwardia wrote: »

I was just naughty, I left a message on her answering machine telling her my name, what my BG is now, that my waist is only two inches more than that of my slim husband (she met him) and though I knew she didn't approve of low carb that's how I'd done it.

:j:cool::rotfl:< Edwardia being very smug.

teeheee :rotfl::rotfl:i wonder what she'll make of that! :rotfl:

daska

murphydog999 wrote: »

Very good post Daska.

Thank you. Let's just say it's something I've been reading up on and considering since I found out about the GAPS diet - lets face it, what parent wouldn't like to give their ASD/ADHD child more of a chance of succeeding in life? Personally I can't face the rigours of the GAPS diet, it would require the wholehearted support of DS2's dad and my MIL and there's no way that's going to happen any time soon. But I'm using the idea as a jumping off point.

Mercy

daska wrote: »

So, I suspect the worry that "it's probably not good for children" is more a learned bias than necessarily based on fact.

I agree with all you said. As long as nothing is completely removed and the 'high carb' foods aren't seen as 'special' in any way. If foods are prohibited children will want them.

The littles will come to no harm physically from not having high carb foods. They 'may' develop an unhealthy interest in them if these foods are 'banned' from their usual eating.

Just a thort

Mx

daska

Mercy wrote: »

I agree with all you said. As long as nothing is completely removed and the 'high carb' foods aren't seen as 'special' in any way. If foods are prohibited children will want them.

The littles will come to no harm physically from not having high carb foods. They 'may' develop an unhealthy interest in them if these foods are 'banned' from their usual eating.

Just a thort

Mx

Absolutely agree Mercy, nothing like banning something to make people desperate to get hold of it. But it doesn't always quite work like that. I'm currently trying to get the point through to DS2's dad and granny that if they always cut the fat off the meat and put it on the side of his plate as waste so he never tries it then he will never find out whether he likes it or not! They are restricting his choice because granny believes that all fat is evil. :wall:

Mercy

daska wrote: »

Absolutely agree Mercy, nothing like banning something to make people desperate to get hold of it. But it doesn't always quite work like that. I'm currently trying to get the point through to DS2's dad and granny that if they always cut the fat off the meat and put it on the side of his plate as waste so he never tries it then he will never find out whether he likes it or not! They are restricting his choice because granny believes that all fat is evil. :wall:

That can't be easy

Best of luck - it's a hard nut to crack, that one.

I'm sending you fortitude. :A

Much love
Mx

daska

edwardia wrote: »

:d:j:cool::rotfl:< edwardia being very smug.

:T :T :T :T :T

(roflmao)

Edwardia

daska - agree was a verry good post (yours not mine lol) :T pity DS2's father and the MIL can't get on board Yes Great Ormond St Hospital (GOSH) treats kids with epilepsy with LC very successfully, also used to treat Crohn's disease in NZ.

sistercas - hi how are ya ? xx

Mercy, sheila54 and confused76 my message was polite but yep payback for sending report to my GP saying I'm difficult because I wouldn't eat carbs and trying to persuade me to take over the maximum dose of Metformin as well. :eek: What will she do.. well really what can she do ??? I wasn't rude. What pleases me most about having normal BG is that when I get rubbish off these so-called healthcare professionals in future I will be able to prove to them that low carb works. Not theory but living breathing person in front of them

lamarsi and oldtractor - welcome to the madhouse

murphydog999 do you have any links on the inflammation issues please ? I'm using beef dripping, ghee and lard more now that I have a splatterguard and I'd like to explore further. I remember reading a passing remark by Dr Briffa that low carb is anti-inflammatory and I'm wondering whether that's why the cholesterol and trigs change..

SHEILA54

Mercy - you are a mere young thing and I apologise for suggesting otherwise. I was a child of the fifties and sixties, flower power and all that. I just wish that I had been fed with a view to health more as I have battled with weight all of my life and that is why I am so over the moon that I have some control at long last :j I have a lasting memory of having to go to the school kitchen to get a salad and an apple every day because I was overweight. When you are 13 it is somewhat embarrassing. I also remember going on a diet of 500 calories a day for 6 months at 18 to go on a youth holiday. I lost weight but put back on nearly 2 stone in 2 weeks on holiday!!!!:eek:

Have a good evening everyone and keep discussing as I am learning so much :T
Any information about inflammation would be very welcome as the more I read the more it seems that a lot of health problems come back to the same thing.

Edwardia

As a child my mother always seemed to be on a diet and now has osteoporesis.

I've never been on an actual diet - except for the time she put me on the Rosemary Conley Hip & Thigh Diet without telling me because she thought I needed to lose weight !!! :mad:

Seems to me that women get so much pressure to be stick thin while eating a diet that does the opposite, that more needs to be done to stop pushing the concept that 6ft bony sticks are beautiful. Noticed in the Daily Mail online this week that Kate Moss has deformed feet and doesn't look as beautiful when not airbrushed :eek:

SHEILA54

Personally I would prefer to have a few curves, though not too many :rotfl: