Low-carb diets support thread

kafkathecat

Minihauk wrote: »

Thanks Gloomendoom, I can only go by my reaction. Perhaps it is just low carbing that has made the improvement, we'll see.:cool:

It is interesting that you say that as I have noticed my knees have stopped hurting since I have been eating this way. I don't know if it is because I have cut out potatoes or some other reason but I was very creaky first thing in the morning and that has just gone. I still eat other nightshades though.

kafkathecat

Gloomendoom wrote: »

No, avoiding certain foods may be doing the trick for you as it seems to have done with the other poster's husband with the headaches. My father has a bad reaction to peppers. I just have trouble believing that, in general, potatoes and tomatoes etc. are 'bad' foods. If they were, I think there would be an awful lot of ill people about... billions of them!

I completely agree. But it is worth knowing that if you don't feel 100% some foods are more likely to be the cause than others.

sistercas

SHEILA54 wrote: »

sistercas - glad that you had a good holiday and 3lb will come off easily I am sure.

thankyou , ive dropped 2 of them already :j must be fluid, TBH ive come home with a nasty cold and im feeling a bit off , so probably not eating as much as normal

cherry pies you talk a lot of sense there, i think women are very emotional eaters , its all in the mind , i think if we can change our mindset we would be on to a winner ( easier said than done for me )

going out for a meal this lunchtime , my Dbrother has bought a country pub so the family is decending on him for lunch

sweet i slept on the sofa last night too , i just couldnt sleep so came down and surfed a while and nodded off eventuslly around 3.30

Mojisola

Gloomendoom wrote: »

No, avoiding certain foods may be doing the trick for you as it seems to have done with the other poster's husband with the headaches. My father has a bad reaction to peppers. I just have trouble believing that, in general, potatoes and tomatoes etc. are 'bad' foods. If they were, I think there would be an awful lot of ill people about... billions of them!

Well, there could well be. Those of us without South American genes have only been exposed to nightshade foods for a few hundred years - no time at all in evolutionary terms.

How many people have unexplained aches and pains or arthritis or similar problems? If they experimented with eliminating certain foods from their diets, who knows how many would feel better? It's got to be worth trying.

I've had to - very reluctantly - give up on eating raw tomatoes because I have a couple of days of joint pain to live with if I don't. Cooked tomatoes don't cause the same problems. If I hadn't been into thinking about what I was eating, I could just be down as someone with bad arthritis and living in pain.

nuttybabe

hiya

its very interesting reading these posts, i have learnt so much. quick question - do you think cutting out the nightshade food would help reduce arthritis? so it would be a case of trying to elimiate food and seeing what helps, have i missed a linky about it?

we were meant to be having a bbq later but it rained after i got the burgers out the freezer. typical!

b - nothing, forgot to defrost anything so just had cup of tea with only a little sweetner (trying to stop totally and nearly there)
l - ham & cheese salad
t - burgers and salad - hopefully on bbq

Mercy

Mojisola wrote: »

Well, there could well be. Those of us without South American genes have only been exposed to nightshade foods for a few hundred years - no time at all in evolutionary terms.

How many people have unexplained aches and pains or arthritis or similar problems? If they experimented with eliminating certain foods from their diets, who knows how many would feel better? It's got to be worth trying.

I've had to - very reluctantly - give up on eating raw tomatoes because I have a couple of days of joint pain to live with if I don't. Cooked tomatoes don't cause the same problems. If I hadn't been into thinking about what I was eating, I could just be down as someone with bad arthritis and living in pain.

I'm lucky in that I've never had a bad reaction to nightshades but I know folk who do. Migraines and 'loose stools' within 2 hours for one unfortunate workmate.

My food thing was wheat. Most especially white bread and stuff made with white flour. Going LC 3 or more years ago was interesting in that I noticed feeling better but not quite knowing why.

Further off plan experimenting means that I now know that any mass produced white bread eaten means that 2 days later I feel like I'm coming down with a virus (mild nausea, aching, heavy head and headache etc). Combined with a sudden 4-5 inch increase in waist size but no real change in weight :eek:

White flour in cakes etc just gives me the fatness. :rotfl: This leads me to believe it's the excess of yeast used in modern big batch white bread manufacture which troubles me also.

Easy solution to all these problems - once you know what they are.

We are all different and marvelous.

MX

Mercy

nuttybabe wrote: »

hiya

its very interesting reading these posts, i have learnt so much. quick question - do you think cutting out the nightshade food would help reduce arthritis? so it would be a case of trying to elimiate food and seeing what helps, have i missed a linky about it?

Dont recall a linky but someone else will if there was one

I'd try cutting them out for a week or two and see for yourself. We are all different so can only truly know if we try it. Is it you who has the problem? If so I assume you are keeping a food diary or similar, if it's someone else, get them to stop all nightshades and keep the diary. Then if improvement doesn't occur they can see if there's something else in there, like wheat as this in certain ways makes me ache too.

Mx

I'm a chemist and experimenting is in my nature

Mercy

All these foods regular folk and we eat in maybe quite small amounts, can have effects which we do not like but learn to live with.

The lifting of the mind fog is often found when we begin low carbing but is this from cutting out wheat or potatoes? Or something else?

When I first tried sorting out my food issues I ate totally clean. No additives, all food made at home from raw ingredients etc. I'd already been LC for some time so no real hardship

Then the Doc made me eat gluten everyday for a fortnight. Wasn't a happy bunny at the end of that but diagnosed as 'unlikely' to be coeliac. Which is good. Unfortunately, I was massively retaining water and feeling quite ill at the end of the 2 weeks :rotfl:

So, although it is 'unlikely' that I'm coeliac, I may well be gluten intolerant. No gluten for me then. :rotfl:

You just gotta try things and see how you feel. If you don't you could - as mojisola said, be suffering without knowing you can do something about it.

Mx

Synchronicity or summat, Just read this in inbox

http://www.drbriffa.com/2012/08/02/coeliac-disease-often-goes-undiagnosed-but-testing-will-not-always-identify-sensitivity-to-gluten/

murphydog999

nuttybabe wrote: »

do you think cutting out the nightshade food would help reduce arthritis? so it would be a case of trying to elimiate food and seeing what helps, have i missed a linky about it?

Two links for info my post 13116, page 656

murphydog999

SHEILA54 wrote: »

murphydog999 - any luck with the house hunting?

Exercise - 20 wall push ups, power walked for 20 minutes and walked at reasonable pace for 40 minutes. I will have to build up the wall push ups but 20 seemed a reasonable amount to start with.

Way to go Sheila :j :T

Well the joys of house-hunting! Had an offer accepted, and then came back to a message from our agent that our buyers buyer had pulled out! They have had another viewing and offer today, but rejected it and are waiting for a response on monday; fingers, toes and anything else that can be crossed, is crossed! If you could all send positive vibes, and a collective crossing of digits, over the weekend it would be appreciated :grinheart