I’ll be happy to report I’ve been following the guide lines she set forth in our first meeting and I’ve lost 5 pounds in 2 weeks. I’m pretty happy with that.
The biggest change for me was the sugar. She really made an impression when she explained the way the body processed the different types of calories we take in and how it preferred sugar and would just store the other calories. She also explained the spikes in our energy levels that sugar caused and I really realized how diet rich in high fiber foods could contribute to a steady energy level and a more consistent mood.
I love the way sugar tastes but I love the way I feel without it more. Sugar is terrible, and I’m glad to be free from the rollercoaster.
That’s a major change I need to make in my diet. I eat a ton of sugar. If I just avoid soda, sweets, and extra sugar in things like oatmeal, maybe I could lose some weight too.
Huge congrats on your weight loss, @Leaf. It’s not easy, but you did it!
I’m proud of you lately, working on yourself, wanting to try new hair, better diet, all this positive energy you’ve got going on.
I know now a days I feel horrible after eating candy, even my mental state. As I see it, diet is tied to physical health, poor physical health is tied to more stressors, stressors are tied to symptoms.
Thank you lady, I’m so happy. I was doubting I could do this, now I know I’m going to. You can do once you break the cycle. It takes a few days, then it gets easier. It’s like a drug withdrawal.
Well, I certainly give it a try. Yesterday, I ate Lil’ Muffin Bites in cake flavor, and I had two sodas. I kind of stopped caring what I eat since I seem to gain weight no matter how hard I try. The sugar avoidance will be difficult, but I think I can do it.
If you think of it in terms of a mood stabilizer rather than a diet does that help? It’s helping me. The way she explained it is if you eat food that the body needs to break down to get at the sugar, like whole grains and fibrous foods like fruits and veggies the sugars go into your system slowly and therefore you have a slow steady stream of energy, no spikes. When you take in processed sugar, the body gets an immediate spike followed by a dip and that’s where you get your rollercoaster moods and crashes. I know we all know this already but when she put this in these terms as it relates to my moods, I all of a sudden correlated it to my mental health for the first time. Sugar is bad for my mental health, not to mention my body. I don’t know it’s helping me to think of it in those terms.