Mitra
09-04-2006, 05:07 AM
Nutritional maintenance of your health requires vigilance and effort most of the time, interspersed with occasional brief vacations from the straight and narrow.
Staying Power tip for this week
This one caught my attention. It's true that occasional brief vacations don't seem to cause me a problem. So I tend to let them become more frequent and less brief :o . A couple of bouts of post-prandial hypogycemia, together with nudging up just slightly ( a pound or two) in weight finally got the message through that a bit more vigilance and a bit less vacation could be called for :rolleyes: . That's why, when I put my September goals up, I made 60g carb my maximum, rather than average, as it is normally for me. I'll use this month to re-establish "metabolic control" then see about relaxing a little back to 60g average.
I recently bought a copy of the 30 Day Low Carb Diet Solution, just to see how it presented things (£0.34 from Amazon.co.uk marketplace!). There was a list of questions - the usual sort of thing: do you have high bp, anybody in your family have diabetes etc. I said no to all of the first group, which were really indicative of existing diabetes, but said yes to three of the next five, which were indicated some level of insulin disorder. Sometimes, because my weight is now normal, and don't have diabetes, I tend to forget that I really don't do well with lots of carbs. There may be people who can live on rice and bread, but I'm definitely not one of them.
So, more vigilance and effort, and less vacationing for me :cool: . What about you? How are things going?
Staying Power tip for this week
This one caught my attention. It's true that occasional brief vacations don't seem to cause me a problem. So I tend to let them become more frequent and less brief :o . A couple of bouts of post-prandial hypogycemia, together with nudging up just slightly ( a pound or two) in weight finally got the message through that a bit more vigilance and a bit less vacation could be called for :rolleyes: . That's why, when I put my September goals up, I made 60g carb my maximum, rather than average, as it is normally for me. I'll use this month to re-establish "metabolic control" then see about relaxing a little back to 60g average.
I recently bought a copy of the 30 Day Low Carb Diet Solution, just to see how it presented things (£0.34 from Amazon.co.uk marketplace!). There was a list of questions - the usual sort of thing: do you have high bp, anybody in your family have diabetes etc. I said no to all of the first group, which were really indicative of existing diabetes, but said yes to three of the next five, which were indicated some level of insulin disorder. Sometimes, because my weight is now normal, and don't have diabetes, I tend to forget that I really don't do well with lots of carbs. There may be people who can live on rice and bread, but I'm definitely not one of them.
So, more vigilance and effort, and less vacationing for me :cool: . What about you? How are things going?