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That's one reason I'm starting SPP in a week - I'm looking to have a healthier attitude towards food...
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That is the reason that I have started to shift more towards Schwartzbein. The attitude that I have towards food.
When I was on Atkins, I lost weight, but had a tendency to eat lots of things with gooky chemicals, pepperoni, lots of hot dogs, prefab foods, as long as the carb count was OK, I would eat it. I read Neanderthin and learned some more, but there just wasn't enough guidance to the plan. I wasn't losing, but I wasn't gaining. I read in Protein Power about the arachodonic acid and became more aware of what I was eating, but couldn't do the math to figure out what to eat.
Then I read about The Zone and learned even more. I started to understand more about my body and how food affected the way that I was feeling, both physically and mentally. I travel a lot and realized that if I was caught in a restaurant with few good choices that part of the CAD principles would work, but at home CAD fueled a raging inferno of desire for food.
I learned a lot from reading TheBettys Journal, read some other journals, Nat's, Karen's, and started reading back posts. Then I started reading up on Schwartzbeing and thought about what "a damaged metabolism" meant. Each step on my journey I have learned a bit more about my body, what was going wrong, and just how wrong, wrong was.
The balance in the Schwartzbein way of eating helps me a lot. i am no longer posessed with most foods (still have one major trigger) and it is easy for me to figure out.
I'm still not sure where in the spectrum my body stands, but follow a woe from the first book as much as possible right now. It has kept me sane and healthy through a lot of stress and agony through the past 12 weeks. Foods that I would choose haven't been readily available for quite a while. The whole foods mantra has kept me going, making the best choices I could from a whole range of bad options. marty