Mon, Oct-10-16, 10:24
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Patience Personified
Posts: 3,234
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Plan: LC/OMAD
Stats: 199/188/130
BF:5'5" tall
Progress: 16%
Location: Temple, Texas
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I don't fret about fiber much. I know the recommendation is 25g a day, but I don't believe there is a "one-size-fits-all" number for fiber (or any food group). I happen to love vegetables, but I listen to my body when it comes to food. I eat vegetables when I feel like it; I don't when I don't. I'm soon to turn 68 and have never had BM problems, so clearly that approach is workin' for me.
Have I eliminated grains? Pretty much, but still use small amounts at times. I do think there is very real evidence that grains and the human digestive tract were never meant to be. Why else would people (myself included) say again on LC forums they lose the indigestion and gas when they go low-carb (low grains)? And why can low-carbers eat so many cruciferous veggies but still not have the gas issues those veggies once gave them? Because they are not consumed along WITH grains. It would appear it is not the cruciferous veggies that give people gas, but the combination of vegetables WITH LARGE AMOUNTS OF GRAINS. At least that is MY theory. I say "large amounts" because I eat small amounts of grains and the gas problems have not returned.
I've come to the conclusion I'm personally not going to 100% eliminate vegetables, grains, fat, or now, the latest hype is red meat. I'm just not going to be extreme with my eating. I'm a real red meat lover and tried zero-carb recently and I felt there was just something missing in my enjoyment of food on that WOE.
I consume 1-2 vegetables everyday and consume very tiny amount of oats, faro, Einkorn or ancient forms of wheat, and their flours maybe once a week (1-4T in a recipe). I have no indigestion, stomach issues, BM or gas issues and I think the key is to eat VERY SMALL AMOUNTS of grains. I'm just not willing to give up the nutrients and anti-oxidants in grains and vegetables. I do eat MUCH less of both of them than I ate 10 years ago, and it's my plan to continue on that plan. I think people can very easily become zealots about various food groups and I'm just not going to do that. To each their opinions.
We can influence producers/farmers with our purchasing power (or lack thereof), but I'm not sure we can ever turn around Big Agra or Big Pharma's priorities of greater crops and $$$ profit. They will never put our health ahead of those goals no matter how much we discuss it, attend protests, blog about it, write to our do-nothing congressmen to complain about it. So I buy what I think to be the best food (meat, veggies and ancient grain) and hope for the best. Life's too short to become a food zealot. JMHO.
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