Lesley Tur
Fri, Sep-29-06, 11:00
To honest humans seeking a dietary truth,
I am an honest Christian runner who is either just doubting the truth too much or off her rocker. Despite the constant pressure to just eat "normal" from family, friends, and coaches, in the last year I began to eat healthier - fruits, veggies, and protein and soon lost my 2 year enduring migraines and 20 lbs. When I lessed my fruit, and increased my protein and veggies, I also improved my 5k by 2.5 minutes! I felt the strongest and healthiest I have ever been. THEN after a stupid episode of overtraining I found myself starving, I resumed my diet and began to recover when I took on a job where I quickly became exahusted and felt very dehydrated- so I drank about 8 nalgenes a day. After the first week I was in the hospital with low sodium and blood sugar. "Nutritional experts" loaded me with 2500 cal of carbs & fat/day (&30g protein/day) to help regain my "strength" and I left 11 days later with a little bit more stable heart rate and 10 lbs of fat. At home I quickly returned to my healthy diet and soon began to have enough energy to sleep through the night again. A month later I am at school and am researching now more than ever to understand the TRUTH. More carbs make me feel bloated, fat (even "healthy omegas")= greasy, and only protein (300g+/day) and veggies/all bran keep me having solid stools without diahhrea. I am slowly getting better when I stick to this. WHen I try to vary my diet with more carbs/ fat I get a headache, very anxious, and hot! Yet it is tiring to cook so much protein, powders are grose, and sometimes I still get really hot, I am still always tired - I breathe heavy, and want energy again. I feel I just need to stay patient, avoid fatty meats or too much veggies at once to cure the fevers. But if i continue like this, 1. how will i ever be able to travel? 2. have unending energy and 3. will my heavy breathing ever end? I still don't have enough energy to exercise every day or even study for class sometimes. I have read the Makers Diet and done much research. Yet I can't understand how so many people disagree. My biggest medical question, why can only protein cure diahrreah? I have read that it bonds with the fiber to digest it and I can hear this beautiful digestion sould when I combine the two - ..or is all this in my head? Sometimes I would like to think so and believe more carbs will help yet every thing from my experience tells me that this doesn't help and is suicide.
One thing for sure, I am sick of other's pressure on me to stop eating so healthy when no one else has to deal with the consequences of my choices. I always felt it takes a certain faith even to eat healthy but have I gone too far? Why then doesn't it work when I try to return to more fruit?
If you believe there is a truth, or can relate please let me know. God Bless!
~A Christian runner
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I am an honest Christian runner who is either just doubting the truth too much or off her rocker. Despite the constant pressure to just eat "normal" from family, friends, and coaches, in the last year I began to eat healthier - fruits, veggies, and protein and soon lost my 2 year enduring migraines and 20 lbs. When I lessed my fruit, and increased my protein and veggies, I also improved my 5k by 2.5 minutes! I felt the strongest and healthiest I have ever been. THEN after a stupid episode of overtraining I found myself starving, I resumed my diet and began to recover when I took on a job where I quickly became exahusted and felt very dehydrated- so I drank about 8 nalgenes a day. After the first week I was in the hospital with low sodium and blood sugar. "Nutritional experts" loaded me with 2500 cal of carbs & fat/day (&30g protein/day) to help regain my "strength" and I left 11 days later with a little bit more stable heart rate and 10 lbs of fat. At home I quickly returned to my healthy diet and soon began to have enough energy to sleep through the night again. A month later I am at school and am researching now more than ever to understand the TRUTH. More carbs make me feel bloated, fat (even "healthy omegas")= greasy, and only protein (300g+/day) and veggies/all bran keep me having solid stools without diahhrea. I am slowly getting better when I stick to this. WHen I try to vary my diet with more carbs/ fat I get a headache, very anxious, and hot! Yet it is tiring to cook so much protein, powders are grose, and sometimes I still get really hot, I am still always tired - I breathe heavy, and want energy again. I feel I just need to stay patient, avoid fatty meats or too much veggies at once to cure the fevers. But if i continue like this, 1. how will i ever be able to travel? 2. have unending energy and 3. will my heavy breathing ever end? I still don't have enough energy to exercise every day or even study for class sometimes. I have read the Makers Diet and done much research. Yet I can't understand how so many people disagree. My biggest medical question, why can only protein cure diahrreah? I have read that it bonds with the fiber to digest it and I can hear this beautiful digestion sould when I combine the two - ..or is all this in my head? Sometimes I would like to think so and believe more carbs will help yet every thing from my experience tells me that this doesn't help and is suicide.
One thing for sure, I am sick of other's pressure on me to stop eating so healthy when no one else has to deal with the consequences of my choices. I always felt it takes a certain faith even to eat healthy but have I gone too far? Why then doesn't it work when I try to return to more fruit?
If you believe there is a truth, or can relate please let me know. God Bless!
~A Christian runner
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