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Sun, Nov-14-10, 17:55
Hi! My name is Frances. I've been lurking here for awhile and just wanted to say thank you to all the people offering their support and advice here. My low carb story started out when we moved a few months ago. It was a great transitional point in my husband's and my life to start taking better care of ourselves as he was done with school and we were starting the "real world." I had put on a lot of weight working long hours and trying to keep up with the autistic kids at my job and stay ahead of my hypoglycemia. I was controlling my blood sugar the wrong way: by keeping the supply of sugar coming. I was overindulging but I was also over stressed and thought I "earned" the right to eat whatever I wanted.
About a year ago I also started enduring nauseating waves of pain that would last for hours or days. I thought I was dying and my doctors thought I had cancer. It was really scary and my diet became even worse to compensate for the stess. If I was going to die, at least I was going to have some culinary bliss first! Finally my doctors and I concluded that I had IC, a bladder condition resulting from a change/scarring in the tissue that exposes the nerve endings. There is no cure, it is chronic, and the few treatments available are all relatively barbaric and insufficiently tested on women in their childbearing years. I decided to just bear with the pain, which I had grown used to by then anyway.
Then I went on the South Beach diet and noticed right away that my pain was gone! Days went by. Weeks went by. No pain! I was mystified! Then we went to visit family, cheated on our diet, and the pain came back instantaneously. We went home, back on our diet: no pain. Cheat: pain. And so it goes on and on.
Currently I have lost 10lbs and I am much happier with my weight. It would be nice to lose a few more pounds but my diet is more about learning how to control my IC and hypoglycemia. I live on an IC modified South Beach diet. I am still learning what this means and am sad to say that so far it appears whole grains are out of the question. So are many fruits and veggies that the SB allows. It appears carbs in my diet turn into thumbtacks in my bladder and this just won't do. I still cheat when I have been good for a period of time though. I think this keeps me from feeling sorry for myself for having to restrict my favorite foods. It also hurts and makes me eager to go back to being good!
O Well. So that's my story. Anybody else out there know someone who knows someone who has IC? I feel like a rare genetic flop! Even my "cure" is inexplicable in the IC world.
Anyway. I'll be around cruising the recipes and low glycemic food index. If you are still reading this, thank you for taking the time!
-Frances
About a year ago I also started enduring nauseating waves of pain that would last for hours or days. I thought I was dying and my doctors thought I had cancer. It was really scary and my diet became even worse to compensate for the stess. If I was going to die, at least I was going to have some culinary bliss first! Finally my doctors and I concluded that I had IC, a bladder condition resulting from a change/scarring in the tissue that exposes the nerve endings. There is no cure, it is chronic, and the few treatments available are all relatively barbaric and insufficiently tested on women in their childbearing years. I decided to just bear with the pain, which I had grown used to by then anyway.
Then I went on the South Beach diet and noticed right away that my pain was gone! Days went by. Weeks went by. No pain! I was mystified! Then we went to visit family, cheated on our diet, and the pain came back instantaneously. We went home, back on our diet: no pain. Cheat: pain. And so it goes on and on.
Currently I have lost 10lbs and I am much happier with my weight. It would be nice to lose a few more pounds but my diet is more about learning how to control my IC and hypoglycemia. I live on an IC modified South Beach diet. I am still learning what this means and am sad to say that so far it appears whole grains are out of the question. So are many fruits and veggies that the SB allows. It appears carbs in my diet turn into thumbtacks in my bladder and this just won't do. I still cheat when I have been good for a period of time though. I think this keeps me from feeling sorry for myself for having to restrict my favorite foods. It also hurts and makes me eager to go back to being good!
O Well. So that's my story. Anybody else out there know someone who knows someone who has IC? I feel like a rare genetic flop! Even my "cure" is inexplicable in the IC world.
Anyway. I'll be around cruising the recipes and low glycemic food index. If you are still reading this, thank you for taking the time!
-Frances