Hi, Lisa,
I thought you going to be busy with your mini-photography conference. How is it going?
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Originally Posted by lisaz8605
There may be some foods that I temporarily ban but there may be others that are permanent..
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let me use your statement as something that needs to be criticized. (BUT not critical of you!) I am unhappy with the continued usage of the term
food for anything that is sold in a grocery store that is intended to be put in your mouth. FAR, FAR, TOO much of what is in there is flat out POISON for the likes of people on this board.
Until you can walk down the bread or cookie isle or walk through the bakery section, with all that wonderful smell, and say, “I do not eat that, that is NOT food!!”, maintenance will be a struggle to stay “on PLAN!”
Cindy, since you and I are singing out of the same book and usually in close harmony, I know you won’t be offended by my criticizing your statement.
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Originally Posted by CindySue48
If followed properly, by the time you reach maintenance you should be able to eat very closely to what even the ADA, AHA, et all would consider "well balanced" (although maybe still "deficient" in carbs).
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MAN!!! I just hate to hear some one say "a well balanced diet" because it conjures up the FDA food pyramid, a formula for bad health! A PP/PPLP diet should have over 60% of calories from FAT (the good ones, of course!) which would NEVER be considered balanced.
Can we instead say, as Regina would, you need to eat the necessary proteins, fats, minerals, vitamins and anti-oxidants your body needs each and every day. Notice the TOTAL abstinence of that other thing that nutritionists call a macro nutrient - something that does not in any way provide nutrients.
Aus LC , you asked,
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Originally Posted by Aus LC
It makes me wonder how best to pursue things though. Either to use low-carb versions of how we used to eat i.e. shirataki noodles for pasta or naturally low-carb foods in their original forms or is it a personal preference way to deal with that?
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and I sort of had your question in mind when I wrote the comments above. Yes, it is personal preference! BUT, that can easily lead you astray. One of the reasons I am so sold on the Dr. Eades plan as set out in PP&PPLP is that they give you the tools, especially in PPLP, to make GOOD personal choices. My choice is to simply say, I do not eat that! It is NOT food! Works for me but may not for you.
Allowing yourself to occasionally “indulge” in things that are heavy in carbohydrates, is a “slippery” slope that can cause disaster. You can read about it every day here on this board. Someone posts, “Starting over again.” or something like that. They slipped down and took too long to get back up. That often leads to consequences of a bad diet that accumulate and are hard to reverse.
I have an analogy about temptation. Its lesson is that you must learn what your irresistible temptations are, and then studiously avoid them. My (former) irresistible temptation was cookies. I was a true “cookie monster”. If there were cookies in the house I would nibble at them until they were all gone. It started in High School. The best place to study was the kitchen table. My mother made oatmeal/coconut cookies that were wonderful and were put in a jar on top of the refrigerator. After an hour or so (or less), they would call to me. So would get up and get one. Soon I would HAVE to have another. After a few one cookie trips, it was cutting into the studying so to be more efficient I would get two, or three, or ..... until I just moved the jar to the table. Two nights and it was empty!!
So when I started to grocery shop for myself and the family, I quickly learned that at home the cookies were still irresistible, as I had found out in High School. So the easiest way to keep from eating too many cookies was not to have any in the house. The way not to have them in the house was not to bring them home from the store. The way not to bring them home from the store was not to put them in the cart. The way not to have cookies put in the cart was
not to go down the cookie isle!
I told this story once to a friend that was struggling with some temptations, and thus was born the expression DO NOT GO DOWN THE COOKIE ISLE! that we often used there after. We even expanded it to really great temptations by saying Do not go into the store that has a cookie isle. We even got to saying Do not drive down the street that has the store that has a cookie isle, or at least drive the other way.
We are surrounded by temptations. Both from the media trying to sell something that is not healthy to eat, or by family and friends that just are to brain washed by the media to know that the FDA food pyramid is REALLY not healthy. You must train your mind, thus it is largely a mind “game”, to resist and stick to a good healthy diet (can we use that Cindy?) the rest of your life.