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Originally Posted by Ms Arielle
Remember this does not include the effects of a messed up diet for years. In DANDR, Dr Atkins carefully explains DANDR is a corrective diet, and many people around the world eat a no-meat diet but are not as lucky as we are to have a metabolic issue at this point in our lifespan.
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For most people, that could very well be true, but unfortunately, I was messed up from the time I was born.
I don't know if I told this story on here before, but when my mother brought me home from the hospital, I slept for 14-1/2 hours solid. She repeatedly called the doctor during those hours, because she
knew a newborn shouldn't be going so long without waking up, and without eating. They kept telling her to just let me sleep, until finally at the 14 hour point, the doctor said to go ahead and wake me up. She tried changing my diaper, undressing me, bathing me, and I still didn't wake up. She was then told to snap the bottoms of my feet with her fingernails (ouch), and shove a bottle in my mouth as soon as I opened my mouth to cry. Of course as all newborns do, I would then instinctively suck on the bottle until I was too full, spit out the rubber nipple, and was totally zonked out again for several hours. She routinely woke me up to eat for the first several months of my life.
Basically, I was in what I'd now call a carb coma most of that time, and despite having fewer feedings than most babies of that age (mom allowed me to sleep through the night), I gained weight very rapidly, which I now understand was because I was having blood sugar issues (hyperinsulinism) even at that age. It took approximately 19 years for them to finally figure out what my problem was - and with that diagnosis, they wanted me to eat a "diabetic" diet, which still had too many carbs, due to the fact that it included a small serving of potato or a slice of bread at every single meal, plus fruit or juice, and a glass of milk - basically a minimum of 120 g carbs daily. (Funny how the diabetic diet hasn't really changed since the early 70's) Still, even cutting back on the carbs that much helped start to lift the fog, and I ended up cutting out most of the carby stuff as not being worth bothering with if I was only allowed such a small serving, meaning that even then I was able to tell on some level that having any of it was just making me crave more. Then the 80's hit and I was convinced (along with most everyone else) that all that protein and fat, and especially all those eggs were deadly, so of course I gave up LCing, and ate tons of whole grains, pasta, fruit, potatoes... and ended up fatter than ever.
So when I say no, a meat free diet is definitely not what I
ever needed, I can assure you that relying on fruit (carbs), and veggies, along with legumes, beans, and whole grains (mostly carbs, with some amino acids for proteins) would never have worked well for me.
But that's my n=1. For an A blood type who wasn't born completely messed up, it might just work.