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[juststruttin]

Thank you for the recommendation! I'm going to check it out! My DH and I have been on a no sugar diet since April. We have been following JJ Virgin's food intolerance diet. For 21 days, you cut out of your diet the 7 most common foods that people are intolerant of (corn, soy, peanuts, sugar, gluten, dairy, eggs) and then slowly add them back in one at a time to see how your body responds to them. Of course there are a few that she recommends you keep below 5% of your diet and sugar is one of them. We have been amazed at how good we feel and how some of the signs of aging like joint pain, poor sleeping, etc. have almost completely disappeared. We have made the change both for health reasons and to lose weight. My DH has lost over 30 lbs and I've lost 22 lbs so far. It sounds hard but it really has been the easiest life change we have ever made. It helps that we are feeling so much better. I had no idea that I was feeling bad until I cut out those foods. We are thinking about doing a 30 day paleo diet challenge that is very similar to the one we have been on except you are allowed eggs but not allowed legumes with a few exceptions. It shouldn't be hard since we have already made most of the changes.

Here are the links if anyone is interested!

http://jjvirgin.com/
http://whole9life.com/category/whole-30/

Yep, today is day 5 and it is soo much easier than I thought it would be. I hope it will get even easier when it becomes second nature to choose the right food. I like that you said that it has been the easiest life change you've ever made. I can see that.

Yes, the timing is good and bad. It is bad because we do go to alot of BBQ and such in the summer, but it is good because there are soooo many yummy fresh fruits and veggies this time of year. Yesterday, I ate breakfast in my garden which was nice. Everything is bursting right now.

I will check out the video thanks.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Too many to quote today.... Forks over Fingers.... haven't heard of that one yet. Did see the Forks over Knives. Thought it was a little extreme but we are on to something.

Congrats on losing the weight. I need the willpower to go off sugar and coffee. I have been working on it for a while now and keep failing. Miserably. My problem is that I use food and drinks as a reward. I can't find a reward replacement.

So a green and red rhubarb makes me think that the red isn't all the way ripe? Maybe it is a hybrid. I would like to get some from you one of these days if you are willing...... Right now I need to focus on securing the chicken coop.

Forks over Knives was a bit extreme and it certainly had an agenda, but I can see certain points about it that make sense. The relationship to the amount of meat most Americans eat and heart disease seemed to have the scientific evidence to back it up. I will not give up meat entirely, but I do limit it to 3-4 oz (6-8 for a man) per serving. I usually have eggs for lunch, so I usually only have meat with dinner. Occasionally, I'll have leftover chicken on my salad for lunch. And I don't need or want any more than that.

And I like my coffee. I don't drink soda and haven't in a couple of years. I don't like the taste of it anymore.

On the rhubarb, I'll take a picture of it next time I harvest some. I usually have plenty to share. I have 1 1/2 gallons in the freezer right now.

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: See, told ya. ANY breed you want and it's a pretty safe bet that Deb has it.

I don't have Brabanters (yet).

I likes my crap foods.

Heart healthy, lungs clear (despite the smoking), low cholesterol, and the various maintenance meds I take are keeping the peripheral neuropathy symptoms to a dull roar, dulling the RLS at night

Give me a bag of crunchy Cheetos and I'm a happy girl!

Linda, have you tried adding magnesium to your diet? DH was at the cardiologist a few years ago on a consultation and I mentioned he was having leg pain. I brought it up on the thought it might be a peripheral circulatory problem. He said to start taking a magnesium capsule each day and it helps leg pain. He's been taking it ever since and no longer complains about leg pain at all. He takes 400mg per day.

My sister also has RLS and leg pain. Recently the doctor told her to start taking magnesium. She no longer has any leg pain or RLS symptoms. It can't really hurt you and it might help.

The improvement for both of them was very rapid, certainly before they finished the first bottle of them.

I was reading an article on supplements in Consumer Reports recently and it also mentioned taking magnesium supplements.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Congrats on the weight loss Linda! Every change that you make is a good one! You don't have to cut out the bad stuff forever, just limiting it helps a lot!

 

[Ali707]

I am intrigued by the various dietary changes y'all have mentioned. "Intrigued" is about as far as it goes with me, though. I likes my crap foods.

However, for the first time in a few zillion years, I am below 200 lbs. At my check-up last week, I weighed 198 in my clothes and Crocs on the Major Scary doctor's Scale. When I moved here almost two years ago, I weighed 240. Last September I weighed 213, and in November had dropped to 209. I always move the scale weights myself and was confused when I couldn't get it to balance. The gal moved my hands and slid the big, bottom weight back to 150 with a clunk. "Lets try this," she said, sliding the top weight across the bar..... Wahoo!

I attribute this to the dearth of fast food restaurants up here; the closest is in Placerville. I eat something before I go to Placerville for shopping so any crap foods I bring home are packaged foods, not JITB or Micky D's or BK. I like cherry PopTarts, Jif "Chocolate Silk" To Go small servings, ramen Bowl Soup packages (add sliced hard boiled eggs, chopped green onions to 'em, or even cut up hot dogs and it's a filling meal).

I changed from eating bread to flour tortillas. (Just about anything spread thinly on the tortilla and then rolled up is a great snack - but apple butter is killer!) I walk up a bit of a hill to Gray's Corner to buy my cigarettes and diet pepsi.... Sometimes I get an "It's It" ice cream

I do eat more fruit. I like to eat pre-packaged salads made in the Holiday Market deli section; I buy bagged salad greens when they are on sale to give to the flock because I never think to buy salad dressing or make a salad out of it for myself.

I knew my clothes were more loose; one pair of pants won't even stay up over my hips, so I knew I was losing weight. HHandbasket MADE me buy some new shorts and a couple of cute tops.

I am sure if I made a deliberate attempt to eat better and walk further and more frequently I would lose more weight, but I don't wanna put that much effort into it. I am what I am.

But I am under 200 lbs now! Heart healthy, lungs clear (despite the smoking), low cholesterol, and the various maintenance meds I take are keeping the peripheral neuropathy symptoms to a dull roar, dulling the RLS at night, mostly managing the fibromyalgia except for a "breakout pain" or impenetrable lethargy day or two now and then, and the reflux a distant memory.

I simply don't have the discipline to actually diet or start a physical exercise program.

Goodness, I rambled! Sorry. Y'all are doing so many better things for yourselves! I just had to offer a different perspective,

Good for you! I go back and forth between being Popeye "I am what I am and that's all that I am"..... and wanting to feel my best. I have a 6 year old to keep up with.

One note on the RLS. I am starting to develop this and it comes and goes. I believe it may be a Magnesium deficiency....... along with some other vitamin and mineral deficiencies. I notice it goes away when I remove caffiene and supplement with certain minerals..... just a thought, because RLS is ANNOYING!!!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Yep, today is day 5 and it is soo much easier than I thought it would be. I hope it will get even easier when it becomes second nature to choose the right food. I like that you said that it has been the easiest life change you've ever made. I can see that.

Yes, the timing is good and bad. It is bad because we do go to alot of BBQ and such in the summer, but it is good because there are soooo many yummy fresh fruits and veggies this time of year. Yesterday, I ate breakfast in my garden which was nice. Everything is bursting right now.

I will check out the video thanks.

I created a salad during the Live the Lifestyle eating program that I've been doing - I found a recipe and changed it to contain the veggies I can have. It's delicious and I took it to a pot luck and everyone loved it.


1 clove garlic, minced
1 papaya, peeled and diced
1 can of black beans, drained and rinsed
1/2 cup chopped red onion
1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
juice from 1 lime
3/4 cucumber chopped
1/4 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp salt
Fresh chopped cilantro to taste
chipotle with adobo paste - use very little, it's got a kick. I did
about 1/2 tsp.

Combine all ingredients and stir. It makes a lot.

 

[juststruttin]

Hi Guys,

I messed up. It was called Forks over Knives.... I have no idea why I wrote Forks over Fingers. There used to be a catering company in Novato called Forks and Fingers, perhaps that is where I got it.

Only the Trailer is available on-line, the video cost $3.99 to watch from the web but it is FREE on Net Flicks if you have that. I have no intention of becoming a vegetarian permanently but 28 days should be easy enough.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Good for you! I go back and forth between being Popeye "I am what I am and that's all that I am"..... and wanting to feel my best. I have a 6 year old to keep up with.

One note on the RLS. I am starting to develop this and it comes and goes. I believe it may be a Magnesium deficiency....... along with some other vitamin and mineral deficiencies. I notice it goes away when I remove caffiene and supplement with certain minerals..... just a thought, because RLS is ANNOYING!!!!

Leg pain can also be a potassium deficiency.

 

[Ali707]

I don't have Brabanters (yet).


Give me a bag of crunchy Cheetos and I'm a happy girl!

Linda, have you tried adding magnesium to your diet? DH was at the cardiologist a few years ago on a consultation and I mentioned he was having leg pain. I brought it up on the thought it might be a peripheral circulatory problem. He said to start taking a magnesium capsule each day and it helps leg pain. He's been taking it ever since and no longer complains about leg pain at all. He takes 400mg per day.

My sister also has RLS and leg pain. Recently the doctor told her to start taking magnesium. She no longer has any leg pain or RLS symptoms. It can't really hurt you and it might help.

The improvement for both of them was very rapid, certainly before they finished the first bottle of them.

I was reading an article on supplements in Consumer Reports recently and it also mentioned taking magnesium supplements.

HEY! You and I said the same thing, but I didn't get my information from a doctor. Our diets and Caffeine suck Magnesium out of our bodies so that most of us are deficient. I think I read that caffeine specifically has to have Magnesium secreted from the Liver???? to be processed. I may have that wrong, (because my memory stinks) but I walked away with Magnesium and Manganese deficiency being the possible cause..... and now you just confirmed that for me! Thanks!

 

[juststruttin]

Quote: Yes, that the name. Forks over Knives!!! My bad.