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[Sanjuana Keva]

Past Eating

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I have been through a progression of eating styles the last 4-5 years. I was eating the Wheat Belly diet, then I was eating Keto, and then my thyroid https://spabeautik.wordpress.com/ went out of whack which I now attribute to eating Keto (low carb), and I have since heard of a lot of people who the same thing happened with reduced carbs.

I then ate everything and anything during my recovery from hyperthyroidism, I had a period of time where I allowed myself to eat what I wanted when I wanted, and there was a lot of healing around body shame and shame around food. I felt like it was a pendulum swing back from such a restricted way of eating.

Then I found the Medical Medium and my health started to improve a lot. During that time I cut out eating meat and chicken and ate vegan 90% of the time, with just eggs and fish being two foods I didn't want to give up.

5:2 Intermittent Fasting

For the last month I have been following the 5:2 Diet. I don't really like calling it a diet because it's really a lifestyle. It was first made popular by Michael Mosley, a British journalist. I watched his documentary and I was hooked.

Its all centred around Intermittent Fasting. There are a few types of Intermittent fasting, but the 5:2 Diet is eating normally for 5 days a week and fasting on 500 calories for women, and 600 calories for men, on 2 days a week (based on 1/4 of your daily calorie allowance). A lot of people find this way of eating easier to achieve than the usual restrictive calorie diets.

Health Benefits and Weight Loss

I have long let go of my focus being weight loss, if it happens then so be it, but the health benefits of eating this way have been well documented. In particular I'm wanting to see what effect it has on my high blood pressure.

A lot of people have lost weight eating this way, and it's known to improve metabolic health. When your body isn't digesting all the time, then it can get to repairing and regenerating.

One of the things I liked about this way of eating is that it tricks your body into not feeling restricted and then going into starvation mode and storing fat. In other diet's I've been on I would never lose any weight because of this.

Low Carb But Not Keto

I've now worked out what my body feels the most comfortable eating on these 2 days, and it has made the process easier. I have found foods that make me full but yet are low in calories. And I'm not eating Keto either but aiming for Whole Food Plant Based. In the beginning it was hard, but tweaking my meals made it easier.

What Days To Fast

I was fasting Tuesday and Saturday, but found that I needed to change it because Friday's I have my PT session and I needed more food on Saturday to recover. So I've moved to Monday and Thursday.

Non Fast Days

I haven't really found that I binge on the NFD (non fast days) and something I have come to notice is how much more I love food and enjoy it on the NFD. And not in an obsessive way, but more an appreciation and enjoyment.

It's not meant to be a free for all on the NFD, you don't have to count calories, but you do have to be conscious of what you are eating.

Support

I belong to a Facebook group for this diet and a lot of people mention they can go all day not eating and eat all their calories at dinner, but I can't. I get too hangry. lol I have to have 3 meals, so I've worked out how best to do that. The groups are great support and you pick up ideas for what to eat. I also bought 3 books about this way of eating, and 2 of them are for vegetarians.

I use myfitnesspal app to count the calories. I use the bar code scanner when I'm at the supermarket to get a sense of what calorie value foods have. I came into this having never counted calories before.

It's early days for me yet so I will keep you posted on how it goes.

(If you are considering this way of eating, please consult your doctor, and it's not recommended for pregnant or nursing women, people with blood sugar issues, people with eating disorders)

Let me know if you're interested in eating this way or you are already.

The patient with diabetes mellitus has insufficient insulin secretion for his needs in metabolizing carbohydrates. As a result, the diabetic suffers from high blood sugar, glycosuria, thirst, loss of weight, and ketosis due to the production of keto-acids from improper fat metabolism. If the situation degenerates to uncontrolled diabetes, a severe case will prove fatal from acidosis as ketoses accumulate in the blood. Not all cases however are severe, in some; insulin supply is adequate if the diet is moderate in calories and in carbohydrates.

In others, the diabetic patients must be given insulin in quantities sufficient to deal with the carbohydrate in their diet. The management of these cases requires skill from the doctor and dieticians, and insight from the nurse who is looking after the patient during the time when the insulin and dietic requirements are being balanced.

Mild or Moderate Case

Diabetes occurs in a mild form in middle aged patients, and is often only discovered in the course of investigation of some other condition. Such people are usually overweight and frequently women. Insulin is often not needed, provided the weight can be reduced and a low carbohydrate diet adhered to. All sugar must be omitted and starch reduced as in all obesity diets. As the weight falls, the sugar in the urine decreases and may eventually disappear.

Moderate or Severe Cases

These people, who are usually children and young adults, have insufficient insulin for their metabolic needs and it must be given to them by injection. All that is given here are some of the principles used in constructing diabetic diets for patients needing insulin. If he is receiving insulin, he must have a diet matched to it; if he is given insufficient insulin, ketones will appear in the blood stream and diabetic coma will ensue. While if his insulin is excessive, in relation to his carbohydrate intake, it will lower his blood sugar until hypoglycemia and its attendant symptoms occur.

Some physicians advocates the free-diet treatment in which the patient eats what he likes, and his insulin dosage is stabilized according to the severity of his disease. This relies on the fact that most people's calorie consumption is fairly constant. It is attractive to patients because they are not troubled with diabetic calculations, but in practice control of the blood sugar is not very good, and some of the long-term complications of diabetes, such as nephritis, seems to occur more commonly in people treated in this way.

The patient's carbohydrate needs are estimated, according to his age, weight and type of work. As a rule, only the carbohydrate need be weighed. A new diabetic is best stabilized in hospital and usually begins with a diet with a carbohydrate intake of 150 G and a calorie value of 1,500. His insulin is then adjusted until the urine is sugar-free, and then the diet and the insulin are raised together until the diet is sufficient for the patients need in the outside world.

Apart from dietary management of diabetes, other factors that can help a diabetic patient put the condition to an absolute check and live a healthy live are;

o Exercise: Doing light exercises can also help put diabetes conditions to a minimum level. Exercise like climbing a staircase is advisable.

o Insulin injection, if need be. Drugs are strongly not advised because of their possible adverse effects on some organs of the body. If drugs must be involved, it should be upon the recommendations of a experienced medical practitioner.