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Well, I'm going to have to eat crow (good protein!) with my brother, but for some reason I decided to try stopping my low-fat diet (for heart health and weight maintenance) and doing "the GL diet" instead.
It is amazing how much better I feel after only 5 days. My energy and mood have improved and stabilized, and I'm not hungry or craving anything, at all!
It's not at all an extreme diet. One of the books "The Glycemic Load Diet" by Rob Thompson, MD says if you want to make it simple, just stop eating starch and surgar. The author is diabetic and says he's measured his blood sugar thousands of times to see how food affects it, and he says glycemic load is the best correlator. You replace the starch and sugar (which we all know are "empty calories" anyway)with vegetables, fruit in moderation, protein in moderation, and "good fats". It doesn't put you into ketosis.
I then read The Zone by Sears, because it has such a following, so there are a lot of cookbooks and other advice out there. It seems to be the same thing. And I pooh-poohed it for years because of all the hype. I don't trust miracle diets.
But I gotta say, I feel great. I also lost a couple of pounds. I'm sure there are individual differences, but it's worth a try - you may be able to tell within a few days if it's going to make you feel better. I loved starch but I don't miss it - maybe there's something to this sugar-starch/craving thing.
I've had Lyme for 17 years, had to end my career due to fatigue 10 years ago, diagnosed with Lyme 5 months ago, now on clarithromycin (= Biaxin) and plaquenil, will be pulsing flagyl one week per month.
Here's to our health, Lorima
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I'm glad you're feeling so much better and in such a short amount of time no less.
Keep on the up swing. Hopefully you'll hit the success story thread soon.
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