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I'm making a little progress -- I'm getting my carb count down and switching more of my carbs away from starches (even quinoa and sweet potatoes) and toward extra servings of vegetables and low-glycemic fruits. I have to be a bit creative, because the list of fruits and vegetables I can eat is limited by the FODMAP restrictions, but I'm starting to get the hang of this. My next goal is to try to shift some calories away from animal proteins and toward nuts, seeds, and whole grains. This is hard for me, because I've always found that I do better on a higher protein diet. Still I have to take seriously the fact that I definitely eat larger portions of animal protein than is now recommended. It's all a bit confusing: How do you keep carbs below 150, fat below 50, cholesterol below 200 -- but eat less protein and more healthy fats and whole grains? And how do you eat 25-35 of fiber and keep your calories and carbs down? -- especially when the FODMAP restriction eliminates beans, broccoli, cauliflower and other fiber-rich things? This is really HARD.
Diet Calendar Entry for 28 July 2015:
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1465 kcal
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Fat: 57.06g | Prot: 104.33g | Carb: 132.90g.
Breakfast: Milk (Nonfat), Bonne Maman Strawberry Preserves, Wellshire Farms Uncured Turkey Ham Steak, Buckwheat Pancakes-Gluten Free. Lunch: Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Green Olives, Kroger Honeydew Melon, Grape Tomatoes, Tuna Salad, Cantaloupe (Muskmelon), fresh basil leaves. Dinner: Roundy's Baby-Cut Carrots, Wild Coho Salmon, Perkins Restaurant Sauteed Spinach, Basil, Tomato & Pepper Salad. Snacks/Other: Strawberries, Blueberries, HEB Cantaloupe Chunks, Kroger Honeydew Melon, Luna Luna Protein Bar - Chocolate Peanut Butter, America's Choice Bacon Thick Sliced. more...
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I've added Acacia fiber. I don't know if that would help. I'll have to go look up FODMAPSs.
28 Jul 15 by member: Johanne
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FODMAP is an abbreviation for certain kinds of molecules that people who are lactose and fructose/fructin intolerant can't eat without getting diarrhea. I had a food-borne infection about a year ago and since then, I have had IBS. The FODMAP diet controls the IBS, and it also has resulted in my starting to lose weight again. I haven't been in for a weigh-in, but I will get a doctor's appointment later in August, and will get weighed there.
28 Jul 15 by member: Hermiones Mom
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Don't we minus the fiber out from the Carbs, We only concerns about Net Carbs ? R we.
31 Jul 15 by member: slk4fun
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Im confused more than ever about carb counting. Stop eating pasta and bread and eating more veggy like eggplant, peppers, broccoli etc, but find out some of this veggy have more carbs than pasta or bread.
01 Aug 15 by member: slk4fun
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Are you bothered by whey protein? Protein shakes can be delicious and fulfilling your protein needs.
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The whey in the Isagenix shakes has all of the lactose removed. Nothing left but delicious, pure protein. Organic and free from any hormones, pesticides antibiotics or herbicides.
09 Aug 15 by member: Muffin 1
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Thanks Muffin 1 -- I will check out these shakes. Perhaps I can use them to replace a few meals a week and lower total calorie count. SLK4Fun -- I can't imagine what veggies you're finding have more carbs than bread or pasta, because non of the ones you mention -- eggplant, peppers, broccoli -- have anywhere near the carbs in bread or pasta...
09 Aug 15 by member: Hermiones Mom
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Why are you worried about cholesterol? The cholesterol in your food does not increase the cholesterol in your blood.
09 Aug 15 by member: JosieSchmosie
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JosieSchmosie -- a diet high in saturated fat WILL affect plaque in your blood, and with the exception of a few foods like shrimp that are high in cholesterol but low in saturated fat -- high cholesterol generally means high saturated fat. Heart association guidelines continue to limit cholesterol to 200 mg per day, and while eating a low cholesterol diet is no guarantee that your blood cholesterol will be low, eating a high cholesterol diet that is high in saturated fat almost guarantees that you will have troubles ranging from heart disease to type 2 diabetes. Yes, I know there are people who claim this is not the case, but the preponderance of reliable science supports this view.
09 Aug 15 by member: Hermiones Mom
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Page 91 of the 572-page Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee: "Previously, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended that cholesterol intake be limited to no more than 300 mg/day. The 2015 DGAC will not bring forward this recommendation because available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between consumption of dietary cholesterol and serum (blood) cholesterol, consistent with the AHA/ACC (American Heart Association / American College of Cardiology) report. Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption."
The government changed it's mind and so did the American Heart Association. This was back last spring. You must have missed it, but it was on CNN.
09 Aug 15 by member: JosieSchmosie
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JosieSchmosie -- thank you for pointing this out. I also found the following article from the New York Times: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/study-questions-fat-and-heart-disease-link/?_r=0
The thing that is confusing is that they still believe that high LDL increases heart attack risk, and they also know there is a link between high blood cholesterol and the risk of type 2 diabetes.
10 Aug 15 by member: Hermiones Mom
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