weight & other things

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Good point, Heidi, on how to eat, and thanks to everybody for their

suggestions. After 30+ years in the " diet " mentality, I find it hard

to shed that mindset, even though I firmly believe it is dieting that

made me gain so much weight! Plus, when you have diabetes, the

nutritionists give you really strange and conflicting advice. BTW,

the medical community really wants diabetics to all be on those

statin drugs to get their cholesterol BELOW 150 -- can you believe

it? I'm always fighting with my doctor about it (my cholesterol is

about 202.

Heidi, where do you buy the geese you mentioned in an earlier post?

Is it a store up where you live, or one that might have a store in

the South Sound area? I would LOVE to be able to render some goose

fat for cooking.

Ann

In , Heidi Schuppenhauer

<heidis@t...> wrote:

>

> It is different for every meal, but say, for lunch, 4 oz of meat,

1/2 cup of starch (maybe, mostly I just have starch for breakfast)

and piles of vegies (like, a salad, or peas, or broccoli, or carrots)

with garlic and oil. My goal is to find meals that " work " in the

sense that:

>

> 1. I LIKE them.

> 2. They set well.

> 3. They give me a lot of energy.

> 4. They cause me to not gain, or to lose, weight.

>

> I would guess that ketosis can cause one to lose weight quickly: it

would also give me a migraine (very low carb diets do that to me) and

I'd be missing my fruit too badly to stick to it for long. And it

still wouldn't answer the question I have: what do I need to eat to

survive without " dieting " ? I know I can lose weight with enough

willpower, but it would just come back again unless I figure out " how

to eat " .

>

> To date though, I've lost my sugar cravings (really, I just don't

like the stuff much) and my blood sugar has stabilized. I don't think

there is a " one size fits all " in this, but maybe sharing we kind

find ways ...

>

> -- Heidi