Re: Fatigue/mind fog - low carb dieting

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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:48:43 -0400

<karenr@...> wrote:

>Makes sense. I guess the word " optimize " applies more to insulin than

>IGF-1. You want to minimize insulin's fat storage effect, but you also want

>the anabolic benefit of insulin and its role (along with GH) in the

>production of IGF-1. So it seems that with a diet that keeps insulin low

>at all times, you don't get the advantage of insulin and GH working

>together beneficially. I wonder how Atkins explains this?

>

Not well in my opinion. This may explain why many athletes do not adopt

his low carb program whole hog. Although the author at the Second

Opinions website would beg to differ:

http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/athletic_diet.html

On my dietary evolutionary path in terms of how to eat to stay lean

without paying attention to calories as an athlete, I discovered that

the cyclical low carb programs:

http://www.metabolicdiet.com/featured/

were much better than the Atkins style low carb programs for three

reasons:

1. I could get the anabolic benefit of insulin (and GH) when I was

eating lots of carbs on the weekend.

2. I still was able to minimize insulin's fat storage effect (and btw, I

think that is a rather simplistic explanation of how insulin operates in

that process - but I will defer to the common understanding at the

moment) because the two days of feasting on carbs was not enough to

throw me out of ketosis or near ketosis. By the time that would have

happened I was already back to low carbing (about 40 grams a day)

3. I could socially interact with my family and friends on the weekend

without worrying about macro-nutrient restrictions. Then during the week

I could go back to " fasting " from carbs with my 40 carbs a day regimen.

Of course now with the WD, I feast and fast every day. Lovely, and far

more simpler. But still cyclical <grin>

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--- In , " Berg " <bberg@c...>

wrote:

>

> My tongue hurts after eating lots of carbohydrates. It happened to

me

> last night, for example, when I ate an unusually large yam (a little

> under a pound, I think). Does anyone else experience this?

Uhhh... let the yam cool down a little bit before you try to

eat it . It's very hot straight out of the oven! ;-)

[Guest guest]

>My tongue hurts after eating lots of carbohydrates. It happened to me

>last night, for example, when I ate an unusually large yam (a little

>under a pound, I think). Does anyone else experience this?

My daughter says the roof of her mouth hurts when she

gets grape juice (organic or otherwise) and my tongue

hurts when I drink too much of a certain herb tea.

Might be some kind of allergic reaction?

-- Heidi