Guest guest Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 >> Inger: My best diet it medium heavy food like fish and potatoes. Contrary >> to what everyone's been telling me, I don't function well on veggies and >> fruit. > Even though I don't fully accept the blood type diet theory, I have to applaud the book " Eat Right for Your Type " for opening the discussion that there might be more than one way to eat healthy and that healthy eating depends on the individual person. > I don't believe there are four different ways to eat right and that they correlate with a person's blood type, but I do believe that one person's soup is another person's poison. Yep. That's precisely how I feel too. Too many disastrous attempts at following various dieats have made me wary of oversimplified rules, but like you, I'm pretty convinced that not everything is good for everyone. More useful as a general guide has actually been Ayurveda http://health.indiamart.com/ayurveda/index.html but then I still had to modify this dieat to suit my own individual needs. > I've noticed a lot of people saying that Aspies don't have much appetite. > I must definitely be the exception to the rule, then! I am always hungry. No matter what sort of food I eat, I am always hungry. Starving myself does no good. I've been told that eventually my stomach would shrink down and I wouldn't be so hungry all the time, but it never happens. Mine actually did shrink when I was younger so that I could hardly get anything down at all. But last years, I've had such problems with hypoglycemia that I too am hungry all the time and need to eat almost constantly in order not to get dizzy. > I think that part of why eating mostly fruits and veggies is good for me > is because I am always eating, all day long. When I eat heavier food, I > quickly become very fat. So I limit myself to one heavier meal (tonight we > are having shrimp!) and spend the rest of the day " grazing. " :-) Me too! I've never heard of anyone but me who eats this way. It's a real pain in the neck to have to constantly be eating since I find it so boring. But I've adapted to it now and have learned to nibble on something while typing. I doubt there is a person on the planet who eats slower than I do. So I don't eat more then others, I just eke out my eating over many hours instead of eating a lot at one meal and then waiting for several hours before the next. > I love fish and I hear it is very good for you, too! I used to eat more fish when I lived by a river where I could go out and catch my food any time. I'd go out in the evening before bedtime and catch the next day's food. I thrive well on lots of fish, but it is far too expensive to eat if I'm not catching it myself. Too bad you can't do so now. Though I personally prefer fish fingers or other ready made dishes. Can't stand to handle raw fish. Inger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 : > There is a book called Body By God which has good advice too. It is not about blood types or anything like that, but more about when and how much of what to eat. Things like more carbs in the morning and more protein at night. Its very easy to follow and makes sense. OF course, the author also talks about eating a lot of little meals and snacks, which is much more empahsis on food than I am interested in, so I make allowances. > I have read other studies and things which say that it is better to eat lightly during the day and have one bigger evening meal. This semi-fasting is supposed to have a good impact on the body. Well, this is usually what I do anyway and I am in fairly good health. Another tack is to eat one day and fast the next. That is a bit more than I can handle though, so I do the first thing as near as I can. Hmm, as always, my body functions totally contrary to this. I have to have the heaviest, most protein-rich meal in the morning and am fine with lighter, more veggie food at night. When I tried that diet where you only eat fruit in the morning, I got severely imbalanced. Fasting I could never do without fainting. :-( Inger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 >> I personally prefer fish fingers or other ready made dishes. Can't stand >> to handle raw fish. > Sparrow: I wear gloves! LOL! > I can't stand to handle most things. Plus, due to my clumsiness, I always > have cuts and scrapes and eczema and all sorts of things on my hands so I > don't like to soak them in dirty water or expose them to fish guts. Fish guts! :-o Don't think I could stand to be close to any of those even with gloves on! > I get rubber gloves with a silky-soft lining. They feel nice against my > hands. I have those too. Just didn't realize you could use them for more than cleaning. > I make a little cuff at the wrist so that stuff doesn't run up my arm and > then down into the glove if I lift my hand up. Aspie unconventional inventiveness! :-) > I have a pair for washing dishes, a pair for preparing food and a pair I > keep in the bathroom for cleaning in there. Aspie logic. :-) Inger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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