Eating Disord Improvements (Was Re: Determining optimum basic diet from scratch)

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> --- In , " Rick " <risrosen@y...>

wrote:

> > ,

> >

> > I have the book, and I've been doing her program (with 's

clinic)

> > for a couple of months. But can this program help someone who's

> > bipolar? It seems to me that wrote that her program

doesn't do

> > much for severe mental illness like that. I'll ask her though.

> >

>

> Rick,

> this is what you wrote and I to what I responded:

>

> " I am thinking that

> improving her diet might help her significantly. "

>

> B.

>

> /I'm glad you are familiar with the program already and it sounds

like

> it's helped you if you are the same guy I'm thinking of.

,

Yes, I think I am. I think you're the one who emailed me a couple of

months ago when I posted about my eating disorder. 's clinic has

helped some. Last week I read something in " Life Without Bread " that

has (so far) enabled me to stop eating cereal/milk/lots of sugar at

night, which I'd been struggling for a long time to do, and within a

few days I started feeling so much better, in some ways better then

I've ever felt in my adult life. I actually feel a little like I have

a body! I still have big digestive issues, of course, particularly

regarding fats, which I'm trying to eat as much of as I can.

What I read was that when one eats too much carbs for too long--and I

was living on cereal/milk/lots of sugar for over 8 years--one's

metabolism changes from fat/protein-burning to carb-burning. And when

such a person who is thin(like I am) tries to eat a low-carb diet, he

will often lose his appetite, not having much appetite for meat.

That's what I would run up against when I tried not to eat cereal.

The book says that if the person stays with the low-carb diet, the

metabolism will eventually change back and the person will regain his

appetite. Having that hope enabled me to stop eating the cereal and

to do whatever I have to do to stay on the diet. Now that I know how

it feels, I won't go back anyway, but I sure hope it happens...

Rick