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

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Rick,

i guess you would recommend Life without Bread, then?

sounds a little like Rosedale, author of the rosedale diet. (i read

the book but his anti-sat. fat stance seems to be integral to the

success of the program.)

i'm curious about what you said because whenever i try to decrease my

eating (like when i tried Warrior), i lose my appetite, feel nauseous

a lot, and eat only because i have to, to alleviate the nausea.

i feel incapable of 'gorging' at night on the Warrior Diet after

having 'fasted' all day. it's like i don't feel right, i don't feel

well, and i don't want to eat anything. then insomnia comes. this

is a pattern that has plagued me for decades...it seemed to go along

with my bipolar.

maybe i shouldn't do Warrior.

whenever i would try to undereat, either slightly undereating or

fasting (usually not fasting) i would lose my appetite, feel sick all

the time except after forcing myself to eat, then have a spell of

insomnia, and this would last a week or two, or until i could bring

my eating levels up again. and i'm a fat person.

every time this happens i seem to forget the last time, and i sigh

and say to myself, see, you're destined to be fat; everytime you try

to lose wt. this happens, and when you go back to eating plenty of

food, you feel better...physically. it's not emotional eating. i

have to force myself to eat to feel better even when i don't want to.

laura

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> ,

>

> 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