RE: Intro and quick question

[Guest guest]

No oatmeal on Phase 1. Your will see a plummet in your blood sugar in the first

few days as your body is detoxing from the bad sugars and carbs.

MB

Intro and quick question

Hi! My name is , I'm 28, married w/ 2 children ages 4 and 2. I started

out at 176 lbs and want to get down to atleast 155 lbs. I started phase 1 on

Monday and have been doing great as far as not being hungry, but my blood sugar

just has been plummeting!!! So my question is this.....can I add a couple

'good' carbs a day and still expect good results? This a.m. I made a bowl of

regular oatmeal in hopes of giving myself a boost.

TIA for any advice.

~~Mommy to and

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[Guest guest]

> Hi! My name is , I'm 28, married w/ 2 children ages 4

> and 2. I started out at 176 lbs and want to get down to

> atleast 155 lbs. I started phase 1 on Monday and have been

> doing great as far as not being hungry, but my blood sugar

> just has been plummeting!!! So my question is this.....can

> I add a couple 'good' carbs a day and still expect good

> results? This a.m. I made a bowl of regular oatmeal in

> hopes of giving myself a boost.

-- Take the time to read the book and learn the foods to enjoy/avoid

list. Knowing how the meal plan works will help you be more successful on

this system of eating. Case in point -- oatmeal is not allowed during phase

1 and I'll wager you ate something like Quaker Oats which is a quick

oatmeal; that's not allowed ever. After completing 2 weeks on phase 1, you

go into phase 2. During phase 2 you add back a starch and a fruit for a

week or two, see how it affects you, then switch it up with another; the

idea being to experiment a bit until you feel comfortable going to 2

servings of each a day, then finally you move to 2-3 servings of each a day.

This is all in the book.

When you first start on P1, your blood sugar WILL plummet -- that's part of

the process (again, something you'd understand if you read the book). The

foods you ate before kept you in a cycle of ups and downs with your blood

sugar -- when you were down, you went for something like that bowl of

oatmeal to give yourself a boost. Therein lies the issue. You do not want

to just " get a boost " . Instead, you want a stable flow of nutrients to keep

your blood sugar levels stable. P1 seeks to return your system to that

stability by getting first your eating habits under control and then your

blood chemistry aligned as a result of better eating habits.

When you first begin this transition, you'll go through what is commonly

called the SB flu. In other words, you'll feel very much like you have a

mild case of the flu. Your blood sugar will drop off and you'll feel

crummy. That's normal -- it's just your body coming around. If you follow

the plan, eat 3 SBD compliant meals a day with snacks in between (all

required) the symptoms will not be as bad and they will subside.

[Guest guest]

--- Noctaire noctaire@...> wrote:

> > ...I started phase 1 on Monday and have been

> > doing great as far as not being hungry, but my

> blood sugar

> > just has been plummeting!!!...

>

> ...oatmeal is not allowed during phase

> 1 and I'll wager you ate something like Quaker Oats

> which is a quick oatmeal; that's not allowed ever.

Not all Quaker Oats products are 'quick' - they also

sell Old-Fashioned which is SBD-compliant.

> When you first begin this transition, you'll go

> through what is commonly

> called the SB flu. In other words, you'll feel very

> much like you have a

> mild case of the flu. Your blood sugar will drop

> off and you'll feel

> crummy. That's normal -- it's just your body coming

> around. If you follow

> the plan, eat 3 SBD compliant meals a day with

> snacks in between (all

> required) the symptoms will not be as bad and they

> will subside.

>

>

And add BEANS to your diet. They *really* helped my

energy levels when I was in P1, and had a severe case

of the SB flu. Also, if you suddenly stopped caffeine

at the same time (which I did :-P), the flu is so much

worse. Reintroduce the caffeine; that will help. You

can cut out the caffeine after the worst of the SB flu

is over in P1, or in P2. I had the SB flu for most of

the first week of P1.

CindyB.

thankful this second round of P1 is 'flu-less'

[Guest guest]

Are you diabetic or hypoglycemic and actually taking blood to check

your sugar? Or are you just experiencing regular old reactive " I'm

hungry and my blood sugar is dropping " symptoms?

If it's the latter, that's what the snacks are for, so that our blood

sugar doesn't drop too low between meals. I find that protein snacks

help that a lot, some cheese, some yogurt, some nuts, some peanut

butter, etc.

The oatmeal is not a good idea on phase 1.

ann

> Hi! My name is , I'm 28, married w/ 2 children ages 4 and

2. I started out at 176 lbs and want to get down to atleast 155

lbs. I started phase 1 on Monday and have been doing great as far as

not being hungry, but my blood sugar just has been plummeting!!! So

my question is this.....can I add a couple 'good' carbs a day and

still expect good results? This a.m. I made a bowl of regular

oatmeal in hopes of giving myself a boost.

>

> TIA for any advice.

>

>

> ~~Mommy to and