meal plan for beginning dieters snacks also
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meal plan for beginning dieters snacks also
I am new to this diet and feel like I am not able to eat enough. Help with meal plans and snacks. Have most trouble with breakfast and when I am out of town snacks, breakfast, lunch
Hi Eugenia,
This is a common complaint among new members when they start the diet. Look at it this way: This is a treatment for a disease that's very difficult to control. The limited diet is necessary in order to achieve remission of the disease. After you are in remission, then you can begin to experiment with adding other foods into your diet (one at a time, so that you can tell whether they are safe for you). All of us (and thousands of earlier members) have been through this, and we got our health back.
I'm not sure that I understand why people say that they are not able to eat enough. If I could eat only a single food, as long as I could get plenty of that food, I would keep eating until I was full. And I would consider myself well-fed. If I could eat only old shoes, and i had a closet full of old shoes, I would be content.
Please don't eat any old shoes, but the truth is, we don't need variety in our diet. Diet variety is a fairly recent development in our evolutionary history. Humans only have to have a certain amount of protein and fat. Nothing else. And we can get protein and fat from a single food — meat. Our paleo ancestors got that protein and fat for millions of years by hunting and trapping animals. And in fact, some members here have recovered eating only meat, so we know that works. After you are in remission, you can begin to worry about eating a balanced diet, but worrying about balanced nutrition now is pointless, because all the nutrition in our food is going right through us anyway, until we can get the inflammation under control. So simply eat more of whatever you can safely eat, so that you get enough calories. The simpler our diet during recovery, the faster we recover, as a rule.
Tex
This is a common complaint among new members when they start the diet. Look at it this way: This is a treatment for a disease that's very difficult to control. The limited diet is necessary in order to achieve remission of the disease. After you are in remission, then you can begin to experiment with adding other foods into your diet (one at a time, so that you can tell whether they are safe for you). All of us (and thousands of earlier members) have been through this, and we got our health back.
I'm not sure that I understand why people say that they are not able to eat enough. If I could eat only a single food, as long as I could get plenty of that food, I would keep eating until I was full. And I would consider myself well-fed. If I could eat only old shoes, and i had a closet full of old shoes, I would be content.
Please don't eat any old shoes, but the truth is, we don't need variety in our diet. Diet variety is a fairly recent development in our evolutionary history. Humans only have to have a certain amount of protein and fat. Nothing else. And we can get protein and fat from a single food — meat. Our paleo ancestors got that protein and fat for millions of years by hunting and trapping animals. And in fact, some members here have recovered eating only meat, so we know that works. After you are in remission, you can begin to worry about eating a balanced diet, but worrying about balanced nutrition now is pointless, because all the nutrition in our food is going right through us anyway, until we can get the inflammation under control. So simply eat more of whatever you can safely eat, so that you get enough calories. The simpler our diet during recovery, the faster we recover, as a rule.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Hi,
I forgot to add: For many of us, while we are recovering, our breakfast looks just like our lunch, which looks just like our dinner. And our shacks are leftovers from one of the other meals.
Tex
I forgot to add: For many of us, while we are recovering, our breakfast looks just like our lunch, which looks just like our dinner. And our shacks are leftovers from one of the other meals.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.