* For the first time in my life, I've been able to kick the carb cravings. I guess when you eat food that actually makes you feel full, you don't need that constant hit of sugar to keep you going.
* For the first time I've been able to stop eating in the middle of a meal because I'm full and not still want a cookie or a piece of chocolate.
* I've been coming home from work and foregoing the obligatory handful of snacky stuff I normally have to grab to keep me going through dinner prep.
*TMI - my normally cloudy pee is clear
* I have not had an incident of acid reflux in a week
* Most amazing of all: My chronic back pain that usually leaves me hobbling in the morning when I wake up has subsided. When I tell you, for several years, I've woken up every morning cringing because my back hurts. I've blamed the mattress, blamed the position I sleep in, blamed my two epidurals and naturally blamed my weight. Every time I've mentioned back pain to a doctor in the past, even when it's been due to an injury, I've been told that my weight is a factor {naturally in medical school they teach you that skinny people NEVER have back pain}. The times I've lost 10 pounds or 15 pounds or more, my back pain has never resolved. On day 2 of this eating plan, I woke up with my back pain reduced to almost non-existent. Guess what, it's NOT my mattress. My mattress is fine. My back pain was caused by inflammation. What caused the inflammation? Not weight - since I only lost about a pound in those first 2 days. Could wheat, carbohydrates, flour, sugar, gluten?? be causing inflammation that's responsible for my back pain? Hard to believe. But what else could explain it?
* Weight loss on day 7: 2.6 pounds.
What did I eat this week? Eggs, steak, broccoli, spinach, olives, cheese, pork chops, spare ribs, chicken, cream cheese, protein shakes with heavy cream added, bacon, quiche, nuts, pumpkin seeds, shrimp, strawberries, a small amount of dark chocolate and about half the bananas I usually eat.
2.6 pounds
And no back pain.
Could it really be that the medical industry and the diet industry have been blatantly lying to not just the American public, but the entire freakin' WORLD for decades? Is low fat really the key to the cash cow obesity epidemic? Is it the machine that generates customers for doctors who have patients with obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, acne, arthritis, and a million other ailments that keep them coming to the doctor all the time?
I'm torn. I mean, first of all, it's only been a week. Who knows what next week will bring. On one hand, I'd be thrilled beyond belief to have finally found a 'cure' for the many problems I can't go to a doctor about because all I'll be told is 'eat less and exercise more' and when that bland, pathetic prescription doesn't work, it's all my fault for 'doin' it wrong'. How great would it be to finally be in complete control of my diet and not feel like food is controlling me?
On the other hand, what a horrifying realization - that an entire industry - well, more than that, medical, pharmacological, food industry, diet industry... are ALL LYING - all the time. ALL. THE. TIME. That's terrifying. It's depressing. Is it really just lack of knowledge, poor studies, a desire to be politically correct? Or is it something a LOT more insidious. A desire to profit from the pain and suffering of billions of people??
That's dark.
It's unthinkable. I'm not sure I can really process how awful it would be if it was really true that what we've been told about how to achieve good health is all A LIE.
Yet, the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center has a Ketogenic Diet Center. [For the treatment of epilepsy in children]. Nevertheless.
The jury is still out.
But so far the case against the medical profession is stacking up in an alarming way.
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