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1) An apple has a glycemic load of 6 which is low so that shouldn't be an issue. Rice can have a medium to high glycemic load depending on the variety. Wheat varies from whole grain wheat bread with a low glycemic load of 7.6 to white wheat bread with a high glycemic load of 25+. So I would definitely forgo any rice or white bread while trying to lose weight (or any grains for that matter). But if you feel like you HAVE to have some kind of bread, stick to the whole grain style. Whole oat bread seems to have a pretty low glycemic load. I just find that eating grains makes me crave more food.
2) I noticed that using cream in my coffee or tea had a VERY negative effect on weight loss for me. One tbsp is something like 50 calories. But I can't wrap my head around using just one tbsp so I would just use what made it taste good. To me, that was an extra 300-500 calories a day as I used to drink a lot of coffee. Eventually I started adding brown sugar to my coffee and cream during my window, which couldn't be good for my arteries or my waistline. I thought, "Well, it's my window, I can have what I want". But I sat down and took inventory and figured out that I was eating and drinking WAY too many calories during my window. So I cut out coffee, cream, beer, wine, grains, dairy, and just about anything that doesn't grow outside in nature that our paleolithic ancestors would have eaten and the weight just flew off. But to answer your question, yes, cream made a big difference in my weight loss because I can't just have a little. :)
Rick Stewart
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "foxchyck" <foxeye@...> wrote:
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> 1) When I break my fast, if I have certain foods, I feel pretty crappy. My heart pounds/races and my brain is extremely foggy for an hour-ish. Much more extreme than any post-prandial slump I've ever had.
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> So far I've correlated these foods, I *think*, to those which are high GI. Rice, apples, and wheat so far. So my question is...is this an insulin spike, do you think? IE, my blood sugar is low from the fast, but the food spikes insulin anyways when the food hasn't actually gotten to the blood yet, so it crashes my blood sugar? Or could it be that my stomach is just working really hard and demanding all the blood? If I eat only my favorite break-fast (avocado and bacon and maybe fried eggs), then wait a while, I can then eat high GI foods in small quantities with no problem.
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> Obviously this is a case of "well, don't do that then!" *grin* But I am curious whether this is an indication of my general state of health. IE, am I actually insulin resistant?
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> 2) Everything I read says NO CREAMER WHILE FASTING! I did well with that for a while, but eventually I caved and had creamer. And for a few weeks it didn't seem to make diddly-squat of a difference. But then the loss slowed down. I'm inclined to think that some sugar that I ate was the cause, but still, I wanted to ask...has anyone here ever personally found that adding/removing creamer changed their weight loss?
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