[fast5] Re: Looking for advice, please

Susie, thank you! The descriptions of the skin issue in the articles does definitely bear some resemblance to what I've been experiencing.

 

Of course, I've also been noting (and I can hear Barnaby now on the virtues of protein and fat) that almost everything I've been eating is a carb, and that's pretty frightening. I have to make some serious effort to balance out my food choices more and with better foods, esp. good proteins. It's a real problem – and with the holidays upon us, that will be harder (but not impossible, and I'm reminding myself that feeling good is a lot more important than that holiday cookie!)

 

Just found a book on my bookshelf that I'd forgotten about, called THE FIVE-DAY MIRACLE DIET, from a NY nutritionist who puts clients on a carb-restricted diet with lots of vegetables (which she touts as critically important), protein and some fat (she's one of those fat-is-not-so-good people, which I don't believe for a second). What I thought was interesting was her insistence that her clients eat snacks every day (fruits or vegetables) that she calls `hard chews', which are used to stimulate the pituitary gland to start the digestive process. Her program is entirely about getting into `good blood sugar', ie, fixing your body chemistry so your body functions as it's supposed to, without being corrupted by sugars and white flours.

 

I have no intention of stopping Fast 5 (which I've finally gotten completely back on, and feel really good most of the time), but wonder if anyone ever looked at this and found any virtues in it? You can certainly do the food choices she recommends while doing Fast 5, and I know a lot of us do Fast 5 with another program (like Weight Watchers). Just wondered whether anyone knew of this.

 

Thank you again, Susie – will look carefully at all this stuff and at celiac.com. I may need to try gluten free for awhile and see if there's a difference. I suspect there will be, which is probably why I've put off doing it. But I've declared 2012 to be my year of transformation and radical change in my presentation (ie, clothes, makeup, etc.), so that's a big first step.

 

Susan

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