ATTN: Diet Gurus! (GBrice etc.)

[gbrice75]

I've cut all refined carbs/sugars from my diet for weeks now. For instance, any carbs for breakfast and I'm ravenous and exhausted all day. Oats seem to do it the worst. Now if I have a Steak and egg type breakfast and have a carb with that, then I don't seem to have an issue.

Hang on - if you *weren't* to have a 'steak and egg' type breakfast with carbs, what would it be? Surely you're not eating carbs by themselves... e.g. a bowl of oats but nothing else?

But lunch today is a perfect example. Steamed brown rice. I don't seem to have as much of a reaction from sweet potatoes and veggie based carbs as I do true carbs. Corn also seems to be free of this side effect.

In that case, I think the simple answer (not necessarily solution) in part is to stick with what works best. If oats and other 'true' carbs make you miserable, avoid them. Luckily, you have options that don't seem to affect you as severely, that's a good thing.

Having said that, you might find that you're better suited to a lower carb, higher fat type diet. Not necessarily ketogenic - but close to it. Starchy carbs @ 50g/day. Fibrous veggies however are open season - eat as much as you want.

Yes, it was an MD that told me I'm insulin resistant but this is the same f*-ktard that gave me chemo for MS, and had a lipid panel run on me about a half hour after I had a double bacon cheese burger. He also put me on TPN while I was in the hospital and cut my calories down to like 500/day and accused me of sneaking food into the hospital being the reason I wasn't losing weight. He ran next to no tests on me during the two years I was under his care, and the ones he did run weren't run according to standard protocol. I trust nothing that this idiot has said. In fact, I fired him and every doctor he referred me to.

I can't say i'm surprised. I'm finding more and more that an alarming number of docs out there are clueless, or using outdated protocols and methods at best. Very, very scary for the uninformed.

My hypoglycemia was actually diagnosed by an endo while I was a child after I passed out mid swim-meet due to blood sugar crashing.

Noted

Okay, I think I found some that not even the biggest perv can make me regret posting. The one of me in purple with the denim skirt is a month after I had an emergency c-section last year. The photos of me in silver are about 20lbs heavier than my goal weight.

Well then, let's get back to silver and beyond!

This isn't going to be all that difficult. Correct me if i'm wrong - but you're not looking for a female bodybuilder's physique, correct? You simply want to be lean and at a 'healthy' weight and bodyfat percentage, correct?

[kitstreasure]

[QUOTE=gbrice75;6403353]Hang on - if you *weren't* to have a 'steak and egg' type breakfast with carbs, what would it be? Surely you're not eating carbs by themselves... e.g. a bowl of oats but nothing else?[/QUOTE}

It's been egg whites, veggies and oats.

I can't say i'm surprised. I'm finding more and more that an alarming number of docs out there are clueless, or using outdated protocols and methods at best. Very, very scary for the uninformed.

It's even worse for the desperate.

Well then, let's get back to silver and beyond!

This isn't going to be all that difficult. Correct me if i'm wrong - but you're not looking for a female bodybuilder's physique, correct? You simply want to be lean and at a 'healthy' weight and bodyfat percentage, correct?

That is correct. I'm just trying to get back into lifting for the joy of it, back to competing in triathlons and such. I put on mass way to fast and way too easy to make that a focus.