Re: April: amount of foods per day

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Hey ,

Thanks for rooting for me :-) This is a great spot for encouragement and

support. Joanne is quite the support system herself, but it's so nice to

hear from you and others as well.

April

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> Alright....good job there April.

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> To: fibromyalgiacured

> Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 4:49 AM

> Subject: Re: April: amount of foods per day

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> Hi Joanne,

> I took a look at the Atkins diet plan and I saw it's much looser suggesting

> at least 100 grams of fat a day but to keep carbs under 20grams. I didn't

> give a number for protein I think you're allowed as much as you want if

> you're hungry. I'd like to do better than this, more towards Jan's Optimal

> Diet but for now, like you already mentioned to me at Ieast I'm having safe

> amounts.

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> I still need to increase fats more and decrease protein. You mentioned it's

> ok to have more protein as long as we have more fats. How much more fat

> should we have, do we go by percentage? How do you work it out? (Yesterday

> I was close to my goal of 170 grams of fat, but was over in protein by

> almost 20 grams).

> April

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> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Joanne Ford

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> > April

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> > On Bees diet the optimal diet and the ketogenic diet they use the minimum

> > amount of protein that the body need to be well, so less protein than

> this

> > is bad. More protein would not harm us, but because it is the fat that is

> > healing us, the protein is at minimum. Also jan Kwasneiwski says the body

> > prefer to thrive on minimum protein because utilizing protein is much

> > harder for the body than utilizing fat

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> > Carbs are not neccessary, many tribes survive on no carbs, or we might

> say

> > trace carbs because their are trace carbs in offal and eggs and the

> eskimos

> > ate fermented food from the guts of sea animals and this would include

> > seaweed. So rather than a no carb diet theirs should be called a trace

> carb

> > diet

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> > Carbs are not necessary, but they can be useful in terms of garnish,

> usung

> > them as garnish and keeping carbs very low increases ketones and ketones

> > suppress appetite. if we are addicted to carbs then this suppression of

> > appetite is very useful because over time it breaks the craving. Once the

> > craving is broken it is then easy to start introducing more and more

> > fermented carb foods, plus sprouted and soaked carb foods. these foods

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> > not usually addctive. they can be, in large doses, but if we still aim

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> > ketosis we will not be having many of these

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> > this is how I beat my carb craving. I remain in ketosis no matter what.

> > The ketosis kerbs my craving, and if I do make an error and eat to many

> > carbs and start craving again, or feeling ill again, or anytihng like

> that,

> > i usually just water fast or go no carb for the rest of that day. It soon

> > clears and I can control it again

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> > not everybody that has fibro struggles with carb addiction to the extent

> > that I did. carb addiction was one of my main symptoms and I had to beat

> > that monster to get well. Others here have said their carb craving was as

> > bad as mine but then others say theirs was not. i tihnk this might be an

> > individual thing

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> > I have to go now but will be online tomorrow

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> > Love joanne

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