Comments on: (fruit)Rice Protein Powder

By: Zack Hinton

Zack Hinton — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:07:29 +0000

I eat lots of highly beneficial spinach, broccoli, and artichoke, as well as
asparagus (neutral). Sometimes snow peas or V8
juice, but I try to stay highly beneficial. I have just this week started
adding celtic salt to water and started taking
bladderwrack.
Karen

By: Courtney Guillermina

Courtney Guillermina — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:27:20 +0000

Gee, I’ve never heard THAT one before, Axle.

By: Zack Hinton

Zack Hinton — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:03:58 +0000

Michelle asked:
It depends on your body & your goals. Certainly it can go either way.
Carbs are used for today’s energy. Anything you don’t burn off today
will be stored as fat. This is why people on weight reduction plans
go with low carbohydrate diets, once the carbs are burned off, the
body turns to the stored fat for energy.
If weight reduction is a goal, you can eat less carbs than you need to
balance the protein.
If you do not want/need to loose weight then you should increase the
carbs when you eat more protein, to maintain the weight.
I don’t worry too much about my carbs, focusing on keeping them low -
just highly beneficial veggies - and eating good quantities of
protein.
Karen

By: jed1700

jed1700 — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 08:41:24 +0000

Elongated One:
wrote: I, too, thought psyllium was an avoid.
Hey. Yes. What’s going on here? Why have an avoid when
you can have a HB that does more for you?
I know that flax seeds, when pulverized (or soaked and
blended.. guess which I prefer?) and allowed to
get “gelly” are also good for use as an egg substitute
(recipe binder) in pastries. I was thinking, if I ever
get experienced enough at cooking I would at the very
least learn how to make white rice flour and flax
muffins/breads/pancakes/whatever. I could sweeten it
with almond extract, molasses and/or stevia. And carob.
Powdered ginger in the mix? Oh yeah. Does anyone here
have a rice or other neutral grain and flax pastry
recipe or formula?

By: Meghan Geralyn

Meghan Geralyn — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:09:32 +0000

That’s what I understand.
Sarah
From: “E Long”

By: Courtney Guillermina

Courtney Guillermina — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:41:32 +0000

I’m pretty sure it IS an avoid. Whole flax seed will have the same
cleansing affect. Right you guys?
— In ER4YT-O@y…, Karen Maskell I, too, thought psyllium was an avoid.

By: Elvira Ying

Elvira Ying — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:02:23 +0000

Determined to get the rest of this stickin’ weight off. I’ve been at it for
almost 2 years now. I’ll be honest, I lost 70
pounds last year and then plateau’d this year. I continued to work out and
watch my calories, but the weight wouldn’t budge.
I’ve got about another 40 pounds to loose.
Karen,
That’s pretty motivating. I’m here mainly because of health but also my
weight which contributes to the problem. I’ve had CFS/FM for about 12
years, had to quit work and go on disability for it, worked on nutrition and
recovered enough to get back to work part time but every day is a struggle.
I actually felt that I had recovered for about one year but have been back
to many of my old symptoms for over a year now. At the time of that
“recovery” I had been doing the Atkins diet, I think, and taking olive leaf.
I may have given the olive leaf the credit when it was really the high
protein, low carb regimin that did it.

Anyway - I’m thinking it’s all downhill from here unless I get my act
together and get this weight off too. Well, you’re a good example and I’d
better get this body moving!
Patt

By: Zack Hinton

Zack Hinton — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:53:28 +0000

My understanding is actual weight, because you need to maintain your current
lean body mass. Also, protein requires more
energy (therefore calories) to burn than carbs. If you go by desired weight,
you will not be eating enough calories to
maintain/support your current metabolic systems. This is how/why metabolisms
start to slow down. See yo-yo diet syndrome.
Basically, the body is very adaptive. Thousands of years ago this would have be
a very good thing. In dieting and exercise,
not so much. If you start feeding the body 1200 calories (ie to support desired
weight), then the body shuts down certain
processes to maintain life at 1200 calories. Getting it to turn those processes
back on, that’s not as easy. It still thinks
it’s going to be starving, thus storing the food for future (i.e. fat).
Karen

By: Zack Hinton

Zack Hinton — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 04:46:24 +0000

Yes, I’m determined!
Determined to get the rest of this stickin’ weight off. I’ve been at it for
almost 2 years now. I’ll be honest, I lost 70
pounds last year and then plateau’d this year. I continued to work out and
watch my calories, but the weight wouldn’t budge.
I’ve got about another 40 pounds to loose.
Interestingly, what brought me to ER4YT was my sleeping problems, not my weight,
although I’m pleased that weight loss is a
by-product. My protein intake was already pretty high because I was working out
with a personal trainer for the past year. I
was at about 150g or more of protein on his diet plan, but it was mostly through
dairy products and chicken, so no matter how
much I ate or worked out, I just couldn’t loose. Also, I eating too much wheat
(rice/pasta) as it is a ‘good’ source of
complex carbohydrates.

Now that I’ve simplified my eating plan, the weight is coming off at about 3
pounds per week. I do have a tendency to plateau
during my pre-menstrual week, however. I’ve noticed that during every weight
loss program I’ve ever been on.
I was inspired by Bill Philip’s book “Body for Life”. He said “Failure to plan
is planning to fail.” This struck a chord
with me and I’ve been ‘planning’ ever since.
My grandmother was a Type II diabetic, had her leg amputated, quadruple by-pass,
arthritis. Mom is over weight, on blood
pressure medication, asthmatic, arthritis. One day I woke up and realized I was
headed down that same path if I didn’t change
my ways. I also realized that if I want to life the life I want, I was going to
have to go out and create it myself.
My goal is to have the rest of this weight off for my birthday in March. What a
terrific birthday present to myself!
Karen

By: Elvira Ying

Elvira Ying — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:41:13 +0000

BTW, just to clarify on grams of protein per body weight….Is that your
desired weight or your actual weight. Reason I ask is I came across a site
by a clinical nutritionist (www.krispin.com) who gave a formula for protein
consumption and it seemed like she used “desired” body weight. I was going
to ask a question about her site anyway because she seemed to think that Dr.
D allows too many carbs. Maybe she’s referring to the A type diet and not
O. She also has articles on there about lectins - something I’m still
trying to understand.
Thanks again. Patt