My own belief is that F5 will allow you to listen to your body more.
You have a really sensitive chemistry lab built into your body, and a
whole lot of nerve cells in your gut and brain that are there JUST to
communicate to you what you need to eat. By the time those signals
reach your consciousness, you feel them as "I crave this" or "I hate
this food". But if the system is working correctly, it has amazing
control over weight, and in healthy animals and healthy humans, weight
doesn't fluctuate much even when there are lots of different foods
around.
It might be that your body really wants or needs carbs. I know my
athletic daughter really NEEDS her carbs after a hard workout. She has
very low bodyfat. But as Pat said, you body, and esp. your brain,
burns a lot of glucose. It's designed to do that. Your cells live on
glucose and fat ... under most circumstances it uses more fat than
glucose, but it depends on the circumstances. Your brain only eats
glucose.
Now, on a very low carb diet, your body CAN use ketones instead of
glucose. However, that is an abnormal state. Humans and animals that
never get many carbs, learn to create glucose from protein. So they
still burn a fair amount of glucose. Your average Inuit or mountain
lion doesn't need carbs, because they can create their own glucose.
Most humans on earth though, eat a fair bit of starchy foods. They do
not get fat off starchy foods, or at least, they didn't until very
recently. You have most of Asia, where the bulk of the diet is rice.
But they are skinny and not prone to diabetes. You have much of
Africa, where people live mainly off yams and millet. Again,
overweight was rare until more recent times, when they started getting
"Western" food. There is something about our "Western" food that
causes overweight, but it's probably not "carbs" per se. From my
reading and experimenting, I'm guessing it has to do with either the
gluten in wheat, or the iron-fortification of foods, or some
combination of the two.
Bottom line? I wouldn't worry about it. If you are losing weight at
the rate you want, just do what feels good. If you reach a plateau,
experiment with different foods.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Rita <theroseawakens@
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have with F5 since November and I have lost 40 pounds so far. I F5 with 75% raw food diet, and I am beginning to incorporate exercise.
>
> I started with low carb with the raw foods but I felt so blah. Tired. Irritable. Moody. Then I started craving bread...pasta.
>
> I was wondering if it was normal to crave carbs with F5?
>
> Thanks!
> Rita
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