Re: [fast5] Need some advice too

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Re: [fast5] Need some advice too

Hi Heather.

First I wanted to say thank you for your thoughtful and kind response. I have been so busy I couldn't respond sooner to thank you. I am definitely going to look at the konjac as a possibility. I shared your information with my personal trainer (sorry it went to the group when I forwarded it to him and for not asking first).

My trainer is really into nutrition and does a lot of research. He was once very over-weight, so he really understands where we are all coming from that fight the weight war. He is very open to learning new ideas and how they help different people. I owe him a lot for helping me get as far as I have.

I think you are correct that my digestion is at fault as I have been tested and I am monitored closely by my Doctor, Trainer, etc. We haven't found any medical issues like ulcers or thyroid or celiacs, etc. What is weird is I also have a reaction to pro-biotics that are the latest out there. These are suppose to help digestion and for me, well lets just say I curl into a fetal position and wish I were dead if I take any -- even doctor prescribed ones.

I also eat a high Asian diet. Just happen to love the food and it isn't that hard to make. I just substitute quinoa for rice, pasta or anywhere I would use rice or pasta. It is much healthier for me personally. I also make my own salad dressings and vinegar is one of the ingredients, so it is nice to know I am on the right track.

Again thank you so much. I am really struggling with this full feeling in the morning. I am so careful about what I eat at night and sometimes just say enough and go to bed hungry anyway cause I KNOW I will feel full in the morning.

Have a great day.

Sincerely
Jennifer Lupo, D.M.

From: Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@gmail.com>
To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [fast5] Need some advice too

Congratulations on your progress! Your diet does sound very good.

As for an overfull feeling the next morning ... could be lots of things. I was having

stomach issues for some time and it turned out to be ulcers! Sheesh. So

just theorizing, here are some possibilities:

1. Digestion issues. If your stomach doesn't feel good, sometimes that

comes across as hunger, sometimes as feeling over-full. Stomach issues

can include ulcers (drinking tea on an empty stomach did it to me: I still

drink tea, but only with food), food intolerance (wheat, dairy, soy, corn are

the usual culprits), lack of ability to digest fats (gall bladder issues).

2. Hormonal issues: Hormones can do it. Being pregnant (or your body

THINKING it is pregnant) can do it.

The fact that a number of foods make you sick kind of suggests to me

that your digestion isn't working well. The thing that helped me with that

was konjac ... the powder is kind of expensive but a pound of it lasts

a LONG time. Take 1/4 tsp. with some water (do NOT try to eat it dry:

it sticks to your mouth!), with your main food. You can also buy it in

pill form, PGX. I have not found it to be an appetite suppressant, as

they claim, but it does help digestion a lot.

What this does is it "stretches out" digestion, so your body enzymes

have more time to work on the food. Konjac also seems to prevent

or cure ulcers. It's been used in Asian cuisine for 1,000 years or so.

I also was having an issue with GERD, and what helped with that was

d-limonene. You can also just eat a bit of orange peel, which is where

limonene comes from. I started using lime juice more in my cooking

(and on salads) and using a slice of organic lime in hot or cold water.

For awhile I was also taking HCL tablets with meals. I think my

stomach just didn't have enough acid in it. I did that for a year or

so, but then for some reason my own HCL kicked in again and I

didn't need it. With HCL, you keep taking a bit more and more until

you get heartburn, then scale it back. If you don't have enough HCL,

then you can't digest protein well at all.

Sometimes eating ginger with meals helps a lot. Vinegar too: it's

a natural on salads anyway.

Anyway, experiment! When you find what works, let the rest of

us know for future reference!

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:04 AM, gremlinpugs <gremlinpugs@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi all.

I have been doing fast5 for almost 2 years now. It has been terrific for me in a lot of ways. I am not focused on the actual number of my weight or even the inches, just getting healthy and this seems to be working for the most part.

I was working with a traditional nutritionist and dietician, I did everything they told me including the food journal. They couldn't figure out why I would gain weight and was very sick to my stomach from feeling over full all the time.

At any rate, when I found fast5 a lot of my issues changed and I lost 75 lbs. Unfortunately, do to personal issues causing way too much stress I started gaining back some of that weight. Luckily no inches with it, so that is why I don't even look at the numbers anymore.

Well getting (finally) to my issue. Over the last 4 months or so, I have noticed that over full feeling coming back in the mornings. My window is 6:30pm to 11:30pm because of my job monday to friday. Saturday and Sunday I generally eat earlier. I also don't use the full 5 hours as I don't need to. Much like Heather suggested, I do spread my meal out.
I start with a nice salad of dark leafy greens mixed with almonds or pine nuts and mixed with fresh berries (like blueberries or strawberries). After I have my salad, I put together and cook my main meal. Now, I don't like meat at all especially red meat. So my main meal consists of things like fish (not shell fish), beans, quinoa, and stuff like that. After I have eaten and cleaned everything up, if I am still hungry (which almost never happens anymore), I tend to drink some herbal tea or water. I do drink lots of water.

Foods I cannot eat cause they either make me sick or I just don't like them at all include meats, cheeses, some veggies when cooked like spinach (can eat that raw, but not cooked), peanuts, milk, eggs, and foods like these.

I have been tested for all kinds of issues like my thyroid. But I come out healthy if over weight (obese by medical standards -- I am 5ft 3in and 199 lbs). My personal trainer doesn't think I am obese or over weight, I just have a lot of toning to do. :) :0)

At any rate, I am trying to figure out how I am feeling so sick in the morning and like I ate 5 times as much food as I really did. My total calories from what I eat generally is between 800 and 1000. Some of my doctors say I am not eating enough. But I am NOT hungry and if I eat more, I get that over full feeling and sick to my stomach.

Can anyone help? Give me some advise? I just don't want to feel sick or stuffed anymore. I feel fine after I have eaten, but not the next morning. :(

Sincerely
Jennifer Lupo, D.M.