Fri, Feb-06-09, 14:43
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Senior Member
Posts: 108
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Plan: Metabolic Typing Diet
Stats: 287/259/180
BF:
Progress: 26%
Location: Central Maine
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Giving up cheese is so much harder than giving up bread!
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Yes!!!!! If I'm not losing weight right now (and I won't know until I'm somewhere with a good quality scale), I've been thinking I might have to give up cheese and nuts for a while. Boo hoo! I adore cheese and just bought 1/4 lb of Leyden cheese with cumin from Holland, and 1/2 lb of aged goat's cheese. Along with like 10 lbs of sauerkraut. Please don't anyone tell me sauerkraut isn't allowed on my LC diet!
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That's right - MSG is free glutamine. Ironic, isn't it, that Atkins recommends glutamine to fight cravings, yet glutamate causes them! Even more confusingly, glutamates occur naturally in tons of "healthy" foods - anything fermented, aged or even stewed contains "hydrolysed" proteins, of which glutamate is just one part.
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What exactly are hydrolyzed proteins? Like hydrolyzed soy in smoked almonds? And what about fermented foods? I like them and my body seems to like them, as in the sauerkraut above. Full of enzymes; I never heat it, just eat it out of the tub, which was filled from the barrel at the krautmaker's.
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Mood swings, acne, return of sleep apnea, night sweats, headaches, a lot of stomach gas, weight gain... the worst is when I get "glutened," but sometimes there's just no clear explanation for what happened.
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Does Atkins recommend digestive enzymes and bacteria? We eat a lot of raw salads and cook our beef (from local sources) very rare, and take acidophilus some of the time, plus mountains of Vitamin C which the good bacteria in your gut love (and the bad bacteria hate). It sounds like your body is trying to get rid of toxins (skin problems, sweat, gas) . . . ?????
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