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Originally Posted by Lisa N
When we stop eating vegetable matter, our bodies stop making the enzymes to digest them.
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It is kind of like vegetarians who haven't eaten meat for years - they claim to "prove" that meat is bad for them because of the ensuing digestive upsets that occur. I don't believe that change to be permanent - we are great at adapting. At least I am, the ultimate adapting machine. I have bits of veggies - they are more like flavorings or condiments than a major part of my intake for the most part. However, these bits should help my body remember the enzymes, and if not, there are digestive enzymes one can take. (We used to recommend that vegetarians who wanted to eat meat again take it very very slow, adding chicken broth in small amounts to rice, that sort of thing)
Are you worried that you will not be able to digest grains after several years of not eating them? I would think that would also be true for many people...
My body holds weight really well - I believe that I have actually seen my weight go up
looking at a cake rather than
eating one. While for me the dropping of sugar and flour is certainly the lifetime change, a day at a time, I know that unless I keep my carbs low I don't lose weight. I lose it and it comes back. A little zig zag. The m/e WOE is my latest experiment, and so far, a successful one in terms of disease symptoms that are gone, and pants size reduction...
Funny, most Americans don't eat many veggies anyway, to the people around me at work I'm weird because I don't eat BREAD! They don't even notice the veggies I don't eat!
It's really scary, because 5'3" and 240 pounds is NOT a great size to defend. The oddest thing about doing m/e though is that my body SIZE has changed. I can see my waist. I am wearing smaller clothes. I haven't been doing m/e long enough to know if that is how I am going to need to do it forever. Personally, I think that when I am no longer morbidly obese, the rules will change. But I don't know.
And really, I am satisfied that I am "in with" some of the shining stars around here. There are great people on the m/e thread, and I read their journals and chat with them and get totally fired up and inspired. That is what this website is all about, and it is working for me.
YMMV, but don't expect me to change for you...