This book is good in the sense that it isn't pushing a particular food, and it's trying to teach how to eat fresh, local, and moderately. I just don't think it's going to be any more successful at instilling good habits than a deprivation diet plan would be. And he's awfully casual about assuming everyone can get fresh food, we just choose not to. Uh-huh.
My gf is starting back on the pre-radiation diet next week, which also basically means no packages, and only small amounts of everything else. (She has to cut iodine, which is in, you know, everything.) So I figured what the heck, solidarity. I've been thinking of trying a low glycaemic index diet for a brief period, see if it changes anything hormonally.* And I thought hey, doing one complicated food restriction, it'll be easy enough to add another.
Oh how wrong I was. One is plenty hard: coordinating two is a nightmare. *salutes you*
*Have I told you this? We're coming at it from both ends -- the Vitex is working at my hypothalamic-pituitary axis, and I'm taking d-chiro-inositol to catch things at the insulin end of things and see if that helps. I started them very close together, unfortunately, so I don't know which is making me feel peppier this month, but then again I don't really care. If I ovulate next month, we'll really know something is working. But it turns out I'm one of those people whose severity of cycle disturbance can't be explained by test results, which are just a tiny bit off from normal. So we have to try everything and see what sticks.
Anyway, point is, I thought I'd experiment with a low GI diet and see where it gets me. Though the trick will be not to lose too much weight...
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My gf is starting back on the pre-radiation diet next week, which also basically means no packages, and only small amounts of everything else. (She has to cut iodine, which is in, you know, everything.) So I figured what the heck, solidarity. I've been thinking of trying a low glycaemic index diet for a brief period, see if it changes anything hormonally.* And I thought hey, doing one complicated food restriction, it'll be easy enough to add another.
Oh how wrong I was. One is plenty hard: coordinating two is a nightmare. *salutes you*
*Have I told you this? We're coming at it from both ends -- the Vitex is working at my hypothalamic-pituitary axis, and I'm taking d-chiro-inositol to catch things at the insulin end of things and see if that helps. I started them very close together, unfortunately, so I don't know which is making me feel peppier this month, but then again I don't really care. If I ovulate next month, we'll really know something is working. But it turns out I'm one of those people whose severity of cycle disturbance can't be explained by test results, which are just a tiny bit off from normal. So we have to try everything and see what sticks.
Anyway, point is, I thought I'd experiment with a low GI diet and see where it gets me. Though the trick will be not to lose too much weight...