Weight Loss/Maintenance
In reply to the discussion: My wife is 40 yr old, obese, and has been diagnosed with diabetes, which she is ignoring. [View all]bucolic_frolic
(48,412 posts)but would reduce the fat intake somewhat. Speaking from experience reducing my own cravings, I would think along the lines of what foods satisfy cravings but are not high in carbs obviously. A nationally prominent nutritionist told me we need to get our nutrients from foods, not from supplements.
But I would argue we also have to make our liver work well to process fats, carbs, sugars. I responded well to 1/2 a B-complex once a day (mornings), 1/4 B-1 once a day (like no more than 50mg total), the diabetes standby chromium picolinate with lecithin, inositol, choline. I also added juiced kale, but if you can just cook it that's ok too. And I really liked substituting pink salt in place of all other forms. I found these ideas online and over the years. With the B-1 and pink salt I definitely sleep better, longer, straight through sometimes. I wasn't so cranky and my cravings were reduced. Oh, and plenty of eggs, not to excess, but I eat about 5 eggs a week, soft-boiled or 'wet' in the frying pan, or in pancakes. Hard eggs are a no-no, the fats get hard and hard to digest and process. And surely whole wheat flour and not white flour, and no corn meal.
Alt ideas, but not very expensive or difficult.
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