sammysylvain's Journal, 09 Nov 16

I decided to adjust my diet for a while due to ongoing constipation. Maybe its not parasites to blame. Maybe only eating once a day isnt the right choice for me. Maybe I am overtaxing my digestive system eating my entire calories in the evening. Hmmm It probably sounds very obvious and dumb. I guess though, when one has been bombarded by so many conflicting messages about food, one can lose their own common sense in all the confusion. I havent allowed fruit ( other than a few berries in a yoghurt) as I have been scared about sugar and cravings. Yet I also allowed myself to eat chocolate on an evening. doh why am I restricting a natural sugar source and yet eating a processed bar as a treat? Its summer time here in Australia. Good time to fiddle with my diet and to eat some fruit. Oh boy it tastes sooo refreshing,and this morning was finally a good morning and everything is moving along again. I was perfectly normal in that department after weeks of suffering. I am hoping that this new tweak is the right step to take for my body and health. I can live the rest of my life on one meal a day but I would rather not. So far I have tried a paleo based diet, and the 5:2 diet. Both worked. I lost weight and learnt some good knowledge. However I chose not to follow either anymore. I gave up the paleo diet as after 4 months of following it strictly I started to throw up after eating meat. My body just said NO, that it did not like snacking on protein every 3 hours and I no longer felt good on it. The good effect of this diet was I started to CRAVE vegetables which was completely new for me. I am quitting the 5:2 diet as, mentally, its turning into an unhealthy process. 5 days a week I am suppose to eat normally and yet I dont. I fear that if I eat 3 times a day I will find the 2 low calorie days too hard to do, and will put on weight. So I basically restrict everyday. Its not hard for me to do as my body is use to it after years and years. I simply switched drinking wine all day to drinking tea all day and eat only after 5pm, however my body obviously is developing issues (constipation, stomache pain, a big sign that things are not going well in the digestive system) I see all of this as an ongoing battle. I may not drink alcohol anymore but I havent won the fight yet. My drinking was my eating.. that is how I got my carbs, energy requirements. I literally lived on the fuel that alcohol provided. (2 litres a day!) This is why I see my alcoholism the same as a food issue. I quit the alcohol but I am still left with an unhealthy addictive mentality and I need to learn to eat without taking on a new problem. (AA meetings have been renowned for handing out coffee and timtams, substituting one addiction with another) For myself, personally, this is all one journey and not separated. I plan to continue eating fruit during the day, or allowing myself to eat a salad for lunch for a few weeks and see if my weight goes up. If it does then I will re-think and tweak again =) I really hope this works as I just want to eat normally, and not follow some regime. I dont want days in my life which I dont look forward to. ( i.e low calorie monday)

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816 kcal

Fat: 19.96g | Prot: 24.12g | Carbs: 153.56g.   Breakfast: Garlic, Goat Milk. Lunch: Papaya, Bananas, Watermelon. Dinner: Carrots, Zucchini, Red Onions, Mung Beans (Mature Seeds, Sprouted), Radish, Cucumber (with Peel), Sweet Red Peppers, 365 Sundried Tomatoes, Chicken Breast, Mayonnaise, Lettuce Salad with Assorted Vegetables (Including Tomatoes and/or Carrots). Snacks/Other: Trader Joe's Pitted Kalamata Olives with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Bananas. more...

1376 kcal

Exercise: Resting - 16 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...