Nothing like a crappy appetite due to a lack of crapping to keep one on the straight and narrow.
21 January 2012 at 207.5 pounds
Well, honestly, I haven’t been on the straight and narrow with the carbs. I was straighter and narrower than someone on the Standard American Industrial Diet, but I was trying to use sour candies to keep my saliva gland going (turned out the candy wasn’t sour enough) and didn’t want to mess myself up with maltitol. It’s a toss-up really. They were sour gummies and had a good bit of gelatin in them and I think that’s why their carb count wasn’t through the roof.
On the other paw I’ve been pretty good about wheat avoidance. I won’t pretend I have been perfect about it because I’ve eaten at restaurants a couple times and you and I both know they love nothing better than to cut all that good food with wheat and soybeans. Yuck. But I avoid wheat enough. If I know it’s wheat, I don’t eat it. Amazing how my insides are so much calmer without it, and that wasn’t all the Percocet putting my GI tract to sleep. I was seeing benefits from wheat-avoidance before the surgery–which happened 11 days into the month, just as a point of reference.
Years ago I had tried the blood type diet for type Os, which still lets you eat grain* but not wheat. Just from that I think I lost about ten pounds or so. No serious reduction in carbs–in fact I never saw an amaranth pancake I didn’t like, during that time. Dr. Davis is on to something, whether people want to admit it or not.
Still. Slowly but surely. I’m kind of tired of slowly. Surely. But we’re getting there, in both a healing and a weight-loss sense. I still have numb spots on my tongue, and the Perc every six hours wasn’t so hot so I’m back to every four, but I function, which is good. I could use more energy, but one goal at a time.
Isn’t that always the way, though?
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*Let me get a few details straight here because, unlike most people who talk shit about Peter D’Adamo, I have actually read some of his books. I think trying to follow his protocol 100 percent will give you a raging case of OCD, and his protocols become more detailed and more OCD-ish the more recently they have been published. That said:
- Type As are NOT required to be vegetarian. D’Adamo says they are BEST SUITED to being vegetarians. Crucial difference there. Type As function fine on chicken and fish, according to him. No, you don’t get to call yourself a vegetarian if you eat chicken or fish, unless you are one delusional motherfucker. Thanks for playing, drive on through.
- Type Os are NOT required to follow a low-carb diet. Type Os do NOT have to follow a Paleo diet. Type Os ARE allowed to eat grain or grainlike foods. They just can’t have wheat and a few other of the common grain foods most people eat now.
It is OK to disagree with the guy on scientific grounds, assuming you have better grounds than invoking “everybody knows” arguments or pointing out his lack of an MD. But holy shit, quit making shit up. I don’t know about your local public library system, but mine carries quite a few of his titles. It costs you nothing to look for yourself.
