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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 843790" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p>I've been meaning to say too, by the way, that one thing that doing a VLCD/LCD/D-ND (ie go hungry for two months! To go some way to defat my liver and my pancreas) did for me is to make me be super aware of the role of food in my life (well - that was more of a reminder of how much I love good food), my natural inclinations with food and appetite, and more aware of food as fuel - certainly in terms of the respect for it powering my body and hence my life.</p><p></p><p>For instance, I am very aware now, because of having to pace the 800-1000 calories out over the day - what part of the day I prefer to have the most food (for me it is the mornings - if I have to forgo food in any time period it will be the evenings and night). So now I am eating normally I know I prefer and am 'powered' by food best if I have two decent meals in the morning - ie breakfast and an early lunch - and can have a small dinner easier than the other way round. (People must vary enormously in this way I think.) I did not know that so clearly before doing the D-ND.</p><p></p><p>I know I think of nuts as powerhouses, as I do eggs, cheese, and avocados - and appreciate being able to eat them whenever I want. (Too high calorie count on a VLCD!) Salads and vegetable dishes I see as staples that provide an enormous amount of diabetes-fighting nutrition that won't affect my liver and pancreas but well. I am very grateful for food that doesn't affect my BG but well.</p><p></p><p>This extra food awareness, and nutrition awareness (greater even than what being diagnosed as diabetic afforded me), has been a godsend in my life. I can pace my meals and what kind of food I eat to meet my needs and lifestyle much better than before. All that calorie counting (which I hated, really) gave me extra insight into the wonders of vitamins and minerals (because the calorie counting websites also had a nutrition breakdown of the food as well - I'd often have a wee read while I was there as it were) and insight into the goodness wholefoods bring. Which helps, as I have to cook so much more now, being healthy post-diagnosis, and now post the D-ND. I have come to truly respect and appreciate herbs and spices so much more now that I have some knowledge and control of them too! Even more than before. (Thank goodness cooking wholefoods gets easier, and fitting cooking sessions into one's life easier too.)</p><p></p><p>I must say - I never portion control. I would hate to live like that, and I don't count calories (oh god no!), but I do like the mindfulness, if you like, that that time (two months is a really long time, lest folk need reminding) of never eating enough (the agony!) gave me, for glorious food, and being able to be full. I am quite sure that there is some satiety/fullness control process (as I have read re leptin and incretins and so on in our digestion) going on that 'corrects' itself after radical changes from a 'pro-diabetic diet ' to eating wholefoods (prodiabetic for me means eating wheat and grain products, and too much sugar in processed food, trans fats and additives like I was before going diabetic approved then modified paleo as I am now). I have a hearty appetite (always have) but now I don't have a wheat belly, to coin William Davis's phrase, and my HBAIc has come down to reflect a healthier level. Or, as others say on the forum - going low carb. And I still have a hearty appetite, but I believe I feed that appetite much better now in terms of when, and what. (Better meaning healthier, for me as someone with blood glucose and insulin problems).</p><p></p><p>I say this, as I know when one is on the ND, one is very aware of wondering what life will be like with food after one is back eating normally - whatever normally is for those on the diet! (And our lives and our diets are so very varied.) (As is our food environments if I can use that phrase.) I am one and a half months after now, and the above is what I can say is how having being on that Deviated Newcastle Diet seems to have affected me deeply.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 843790, member: 150927"] I've been meaning to say too, by the way, that one thing that doing a VLCD/LCD/D-ND (ie go hungry for two months! To go some way to defat my liver and my pancreas) did for me is to make me be super aware of the role of food in my life (well - that was more of a reminder of how much I love good food), my natural inclinations with food and appetite, and more aware of food as fuel - certainly in terms of the respect for it powering my body and hence my life. For instance, I am very aware now, because of having to pace the 800-1000 calories out over the day - what part of the day I prefer to have the most food (for me it is the mornings - if I have to forgo food in any time period it will be the evenings and night). So now I am eating normally I know I prefer and am 'powered' by food best if I have two decent meals in the morning - ie breakfast and an early lunch - and can have a small dinner easier than the other way round. (People must vary enormously in this way I think.) I did not know that so clearly before doing the D-ND. I know I think of nuts as powerhouses, as I do eggs, cheese, and avocados - and appreciate being able to eat them whenever I want. (Too high calorie count on a VLCD!) Salads and vegetable dishes I see as staples that provide an enormous amount of diabetes-fighting nutrition that won't affect my liver and pancreas but well. I am very grateful for food that doesn't affect my BG but well. This extra food awareness, and nutrition awareness (greater even than what being diagnosed as diabetic afforded me), has been a godsend in my life. I can pace my meals and what kind of food I eat to meet my needs and lifestyle much better than before. All that calorie counting (which I hated, really) gave me extra insight into the wonders of vitamins and minerals (because the calorie counting websites also had a nutrition breakdown of the food as well - I'd often have a wee read while I was there as it were) and insight into the goodness wholefoods bring. Which helps, as I have to cook so much more now, being healthy post-diagnosis, and now post the D-ND. I have come to truly respect and appreciate herbs and spices so much more now that I have some knowledge and control of them too! Even more than before. (Thank goodness cooking wholefoods gets easier, and fitting cooking sessions into one's life easier too.) I must say - I never portion control. I would hate to live like that, and I don't count calories (oh god no!), but I do like the mindfulness, if you like, that that time (two months is a really long time, lest folk need reminding) of never eating enough (the agony!) gave me, for glorious food, and being able to be full. I am quite sure that there is some satiety/fullness control process (as I have read re leptin and incretins and so on in our digestion) going on that 'corrects' itself after radical changes from a 'pro-diabetic diet ' to eating wholefoods (prodiabetic for me means eating wheat and grain products, and too much sugar in processed food, trans fats and additives like I was before going diabetic approved then modified paleo as I am now). I have a hearty appetite (always have) but now I don't have a wheat belly, to coin William Davis's phrase, and my HBAIc has come down to reflect a healthier level. Or, as others say on the forum - going low carb. And I still have a hearty appetite, but I believe I feed that appetite much better now in terms of when, and what. (Better meaning healthier, for me as someone with blood glucose and insulin problems). I say this, as I know when one is on the ND, one is very aware of wondering what life will be like with food after one is back eating normally - whatever normally is for those on the diet! (And our lives and our diets are so very varied.) (As is our food environments if I can use that phrase.) I am one and a half months after now, and the above is what I can say is how having being on that Deviated Newcastle Diet seems to have affected me deeply. [/QUOTE]
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