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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1863608" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">As this thread is wonderfully called 'Scared to Eat', I thought I might add my own food-stint here on what not to be afraid of. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I would add - don't be afraid of what I think of as the ultimate whole food - meat, poultry, fish, seafood. Wonderfully nutrient dense. No carbs! or just a tiny amount? Very filling. It seems that the same reason some folks respond very well to whole food plant based diets, or at least a concentration on veg, is the same reason that some folks respond very well to meat - to do with gut biomes probably more than genes is my understanding from current research.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">And as for sugar substitutes - my personal thoughts are if you are having a tough time getting over a sugar addiction going lower carb, or at the very least - lower sugar! Go for it with sugar substitutes. It's a very difficult addiction to kick, considering how much sugar is consumed around us, advertised constantly, hidden in processed food, and in most likelihood - consumed in large quantities by oneself before diagnosis, (This is true for myself. Licorice allsorts! Schweppes ginger ale! Sigh.) So perhaps we need all the help we can get with safe substitutes. Stevia is a fantastic alternative sweetener, and is a safe herb, and seems even to have blood glucose regulating aiding compounds in it, ie good for those of us with T2D also. I used the traditional sugar substitutes, as in chemical sweeteners that were very readily available, soon after diagnosis, and I consider them to have been a life saver. Literally! But I do understand that they could muck up a nice healthy whole food gut biome if continued. That's where stevia can come in.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1863608, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]As this thread is wonderfully called 'Scared to Eat', I thought I might add my own food-stint here on what not to be afraid of. I would add - don't be afraid of what I think of as the ultimate whole food - meat, poultry, fish, seafood. Wonderfully nutrient dense. No carbs! or just a tiny amount? Very filling. It seems that the same reason some folks respond very well to whole food plant based diets, or at least a concentration on veg, is the same reason that some folks respond very well to meat - to do with gut biomes probably more than genes is my understanding from current research.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]And as for sugar substitutes - my personal thoughts are if you are having a tough time getting over a sugar addiction going lower carb, or at the very least - lower sugar! Go for it with sugar substitutes. It's a very difficult addiction to kick, considering how much sugar is consumed around us, advertised constantly, hidden in processed food, and in most likelihood - consumed in large quantities by oneself before diagnosis, (This is true for myself. Licorice allsorts! Schweppes ginger ale! Sigh.) So perhaps we need all the help we can get with safe substitutes. Stevia is a fantastic alternative sweetener, and is a safe herb, and seems even to have blood glucose regulating aiding compounds in it, ie good for those of us with T2D also. I used the traditional sugar substitutes, as in chemical sweeteners that were very readily available, soon after diagnosis, and I consider them to have been a life saver. Literally! But I do understand that they could muck up a nice healthy whole food gut biome if continued. That's where stevia can come in.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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