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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 133764" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I just jumped on quickly while I wait for difficult child 3 to have breakfast (I WAS planning to leave now, for his day at school, but I hear city traffic is SNAFUd by a burst water main, traffic will be diverted to our route all day. Oh, joy.)</p><p></p><p>Topomax - I've been on it, my neurologist put me on it for headaches but it seemed to cause them. I stayed on it for about two weeks, the weight didn't change one iota. Not worth the headaches it was causing. I actually did stick it out longer in th hope I could lose weight.</p><p></p><p>WeightWatchers - I don't think I have the patience to count everything I eat. Besides, it's a classic calorie-counting diet, of the sort I was on back when I was 20 (and shouldn't have been). And those will put my body into starvation-mode and make the insulin resistance much worse.</p><p></p><p>We DO have in Australia the CSIRO diet. I think I have the book somewhere, I know I was planning to get it and if I did buy it, I know exactly where it would be. If it's not there, I will buy one today.</p><p>The CSIRO diet is a combination of low-GI and slightly reduced carb, but also moderately low in fat. You can't cut out fat and have low-GI. </p><p></p><p>Back when I was doing Atkins, I made a few horrifying discoveries about food and marketing - all that stuff labelled 'lite' or 'low-fat' is generally higher in carbs, higher GI. The reason is, you take out the fat and you need SOMETHING to make it palatable. Also, you take out the fat and proportionally there is more sugar (including natural sugars) left over. For example, I will happily drink skim milk, especially in summer. But on Atkins it's worse than full-cream milk, because when they take out the fat in full-cream milk they are removing 4% of the product. This reduces 100 ml of milk to 96 mls. The same amount of lactose you get in 100 mls now is contained in a slightly smaller volume, which is why skim and low-fat milk taste sweeter. And of course, this gives my body a sugar hit it just shouldn't have.</p><p>The other nasty discovery was that there seems to be no such thing as a healthy fast food. Even health food places sell stuff that is just too high in carbs. Sushi (if I choose carefully - and expensively) seems to be the safest overall. But those lovely rice paper wraps with lettuce, coriander, prawns or chicken in them - stuffed with rice vermicelli as well. In fact, they are so padded with rice vermicelli that the 'good' ingredients add flavour only, not nutrition.</p><p></p><p>I think I need to increase fibre intake a bit, keep it low-fat but avoid sugar hits (including natural sugars). So instead of drinking milk in ANY form, it's back to calcium tablets. I'm adding a Vitamin B tablet (it doesn't contain iron, which I can't take and don't need). Lots of cooked vegetables (low-carb ones) and lean meat in extreme moderation.</p><p></p><p>Exercise - the chair ones (thanks for the ideas though - I'm not offended, but I've been trying various things for decades now) won't cut it. I do move around a bit, it's just that I need to up the ante with a body that won't do the job. Ideally, I need aerobic exercise. But no matter what the exercise or where I do it, my muscles are just not capable of this - they stop working before I get to the aerobic stage. I've been working with experts over the years, physical therapists whose job it is to work with people with disabilities and get them back into the workforce. They told me that they didn't think they could help me, but because I was determined, they'd give it a go. When the rest of the group were able to escalate their activity, I was left literally crawling in the dust.</p><p></p><p>We live too far away from most services. Swimming - ideally I need to get to a heated pool, but it costs too much and is too far away. The beach - the water has been too rough for me, I've lost too much strength to cope with it to get decent exercise. That plus the bad weather this summer - I did not have a good summer for exercise.</p><p></p><p>What has worked for me in the past - walking around the block. When I get tired, I sit in the gutter, then get up and go again when I can. I can also go for a bushwalk to the headland and back - there is no way I can stop halfway then, and do the rest tomorrow! I have to get home. difficult child 3 can come with me, or I can go alone. If I take my phone and get into trouble, I'm still in range.</p><p></p><p>The trouble is, I've already been doing a lot of this. I know I can pick up a bit more on the exercise, I will have to force myself to make the time, maybe in the middle of difficult child 3's school day if he seems to be working well. </p><p></p><p>But will it be enough?</p><p></p><p>I have to ring various people about the medications today. We DO have compounding services thank goodness - Sydney has four that I know of, three in our region. Whether they can compound this - I don't know. It will add a fair bit to the $80 tag though.</p><p></p><p>Gotta dash - time to head for school.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 133764, member: 1991"] I just jumped on quickly while I wait for difficult child 3 to have breakfast (I WAS planning to leave now, for his day at school, but I hear city traffic is SNAFUd by a burst water main, traffic will be diverted to our route all day. Oh, joy.) Topomax - I've been on it, my neurologist put me on it for headaches but it seemed to cause them. I stayed on it for about two weeks, the weight didn't change one iota. Not worth the headaches it was causing. I actually did stick it out longer in th hope I could lose weight. WeightWatchers - I don't think I have the patience to count everything I eat. Besides, it's a classic calorie-counting diet, of the sort I was on back when I was 20 (and shouldn't have been). And those will put my body into starvation-mode and make the insulin resistance much worse. We DO have in Australia the CSIRO diet. I think I have the book somewhere, I know I was planning to get it and if I did buy it, I know exactly where it would be. If it's not there, I will buy one today. The CSIRO diet is a combination of low-GI and slightly reduced carb, but also moderately low in fat. You can't cut out fat and have low-GI. Back when I was doing Atkins, I made a few horrifying discoveries about food and marketing - all that stuff labelled 'lite' or 'low-fat' is generally higher in carbs, higher GI. The reason is, you take out the fat and you need SOMETHING to make it palatable. Also, you take out the fat and proportionally there is more sugar (including natural sugars) left over. For example, I will happily drink skim milk, especially in summer. But on Atkins it's worse than full-cream milk, because when they take out the fat in full-cream milk they are removing 4% of the product. This reduces 100 ml of milk to 96 mls. The same amount of lactose you get in 100 mls now is contained in a slightly smaller volume, which is why skim and low-fat milk taste sweeter. And of course, this gives my body a sugar hit it just shouldn't have. The other nasty discovery was that there seems to be no such thing as a healthy fast food. Even health food places sell stuff that is just too high in carbs. Sushi (if I choose carefully - and expensively) seems to be the safest overall. But those lovely rice paper wraps with lettuce, coriander, prawns or chicken in them - stuffed with rice vermicelli as well. In fact, they are so padded with rice vermicelli that the 'good' ingredients add flavour only, not nutrition. I think I need to increase fibre intake a bit, keep it low-fat but avoid sugar hits (including natural sugars). So instead of drinking milk in ANY form, it's back to calcium tablets. I'm adding a Vitamin B tablet (it doesn't contain iron, which I can't take and don't need). Lots of cooked vegetables (low-carb ones) and lean meat in extreme moderation. Exercise - the chair ones (thanks for the ideas though - I'm not offended, but I've been trying various things for decades now) won't cut it. I do move around a bit, it's just that I need to up the ante with a body that won't do the job. Ideally, I need aerobic exercise. But no matter what the exercise or where I do it, my muscles are just not capable of this - they stop working before I get to the aerobic stage. I've been working with experts over the years, physical therapists whose job it is to work with people with disabilities and get them back into the workforce. They told me that they didn't think they could help me, but because I was determined, they'd give it a go. When the rest of the group were able to escalate their activity, I was left literally crawling in the dust. We live too far away from most services. Swimming - ideally I need to get to a heated pool, but it costs too much and is too far away. The beach - the water has been too rough for me, I've lost too much strength to cope with it to get decent exercise. That plus the bad weather this summer - I did not have a good summer for exercise. What has worked for me in the past - walking around the block. When I get tired, I sit in the gutter, then get up and go again when I can. I can also go for a bushwalk to the headland and back - there is no way I can stop halfway then, and do the rest tomorrow! I have to get home. difficult child 3 can come with me, or I can go alone. If I take my phone and get into trouble, I'm still in range. The trouble is, I've already been doing a lot of this. I know I can pick up a bit more on the exercise, I will have to force myself to make the time, maybe in the middle of difficult child 3's school day if he seems to be working well. But will it be enough? I have to ring various people about the medications today. We DO have compounding services thank goodness - Sydney has four that I know of, three in our region. Whether they can compound this - I don't know. It will add a fair bit to the $80 tag though. Gotta dash - time to head for school. Marg [/QUOTE]
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