Favourite fix?

We all know that we should be eating low GI carbs and all things earthy but let's be honest if you feel like crap and the sky looks like pea soup there's nothing better than comfort food!
So out of pure curiosity what foods do people tend to binge on when the cravings come knocking?
My top 3: i) luxary Belgian choc chip soft cookies,
ii) kettle chips (mango & chilli),
iii) luxary hazelnut & praline yoghurt.

Doughnuts - at least three at a time :o

I haven't posted here in awhile, but have started reading posts again just because it's been raining and gray for what seems like days here in Michigan (must be similar to England?). Have been noticing the usual carb cravings for awhile now. What I seem to want is bread and potatoes. I do the whole wheat bread thing and baked potatoes. I seem to want these way more than sweets (maybe that's a good thing?). Anyway I'm headed for sunny California next week (the rainy season hasn't started there yet), so hopefully will have a respite from the "beast"!

Hi,
any Cadbury's diary milk chocolate especialy with turkish delight or caramel filling. :D :D MMMMMMMMM
Cazjenson

Sounds really nice


I eat well at least 90% of the time and if I don't give into the cravings I get really snappy.

On the cravings front, mother also tells me eating apple strudel everyday probably isn't entirely healthy :lol:

Toushay!

I make soup using slivers of chicken, onions, ginger, garlic, rice noodles, peanut butter, coconut milk and tons of chilli. it needs marigold stock powder and it's bloomin' gorgeous. It takes the winter aches and pains away.

Anything with mashed potato, can't get enough of it. And soups and stews proper comfort food! mmmm!

'course I wouldn't eat haagen dasz, choc, crisps (salt and vinegar) or any of the other 'junk' foods but obviousy with the intensive weight training it helps me to bulk up............... 8) :lol:

Love the sound of the Thai style food, Starfish.

Well, OBE, as you probably know, I have been eating Paleo for the past 6 months to save my life. What you're eating doesn't fit that, LOL, though I've certainly seen worse. The first thing you might do is cut down on the simple carbs. The next is to eat more veg. Carrots are veg, but corn isn't (it's a grain), and peas aren't (they are legumes).

I can't emphasise enough how important what we eat is. Our bodies are giving us a message that they are not balanced, by causing us to crave sugar and starch. (The body treats starch as sugar.) By eating these things we feel better in the short term, but store up long term problems.

I know this was written as a lighthearted topic. But if you're indulging in junk food with a naughty little wink right now, ask yourself why you're coming here in a few months' time saying you feel absolutely dreadful.

I stopped eating sugar and starch 6 months ago. This includes bread, cereal, corn, rice, potatoes, pasta. Last weekend I had PMS and ate an ice cream cone. I was sick for days afterward. I was so depressed I felt like I wanted to die. My insides went into knots and I had diarrhoea. This is what happens when the body is no longer used to sugar. It is POISON. The only reason it makes a person feel good is because they are developing insulin resistance and are getting into a vicious circle with it.

I hope none of you see this as too extreme, I'm not asking you to eat how I am. But please, please recognise that what you put into your body, or what you don't, has massive reprocussions on your health.

Linda.

I have just been reading this this section and find it quite interesting how you all appear to crave starchy foods, as I do too, but it seems as though I fancy something to eat and it does not satisfy me therefore I go looking for something else :lol:

Patricia

Linda, I agree with most of what you have said and I'd say you definitely get out what you put in. I've got a basic understanding of food and nutrition but even with such limited knowledge I can't imagine living without starch can be good for you long term? Surely it's all about being "varied and balanced" including occasional ket?
Where do you get your carbs from- vegetables?
What about fruit, that's full of sugar?
This might sound far fetched, but I'm pretty sure the human race would not be here today if it wasn't for starchy carbs?
Anyway I'm going to Mother bears tonight for chicken dinner; loads of gravy and masses of yorkshire puddings- the big ones where they're crispy round the outside and get progressively soft and chewy in the middle! MAJIC.
Kindest regards OBE :D

Pet....there's nowt wreng w' tatties!

Liver is one of the healthiest foods you can eat, it's packed full of nutrients :)

Norman Rosenthal advocates a low GI diet in his updated Winter Blues. The reason you, OBE, or others would find it hard to follow is simply because you are not following it. Eating things like potatoes and crisps makes you crave more. In my case, I was eating porridge, brown rice, whole wheat flour products, potatoes with their skins on, but still getting cravings. Now that I do not have those things at all, I do not crave sugar or starch, apart from when my biochemistry is off, like during PMS.

Yes other people have told me "a little of what you fancy does you good." Well, not always. Witness what that ice cream cone did to me 2 weeks ago. If I have sugar, it makes me sick, and I crave more. It isn't worth it for 5 minutes of taste pleasure.

Yes fruit is full of sugar, and I rarely have any. Sometimes I'll have a few berries, which are the lowest-sugar fruit.

I get my vitamins and carbs from the veg, that's right. Vegetables are the most complex carbs you can have. They are digested slowly so they do not mess about with blood sugar, and they give you a steady release of energy over a longer period. For a meal I'd have maybe 2 parts veg to 1 part protein, and some healthy fat such as butter or olive oil. That's the crux of what I do, though it's not as boring as it sounds. I can bake with ground almonds in place of flour, and I can make sauces with yogurt and (sparingly) tomatoes, for example. I also juice veg twice a day, which gives me a wonderful boost.

Humans don't actually need starch. It has the same effect on blood sugar as sugar itself, it is a simple carb. Paleolithic people, if they had starch, would have got it from starchy root vegetables like parsnips or turnips. They would have had lots of veg, meat, fat from that meat (they ate organs and offal like brains, which are very rich in healthy fat), and yes fruit too. Fruit today has been cultivated to be much sweeter than it is naturally. Oh yes, and they probably would have had honey. I have to stay away from that because I bombarded my system with sugar for 34 years and am lucky I am not diabetic.

Again, if this sounds extreme, it is working for me where nothing else did -- not light therapy, exercise, antidepressants. It's still hard going because of continuing withdrawal effects from those awful drugs, but I'll get there eventually. Every day is another day to heal.

Linda.

OBE - you're a Geordie? Wahey!

The idea of stews and soups and anything with rice sounds like heaven to me right now - and roast dinners and chocolate too. Mmmmmm chocolate :) Really looking forward to Christmas dinner (already!)