On Eating and Drinking

For breakfast, I can't eat eggs. I developed a sensitivity to them in 1999, when I went chronic. No cereal, no toast, no pancakes, no French toast, no bagels, no muffins. What does that leave, you ask?
A wide scope, my friend.
I'm partial to leftovers from dinner the night before. Roast beef, stew, spare ribs, chicken, or hamburger patties, suit me well. I might fry a steak with mushrooms, or sausages or a pork chop. Or two. Or maybe I might stir-fry some beef strips with some chopped vegetables, in some olive oil and butter.
Lunch might be whey protein isolate (chocolate) mixed with water and a bit of cream, or more leftovers from breakfast.
Dinner can be beef, pork, chicken or fish, along with green beans, yellow beans, broccoli, carrots, peas or beets. I'll eat cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuces, onions, garlic, mushrooms, sprouts, napa, celery, radishes ... you get the general idea. Carrots, peas, beets and tomatoes are higher on the glycemic index, but I don't eat any of them every day.
Potatoes are very rarely on the menu for me. I can eat them once in awhile but two days in a row will give me bad stomach pain for the next 24 hours.
I'm not a purist. The way I see it, if the occasional cheat helps me to stay on the low carb wagon most of the time and if I continue to improve as I have been, then I will sometimes use ketchup on my bun-less burger, and worcestershire sauce with my roast beef.
After dinner, I have one half-cup of coffee with cream (18%) and a teaspoon of sugar. I used to use artificial sweetener until I got spooked by the literature on them. I've been known to drink a soft drink once in awhile and chocolate is my downfall. And pizza? Well now.
But the point is, I don't say yes to any of these things very often. I would get sick. It's happened before and I don't want it to happen again.
Fats and oils are very important. I use butter and olive oil, and occasionally coconut oil. I really try to avoid vegetable oils because I'm really trying to keep my Omega-6 levels down.
The hardest thing for me to give up was my sweetened iced tea and soft drinks. Seven years after I switched my eating habits I STILL crave sugary drinks especially in the summer. I used to drink the flavoured water with artificial sweeteners but I have been scared off them. Fruit juice is high glycemic, vegetable juices are better. But my drink of choice is water, with a lemon wedge in it (rind removed because of the chemicals on it). Lime would be okay too, I just don't happen to like it much.
I will have a glass of this stuff going all day, just keep topping it up with water till it's time for bed, then I eat the piece of lemon and call it a night.
Herbal teas are good, as long as you check the labels. Some of them make nice iced tea. And I will often drink plain old (filtered) water.
Fruits aren't entirely taboo. Well, most of them are due to their high glycemic rating. Strawberries and raspberries and blackberries, though, are fine. Blueberries would be too if I liked them.
I couldn't eat cheese everyday without getting sick but occasionally it's quite alright and I always go for the full-fat. I never buy low-fat anything. Ever. Not cream, not cottage cheese, not sour cream, if I have a "cheat" bottled salad dressing (I do, from time to time) it ain't low fat. Ditto for mayonnaise.
I eat pretty well. My weight is pretty stable, even for a person who is not terribly active. My naturopath recently checked my pH balance and it is good. And my old symptoms are less of a problem than they used to be back when I tried to follow the Food Pyramid. That thing coulda killed me. Well, maybe not.
But it sure could make me sick. And brother, it did.

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