Everyday Systems

What I hear in your postings is a lot of confusion due to dieting mumbo jumbo.
Let me make a point:
A doctor was addressing the new doctors at a commencement. He said I have good news and bad news for all you new physicians. 50% of EVERYTHING you have learned will be proven to be false. The problem is we don't know what 50%
It is almost impossible to go a week without being told something is good for you and then that it is bad for you.
Regarding eating. Just start with the 3 plate, S concept. Believe it or not your body will at some point begin to tell you what it NEEDS. You will get hungry for a food considered healthy. That would be your body doing it's job. Bodies talk if we just listen to them and drown out all the "good advice."

Thanks Lilly... you're right, I'd just gotten started fairly well into this, then the nutritionist slammed me. I mean here I am trying to change my 35 yr old thinking process for the better, condensed into only a couple weeks time. Then she came into the picture.

That's why I said somewhere in here that I'm just going to do NoS and do it as healthily as I know how to. If I want a fruit she told me not to eat, or the mushrooms in my omelette, I'm gonna do it. Period. Like someone else said... an apple is an apple, period. Just eat it.

I'm confused, Bumpkyns, why your nutritionist is saying not to eat fruit. (If you have a suspected allergy against molds, I can understand no mushrooms, cheese and other fermented foods).

The one and only time I went to a nutritionist(she worked as a nutritionist in a major hospital) she asked ME what I liked and then made up a menu of break,. lunch, and dinner and incorporaterd these foods. Uh, thanks
Wasn't worth the gas.

Western medicine doctors don't usually like it when we think for ourselves. They get especially upset if we read a lot and know our own bodies. After all we're not trained in medicine so we must all be [i]stoopid.[/i]

I'm an R.N. and I think a lot of physician's intolerance of people who "think" is their inability to think outside the box. I can't tell you how many times I've told a physician to "stop and think about this, " and kind of lead them step by step to a conclusion.

She gave me a list of foods to eliminate for 3 months, and certain fruits and veggies were on there, ... something about getting rid of toxins or whatever..allowing my supplements to work properly. Then I could bring them back into my diet. I just couldn't imagine what was wrong with the strawberries, mango and cucumbers, course I'm no specialist. I understood the mushrooms cuz of the yeast issue... but not the other stuff. Anyways... While I do believe there is a LITTLE something to the Blood Type stuff to consider... I'm mostly sticking to NoS, incorporating as much healthy stuff as I can into it. It's all I know to do.

Bumpkyns
I started No S 2 1/2 years ago and did very well for about 2 1/2 months, till I started fixing things on the nutritional side. On paper the things I changed were right and healthy, but they complicated things so much that I fell off of No S.

I would then come back to No S a few months down the line and repeat the sequence.

This time, I am eating what I want, what is convenient for me and following vanilla No S with no 'help' from me. I know the food that is better for me and I know the food that helps me make it to my next meal. If for some reason those are not an option for a meal, then such is life and I have stopped stressing about it.

Nutrition is great once you have fixed the broken habits.

MerryKat... point well taken. I'm realizing this more and more everyday as I progress my way thru the beginning stages of this, and ultimately, what I hope to become habit.

I can understand the frustration with the medical profession.

I went to see my Dr. and had lost 25lbs since I'd last seen her and was starting to exercise and she looked at me and told me it wasn't good enough. That I should be doing a lot more.

Talk about a burn .. it's like, what the heck? Can you at least say "that's a great start but you need to be doing more"?

Doctors suck in a lot of ways.