xpeetzax said...
Hi everyone,
So I know everyone here knows real well diet plays an important role in our recovery. I know the general rule of thumb (limit gluten/dairy/sugar). I feel like regardless of the gluten/dairy/sugar, some foods give me energy and most foods take energy from me...(I crash pretty hard after most meals). So I'm wondering what you guys eat and which recipes seem to give you the most energy...from full on meals to even a mid-evening snack shake or whatever..which foods/drinks give you energy and make you feel better?
Please share here some recipes and suggestions.. I'm trying to implement a new, cleaner, diet but really don't know where to start ><.
Currently I eat 4 small meals a day to take my medication and try to limit gluten/dairy/sugar (I'm Korean so mostly eat Korean food) but I cheat here and there and door dash some fast-food like kfc and Taco Bell.
I feel so terrible after eating some of these foods... -_-.
Happy healing!
KFC his horrendous, unless there's an option of getting it baked and unbreaded. Chicken should be baked, not fried, nor coated with flour and gluten. Both the enormous mount of flour and gluten could be limiting your energy levels. This isn't the same flour/wheat when your parents have been growing up, it's laced with too much glyphosate/roundup and has been hybridized. It just isn't breaking down in our body's the way it used to because I'm assuming it's tougher on our intestines and villi. And really, fried food is crap anyways because that oxidized fat and meat can turn into trans fat anyways.
Even if you bread chicken with gluten free flour and fry it, you'll still feel horrible. Just too much carbs and trans fats. It's garbage food!
Even though taco bell is healthier I suppose, it's still saturated with a ton of gluten.
If you're looking to increase you're energy levels, you're right, you'll have to limit yourself on the main one which is processed sugar. Which feeds the bacteria. Sugar can give you a rush, but then you'll crash almost into a comatose afterwards. It's never been healthy despite anyone suggest.
You're going to hate it, but you're going to have to learn how to cook and eat whole foods. Korean food can be gluten free in general, but eating high carb foods made out of rice everday, can still break down in sugar. Don't get me wrong, rice cereal on occasion in the morning, or spaghetti once and while at dinner is ok, because it's complex carbs. But eating Korean food everyday probably not a good idea, but I know there's other options like lettuce wraps and such.
Stay away anything that has medium to high sugar content in it. You can get away with eating rice chex cereal from time to time, the no added sugar. But I think scrambled eggs in the morning are the best.
Baked Turkey, Duck, Chicken, Steak, Burgers... All great for you, if you learn how to bake chicken and season properly, you can almost get that seasoning and fat to flake off and become crusty like a breaded friend chicken. Can be quite tasty.
Sweet potatoes are a great side, whether baked and then softened, put some butter on there and cinnamon, completely awesome. Also can make sweet potato fries, cut them up, then put some olive oil on them with cinnamon, awesome. They are also not in the night shade food family, compared to the standard potatoes which can cause inflammation if you eat too much of them.
Get some mixed veggies in the freezer section, heat them up in a microwave, afterwards put some Earth Balance butter original on them with salt, little garlic powder and onion powder, awesome.
It's going to be a learning process and may take some time. In the long run, it's going to help you function better on a daily basis. You start adding in yogurts that are filled with lactose(sugar) and high sugar. Or even ice cream or any processed foods laced with sugar, even any of the cereals. You're going to see your energy levels plummet. If you need cultures and probiotics, just buy some probiotic pills.
From time to time, I don't see anything wrong with adding in complex carbed foods, even if they're a little high in carbs like gluten free spaghetti. But that's like once or twice a week and should be spaced out. You start eating even a high carb diet daily, you'll see your energy levels drop.
I mean there's no way around eating some type of bread with my hot dogs, breads, and egg sandwiches, I eat Rudy's bread or Udi's bread, tastes fine to me. But for some, it can be a big transition.
Considering how bad the American diet is, this is super hard for some. People who come down with cancer, should be doing the same thing. I remember hearing when Alec Baldwin contracted lyme, he said on Jay Leno or something, he had to cut sugar completely out of his diet. He dropped a lot of weight and looks a lot better than what he did, in a way, Lyme Disease can be a blessing, because you can't get away with the crap foods you could eat before. I've heard a lot of people say this, I don't like saying it, because honestly, no way in hell is contracting Lyme a blessing, but I guess for some, it's a good way to put a positive spin on it and make them feel better about
themselves. So in away, I agree with that statement!
Just keep at it man, they have been a lot of progress in labs, it's very much likely, that one day you may be able to eat some junk foods again.
I'll admit, there's been times I've slipped and introduced in yogurt again and ice cream on occasion, then you just see your energy levels slide down to nothing again.
In a way, sugar does have a place in the treatment of lyme. Just not what you think, using the fake sugar combined with your antibiotics have been found by scientists to kill bacteria more efficiently. Stevia and xylitol some how tricks the spirochetes and breaks up the biofilms.
"Sugar Helps Antibiotics Trick and Kill Deadly Bacteria"
/www.livescience.com/14124-sugar-improves-antibiotic-treatment-persistent-bacterial-infections.htmlI wouldn't get in the habbit of using fake sugars on all your foods either, just with your antibiotics if you want to... Think about
it, you're starving the bacteria out using low carb no sugar diet, then when you take the stevia with your antibiotics, it gives the bacteria no choice but come out of hiding. That's the theory I suppose. They say the main supporter of borrelia is manganese.
Oh and yea, vegetables in a blender doing veggies shakes is a great idea to increase your energy levels and build up your fiber, so you can have better bowel movements. Now that you've removed a lot of your greasy foods, you gotta remember to get in plenty of fiber and take probiotic pills every day.
Watch the fruits, you'll find yourself reaching for the sweeter fruits, not necessarily good if you end up eating them all the time. Apples and peaches are good, but I would stay to eating vegetables.
Don't get conned into getting a juicer, they remove the healthy fiber and pulp, which vegetables and fruits healthy, and they'll leave you with a glass filled high in fructose. Not a good idea... Remember, fructose is basically sugar.
Some good documentaries to watch are Whats with Wheat and Fed Up.
/youtu.be/at8iIk14OtM/youtu.be/aCUbvOwwfWM - One of the best sugar documentaries I've seen!
There's plenty of anti-GMO documentaries out there and I do agree, that too much GMOs can be bad. But who can afford eating organic everyday. There's people that eat organic poptarts and think they're being healthy, as well as eating gluten free poptarts. Processed food is still garbage food even if it says organic or gluten free... Super market and these food companies can be a total con job at times.
Oh yeah, I do eat cheese on my gluten free tacos, and I don't see anything wrong with it. I feel fine! Cheese is low in lactose, which means low in sugar. I don't drink milk, when I do have cereal, i'll use the almond milk no sugar added.
Post Edited (Charlie55) : 9/1/2018 1:17:26 AM GMT