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I stopped eating sugar and carbs completely and it changed my life. No brain fog, more energy, no anxiety, no depression. I cant communicate to people enough ho
by ldjkfkdsjnv 2y ago
I stopped eating sugar and carbs completely and it changed my life. No brain fog, more energy, no anxiety, no depression. I cant communicate to people enough how much it improved my life. Nothing else worked, no therapy, no talking through things. It was a biological problem with my diet. I used to think I had ADHD, turns out I just needed to eat healthy. Prime steak and chicken, veggies, some dairy, lots of nuts. That's about it
- oxag3n 2y agoDo you mean refined sugars and processed carbs, or carbs in general (i.e. going Keto)?
- ldjkfkdsjnv 2y agoFull keto
- NovemberWhiskey 2y agoBut you eat vegetables?
- SoftTalker 2y agoSome vegetables are OK on keto IIRC. Leafy greens, asparagus, squash. Avoid the starchy ones.
- swatcoder 2y agoOnce started, your body will usually stay in ketosis even with a modest and non-trivial budget of carbs, on the order of maybe 10-20g, excluding fiber. That allows for a wide variety of veggie choices, as well as a some wiggle room for modest servings of nuts, legumes, beans, etc But basically there's no room at all for stuff like breads or rice or potatoes or sweetened drinks except as the finest accents. Never as the centerpiece of a meal. It's a very different way of living and eating, but can feel extremely invigorating and seems to be broadly healthy for most people.
- DiscourseFan 2y agohttps://www.renalandurologynews.com/features/ketogenic-diet-potentially-harmful-especially-in-patients-with-ckd/ https://www.renalandurologynews.com/features/ketogenic-diet-... You're going to destroy your kidneys. Our bodies are evolved to eat mostly carbs, not protein. It may make your head "clear," but just because you feel good doesn't mean its a genuine improvement to your physical health.
- tdpvb 2y agoHa, man, this link is basically a dialysis industry propaganda page. Our bodies evolved to survive -- whether with or without glucose. And you liver makes whatever those your body needs, from far, if necessary. Also keep in mind, industrialized wheat products would've been hard to come by back in the stone age -- if you ate at all, depending on whether your hunt was successful.
- hackernewds 2y agopotatoes are a carb. I don't get what your point is. we haven't been hunters only for a really long time, and even then the gatherers mostly got berries and sugars and fruits
- DiscourseFan 2y agoWell the human body cannot survive without outside consumption of vitamin C because our ancestors consumed so many berries and leafy greens that we probably would poison ourselves otherwise. Your analysis is off, the human body is not infinitely adaptable. There are limits; running 5 miles a day is not going to completely offset heavy alcohol and tobacco consumption, but those with BMIs in the range of obesity who run 30 miles a week are far healthier than those who have a normal one but practice no physical exercise. We are perhaps experiencing, currently, a broad shift in the evolutionary history of humanity; I'm not an AI nut but one could argue that one reason why health is such a concern is because there are a number of adaptations at odds with one another at the social and biological levels. One could imagine that the completion of this arc would result in a new stasis of living patterns in the same way that hunter-gatherers persisted for almost 2 million years, and our current moment is just a brief one of upheaval.
- ClassyJacket 2y agoWhat are your actual parameters? Are you doing keto? Do you count your carbs - if so what's your limit? I used keto the first time I lost weight, and it also somehow cured my binge eating forever. But it's hard to keep up long term.
- ldjkfkdsjnv 2y agoI don't count anything. I just cook all of my own food and never eat carbs or sugar. When I get hungry I eat
- smm11 2y agoGet your daily carbs under 50 and you will change remarkably. Get under 20 and you'll think you're re-born.
- neontomo 2y agoyou may still have adhd. eating well, having good habits and receiving accountability from your environment are all factors that manage the negative effects of the disorder. also would be interesting to know your time frame for how long you've done this - to rule out the honey-moon phase
- ldjkfkdsjnv 2y agoNah I do't have ADHD, I was sick from the american diet
- hackernewds 2y agoyour anecdata is not really data though, to be broad enough to provide such generalized recommendation
- ldjkfkdsjnv 2y agoI dont care about "anecdata", I am responding to what my body is telling me is healthy
- Oarch 2y agoI've done similar in the last year and can anecdotally say I've seen a huge reduction in brain fog, I feel full for longer and enjoy a far more consistent energy release throughout the day. I'll never go back.
- ldjkfkdsjnv 2y agoIts obvious there is something really wrong with the food
- satvikpendem 2y agoI don't eat a lot of refined sugars but not eating any carbs feels extremely boring to me, and basically anathema to my Asian heritage where we eat rice daily. But yes, if it worked for you then that's great.
- hackernewds 2y agocould eat rice and pasta, it's mostly the misunderstood artificial manufactured carbs like pizza and tortilla chips and Hostess donuts that could be underlying. it's also extremely convenient cheap and measurable to eat rice at home
- satvikpendem 2y agoWhat is misunderstood about them, don't they also use wheat and other grains? Maybe you mean that they are calorically dense and/or greasy thus causing lethargy?