THE latest holiday season had somehow given people colds, coughs, the flu, or even Covid if they were brave enough to be tested. And we could still hear the resounding noise of sneezes and coughs now in 2024, as if they’re unachieved New Year’s resolutions that are carried over to the next year and the next.
For the low-carb-fasting community, those afflictions were caused by the intake of high-carb food that weakened their immune system. Their taste buds became so used to the high-carb goodies, they couldn’t stop feasting on them anymore.
“The Doctor’s Desk,” featuring Dr. Fi Atencio and Dr. Suzeth, has been having weekly Facebook Live videos for several weeks now, and even non-religious me has been watching them religiously. I feel I have to listen to them and all other low-carb doctors 24/7 so I can stick to the low-carb diet forevermore.
All along I thought I could already level up to the carnivore diet. Not. Thus, the need for daily reminders.
Doc Fi said it has been a humbling experience for her to unlearn what she learned from her ten years in med school. She started her low-carb diet in 2019 and she’s still studying low-carb-fasting up to now. This is true for all low-carb doctors, coaches, and dieters—it’s a continuous learning process.
She gives her patients full autonomy and requires full consent from them for their low-carb journey otherwise they won’t commit to it.
As for those who are in denial, Doc Fi said, “Kaya mo talaga pero ayaw mo lang.” She admitted that “matagal nang comfort zone ko ang food.” Sounds so familiar, eh? For a while there, I was reading books on emotional eating, so, yes, relate na relate with this.
Despite the fact that Doc Suzeth began her low-carb journey way before Doc Fi did, the former is also still studying the diet up to now.
One of Doc Suzeth’s teachings is about food addiction and the alteration of taste buds which start at an early age. She advises parents to not give their children processed food and sweets such as chocolates. The parents’ language of love can be food which may affect their children’s health.
Since Valentine’s Day is waving already, perhaps it’s time to analyze if your love language, especially for yourself, is also food. Because that’s exactly what happened to me during the holidays. I felt I deserved some high-carb goodies since it was Christmas, anyway.
So, there I was with colds and coughs, and here’s hoping they’re gone by the time you’re reading this.
I’ve become ultra-sensitive to carbohydrates since my body is not used to them anymore. Still, when I eat out and attend parties, I tend to try some carbs to see if they still taste the same. Only to find out that, yes, they still taste the same. Haha.
Passing by the food booths at malls, the ones selling mostly carbs—kakanin, cakes, tarts, pies, etc.—can be considered as an obstacle course for the low-carb dieter. Let’s see if she can ignore them all. Hmmm. Not. Thus, the achoo.
