A chiller here at home has several sugar-free drinks, both caffeine and non-caffeine: coffee, soda, apple juice.
I can actually turn off that chiller already and transfer these drinks to the fridges. But I seem to be justifying the chiller’s existence by buying all these drinks which a strict low-carb diet doesn’t need.
Now that I’m back to strict low-carb—fingers crossed, good luck to me—I have to switch to water and forget about non-water drinks.
Here I am again with another restart, reset, reboot for the low-carb diet.
In the low-carb community, eating high-carb food is called “nadapa.” I’ve had almost seven months of nadapa episodes as of today. It’s not a daily nadapa, though. It’s more like nadapa today, behave tomorrow, nadapa the next day. But the on-and-off doesn’t give the body enough time to recover.
It takes years for a strict low-carb diet to banish maintenance meds to Siberia. If it’s not strict, those maintenance meds will probably want to stay.
So, banish the fake food to Siberia first: the processed food and non-water drinks. What’s left will be the real food: beef, pork, fish, eggs, and other sources of meat.
Think of the time when our ancestors had to hunt for their food. They didn’t catch diet soda. Instead, they caught whatever animals they killed that day. Those were difficult times for the foodie. How to sate his cravings? He couldn’t eat stalactites, right?
But the carnivore diet gave him no fluctuating sugar levels that could result to cravings. Nor did anyone tell him, Gisaka ang imong dugo. Which in this 21st century makes the hypertensive sound like a vampire.
And when the blood pressure is unusually high, the doctor will then request for some tests that may require the patient to fast for ten hours.
So, there’s the low-carb dieter, calculating when to start fasting for an 8-am lab test, because he doesn’t want to wake up early for a 6-am lab test. After counting with his fingers, he finds out fasting should start at 10 pm. But his dinner is at 4:30 pm, does that mean he has to eat again at 9:30 pm?
And then, there’s the random blood sugar (RBS) result that says it’s 80. This alarms the doctor who asks if he had lunch. His reply: yes. And he tells him why the RBS is low: Doc, I’m a low-carb dieter. But the doctor doesn’t seem to understand and advises him to have dinner ASAP to increase the RBS result. A fellow low-carb dieter then jokingly says, Eat cake. Oh. That sounds so Marie Antoinette.
Lab test parameters are based on a high-carb diet. So, how to analyze a low-carb dieter’s lab test results? That’s the question that only a low-carb doctor can answer.
No wonder the low-carb dieter becomes confused when talking with high-carb medical practitioners who tell their patients to follow a moderation diet. Which may eventually make the patient blame his lack of willpower as the culprit behind his inability to switch to a healthy lifestyle.
But it’s not willpower. It’s the sugar and the cravings it causes.
