I am Beyond Confused

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  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,488 Member
    edited January 2016
    @lulalacroix thank you for sharing your experience, good luck on 2nd time around with CICO.
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    I'm menopausal. I've done a lot of reading. MANY menopausal women do develop some degree of insulin resistance. The recommendation in this case is to try to balance hormones as best you can, and eat a diet high in nutrient dense foods. Focus on whole food carbs (vegetables, legumes, fruits to an extent). Aim for high fiber grains when you have them. See if that helps. It's what seems to work best for me, and several menopausal women I know. Sure CIICO. But finding the balance between CI and CO can be a bit goofy right now.

    Thank you for this @Sabine_Stroehm. I did a ton of reading when peri, but retained the information pertinent to me. I was lucky to have no health problems, so tend to forget they can happen.
    Eating on a budget, home cooking, and food preferences, inadvertently kept me within the realms of your advice.

    Cheers, h.
  • Monklady123
    Monklady123 Posts: 512 Member
    I personally have gone "lower carb" because it works for me. I've cut out most grain type carbs because I eat too many of them. It's easier for me to say "no more" than it is to moderate, because for some things -- like salty crunchy potato chips, for example -- I have no "off" button. ugh.

    But I still have to count calories, I can't just eat whatever I want of everything else and say "oh I've cut out a lot of carbs so I'll lose weight".

    A digital scale that weighs in grams and that has a "tare" function is crucial for me. Then I can measure accurately -- things like peanut butter for instance -- instead of trying to measure "1 tablespoon". It's pretty amazing how inaccurate it is to measure pb in a tablespoon. lol
  • lulalacroix
    lulalacroix Posts: 1,082 Member
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    lulalacroix wrote: »
    A year ago I was on a keto diet. I liked eating a lot of fat and did lose 25 pounds. But when I stopped the diet I gained the weight back very quickly and an additional 5 pounds. I think one of the most important lessons about dieting is that it should be something you can do long term. I couldn't do keto long term. Now I'm back to cico and have lost 15 pounds.


    You regained because you ate too much. That can happen with any diet approach, sadly.

    You are correct. But my point was that the keto diet just wasn't sustainable for me.
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