Eating Creole food makes it impossible to lose weight

Hi:
I like very spicy food and I lost 16 pounds. It is all eating at a deficit. Calories In, Calories Out (CICO).
Enjoy your creole food (in moderation)

If you burn more calories than you consume, then you will lose weight. If you sit on your *kitten* all the time, than you need to eat less, way less. You only need more calories if you workout hard or have a very active lifestyle.

You can still put spices on your foods. Actually this will make "clean foods" tolerable. IF you are talking about eating jambalaya, red beans and rice, etc.. you can still eat this, just less of it.

I am not sure why you think you have to eat this "clean" food diet to loose weight.

Eating TOO MUCH of any good makes it impusdible to lose weight. Portion control.

If smaller portions were not effective. Herbs and spices being high in salicylate could contribute to holding a higher weight. Most western general practitioners do not recognise this as a possible problem but they do know not to give aspirin based pain relief medications to asthmatics and accept in some other patients they can cause digestive problems including bleeding. I discovered my problem with salicylate after I realised, by accident, that not taking pain relief before exercise was more beneficial than taking it for pain in my joints following activity.

Salicylate is the active ingredient in aspirin and other products. Many plants use salicylate to protect themselves from moulds and mildews, for some of us this can build up and cause many different health problems unfortunately because our diet varies day to day and the effects are cumulative, in this situation it is not possible to define one dietary culprit many can be involved. Look up Finegold, his diet may help some. Anne Swane et al, did some good work giving many different foods a salicylate status. "Food can make you ill" a book and a web site, probably still will also had much information on this and other food related potential problems. Looking up, SalicylateSensitivity may also help.

Its all too complicated that even medics who do recognise this as an issue still do not know what sets some of us up with the problem because it is more toxic to us and not the general population. It was put to me that for some reason the "bucket", our systems should have, become over full and that is why we develop problems. (2014)

It is possible the key lies in our endocrine system. I have been generally doing better addressing my endocrine and digestive functions privately.

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If smaller portions were not effective. Herbs and spices being high in salicylate could contribute to holding a higher weight. Most western general practitioners do not recognise this as a possible problem but they do know not to give aspirin based pain relief medications to asthmatics and accept in some other patients they can cause digestive problems including bleeding. I discovered my problem with salicylate after I realised, by accident, that not taking pain relief before exercise was more beneficial than taking it for pain in my joints following activity.

Salicylate is the active ingredient in aspirin and other products. Many plants use salicylate to protect themselves from moulds and mildews, for some of us this can build up and cause many different health problems unfortunately because our diet varies day to day and the effects are cumulative, in this situation it is not possible to define one dietary culprit many can be involved. Look up Finegold, his diet may help some. Anne Swane et al, did some good work giving many different foods a salicylate status. "Food can make you ill" a book and a web site, probably still will also had much information on this and other food related potential problems. Looking up, SalicylateSensitivity may also help.

Its all too complicated that even medics who do recognise this as an issue still do not know what sets some of us up with the problem because it is more toxic to us and not the general population. It was put to me that for some reason the "bucket", our systems should have, become over full and that is why we develop problems. (2014)

It is possible the key lies in our endocrine system. I have been generally doing better addressing my endocrine and digestive functions privately.

Actually most doctors and healthcare professionals know this, which is why they ask about active bleeding prior to giving aspirin to those they give it to for a cardiac event/prevention.

Just because YOU have an issue with aspirin does not mean others should avoid it.

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Dear Elphie.

I was only suggesting that reacting to salicylate in foods is possible. Something to possibly consider and read up on if a person was so inclined, to disregard where appropriate, if smaller portions did not make any difference. I'm not alone in this situation and I would dearly love for no one else to have this problem. If I was asked if I have gastric bleeding following ingestion of aspirin I would in all honesty have to say no not to my knowledge. Bleeding is not the only problem. I have to eliminate many, most common foods to keep my residual salicylate levels as low as possible, my life is no longer plagued by disabling joint pain, and the long list of other life restricting symptoms I used to have to endure, my life is good. I know this is not a common problem.

Regional Immunology departments do recognise this problem with dietary and environmental salicylate but its the ones in general practice and some endocrinologists who do not and those who have no experience of this devastating problem too.

Yes aspirin is used therapeutically to stave of cardiac incidents but for me that action could be even more dangerous. I'd have to take my chances without.