Thursday, August 15, 2013

Learning: Trial and Error

So the Blood Type Diet says I should avoid ice cream. Been following the recommendations of my type A for a few weeks now. Seems spot on. Last week I had some frozen yogurt and had no digestion problems at all. Last night my sweetie decided to pick up some vanilla ice cream as a treat. Only had a scoop and almost immediately had bloating and excess gas, ugh. Sure did taste good though. No more ice cream for this girl. If I have a cheat dessert, it will be frozen yogurt from now on.
On our recent trip to Cabo we went off our new BTD as well, as little as we could anyways, but still. I had stomach problems almost the entire time. Gas, bloating and more. My commitment was reconfirmed to adhere to this new lifestyle (diet) immediately upon return. Living and learning along the way to my goal of optimum health and fitness. Posting to sharing to help others.

Friday, August 9, 2013

Healthy Digestion

I used to struggled with my eating habits for many years. When I was OVER working in the retail industry, I would starve all day (minus a smoothie in the afternoon most days) to avoid getting a bloated stomach. Not healthy. Then when I had gained weight on medications, I began to have a weightloss drink two times a day and then eat dinner. Of course I lost a little but not much. Once we began the "Candida Diet" including portion control, I started to really lose weight. Robert and I had to do lots of research to figure out how to make our body happy with food, especially mine, I've always had some digestion issues. I used to have to take antacids all the time! 

Over the last 6 years, I've finally found the key to digestive happiness. For me, drinking 10 oz of water first thing upon rising, followed by 10 more oz of water with a cap full of Bragg's ACV maybe 15 mins later, gets my digestive track off to a great start. Moves things along if you know what I mean. I drink more water while I exercise, then eat my breakfast @ 9am. I also always drink water at least 20 mins before I eat meals (not during or after, because you don't want to dilute the stomach juices). I drink 10-20 oz water @ 11am. At 11:30am I have a small cup of unsweetened juice (mixture of cranberry, aloe, lemon + calcium powder) and supplements. 11:45am I have my quarter grapefruit/plum or apricot. Between noon and 1 (depending on hunger) I have a mid day meal. Around 2:30, depending on when I had my meal, I drink 10-20 oz of water. Between 3-3:30 I have my lunch. Around 5 I have a green drink and supplements. Around 5:30 I have my carrot/celery/apple/sunbutter snack. At 6 we eat dinner. I don't have any more fluids til morning. Happy tummy. Eating 4 small meals a day with two snacks is very helpful with weight and overall health, as long as you have had enough water throughout the day. I also don't get anymore stomach bloating since I began the Blood Type Diet.