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Fixing the carb addiction fast.

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How to fix my carb addiction fast and why?
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We were sold the idea that carbs were safe and that fat was bad. This has been the mantra for more then 50 years. But it may of been wrong, according to

(opens in new tab) Holland and Barretts" own research this site shows a whole host of research that now says that fats are good for us.

There are lots of books and articals out now saying this too for example the

(opens in new tab) Grain Brain by David Perlmutter. Amazon link: Says that healthy fats and avoiding inflamation producing foods are essential for good brain health.

Here are two studies I came across recently saying that doctors got a bunch of dead young GIs (solders) back from war including the

(opens in new tab) Korean war 1950 to 1953,

Vietnam 1968-78, Iraq 2001-11 and was allowed to perform autopsies, but to the docs surprise, the doc discovered that of these GI"s in their late teens and early twenties a

(opens in new tab) staggering 77%

already had the beginnings of heart disease. (furring up of the arteries). This was not due to their lack of exercise or them being old or their poor diet or them being overweight, but the doc concluded that this heart disease must have been something else. The doc was right about that. It has taken many years to figure this out, but if the GIs had been raised on a high fat diet like the keto diet, like many others have since the 1920"s due their personal tragedy of having epileptic fits,

(opens in new tab) which the keto diet sometimes cured,

then like them you would have clear arteries. Incidentally those keto dieters of the 1920s, after they died had there brains looked at and they had crystal clear amyloid plaque free brains according to

(opens in new tab) Dr Bozworth in her book Any way you can.

Now this was a bit of a shock because as some people already know epilectic fit leave behind terrible damage to the brain, a little bit like and concussion. So their brains should show lot"s of damage. For our purposes all we need to know is that they were carb free and did not have heart disease!

(opens in new tab) The three culprits according to this review of Dr David Pearlmutter in his fabulous book The Grain Brain

that fur up arteries are wheat, rice and potato. One cup of any of these starches is the equivalent of about 17 cups of vegetables. Eg spring greens, broccoli, celery, pak choi, spinach, beans, cauliflower, onion, all mushrooms, tinned tomatoes, just take the pips out, cabbage, cucumber, and lots more. Just as a side, we hear that veg is not high in protein sometimes, but a kilo of broccoli contains 30g protein and only 45g of carbs/starch. So roast your carrots, swedes and sweet peppers and turnips and pile your plate up high and poor loads of olive oil and balsamic vinegar add as much iodised sea salt as you want and fill your boots. It"s almost worth getting to like olive oil since it is so good for us. More on this later. So avoiding carbs is the first step. Read on if you would like to become healthy really quickly. Because heart disease took years to happen and it will take years to reverse, but would you rather 2 to 4 years or 10 to 15?

Why do I need to be in keto? I hear you asking?
Well being in ketosis starts what is called the production of therapeutic ketones and these are produced by the liver. These then circulate around the bloodstream and act as sugar therefore replacing carbohydrates. It has been said by

(opens in new tab) Dr Bozworth, here check out her great book

an expert in the field "that if you show ketones for two years then you"ll have arrested heart disease". The keto diet also provides a measure in the form of ketones to gauge how well you are doing. It"s not a diet where you spend six months and go back for a checkup and find it"s not working or that you have not been doing it properly. With Keto you either produce ketones or not. And if you find you are having difficulty producing ketones then we can get to the root of the problem almost right away. This therefore gives you immediate feedback.

One of the positive side effects of having produced ketones for a number of weeks, is that you would have simultaneously got off sugar and carbs and starches (same thing), and you would have got used to eating healthy fats, (olive oil, coconut fat, almond oil, walnut oil, and avocado oil), and will have converted your metabolism from using sugars to using fats as fuel, which means that since we all have plenty of fat stores built up over the years, that we will never be caught short without food and suffer that energy crash that seems to nearly always accompanied carb diets. This has the positive side effect of burning all that excess fat we carry around with us all day, and if we are not interested in losing any weight then we just eat more. However the important distinction here is that it is our choice, not our addictions choice!

However, if addiction is the problem like it was with me, and you are finding your cravings for sugar a bit difficult to curb, then maybe something from the 11 books on addiction I read that I found useful for me maybe useful for you, this road can be a long drawn out step by step process in the fight to decrease in carbs. One idea is to slowly swap out one carb choice for one less high on the glucose index chart and keep doing this until you"re practically carb free (30 - 50g) a day. Or like a friend recently said, I just cut out all carbs sweeteners, sugar dairy milk chocolate, crisps everything!, and two weeks later I was off them! All I eat now are veggies and meat oh and the occasional shot of alcohol for fun. So both options work. Some advice when dealing with triggers,(those horrible encounters that make you want carbs or sugar), and mood swings is to consider what

(opens in new tab) Lewis David Alcohol and you" in his book said.

When he said if a thought pops into your head saying that now would be a good time to eat carbs, he said just remember that that is your subconscious is trying to satisfy what it thinks is your goal. Especially since you were probably eating carbs for many years, it is not surprising it would do pop these ideas into your head like that. So when the thought arrives he just says to himself, this is from the old me in the past that eats carbs. This is the new me now. I don"t eat carbs. So this thought is out of time. Next Lewis David said that cravings are like waves, they always crash on the shore no matter how big they are. And the frequency between waves ebbs and flows until they become completely calm seas. The next piece of advice is from

(opens in new tab) Russell Brand and his book Recovery freedom from our addiction

where he says that One day he was walking down the Kings road, happily married and his daughter of 3 years old. When suddenly he saw and spotted a beautiful long legged blond or brunette, I don"t remember which colour hair, crossing the street and he was catapulted for a brief moment into another world, where he forgot that he was married and had a child and was happy. And he said I had less than a second to bring it back, or my emotions would take over and who knows what would happen. So he said, it is his job to keep control and not allow the thought to persist. Luckily for us it is just carbs or some alcohol if we are not alcoholics, but for Russell I believe him when he says it is a real big deal.

The next thing to do is start decreasing the window in which you eat. This is incredibly useful for combating addiction. Because if you don"t eat and you are in that frame of mind, then quite amazingly no food is easy, and no food means no carbs. Try it for yourself and see. For extending the fasting window when supplanted with healthy fats becomes quite easy. For example if you eat breakfast at 7am and your last meal is at 9pm that"s an eating window of 14 hours. Start small and just reduce it by a few hours at a time until you are pushing your comfortable zone. So skipping breakfast is a good idea, but remember to replace the meal with coconut fat or olive oil. You can also replace the meal with a bone broth or a coffee that contains fat, be it coconut fat or MCT oil or Ghee, it"s all good. So now maybe your first meal is at 10am and your last meal is one hour earlier say 8pm that"s an eating window of 10 hours. Keep doing this slowly but only after you have been producing ketones for at least 4 weeks and in some cases you"ll need to be producing ketones for 8 weeks so you choose when to begin reducing your eating window, but a word of warning, according to Dr Bozworth in her excellent book

(opens in new tab) Anyway you can.

She offered the carb free fasting option, and of all her patients that took her up on the offer before they had produced ketones none succeeded! None! It is possible to get down to one meal a day and this will feel absolutely be fine, and when you get to doing it you won"t feel hungry or feel like you"re missing out, you"ll just start to feel healthier then you have felt in years.

Why do this intermittent fasting thing as well as keto? Good question!
Keto and no carbs will indeed do a lot to stop the damage being done, but it does little to accelerate the repair process. It will promote health but will not accelerate it. For example I had an injury to my finger and it was diagnosed as a trigger finger by myself. I couldn"t open my finger past a certain point and if I did manage to get it past that certain point it would hurt a lot, this was due to my ligament shrinking and getting tighter. I didn"t like it and it was painful and it seemed to only get worse despite being in keto. Even where my ligament joined in my hand at the base of my thumb was starting to ache. However the moment I introduced intermittent fasting as proposed

(opens in new tab), by Dr Mercola

I felt an improvement. Within 3 weeks the finger and the ligament were back to normal. No pain. I was thinking I may have to quit work and sport except running, it did get me really worried. Now this process of accelerated healing has its basis in science too. The advantage of reducing your eating window, although remember you don"t need to reduce your calories in that window, you eat the same calories, just in a shorter space of time, is that your body is given a chance to not only rest the digestive system, which can only be a good thing, but also it causes your body to go into what is called autophagy. This is a process by which the human body after a period of time decides to start recycling some of its old cells and reuse the material recycled, since you haven"t eaten for a while. The good brought about by this recycling should not be underestimated. This process has now been linked to help solve a whole host of health related problems. The man responsible is Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy.

(opens in new tab) A Nobel prize winner. ref:

This recycling will take all those free radicals floating around your body and mop them up too. This is really good because it was shown that free radicals which are damaged cells with an electron missing are looking to bond with something and cause problems in the body, this is known as cellular waste, and autophagy is a cellular waste collection process.

When I was trying to produce ketones I found it incredibly difficult. I was hit with frightful feelings of uncomfortableness that made me lose control of what I was about to eat next. How is it possible to combat such frantic excitement about carbs? Well if you are at that junction I don"t think you have any choice, but to eat carbs, obviously eat the best of the worst and plan for it. The worst being bread, next worst is probably beer and so on. You write the list of the worst things. Then write the list of the worst of the best things. For example dark chocolate and you can choose how much or little cacao is in it. Next might be fruit, a healthy protein bar, chocolate raisins and so on. Do this and get ready, but we have a way to avoid reaching that frightful state in the first place. Make sure when attempting to cut back on carbs that you immediately replace the carbs with fat, but more important than that be sure to consume some fat or a small keto portion of food about 30 mins before your normal eating time. Or even just eat a little fat and a small keto meal regularly, as carbs start to drop. As the sugar from carbs drops, because you are eating less of them, your desire for them and their chemicals will steadily increase. Separating out what is an energy crisis from a chemical crisis is not easy. So put the processed foods in a different pile to the natural products. And if after eating lots of natural stuff you still feel crazy and you are full up from eating so much, you can probably make a safe bet that it is chemicals that are making you crazy (what you mistake is a craving for just carbs). I would suggest the first time the craziness hits and you are already full, eat a measured small amount of the processed foods, and next time eat less, until you have weaned yourself off the processed foods. Next is natural carbs. But you"ll find that now you have separated out the chemicals, that this process of combating real carbs has just become a little easier. All chemical based foods include foods manufactured in a factory. So in a way that includes bread, but we all know that some breads are better than others, so go with the better choice breads to begin with and finally you"ll end up with some wheat thing that you made at home for example onion and potato fritters with some wheat added. Then eventually wheat free fritters and so on.

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