As I’ve suggested many times in this blog, it’s a good idea for people to keep a detailed journal of what they eat and drink, and how they feel, each day.
This journal-keeping accomplishes a number of things. First, when you’re just starting out on your new life-long eating habits, it’s good to have a a baseline to start from. ONce you see on paper how much you eat and drink, it’s easier to cutback.
In addition, by keeping track of what you eat and drink, and how you feel afterward, you will be able to discover if you have any food “sensitivities.” Not all allergies produce hives, for example. Sometimes eating the wrong kinds of foods will just produce lassitude, or too much energy.
Author Christine Lydon says the same thing in her book Ten Years Thinner, in which she explains the rationale behind her suggested diet plan.
Her Ten Years Thinner program is
organized into two different phases, each of three weeks duration. Part of the rationale behind this biphasic system is that it permits you the opportunity to identify food sensitivities of which you might not be aware.
as you know, many of the foods in our modern, Western diet are not necessarily good for us. Specifically, dairy products and grains did not play a significant role in our diet until very recently in our evolutionary history. As a result, many people are physiologically ill-equipped to digest and absorn these foods in a way that keeps systemic inflammation in check and promotesstable homeostatis. (”the tendency of a system, esp. the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus tending to disturb its normal condition or function.”)
…Many, if not most, people eat foods that are slowly destroying their health. Roughly half of the test subjects who participated in my Ten Years Thinner clinical trials discovered that they were at least moderately sensitive to various foods. The most common adverse reactions (low energy, fatigue, mild joint stiffness) occurred most often when these individuals resumed grain consumption.
