posted January 30, 2021 07:16 PM            

During this lockdown, I have noticed that my craving for sugar is increasingly going through the roof. It is intense!

Anyone else experiencing this?

posted February 06, 2021 12:21 AM              

Sugar craving is often a sign of candida albicans over growth which is often due to a combo of over antibiotic use (which kills probiotics as well) and too much starch and/or sugar in the diet.

Awhile back, I "thought" I was eating pretty healthy as I was eating a mostly whole foods type diet. Ate very little refined sugar or starches. But I was still tired all the time, had a lot of brain fog, etc. Felt like I was almost becoming pre diabetic.

I started to eat A LOT more non starchy veggies, and it ended up helping A LOT. I may still have a little brown rice or quinoa in the meal, but with a lot of veggies, some easier to digest legumes (like lentils or lentil "pasta"), and enough fat and/or easier to digest protein (like goat or sheep cheese or yogurt) to slow down sugar spikes from the starch.

Or I'll eat a brown rice tortilla wrap with lots of spring mix salad and some kind of filler (depends).

Works really well for me. Have nice, even, balanced, sustained energy throughout the day. My "new" old job is pretty physical, and so during breaks I eat this nut based "caveman" bars that have a little chocolate, but not enough sugar to bother me, especially with the amount of fat and some protein that slows that process down.

While I don't eat much fish all in all (more so in the late fall to early spring period), sometimes I'll have a big spring mix type salad with some smoked, extra virgin olive oil sardines mixed in.

posted February 06, 2021 02:52 AM            

Besides that... a lot of cabbage brain —though these are also classic seasonal foods.

(Health and Healing Board) Tbh, Galactic is right about sugar... his instinct to point this out isn’t necessarily to be a debby downer. Because If you’re craving it, there’s an underlying health (biome) issue. Though, clarifying his statement: [processed] sugar is the devil. People rarely “crave” nature’s fruits—when they should if at all before any alternative.

note: I never crave bread or pasta (simple carbs) so my potato obsession isn’t carb-specific (I get most of my carbs from vegetables) — rather it’s highest on satiety index and a mood-regulator, though when I started taking magnesium supplement this lessened.

I typically refrain from eating freshly cooked potatos and opt for refrigerating then preparing for the Resistant Starch value.

posted March 21, 2021 08:24 PM            

Had me getting into these cookies-- I started with only eating 2 of them, but then got up to 4!!, as the week of November Elections finally came. For the week until December 14, 2020 one day, I ate 6 of them {{oh yuck?? too much}}, for when the counting and Electoral Votes had finally been decided!

November and December 2020 -- Mallomars!!
Gave them up at New Years.

Mallomars - chocolate marshmallow cookies
[2:03] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QQGAJdtizM

(The cookies in that vid had a white film on them. Yuk?! Mine didn't. After Christmas I stopped buying them. -- But they were my Elections STRESS Cookies!)

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I hear the media, the news, thinking that EVERY STRESS residual from this past year was due to the Pandemic?

Nope!

It was the brutality that was going on with HATE groups and the attempt to re-elect a dangerous president!

Up until November then December, we almost had our form of govt destroyed. It was THE VOTE that would have decided whether we REMAINED a Democratic Republic, or fall to a King-- He would have changed the USA into an Autocracy-- Totalitarian rule.
We almost became like RUSSIA.

Putin had JUST made himself the permanent president earlier that year. The past admin had the same lustful aims and desires in his heart.

posted March 21, 2021 10:28 PM            

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Originally posted by mirage29:
For me, it wasn't COVID, but the STRESS of the United States Presidential Elections-- for most of the months of that year!!

Had me getting into these cookies-- I started with only eating 2 of them, but then got up to 4!!, as the week of November Elections finally came. For the week until December 14, 2020 one day, I ate 6 of them {{oh yuck?? too much}}, for when the counting and Electoral Votes had finally been decided!

November and December 2020 -- Mallomars!!
Gave them up at New Years.

Mallomars - chocolate marshmallow cookies
[2:03] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QQGAJdtizM

(The cookies in that vid had a white film on them. Yuk?! Mine didn't. After Christmas I stopped buying them. -- But they were my Elections STRESS Cookies!)

*~

I hear the media, the news, thinking that EVERY STRESS residual from this past year was due to the Pandemic?

Nope!

It was the brutality that was going on with HATE groups and the attempt to re-elect a dangerous president!

Up until November then December, we almost had our form of govt destroyed. It was THE VOTE that would have decided whether we REMAINED a Democratic Republic, or fall to a King-- He would have changed the USA into an Autocracy-- Totalitarian rule.
We almost became like RUSSIA.

Putin had JUST made himself the permanent president earlier that year. The past admin had the same lustful aims and desires in his heart.

But and STILL ---
Democracy Remains,
just as it had for over 200 Years!!
God Protect USA.

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