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I am totally rethinking my wanting to try a true yam now..lol I am very happy with my oriental sweet taters But maybe someday?
Cbs that it soo amazing about your blood sugar levels! I think maybe fruit is for super sporty, run till you legs give out peeps like Michael Arnstein and Durianrider??? I am a lil more lax in my exercise and life. Even though I am a hyper~spaz no matter what, I don't push myself when it come to exercise, and I really don't want to But eating this way makes me want to move~walk~jog~bike~live life, but enjoy it, not push myself I am very very happy with my spuds! What an amazing food! I have not branched out into grains, I am still hesitant. Who knows maybe in the future, if I want more variety... but I never seem to tire of the same thing ova and ova.. so gonna go cook up my sweet potatoes for the day!!!
It really is funny how I used to binge on fruit and feel completely horrible, and soooooo stuffed, yet even if I "overeat" on veggies and taters, I don't feel as bad, in pain, or 'foggy' headed And it really isn't even over~eating anymore, it is just my 'ample amount'
Yay for Starch!!!
Thank you all for the pics and info!!! And clearing it all up, I am sorry I posted this discussion under false pretenses...hahahaha

The smaller, orange one on the right is the sweet potato. The yam on the left probably weighed 3 or 4 times what the sweet potato did. I bought both of these at Lee Lee's Oriental Market. Though I could have easily bought the same orange sweet potato anywhere, I've only seen the real yams at Asian markets.

This is Lee Lee's produce department. I think this is at the Chandler store. The produce dept at the Peoria store is a little different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFoyoFYs ... re=related
Interesting, they show "purple yams" in the video, but those are actually sweet potatoes.

http://www.foodsubs.com/Sweetpotatoes.html

People are used to calling sweet potatoes "yams." It can be confusing. (Even more confusing for me in a store where many of the labels aren't in English.) I think I read that U.S. labeling law requires or is working to require the vegs we call "yams" that are actually sweet potatoes to be labeled as such, so you'd see something with the label "yam (sweet potato)" more often.

Im loving this thread. I discovered the asian sweet potato a month or so ago. I love to slice it into 1/2 inch thick 'medallions' and bake each side about 20 or more minutes at about 375 degrees on parchment paper. That way I don't have to peel and the peel gets a little crunchy and I just eat it.

I also see a lot of the other strange looking tubers or starches that I have just learned (by reading all of your helpful posts and pictures) are yams. So now I'll maybe try them. I have spoken with a few Africans that were picking at the yams (hairy and big starches) and asking about them. I see them at a few asian markets as well as some hispanic markets.

This week I made a great stew with taro, sweet potato, pumpkin, red potato, green beans, corn, kale and mustard greens, garlic and onions and some spices. I added a spoonful of brown rice to one bowl. The next day I even added some chili pickled lime (1/4 t.) to a bowl. I found the no oil pickled lime at the indian store. Making this soup was my first attempt at using taro. I had some in Costa Rica. My friend from Panama gave me a tip at picking ripe and not too old ones. You hold it and bang the end onto your other hand and it snaps off and the inside looks white, not dry or too pulpy then its good to eat.

Thanks again for the great topic and information!

Hi apple

thought that was you! I'm transitioning to this diet after not doing well with 811. I just couldn't stay on the diet, it kept triggering binge eating. I'm very grateful to say that has not been a problem on this diet. I'm definitely emphasizing a much raw food as possible and do a raw breakfast like mono-eating fruit or a green smoothie. and I snack on fruit. I'm glad to hear youre doing well with this way of eating.

Hey Love! Love love...still trying to figure out who ya are??? From the other forum right??? How long have you been including yummy starches? I came 'clean' on 30bad I feel sooooo much betta! I am still tech eating 811, I guess, but with cooked taters! lol
Look I'm trying to convince myself I'm ok!!! hahahahaha Yeah I was binging too, but the worst part was by noon my tummy was too full to do anything productive! So I just kept eat! lol Now I am sooo satisifed with these yummy 'sweet potatoes!!!'

i thought i should post since i know you are worrying that cooked will make you fat. i believe jeff novick posted about this one time with the pig studies. WE ARE NOT PIGS. we do not absorb food as pigs do. so whats a healthy/natural diet for pigs is not the same as us. we are also NOT apes, etc. these animals do not do well with starch as we do so dont compare. its interesting the ignorance and beliefs that run rampant in raw food forums. i'm glad i'm educated and intelligent enough to stop believing all the raw food fear mongering that has no scientific basis of evidence. i could jump to the conclusion that birds are trim on seeds so you cant get fat on seeds but we all know this would be a false belief. or cows get huge on grass so grass can make us huge, make sense? of course if you fed cows corn, they will fatten up more as they are herbivores. i know how you are thinking so i'm trying to get you to think rationally rather then magically.

also if you binge beyond satiety on starches you can gain weight but you wont physically want to do this. if you feel compelled to binge do so with vegetables if you are terrified of gaining weight since they are only 100cal/pound. so you would be miserable to eat too many calories this way. but i find you can eat starches to satiety and you wont gain weight. but compulsive eating is different if you eat beyond hunger. that needs the psychological being addressed also. there is no magical diet that will cure disordered thinking/eating. it takes a long time and hard work but one has to find other ways of comfort/coping then food.

Thank you again cbs! I have been relaxing and enjoying my food more and more every day!
My binge of choice veggies are carrots, jicama, and zucchini's...hope those are too calorie dense?? But I agree bout the cooked starchy not causing weight gain, cuz I feel like I'm losing...hahaha.. Cant be sure if it's just water weight, but when I look in the mirror I am shoked cause I never looked like this before.. Not that I am super skinny or anything, but I am not all around puffy anymore!!! Its hard to explain.. lol this isn't even on the sweet potato subject anymore!!! I really just blab everything all ova, huh?

Eggsactamundo.

I couldn't resist.




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Awww, thank you Alwaysagnes. Yes I am a spaz when I type, and just as bad in person... I am always all over the place. Maybe I need a sedative?? lol