greengreenwin wrote:Also, just out of curiosity I have another question for anyone that can answer this. Its nothing too serious but lately I've been experiencing a few "mini" black outs? This happened to me from time to time before in the past, but I noticed that when I walk around sometimes, I briefly feel dizzy and my vision blurs for a second. Do I need to be consuming more food? or is it something else?
It could be anything, so if it happens regularly, I would definitely talk to a doctor about it.
I have similar experience, but I do know that it's because my blood pressure is way too low for a living human. Some moderate exercise helps and it also helps if you find the best time to sleep. I mean, I used to sleep 8-10 hours every night and I could not sleep less without being useless the next day, but after a while on the McD plan I realized that if I sleep from 10pm to 5am (or 6am if I'm very exhausted), I feel so much better and my blood pressure is much closer to normal. The more I sleep the lower my blood pressure gets, and the symptoms can be those mini black outs or even terrible weakness and depressed feelings.
greengreenwin wrote:and for anyone who's been on the starch solution for a while, did you guys find that eating some fruit (moderate amount) for breakfast and some for lunch made you gain weight or has it had no adverse affect on your weight?
I don't know what you mean by saying 'for a while', so ignore my thoughts below if you consider my 2 years too short.
I used to eat a lot of fruits (had a short period when I ate similar to rawtill4), but I never experienced weight gain with fruits. Since on this program, I eat less fruit not because of the principles but because I don't feel like eating so much fruits. However, when the fresh fruit season comes (late June, early July), I eat almost only fruits during the day for about 2 weeks without noticeable weight change. Moreover, anytime during the year, when I go to the town (I live in a farm area), the only food I take with me is apple. Those days I eat about 4-6 apples and eat proper food (starch + veggies) only after coming back home. Sometimes I have to go out 5 times a week, so I eat pretty much fruit during that week, yet I don't notice any weight gain, either.
So I haven't experienced any adverse effect from fruits (provided we're talking about high sugar fruits and not high fat ones), but I'm not sure it's the same for everyone. I've never had weight problems, so maybe someone who needs MWL to keep weight off thinks differently.
Another thought: I don't know if you still enjoy smoothies or not, but if you use stevia, it can make you to seek high sugar foods which can lead to binge eating that can cause overeating, which implies to weight gain. So be careful with stevia if you use it