I just had lunch with one of my best friends and thought I would share this. I haven't seen her since the beginning of Oct. In June she went to the doc. because her hot flashes had returned. Her PA was suspicious that more than my friends hormones were out of whack. She ran tests and discovered my friend was pre-diabetic and had an enlarged liver. That got my friend's attention.
So the PA put her on a special diet...no carbs to help detox her liver. When I saw her in Oct. my friend had lost 18 lbs...as of today she has lost a total of 54lbs. And this is a woman who thinks exercise is a very dirty word.
I asked her what 'No Carbs" meant...no sugar, no grains, no fat period. She has to eat veggies that contain no sugar like carrots, corn and peas. No sugar means just that...nothing with sugar in it. The only fruits she can eat are apples, strawberries, oranges and grapefruit...she made a face when she told me grapefruit
My friend was the queen of sugar, and she's never met a brownie that she didn't like.
I asked her what the most surprising thing was about eating this way....I ate lunch with her for 10 years so I know how she is with food. She told me once she gave up sugar, bread and rice.....ALL my favorites...that her cravings for them disappeared. She said she feels better than she has in years...not just from the extra weight that she's been carrying, but because her liver is now normal size and working like it should.
I am very carb sensitive, and started eating a no carb diet on Sunday. I have lost 1.5 lbs since then. The two things that my friend can not eat while doing this detox and which I eat all the time are mushrooms and squash...summer and zuccine. Not any more, gonna cross them off my food list and feed them to Sweetie