Good morning! I hope your Thanksgiving dinners were as tasty as ours was – WOW, can my Mom & step-Dad cook. Later we went to Kent’s Mom’s for pie and nobody makes pie like Mary Ellen does. 
My favorite is always the stuffing, though, with plenty of gravy. Mashed potatoes with loads of butter comes in second. Who’s with me? (Disregard those statements when you read the carb info below…Hopefully going hog-wild once a year won’t hurt too much!)
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- “High triglycerides are not from consuming fat, but from consuming carbohydrates.”
- “Nearly all unwanted body fat is made out of sugar. Carbohydrates, not dietary fat, make you fat.”
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I’ll see you here later this week for Real Food Wednesday!
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Thank you for sharing that curb the carb monster link. I soooo need it. I have bloated up so much the last few months entirely due to overindulging in carbs. I know my body can’t handle them but yet I am so addicted.
I couldn’t finish the vegetarian baby video, once soy came up I just couldn’t stomach the horrible information!
Thanks for all the great links!
(The link to the Wise Traditions conference is broken btw!)
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Stuffing is the best part for me too. Hubby outdid himself this year. The stuffing and gravy together were soooo good. He thought he made enough for lots of leftovers but there was hardly and left after the main Thanksgiving meal! It went way too quick.
I have to disagree with the carb comments. Carbs are needed, and if the body is not handling them well, then that is indicative that the adrenals may need some attention.
I know low carb is not traditional ;o)
Hi Paula,
The thing with carbs, though, is that they are SO different these days (and most people are eating way too many) than they used to be. Our grains are different than the grains that were traditionally eaten. Most people can do well to at least cut some carbs from their diets, especially the sugary ones!
Then rather then teaching low carb, we should probably be teaching correct carbs.
To the average person, when the term low carb is spoken or written, the only thing that comes to mind is Atkins.
I fell hard for the high fat mantra, and all it did was deplete my adrenals even more.
Hight fat tends to give an automatic green light for eating low carb.
The scare tactic of potatos and other type starches being bad, has really infilterated the traditional food arena
Meh! Just personal experience and lots of observations I have made ecently. Lots of hind sight, LOL!
Paula, I am very interested in your statements, “Carbs are needed, and if the body is not handling them well, then that is indicative that the adrenals may need some attention.” And, “I fell hard for the high fat mantra, and all it did was deplete my adrenals even more.” I have adrenal issues, and though I’m doing MUCH better, still have some work to do (and seek to, at some point take off some weight I’ve put on). DH & I were having a discussion recently about high fat diets & I just didn’t want to hear what he had to say (after years of being on a low-fat diet, I am enjoying the fats now!) – that people worked harder back then, more active lifestyles, no central heating, etc. So, your comments are timely for me & it helps to hear it from someone else (that I’m not so close to!).
Can you please share with me resources for more info. on the two comments of yours? I sure do appreciate it!
I found your blog, Paula (thanks to Kelly’s link in the 21 day weight loss blog!). I have read it, & WOW! I see there is more I can be doing. Thank you, God blessing you!
Forgot something…..WAPF talks plenty about high fat in terms of groups like the Eskimos, but one thing that is left out, is that that high of a fat content in the diet woks super well in cold climates where you spend lots of time outside, but it is not all that great the further south you go.
We are modifing here in Alaska a great deal. More on the cold days we are out fishing or doing extra farm chores, less in summer.
Eating seasonly, which terrifies people is a far better fit when it comes to following traditional diets.
Ramping up the carbs got my basal body temp up to normal in about 2 weeks time, whereas everything else I tried either worked short term, or just plain old made things worse then ever.
Ok, I think I better quit here, and start a post of RFW ;o)
Paula, this is a great conversation for me to be having with you right now because it leads into something I’m doing here on the blog soon…
I think what it comes down to is what each person responds best to. I know that for me, I do fine on the good carbs normally, but sometimes I can even get too much of those and need to scale it back. Others can’t tolerate many carbs at all.
For some reason I never knew you were in Alaska!
Kel
Yep, we live in South Central Alaska!
You are right that it is individual, but that plays into wether or not the endocrine system is fully functioning, or if its depressed. And if its depressed, at what level?
Hey Kelly!! Thanks for the link!! I loved Nora’s talks – she rocks!! I enjoyed putting her notes too!!
Why does it not surprise me that the vegetarian mom bottle feeds her baby? I guess I could give her the benefit of the doubt, but……. That poor little baby, he’s going to be sorely lacking nourishment at a time when his little body needs it most. At least she’s not vegan, so the baby will benefit from eggs and whatnot.