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Originally Posted by nelie
Are you like this with all carby by foods? Brown rice? Bread? Sweet potatoes?
I can eat potatoes without going overboard and most carby things except nice, soft bread so that is really the only thing I don't keep in the house.
Not all carbs affect me the same way, you're right.
I can eat rice moderately and feel fine, full and relaxed.
Potatoes don't make me crazy after I eat them but I have a problem limiting my portions because I can't stop eating them.
Legumes I enjoy very much and can keep those under control.
Corn is fine I guess, I don't have any real cravings for it.
WHEAT makes me a stark raving lunatic. It makes me really full (content) and then turns around and makes me maniacally hungry. This is something I have been paying very close attention to, the difference between how different starches make me feel. I grew up in a culture and a house where bread was plentiful and accompanied every meal. Heck, bread was served with pasta. Bread is served with potatoes. I've always had a weakness for bread.
And then the worst thing happened. After my wonderful healthy pregnancy I started breastfeeding. Which is great and I did it for a year and a half and I'm really glad I did. But BF brought with it a hunger I had never experienced before. I went from not having a sweet tooth at all to waking up in the middle of the night thinking about cookies. Of course I allowed myself to eat because I was a new mommy, I was breastfeeding and burning lots of calories and I figured I'd just listen to my body. Well that whole business left me with a sugar/wheat addiction that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
So now it's the sugar/wheat combo that is my achilles heel. Muffins, pancakes, waffles, cookies, cake, cinammon raisin bagels, doughnuts etc. So I'm working on my wheat and sugar thing, the combination of the 2 is lethal.