What I mean by good carbs is carbohydrates that are grown from the ground. Natural not genetically modified. Things like…Root vegetables, vegetables and fruits. Lower GI carbohydrates are better for sustaining your blood sugar levels appropriately throughout the day. Within that you have to find what works for you! Bad carbs in my opinion are ones that are manufactured. That sit inside a cardboard box. Think your sugary cereals and so on. Again you have to find what works best for you but typically speaking 90% of the time having a whole foods approach with good animal protein, good carbohydrates eaten regularly is what I have seen hey people the best results. I also recommend having a relaxed approach with your food! Worry and stress around your food won’t help you with your digestion and assimilation. Hope that helps.
Thanks so much!!! I have been doing carnivore for quite a few months, but feel the need to introduce some extra whole foods back in. So thankyou your reply helps alot! Great video, thankyou!!
I also read that swedish researchers discovered that when we enjoy what we're eating we absorb 50% more iron than if you don't enjoy what you're eating. The theory is the same might apply to other nutrients too. At one point in my M.E/cfs journey I was purely eating foods because they're "healthy" and there was zero pleasure. this really made me rethink how and what I was eating, and let go of some of my fixed ideas about what I should be eating. Ended up with a wide, varied and very balanced diet and much better digestion.
Absolutely, that is also how I see it. Throughout my life I have been following different kinds of diets, and I always became very rigid and strict with it and it never did me good. Enjoying the food is definitely the most important aspect.
This makes so much sense to how my body has reacted. So good to get confirmation to be on the right path. My body suddenly just rejected sugar, sweet things in general and caffeine! No coffee, black tea and energy drinks(only drank like one a month). Am balancing meals like you say and making sure I have fuel in the tank and WOW what a difference! Thank you for sharing this😊
I don't do well on animal protein or dairy. But whole food plant based really helps me, with an emphasis on large quantities of greens and omega 3s - flaxseed or chia etc. These help keep the cell membrane flexible. However, a whole food diet can be exhausting in terms of preparation when you have a very low baseline and no help. I've found keeping dates, nuts and bananas to hand for a quick snack really helpful. Also throwing 3 days worth of 'salad' (cabbage, broccoli onion, carrot etc) through a shredding disc on a food processor means I always have raw food on hand that is much easier to eat and digest. I add hemp seeds and other bits as I go. I'm doing a litre or two of green smoothies a day too. I still eat processed foods and ready meals. My baseline is too low to do otherwise, but it's all about doing the best you can. I've found that reducing stress and working within your baseline is definitely more helpful than diet. If you keep going outside of your baseline to prepare healthy food then you aren't going to heal anyway.
I agree. I got so stressed at the beginning about how to prepare healthy meals every day and making sure it was in the right macronutrients that it just added more stress on me which I think was counterproductive in the good the food may be doing
I like that you take a holistic approach to this! I feel the most important thing is to set up your individual nutrition, other then following general advice that might not be suitable for you at all. For me I started to leave out what I knew wasn’t good for me, sugar for example and my body started to tell me what else he doesn’t like. So I ended up with vegan keto and for me it works awesome! Leaving out foods can only be temporary cause my goal is to give my body a break but at the same time retraining body and even more important my brain to be okay with different foods again. 😃
Good going Sandy! You're right, especially fructose from sugar is vicious, good riddance I say! I know this is going to sound as sacrilege now that you are vegan, so do forgive me when I suggest you do eat some animal fats. Especially lard is a good source of vitamin D and the other fat-soluble vitamins, choline, oleic acid etc, all the good stuff for maintaining our nervous system. Atb Sandy, Gerlach Sven.
It all sounds exhausting yes! I think on the food front what we really need is simplicity. Really really simple Get the necessary nutrients…, While feeling depressed exhausted and while finding it impossible to think impossible to plan. I found having the same breakfast, then soup for lunch and meat and veg for dinner. If I could achieve that I was doing well
I found the Starch Solution was helping me a lot. Even my hot flashes were getting better. Then I had 3 things one after another setting me back. I'm going to get back to it though and listening to your videos. Thank you.
Soups and stirfrys are working for me just now. Cant stomache meat. Yougurt , cheese fruit. Herbal teas and chocolate milk . Not sure how healthy this is but it seems to be working just now. 🦋🙏😇🧡💚💜
Thank you for sharing this, there is something I didn't know - that being hungry creates a stress response that we are not safe. This won't keep us in a state of recovery. Goofy question...YEARS ago, you had a couple different videos of you more in the beach scene. You spoke of the necessity of eating timely and that you never when out of the house without a Gatorade or water in one pocket and a banana or something in the other...to prevent getting too hungry. One of them you gave examples of your breakfast and snack, that consisted of something with a banana and a bit of chocolate. I've been trying for months to find those series but wonder if I am missing it. Any idea if that's out there. I just remember it looked tastey and I never wrote down what you made. 🙂 Thanks, Dee
OMG Toby, I literally sent a text (excerpt copied below) to my friend who has LC (I have ME/CFS) about this yesterday 🤯 “I'm the same with eating, too much sugar and not enough vegies/salad from my birthday to this weekend just gone. I have a rash and just feel bloated bleh. I liken putting better food in your body to using Premium 98 petrol in the car, I can tell I've been using no name petrol with ethanol 😮💨”
Depends on the root cause of your CFS. When the cause are bad gut bacteria a hardcore Keto/Carnivore Diet could make sense because it will starve the bacteria out. Yes you will feel very bad for the first days/weeks but in this case you will fix the root cause. But when your root cause is a damage in your spine or something like that it won't fix very much and you will be only more tired.
I really love your advice and like your usual use of picture graphics and when you do your hand written drawings/charts. I really didn’t like your use of bought real life photo clips. They were distracting from the information and a few of them weren’t relevant eg. The one of a of chips after you talk about breakfast. I think if you want to use real life photo clips they need more thought, especially regarding the people in them - most of the women eating were of young, thin, well looking/made up women. I don’t think you need to add these film like clips - your videos were great as they were - if you do continue to use them please make the photos more diverse and relevant. This is meant as constructive criticism - I really generally am in awe of what you do!
Hi Toby, great video, What do you say is good carbs please?
What I mean by good carbs is carbohydrates that are grown from the ground. Natural not genetically modified. Things like…Root vegetables, vegetables and fruits. Lower GI carbohydrates are better for sustaining your blood sugar levels appropriately throughout the day. Within that you have to find what works for you!
Bad carbs in my opinion are ones that are manufactured. That sit inside a cardboard box. Think your sugary cereals and so on.
Again you have to find what works best for you but typically speaking 90% of the time having a whole foods approach with good animal protein, good carbohydrates eaten regularly is what I have seen hey people the best results.
I also recommend having a relaxed approach with your food! Worry and stress around your food won’t help you with your digestion and assimilation.
Hope that helps.
Thanks so much!!! I have been doing carnivore for quite a few months, but feel the need to introduce some extra whole foods back in. So thankyou your reply helps alot! Great video, thankyou!!
I could not live without eating a green leaf here and there ;)
I also read that swedish researchers discovered that when we enjoy what we're eating we absorb 50% more iron than if you don't enjoy what you're eating. The theory is the same might apply to other nutrients too. At one point in my M.E/cfs journey I was purely eating foods because they're "healthy" and there was zero pleasure. this really made me rethink how and what I was eating, and let go of some of my fixed ideas about what I should be eating. Ended up with a wide, varied and very balanced diet and much better digestion.
I agree with you entirely on this.
Absolutely, that is also how I see it. Throughout my life I have been following different kinds of diets, and I always became very rigid and strict with it and it never did me good. Enjoying the food is definitely the most important aspect.
This makes so much sense to how my body has reacted. So good to get confirmation to be on the right path.
My body suddenly just rejected sugar, sweet things in general and caffeine! No coffee, black tea and energy drinks(only drank like one a month).
Am balancing meals like you say and making sure I have fuel in the tank and WOW what a difference!
Thank you for sharing this😊
I don't do well on animal protein or dairy. But whole food plant based really helps me, with an emphasis on large quantities of greens and omega 3s - flaxseed or chia etc. These help keep the cell membrane flexible. However, a whole food diet can be exhausting in terms of preparation when you have a very low baseline and no help.
I've found keeping dates, nuts and bananas to hand for a quick snack really helpful. Also throwing 3 days worth of 'salad' (cabbage, broccoli onion, carrot etc) through a shredding disc on a food processor means I always have raw food on hand that is much easier to eat and digest. I add hemp seeds and other bits as I go. I'm doing a litre or two of green smoothies a day too.
I still eat processed foods and ready meals. My baseline is too low to do otherwise, but it's all about doing the best you can. I've found that reducing stress and working within your baseline is definitely more helpful than diet. If you keep going outside of your baseline to prepare healthy food then you aren't going to heal anyway.
I agree. I got so stressed at the beginning about how to prepare healthy meals every day and making sure it was in the right macronutrients that it just added more stress on me which I think was counterproductive in the good the food may be doing
I like that you take a holistic approach to this! I feel the most important thing is to set up your individual nutrition, other then following general advice that might not be suitable for you at all.
For me I started to leave out what I knew wasn’t good for me, sugar for example and my body started to tell me what else he doesn’t like. So I ended up with vegan keto and for me it works awesome! Leaving out foods can only be temporary cause my goal is to give my body a break but at the same time retraining body and even more important my brain to be okay with different foods again. 😃
Good going Sandy! You're right, especially fructose from sugar is vicious, good riddance I say! I know this is going to sound as sacrilege now that you are vegan, so do forgive me when I suggest you do eat some animal fats. Especially lard is a good source of vitamin D and the other fat-soluble vitamins, choline, oleic acid etc, all the good stuff for maintaining our nervous system. Atb Sandy, Gerlach Sven.
Really enjoying this no-nonsense approach!
It all sounds exhausting yes!
I think on the food front what we really need is simplicity.
Really really simple
Get the necessary nutrients…,
While feeling depressed exhausted and while finding it impossible to think impossible to plan.
I found having the same breakfast, then soup for lunch and meat and veg for dinner. If I could achieve that I was doing well
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
So what’s the diet ?
I found the Starch Solution was helping me a lot. Even my hot flashes were getting better. Then I had 3 things one after another setting me back. I'm going to get back to it though and listening to your videos. Thank you.
Love this! Please do a video on supplements we can take.
Nice and succinct overview Toby. Thanks for the reminder.
Any time!
Soups and stirfrys are working for me just now. Cant stomache meat. Yougurt , cheese fruit. Herbal teas and chocolate milk . Not sure how healthy this is but it seems to be working just now. 🦋🙏😇🧡💚💜
I agree, Toby. I think it is all about moderation and being healthy, instead.
Awesome Toby. Just what I needed to hear.
Glad I could help!
Good to hear some down to earth advice.
Thank you for sharing this, there is something I didn't know - that being hungry creates a stress response that we are not safe. This won't keep us in a state of recovery.
Goofy question...YEARS ago, you had a couple different videos of you more in the beach scene. You spoke of the necessity of eating timely and that you never when out of the house without a Gatorade or water in one pocket and a banana or something in the other...to prevent getting too hungry.
One of them you gave examples of your breakfast and snack, that consisted of something with a banana and a bit of chocolate. I've been trying for months to find those series but wonder if I am missing it. Any idea if that's out there. I just remember it looked tastey and I never wrote down what you made. 🙂 Thanks, Dee
OMG Toby, I literally sent a text (excerpt copied below) to my friend who has LC (I have ME/CFS) about this yesterday 🤯
“I'm the same with eating, too much sugar and not enough vegies/salad from my birthday to this weekend just gone.
I have a rash and just feel bloated bleh.
I liken putting better food in your body to using Premium 98 petrol in the car, I can tell I've been using no name petrol with ethanol 😮💨”
The rash is probably histamine. Try a low histamine diet.
You’re the best Toby
Glad you found the video helpful!
Depends on the root cause of your CFS.
When the cause are bad gut bacteria a hardcore Keto/Carnivore Diet could make sense because it will starve the bacteria out. Yes you will feel very bad for the first days/weeks but in this case you will fix the root cause.
But when your root cause is a damage in your spine or something like that it won't fix very much and you will be only more tired.
so helpful thank you
You're welcome!
need soemthing like that frovisual snow syndorme
I really love your advice and like your usual use of picture graphics and when you do your hand written drawings/charts. I really didn’t like your use of bought real life photo clips. They were distracting from the information and a few of them weren’t relevant eg. The one of a of chips after you talk about breakfast. I think if you want to use real life photo clips they need more thought, especially regarding the people in them - most of the women eating were of young, thin, well looking/made up women. I don’t think you need to add these film like clips - your videos were great as they were - if you do continue to use them please make the photos more diverse and relevant. This is meant as constructive criticism - I really generally am in awe of what you do!