“Addiction is a piece of cake.”
What is the term for a statement that can be read in many different ways?
I can see that I went off the WOE (way of eating) plan last week in relation to work stress. And I can hear @Fangs basic golden guide shoulder angel saying, “Stay On Plan”.
The other thing I can see as well is that the resulting heart palpitations follow those changes of the week before. It’s a correlation. It’s also an alternate hypothesis to an immediate thought. The standard thinking being of direct cause and effect, of what did I consume just before the heart palpitations started?
On thinking on it, it’s more likely that I’ve messed up my day-to-day physiology and electrolytes over multiple small episodes over a few days last week, rather than whether it was eating some fish for the meal before the heart episode (and scratching my head over that).
In the mix are symptoms of the potential thing called oxalate dumping that can occur with making changes in a WOE from high to low oxalate foods eating.
I also remember Dr. Adam Nally ‘s clinical observation that the atrial fibrillation episodes (or heart palpitations) occur in his patients when they changed their basic keto plan, usually associated with a vacation.
And Sally K Norton (of oxalate investigation fame) observing a similar opposite of people getting palpitations when enthusiastically starting a low oxalate diet and ending up in ER a week later with heart palpitation concerns. The diet change releases ‘toxins’, including oxalate, and that oxalate is “hungry” to bind positive molecules (cations) in the blood stream that regulate heart rhythm. From that, it suggests that diet changes, the actual process of change rather than specific ingredients, are a strong consideration to ill effects of trying a diet change therapy.
This also goes some way to explaining the multitude of newbie enquires about, diarrhoea, constipation, hair loss, rashes, cravings, justifications, behaviour changes, headaches, bloating, heartburn etc. It is not the new healthful diet doing something bad to the person, it’s the process of change and adaptation creating effects that can feel negative on a timeline or transition toward health. Many oldies contract it to, “Your body is healing.”
These observations speak strongly to the ‘stay’ word of ‘Stay on Plan’ and make changes in small, considered increments based on the best information and advice. The changes are for fine-tuning and individual customisation for what works best for that phase of the way of eating. Usually the adjustments take the form of the hard won ability to jettison intermediate substitute foods used to treat addiction cravings, or dumping the need to snack.
This stay on plan philosophy is not dietary way dependent. It could be applied to vegan, keto, or carnivore, or “zero” carb. The SAD (Standard Advised Diet based on government dietary advice) being the exception to staying on plan, except for the 12% of the population it seems for which to work, and don’t need this forum.
The mistake not to make is the momentary insanity “stuff it” mistake. Also known as the “this ain’t working” excuse, when one blames the diet rather than the work energy application of the dieter. Where one gives in to cravings and transforms, like a were-waffle, into a processed carb eater for a meal or two, or embarks on a mindless month long addiction fuelled meltdown binge.
Or, if they do eat that piece of cake due to social requirements, that they get back on plan and dust off the aberration, like dusting the crumbs from one’s beard or napkin.
It is eating off plan and having effects that nail us personally from what we ate and dealing with it after…it is the adaption each of us can get hit with til time, timeline dependent on the individual person of course to heal on this plan has to happen…no person usually gives any healthy plan a fair shake and I have to say, carnivore can have some long adaption time for many cause it is such a monster elimination menu that our bodies truly go…wowza…we are going back to reset. reset back to a natural eating menu and now I have to change and dump toxins and heal and more and darn it can be wild…but once thru it…oh yea, heaven of health on the other side of that adaption.
I’m making light, but that is true for me. If I were to go off, I don’t know if/when I’d ever get back on.