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Old Tue, Apr-16-02, 14:44
momsbroke1 momsbroke1 is offline
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Plan: Dr. Atkins
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I don't know if you'd consider me to be a "long term LCer" (been on this WOE since 07/01/2001), but I too notice reactions to foods/addition of carbs. Whenever I have gone off the WOE (only 3 or 4 times since I started), I immediately get sluggish, gassy, tired, irritable, and usually promptly get a yeast infection. Now, for me, this is not a reaction to the WOE, but to the carbs, because I feel that way right after eating the carbs. I, too, am on OWL, but I only take in 35-45 carbs a day so far, and have not added any complex carbs, because the more complex carbs trigger cravings for me - as well as some of the above symptoms. I think that our bodies have gotten so used to "good food", that they rebel when we take in something we are sensitive to. Maybe we never noticed it on our old WOE because we felt so crappy in general!!

Anna
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