Hi there!
Let me first say that I am not a doctor, but that is my goal, to become a pediatric obesity specialist. I am in my last semester at Rowan University, this May I will have a BA in Psychology. However, first I have to finish the battle of the bulge(s), a battle I had beaten to a greater degree than those little numbers over there indicate. I had gotten down to just below 400, but the evil beast that is known as The Backslide has bitten me pretty hard.
But, I dont quit, The Big Guy hits hard and stays in for the count. I am in the countdown for my birthday, (#42 for the more inquizative of you!) and I am in an odd mood. Friday is hours away, and I enter the Elvis Year, who as you may recall didnt see birthday 43. Fame and fortune have thus far eluded me, but now fundamental health is eluding me as well. All my joints feel as if they are fusing. Walking itself is becoming profoundly difficult; not nearly as difficult as when I was 850 pounds at the age of 29, but my range of interests and activities is light years beyond those sleep apnea affected days of yore.
My system of high fiber and low fat, coupled with walking as much as I could worked well. The trouble is, it isnt working anymore. Ive focused as much of my attentional resouces as I can afford to the study of the glycemic index, and find that many of the foods I ate and eat score quite low in the index. Some of this was scientific deduction (barley is so high in fiber it HAD to be healthy!) to following the instinctive "gut" reactions (parboiled rice didnt seem too bad because it didnt taste starchy, and didnt clump together like its "starch bomb" breathern)'
Naturally, now in 2004, look up glycemic index and there they are, both scoring quite low in the ol index .
My questions are fairly simple, such as if you mix a high gly food (white potato) with a lower gly food like a sweet potato, does mashing the two together make for a lower gly food? Intuitively I think YES, but with any luck Ill find a knowlegeable dietician / nutritionist that can answer some of these niggling questions before I go INSANE!!!!!
(this would be bad; I cant afford me and I dont have a black couch to hang out on!)