Sun, Nov-09-03, 18:29
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Senior Member
Posts: 538
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Plan: Vegetarian Low GI
Stats: 188/179.8/125
BF:
Progress: 13%
Location: Israel (temporarily)
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Low Carb is keeping me sane
Sorry for the dramatic subject but I wanted to share this.
Like everyone else, I'm having a hard time lately with stress. Between full-time grad studies, a clinical internship (I'm studying to be a therapist), and extra reading because I'm trying to get into a PhD program, plus other stuff, I'm starting to react bodily to it (I'm having rashes and headaches but this is typical of me when I am stressed). A few weeks ago I had an unpleasant incident (don't want to go into detail but it was traumatic for me) on top of everything else and I'm suffering some of the reprecusions now (for those who know a little about psychology, it's a form of PTSD).
Anyway, my point in this - my getting back to low carb coincided with a few days after this incident. And I truely believe that if I hadn't started LCing again, I would have been a real basket case. I'm one of those who believes that the body and mind are connected and that food has a lot to do with how you feel physically and emotionally. I'm a binge eater so it would have been very easy for me to cave in under all the stress and eat without limits on sugar and carbs and it would have made it that much more devistating. But staying with LCing I think is one of the big things that is keeping me balanced right now (the other is creative writing )
I know many people have posted how LCing has saved their lives physically in relation to the many health conditions that LCing helps. But I just wanted to say that I believe LCing is now saving my sanity!
Tam
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