Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Good for you! A long time ago there was something called The Atkins Diet, I found it helpful for carb addiction. Another diet I followed was called THe Carb addicts diet. It allowed one meal a day to contain carbs, in the form of fuits and starchy veggies, rice, oats, etc. No refined sugar. the meal had to be eaten in 1 hour. I felt great on both diets. During pregnancy and post pregnancy I had ballooned out due to hormonal changes, and also just pigging out on ice cream, a pint a night! I am short, so the fat really made it hard for me to be energetic enough to keep up with a very energetic little boy, so we are talking 30 years ago. My advice is to keep doin what your doing regarding sugar, if you do need some carbs, oatmeal and fruit is fine as long as you eat it with a protein, fruit with cheese, oatmeal with sugar free peanut butter and a tad of good honey or molasses. We do need some sugars, and veggies and fruits contain all you need. I find snacking on meat helps, bacon, cooked and roasted meats cut into bits with cheese, olives, kept on a plate in the fridge. Raw carrots. Withdrawl is real, so thinking about sugar as a drug you are getting clean from helps, with all addictions, it is one day at a time, ask for help from God in the morning and thank him at night, avoid triggers, because the food industry is trying to kill you with calories you do not need. Your taste buds will change with time, and one carrot or apple will taste as sweet as candy, and almost too much soon. Bless you on this journey, you are doing great!!!