Dr. Chris Renna, founder of LifeSpan Medicine, gave a lecture about women and sports. Very interesting stuff as the man is highly intelligent and spoke a lot about the chemistry of our bodies. It all sounded vaguely familiar from my days in school but I'm a little rusty. Here were my takeaways:
• You need to get proper sleep in order to prepare your body to WANT to exercise.
o Turn off all overhead lights by 9pm and read. If you are hungry after dinner
it is probably your body telling you that you are tired.
o Actually not a problem for me but I thought I'd share for the blogging
world. I know…. I'm lucky.
• Yikes! Type A and Type O blood cannot process wheat or dairy or peanut butter.
o This is going to be super hard for me. I can do without peanut butter no
problem. Apparently I can substitue any other nut butter and I'll be in good
shape. BUT NO DAIRY ! Oh my lord... this means no cheese, no yogurt, NO ICE CREAM! Wheat is going to be tough too but DAIRY, ah carumba.
If you have any good substitutes for dairy please let me know because right I now I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it.
Dr. Renna also said that the way America processes there dairy is bad for our system. A friend is letting me borrow a book on this. Apparently Europe dairy is ok. I need to find out what the difference is.
I had frozen yogurt and greek yogurt last night. Day 1 and I already failed.
I've heard about that whole blood type diet thing - and the people I know who have done it raved about it. Fortunately, I don't know my blood type so I won't be giving up any foods anytime soon. :D
ReplyDeleteI think there are supposed to be some good soy and vegan cheese options at Whole Foods. You might try buying Alicia Silverstone's book The Kind Diet. I know she puts lots of dairy alternatives in there.
Oh awesome! THanks Mel. :)
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