Maintaining Your Balance
Once you
successfully finish the Two-Week Test, and add back the right amount of
tolerable carbohydrate foods, you should have a very good idea of your
carbohydrate limits — the amount of carbohydrate you can eat without producing
symptoms. This is best accomplished by asking yourself about your signs and
symptoms on a regular basis: energy, sleepiness and bloating after meals, etc.
You may want to keep a diary so you can be more objective in your self-assessment.
In time, you won’t need to focus as much on this issue as your intuition will
take over and you’ll automatically know your limits.
Once you
find your level of carbohydrate tolerance, you’re on your way to balancing your
whole diet. Now that you know how much carbohydrate you can tolerate, in the
next chapter I’ll discuss which types of carbohydrate foods are the healthiest
to eat.
In review,
here are the basics of the Two Week Test:
- Write a list of all your signs and symptoms.
- Weigh yourself.
- Plan your meals and snacks — buy sufficient foods allowed on the test, and get rid of those not allowed so you’re not tempted.
- Eat as much as you need, and as often as you need to never get hungry.
- Always eat breakfast.
- After the test, re-evaluate your signs and symptoms, including weight.
- Begin adding natural, unprocessed carbohydrates to every other meal or snack, and evaluate whether this causes any of your previous signs or symptoms (including weight) to return.
- Enjoy your newfound health!
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