I used to be able to eat CO off a spoon, but when I tried to eat it the other day because I want to lose the rest of my baby weight, it made me feel really ill. I tried it in hot water... ACK! So I tried mixing it with some raw cocoa powder and stevia and freezing it to make chocolate... but that made me feel ill, too. I was queasy all night, and now even thinking about CO makes me want to hurl. So my question is... can I eat coconut cream to get the same amount of coconut oil? It does have a few carbs, but not much. I can get Natural Value brand coconut milk at my HFS, and it doesn't have emulsifiers, so the cream separates. I can eat that till the cows come home, and it has 63 g of fat a can, and a tablespoon of oil is only 13 g fat, so... wouldn't it be pretty much the same thing to eat several tablespoons of cream to get one tablespoon of oil? I like to blend it with a few strawberries and a few drops of stevia extract to make it more enjoyable, but I can eat it straight if it's better. Is this an okay way to get the CO before meals in EFLF?
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9/4/06 at 12:35am
) garlic cheese bread at the farmer's market today, but I don't even feel like eating crackers or cookies anymore. Instead I'd rather have a raw milk tonic or coconut milk tonic when I'm feeling hungry. 
I also have had a cold the last few days, and have been *craving* beyond belief sweet onions, and red & yellow pepper saute'd in coconut oil. The other thing I've noticed is that my taste buds, so to speak, actually want to eat things that I would not have liked before, like raw peppers and the such. It's like a light bulb went off inside my mouth or something, and suddenly it's the healthy stuff that my body is desiring. It's so cool!
It was like I had crossed over to the dark side, but I really don't even desire them anymore. The only "vice" I still crave is ice cream. We want to start buying raw cream to make our own, but need to do that only on special occassions because raw cream here is quite expensive. So, I allow myself an occassional store-bought ice cream. 
I'm thinking our HFS sells Julie's (isn't the the name of the organic ice creams?); that's what I need to buy. 
: ); I've noticed that when I get hungry I don't feel hungry, I just go from feeling good to feeling way hypoglycemic-headache, nauseous, weak-but not shaky like I usually get. No growling stomach, none of that. It's like someone just flipped a switch from good to bleh-no-I-don't-want-to-eat-I-just-want-to-lay-her-and-die. I should have tested my blood sugar to see what it said just for kicks but I didn't...
Mostly bc I was concerned about GD w/ gaining so much weight on food that didn't justify it....)
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