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Hi everyone! It's Katie Humphrey and we're here with Day 50 of 90 Days to Freedom. Every
day for 90 days I’m giving you personal tips and strategies that I used to holistically
reverse my symptoms with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS).
So we’re on Day 50! We’re more than half way there. I’m really excited. The time
is just flying by and that’s a good thing because we’re gonna keep covering really
great content. It’s only gonna get more exciting. So this week in our new theme, I
kind of giving you my personal meal ideas for the each meal throughout the day because
I know women say “Oh you’re telling me to eat every three to four hours. I can’t
eat that many meals in a day.” I also tell you not to eat little bitty snacks or eat
let’s say fruit by itself, carbohydrates by themselves. So it can be challenging to
think of different meals to eat. So like I mentioned before it’s not like I’m a cookbook,
I’m not this person who dreams of all these meals to eat. I’m just giving you the meals
that I eat everyday for each of my meals. All the different ideas. And you know what
if you have better meal ideas, just comment on these videos so other women can kind of
see what you are eating. Tomorrow, I’ll talk more about dinner ideas. The things that
I make for dinner because dinner is where I get really creative and I do eat carbohydrate
at dinner like potatoes or brown rice, that sort of thing. So I’ll share that with you.
Today we’re talking more about that mid-afternoon snack because we already covered breakfast,
mid-morning snack (mini-meal rather), lunch and then today we’re gonna talk about that
mid-afternoon time between lunch and dinner. The tricky thing about that is that when I
started to find with PCOS even if you don’t think you’re insulin resistant, if you have
a weight problem and you have a lot of cravings maybe some digestive issues chances are you’re
probably at least slightly insulin resistant. It doesn’t mean your body is not producing
insulin. It just means the insulin and glucose are free-floating in your body because your
cells are not being sensitive or receptive to the insulin being produced. So it’s not
being properly utilized. That’s all that means.
So one of the things that I found while I was trying to get PCOS under control is that
between lunch and dinner my cravings got so bad that by the time I got home from work
for dinner time I could have stuck my face in a chocolate cake. Like that’s no lie!
That’s how bad my cravings were. They were out of control. And I finally just got to
the point where I was like why is this happening. I’m eating well throughout the day. I’m
eating every three to four hours a day. My cravings were out of control. When I started
only eating fruit in the beginning part of the day really no later than lunch the cravings
went away. The meal that I’m talking about today, the mid-afternoon time, I kind of don’t
have you eat fruit there. Even to this day if I eat fruit late in the day, I find that
I’m sort of craving things for dinner. I don’t like to be craving things. It makes
me
feel
out
of control.