My apologies if this has already been discussed - I can't find a thread on it. I have been on NSD for over 2 years. The first 1.5 years I did ok. My AS improved dramatically! But in the last six months I have been craving foods, and when I eat bread, my cravings go away for a while. The first time I ate bread, it fixed everything and I felt better for two weeks, just from two slices of it. Now when I eat bread, the positive effects only last for about 4 days.
If I don't eat bread, at first I just feel like I have low blood sugar and crave sweet/creamy food. After a day or so, I become quite desperate for food, feeling very unsatisfied even after a big meal like a pork roast. If I don't eat bread at that stage, I become vague, my brain won't work properly, and I lose motivation. Within a day of that if I still don't eat any bread, I become miserably depressed, and have to give up everything and go to bed. And within hours of that, if I still don't eat bread, I start to sweat, get a fever, diarrhoea, headache, dizziness and generally feel extremely ill. At any point if I eat bread I start to turn these symptoms around.
I can't fix the above problem by eating spelt, or rice, or potatoes or any other starch. When I eat bread, while it fixes the above problems, it definitely makes my AS worse, whereas when I'm starch-free I feel pretty good AS-wise.
My usual diet: almonds, sesame seeds, desiccated coconut, fermented lactose-free cream & milk, and fruit for breakfast. A cup of bone broth. I drink lacto-fermented beverages. And for lunch and dinner I eat meat, vegies and salad, with butter or coconut oil.
Does anyone have experiences similar to mine? Does anyone have any ideas what could be going on or how to address this problem? It's driving me mad and I'm wondering if I have to give up the No Starch Diet.
Thanks!
Asphyxia
