High Fructose Corn Syrup and Me Don't Agree

Ummm.... it's been since July, and I haven't had any mood swings. This is highly unusual for someone who used to have like 2-3 per day minimum. I thought, "maybe I'm manic", but I certainly seem more rational than I ever was. I'm even starting to rethink my disability appeal, maybe I'll be able to work now as well?

Never really put much thought into what I was eating. I just ate. You do it out of habit like me too, in fact, we do it just to survive. But what are we eating exactly?

Well... my diet always had HFC, and apparently, removing it has caused some pretty strange effects. The first noticeable one, was I was far far less hungry. Eventually, my diet went back to normal, but I was having an easier time eating moderate amounts of food.

I removed alot more than HFC from my diet, I've also removed nitrates and anything with "aluminum yada yada yada" and a bunch of other chemicals.

I also learned that I was low n Vitamin D and Testasterone. I am working on the vitamin D part, and that seems to be helping as well.

Much to my own dismay, I had to acknowledge that I struggled working because of my mood swings.

Though about a month in, I noticed at around the middle of June I began, late July, I noticed my happiness and quality of life greatly improve. I was less miserable and my moods quite balanced. Now, we're headed for the middle of October, and my mind is still... unusually calm. I quite like it.

The reason I thought I might be manic, is to go this long without being depressed? And to be this happy? Surely, it has to be a delusion... but it seems to be the real deal. But when manic, like on a caffeine/sugar high, I'd be bouncing off the walls, but I'm actually calm as well... yeah, and rational, and managed to save money, something that is usually far far more difficult.

It's a pleasant suprise. No psych meds at all either, though my psychiatrist still wants me to get on them. It's kinda funny, because they'd make me miserable like they used to.

I think its great you've found something that works. HFC and the like is all artificial to cut corners and save food makers a buck, but not everyone can tolerate it. I would say keep doing it, if you feel better why not. Of course trying to convince your doc it effects you is another story.

Riccola wrote:I think its great you've found something that works. HFC and the like is all artificial to cut corners and save food makers a buck, but not everyone can tolerate it. I would say keep doing it, if you feel better why not. Of course trying to convince your doc it effects you is another story.

I've learned that she has so much faith in pills, and so little in my ability to interpret how I'm doing, that she refuses to be convinced.

I'd like to learn more about what all of the changes were to your diet. Did you see a specialist/dietitian/nutritionist to learn more about what types of changes you should make? Or did you do this on your own? what were your reasonings behind the other things you chose to take out of your diet? I'm really glad to hear that removing the HFC has greatly improved your mood. I'm actually thinking about changing up my diet as well which is why I am so interested.

Cheze2 wrote:I'd like to learn more about what all of the changes were to your diet. Did you see a specialist/dietitian/nutritionist to learn more about what types of changes you should make? Or did you do this on your own? what were your reasonings behind the other things you chose to take out of your diet? I'm really glad to hear that removing the HFC has greatly improved your mood. I'm actually thinking about changing up my diet as well which is why I am so interested.

Honestly, the only thing I heard about diet regarding mental health was removing gluten. I haven't been able to remove wheat from my diet though.

I learned that sodium nitrates can cause cancer, and are just really bad for you (okay... I forgot what exactly the paper said. But you get my point...). They're in virtually nearly all deli meats and even packaged hams. I decided to try to stay away from all processed meats.

I removed HFC from my diet. Originally, because I wanted to cut back on processed sugars because I wanted to eventually lose weight. I learnt that the difference between regular sugarcane sugar (or sucrose) and HFC, was that HFC doesn't tell your body that you're full. So it was just so that I wasn't always hungry, but apparently, it was causing mood issues I didn't even expect it would have. It was just a pleasant side effect to have gotten rid of that.

I also decided that I would eat more fruits and veggies, and get rid of most foods and even toppings that weren't close to what nature would've had them be. In other words, if the list of ingredients got too long or I didn't recognize what was in it, I'm not going to eat it.

I didn't expect to have done so little and yet get such big results. It was quite shocking.