Hi Fiona

Thanks for your reply. I am kind of torn about what to do, as at the moment I have the chicken, and I also have a certain amount of fat that I take by the tablespoonful, (rape seed oil) so that it can be measured more specifically, as I think there was too much fat in the mince to have it 3 times a day. I ended up then having french fries with the mince after a while and then progressing to the mince, french fries and nuts, and had a constant taste/craving in my mouth. However, it kept me off sugar for 11 months, which has never happened since.

I just am scared to increase the amount of fat with the chicken in case I add too much that way too. I guess at least if I add an extra spoon at a time, if I downregulate, I can take it back down again, whereas there is no guessing how much fat is in the mince.

Over here, chicken breasts are more expensive than mince in general too, but there's a store that sells chicken breast strips already cooked and then frozen, which is £2 a packet, which lasts me a day, and a £3.50 bag of frozen mince lasts me two days, so there's not much difference really. It's a tricky one.

Crash days are horrible. I was as high as a kite for the first four days of walking and then crashed from each high day, so had four day fours in a row, sort of. Lost all motivation on the crash days and either had to force myself to walk or didn't bother because I just couldn't make myself. I seem to be ok with the concentration etc., I think I have been doing the program long enough now that there are some BE/serotonin raisers I do which take such little effort that I always manage, but there are plenty of things I still hate about crash days all the same.

thanks again for your response.

Love

Jane
xx

: Hi Jane,

: It's not much fun having crash days
: is it

: When you are having a
: "crash" day do you find
: that you don't concentrate or
: focus as well either?

: You could maybe try having minced
: beef again if it worked for you
: before. In Australia minced beef
: is cheaper than chicken breasts
: but it may be different where you
: live.

: Please let us know how your
: experiments go and what works for
: you.

: love and happy day back to you
: Fiona