What is your metabolic type? - Carbo type

Carbo type

Carbo types are slow oxidizers or sympathetic dominant.

A general guideline for Carbo types is 60% Carbohydrates 40 % proteins.

The following twelve steps will help you adjust your diet specifically for Carbo types.

1. For the first five to seven days, eliminate all "caution carbs"—grains, cereals, breads, desserts, fruits, starchy vegetables—as well as milk products.
2. Eat freely of any of your allowable proteins and fats: meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, nuts, seeds, butter, and vegetable oils.
3. During these few days, limit your vegetable intake to the following non-starchy varieties: asparagus, celery, green beans, cauliflower, spinach, and mushrooms. Start out with only a small portion of vegetables as compared to your protein amount. This is your baseline.
4. Eat until you are full but not to the point of feeling stuffed.
5. Have snacks between meals if you like, using the same food choices.
6. Some Carbo Types, particularly those with blood sugar problems, will feel better almost immediately. They will be able to go longer between meals without eating, lose their sweet cravings and will feel a distinct energy boost. But other Carbo Types will not feel well. They may experience symptoms of withdrawal from high-starch and sugary foods. This usually does not last for more than two to three days. It might involve any number of symptoms such as headache, flu-like sensations, or extreme sweet cravings. If this should happen to just hang in there and you should start to experience some of the positive feelings listed above.
7. True Carbo Types who are already eating correctly will not feel by cutting back on their carbohydrate intake this way. However, a majority of Carbo Types, will actually feel better for a few days by eliminating the "caution carbs." But shortly thereafter they will begin to feel irritable, short-tempered, and tired, and then crave sweets, feel hungry or unsatisfied after eating. Whenever you reach this point, increase the amount of non-starchy vegetables as compared to your quantity of protein, until you once again begin to feel well.
8. If you still do not feel well even after increasing your non-starchy vegetables, begin to add a little starch to your meals, starting with only one tablespoon of a starchy vegetable, such as potato, rutabaga, or yam with dinner.
9. If you still feel well or even better by eating a little starchy vegetable with dinner, add one tablespoon of a starchy vegetable at lunch, and then one tablespoon at breakfast.
10. If all goes well, raise your starchy vegetable intake to two tablespoons per meal.
11. Then, if all is still fine, substitute some whole grain in place of starchy vegetables.
12. In this manner, you can continue to slowly increase your carbohydrate intake. At some point, you'll move beyond your personal fuel mix and begin to notice a reappearance of your "old" symptoms—fatigue, depression, mood swings, sweet cravings, digestive problems, and so on. When that happens, you'll know you need to start decreasing your carbohydrates gradually until you start feeling well again. At this stage, if you have any degree of uncertainty, you can always return to your baseline and start over.