Oh wow, it still amazes me how many people have this heart-poundie crap.  And it took the wonderful medical profession close to 30 years to diagnose me, pffft.  OK, well, another wow...what do I eat???  I am the Queen of Grazing, so I will try to be precise here, as much as I can!!  I also have a bit of low blood sugar, so I eat a little here and there throughout the day.  Really only one "big" meal, which I usually only half-finish, but here goes, as best I can.  

Breakfast:  either grilled cheese with green onion and/or tomato, or a toast and cheese sandwich, or bacon (sometimes sausage) and eggs.  Sometimes organic oatmeal with honey, organic pecans, blueberries.  
 
Lunch (which is sometimes intertwined with breakfast, depending on how late I sleep!!):  same things, or maybe half a turkey and provolone sandwich, once in a great while a very small handful of Cheetohs, sometimes a salad with greens and whatever veggies are in my fridge, and maybe some bacon and cheese.  Maybe some leftover stirfry or whatever from the night before.
 
Dinner:  steak, porkchops, chicken, pretty much any "stand-alone" meat, along with a veggie, once in a great while potatoes, and a few bites of fruit if it looks any good in the store, which isn't too often.  
 
Grazing late at night:  (here's where the big carbs come in, aside from my sammies) french baguette with Dubliner cheese (or whatever other yummy cheese I have stumbled across!!), maybe some of those new Artisan Wheat Thin crackers with same cheese.  A mini chocolate candy bar ie Almond Joy, Baby Ruth.  Fruit, veggies (both raw), sometimes yogurt (Yoplait, not the kind with fake sugar in it), dry roasted peanuts, maybe popcorn.  I mostly just eat a teeny bit of each thing, keeps it interesting, ha!!  I don't shove things into my face just to be eating.  I nibble and change the "menu" when I get bored, which is usually pretty quickly.  Just in case this is important, I weigh about 116 to 120, so I don't have that kind of a food vice, I just love all food, but in moderation for each thing, if that makes sense.  But carbs are definitely up there for me, yummy-wise, even if I don't eat a lot at a sitting.  They are constantly in my system, I'm
 sure.  
 
And after six or seven o'clock, it's Chardonnay along with the dinner and the grazing.  There ya have it, pretty much a typical eating day for me, with some other stuff thrown in now and then, like spaghetti and meatballs, that kind of stuff.  But mostly our dinners are straight meat and veggies.  Rest of the day...well, sigh.  
 
Did your heart-poundies last for hours???  And get up to over 200 beats a minute???  That's what I'm dealing with, and I so much want all the info from people that I can get.  Bless both you and William for sharing, I'm serious.
 
Love,
Bren, open to all suggestions at this point...
 



Hi Bren, i'm following a zero carb (well a little more, I eat eggs) diet and feel the best i've felt in years. I had the heart pounding even with paleo carbs. 

Can you post a general example of what you eat in a day (or at least the types of foods you eat)? 

Thanks, Elizabeth


--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Brenda Young <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Wow, that's fast!!  So do you think the low carbs plays
> a part in that, too, or does the pemmican sorta stand alone,
> at least in the SVT department??  (OK, I know nothing
> really stands alone in the diet/health department, but you
> know what I mean...).  Boy, I'd hate to give up some of
> my "comfort carbs", but in the interest of no
> heart-poundies I would seriously consider it.  
> 
> Love,
> Bren, missing grilled cheese sammies already, hehe