Diet + Supplements Day 1: here’s the daily schedule.

Here is how I have decided to take my supplements throughout the day:

First thing in morning: thyroid hormones (T3 and T4)
Wait 1 hour
1x OrthoBiotic
Wait 15 minutes
2x 500mg Acetyl L carnitine
Wait 15 minutes
Breakfast with tea with 2x tsp fiber and 1x 100mg Colace
After breakfast:
2x 200mg Alpha Lipoic Acid
2x Borage Oil @ 240mg GLA each
1x Biomins
1x 100mg CoQ10
After lunch:
2x 200mg Alpha Lipoic Acid
2x 2000iu Vitamin D
1x Vitamin B-complex
1x 900mg fish oil
After dinner:
2x 200mg Alpha Lipoic Acid
2x Borage Oil @ 240mg GLA each
1x Biomins
8pm: Birth Control Pill
On empty stomach (9pm??): 2x 500mg Acetyl L carnitine
10pm: LDN

Somewhere: Vitamin A: 10,000 iu/day (I haven’t tracked this down in a supplement yet)

Check back in a few days — I will upload photos of the brands of each supplement I decided to buy based on mgs and cost.

Today, breakfast consisted of a banana and blueberry smoothie. I made it with unsweetened almond/coconut milk, which is disgusting on its own, but wasn’t too bad in the smoothie. Until it turned all congealy, which it did half way through drinking it. I tried to add more liquid, but it didn’t work. It was like Metamucil in the 1980s — thick vomy nastiness. I had a handful of raw almonds and half a Ginger Snap Lara Bar, then took all the new breakfast supplements. It’s been a few hours and so far so good except my pee smells odd – like a different version of asparagus pee smell.

For a snack, I had mixed nuts and Rainier cherries. I had never bought them before and they are delicious!

Lunch was a salad with turkey, olives, sunflower seeds and vinaigrette.

I did not feel good this afternoon. Headache, sore muscles, sore throat, tight chest… Basic flu symptoms. I took a painkiller, my inhaler, my antihistamine nasal spray and eye drops, used the TENS, Epsom salt bath… The whole shebang. But, still, did not feel very hungry for dinner. Unfortunately, I have to force food so I can take the million pills on the agenda, so I had some soup with chicken breast. The best part? I only had veggie soup with beans, peas and corn in it, so I picked out every single one! Nuts and the other half of the Lara Bar for dessert.

The only thing I cheated on today was Splenda in my tea and there is sugar in my salad dressing (to which I will turn a blind eye for the next three months).

My autoimmune/ anti-inflammatory diet starts tomorrow!

Today my husband asked me if I had done any research on this diet that I’m about to begin. I haven’t and don’t want to, but I thought that maybe I will start writing separate posts about my diet experience and what I wind up eating/cooking in case it can help others. I mean, there are a million cooking/recipe/food blogs out there, so people must be interested and maybe it’ll help or inspire somebody.

The diet and supplement plan was designed to help autoimmune conditions and inflammation. Apparently, there has been some success treating autoimmune diseases with this restrictive, evil, soulless regimen. But, seriously, I would pretty much do anything to feel better, so I am determined to find the will power. Stay tuned for my diet installments and I hope they’re not too boring!

Diet details: https://ldndiary.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/this-new-diet-of-mine/

Supplement details: https://ldndiary.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/my-new-supplement-plan/