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Diet Day 3… IBS hell.

Not sure where I’m going to dredge up the willpower to keep this diet going. Wait, I do… I’m sick, I want to feel better, I’d do anything. But, oof, this is godawful. I am so bloated, uncomfortabe and nauseous. I’m doing those pregnant-lady-in-labour breathing exercises to stop from vomiting. My IBS is not a fan of all these new foods, supplements and drugs. I won’t give you the grisly details.

So, today for breakfast I tried to “bake” some apple bread. For details, see my previous post crying for help. It went in the bin. Then I made a smoothie with a green banana and not-ripe strawberries. It wasn’t very good, so I added chocolate almond milk. It still wasn’t very good, but I drank it so I could take my pills. My cherries had turned moldy; they went in the bin.

I was hungry and shaky from low blood sugar while at my sister’s house, so lunch was a tin of tuna on romaine lettuce. Yep, that’s it. No mayo, no nothing. A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do when a girl’s hungry.

Snacks were pistachios (more nuts) and beet chips (weird) and dried apple slices (rubbery).

For dinner I made a soup that was instant, but tasted like it simmered all day (ish). Kitchen Basics chicken broth simmered with cauliflower, broccoli, leftover cabbage, leftover chicken breast, leftover onion and some spices.

What I really want is some saltines. Or toast with peanut butter.

Have I mentioned I’ve gained 8 pounds in the last few weeks? I think that might be the LDN. But I’m pretty sure the constipation and nausea is the new diet and supplement plan. Hang in there, guts!

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If there are any gluten-free/ paleo bakers out there, I could sure use some help…

My first baking experiment was a complete disaster. Here is the recipe I used:

Quick Fruit Bread
1 cup flour (I replaced this with 1 cup almond meal)
1 cup whole grain flour (I replaced this with 1 cup coconut flour)
1/3 cup sugar (I replaced this with stevia)
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup oil
1 1/4 cups Water or milk, buttermilk, juice, or other liquid (I used OJ)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup of blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, peaches, or apples (I used apples)

Preheat oven to 400°. Grease 8″ square pan. In a large bowl, mix dry ingredients. In a small bowl, blend remaining ingredients, except fruit. Add to dry mix, stirring just until ingredients are moistened. Fold in fruit. Spoon batter into pan, spread evenly. Bake approximately 24-28 minutes at 400°, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

First off, I could not “spoon the batter” because it was so dry and clumpy. My flour mixture completely soaked up all the liquid that I added. It’s in the over now. It’s already been 35 minutes (I turned it down to 375°). It still looks like a pan of dry, raw almond meal with a few bits of apple through it. Do I have to throw it away? Any ideas from anyone??

Thank you!

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Diet Day 2

Today was rough. I’m constipated, gassy and nauseous. SO MANY PILLS!
For breakfast, I had — seriously — sliced banana in a bowl with almonds and almond milk. Believe me, the absence of cereal in there was conspicuous. I also had a nectarine and half a Banana Bread Lara Bar (beware, they’re disgusting. Why are all banana-flavoured products disgusting?).

For lunch I had the same as yesterday — salad with turkey, olives, onion, and sunflower seeds. I discovered Annie’s Italian dressing has no sugar, so I’ll opt for that in the future. For a snack, I had cauliflower with baba ganoush as a dip and mixed nuts.

Dinner provided some relief from the fruitnutsalad hell. I had lean porkloin with applesauce and savoy cabbage. Plus, a bunch of pistachios.

I went and bought stevia today, so I won’t be cheating with Splenda in my tea anymore. I also bought coconut flour, almond meal, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds and some other stuff. Let the baking breakfast “bread” experiments begin!

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I need ideas please!!

Please, if anyone out there can help me with breakfast ideas, I would be SO GRATEFUL.

Breakfast, my whole life, has been cereal or granola or muesli or oatmeal or toast. Now, I am not allowed to have grains, diary, eggs or bacon. I’m not big on savoury meals in the morning, but, even if I were going to force myself, what is there besides eggs and bacon and toast? Does anyone have any ideas?

I’m not big on fruit, either, but that is the ONLY thing I can bring myself to eat in the mornings on this new diet. Problem is, fruit needs something else to settle it ~ cereal or toast or yogurt ~ otherwise it’s just acidic and nasty in my stomach. And how much fruit would I have to eat to feel full? Blech.

So, please, please help me! I bought cashew butter and almond butter ~ is there anything I can buy or make that will mimic bread or toast? Can anyone think of anything that will replace cereal/oatmeal besides a handful of nuts? Ick.

I’m about to go spread cashew butter on a banana. Vom!

I’ll learn how to cook. Please help. 😦

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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).