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Diet Day 5… I think I’m gonna cave.

So, yesterday, I stuck with the diet after my earwig fiasco and, as usual, lunch and dinner were better: leftover soup and, for dinner, my husband made a lean hamburger with a portobello mushroom “bun”, tomato, sauteed onions and asparagus. Yum! He came through in my time of need!

However, I did email the Good Doctor and told her that I felt like my quality of life (what little there is) was suffering with this diet and could I please just eat oats in the morning? I make my own granola, which I adore, with gluten-free oats, nuts, coconut, cranberries… If I could still have that and oatmeal once in a while, I could really try to get excited about the rest of the diet. Still cut out all dairy, all other grains, all fatty meats, all legumes. It would still be a strict elimination of a lot of the foods I normally eat. And I will cut down on oats. I won’t eat as much as I was… I will still have a smoothie, but I will add some granola on the side to feel full. I will add fruit to my porridge, I can make homemade oat/fruit/nut/seed bars to carry as snacks for low blood sugar (instead of a tin of tuna!). That’s the thing about hypoglycemia ~ I’ve always been told to LIMIT my consumption of fruit and fruit juices because of the high sugar content, but this diet was doing the opposite. I think, if I could eat eggs, it would be a different story. The thing I really need to do ~ and have always needed to do ~ is cut back on sugar and I hope this diet will help.

So, the Good Doctor thought that was a reasonable request and now I’m feeling like a bit of a failure for caving, but this has lightened my mood considerably and maybe, once I’ve eliminated all the other stuff for a while, I will then feel strong enough to stop eating oats, too.

I should have bargained corn back into the diet instead of oats, that way I could have Chex cereal and popcorn and corn tortillas! Doh!

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Diet Day 4… Earwigs for breakfast.

I don’t like fruit. I’ve never really liked fruit. It doesn’t taste very good, it’s not filling, it gives you a stomach ache, it messes with your bowels. I have never understood people that buy fruit to eat it raw for the taste. I’ve only ever eaten it because it’s supposed to be good for me. Bananas gross me out. I eat them all the time because I’m trying to be good to my body, but they are the right taste and texture for about 3 minutes during their lifetime. Before that, they are grassy and tart, afterwards, they are muddy and diarrheal. My coworkers used to eat brown bananas by my desk just to see me wretch.

Well, now, with this diet, I am forced to eat a lot of fruit. I was trying to be positive: Mmm, fresh produce! Yum, berries! Apples taste great! This morning, I did that while eating my breakfast peach: Peaches are so good in season! So juicy and tasty and fresh! But, they’re not! It’s a lie. Their skin is freaky fuzzy and they always have brown soft spots that feel …contagious. But, by god, I wasn’t going to eat another Lara Bar for breakfast, so I persevered. When I was almost finished, the peach cracked open. The center had no pit ~ it was rotten and very moldy and, joy, two earwigs scurried out. I screamed, dropped the peach, my dog jumped up with his ears flattened and tail tucked, the earwigs disappeared (I honestly can’t find them anywhere) and then I promptly puked.

My husband happened to stop by the house while this was happening. He said, “Why does this stuff always happen to you?” And then he reminded me of the time a few years ago when I had bitten into a cashew and found a bug inside. Probably not the best thing to bring up when I’m doubled over the toilet and half of my current diet is nut-based.

So, I ask you, do I decide to have a liquid breakfast of chocolate almond milk every morning and just deal with the nausea that the pills will give me? Or, do I decide that I am allowed to eat oats, only in the morning in the form of granola, muesli, porridge or oat/nut/fruit bars? Do I perservere and eat a banana every morning during that 3-minute window of banana goodness and call that my breakfast? Or do I say, my quality of life is suffering and now, not only am I sick physically, but I’m sick to my stomach and depressed thinking about food every day, so fuck it…? What do you vote, readers?

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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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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).

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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/