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DD18 seeing nutritional response practitioner (NRP)
lighter:
Dd18 doing well her food choices. I'm on second week and the cravings have gone. Mostly we're not hungry, but every once in a while WE ARE. Planning ahead is imperative or we're cooking 3 full meals every day.
Taste buds are changing. Food is different when the brain all but stops sugar seeking and sugar is in everything, often hidden.
I guess food feels kind of flat. Coming up with new ideas isn't easy. Eating zero simple carbs is an altered state of being, IME.
I'm sleeping better.
DD18's digestion keeps improving. Things were very scary for a while.
Nutritionist said I have an immune challenge....not a fire, but low coals smoldering....viral. Gallbladder and liver need support. Adrenals, of course, need support. The plan is pristine eating, supplements 3x a day and weekly appointments till balance is restored and body handles challenges on its own.
I'm walking minimum of 10 brisk minutes a day. DD joins half the time. Cold blasts of water in the shower. Daily one nostril breathing prescribed.....slowly breathing 10x through nostril with least air flow. It's really hard bc left nostril always mostly blocked. I had to build up to 10x. It feels like suffocating.
To bed now.
Lighter
lighter:
DD18 is asleep. She went to bed early last night and got up at 7am. Her body is repairing itself as she sleeps. Her digestion continues to improve.
We don't limit the amount we can eat. What a strange landscape to find ourselves eating on schedule when we're not really hungry....trying to eat more instead of limit portions.
It's the upside down world.
We made "muffins" last night with
1 c coconut flour
1 tsp baking powder
12 whole eggs
8 Tbs melted ghee
4 Tbs canned coconut milk
2 TBS honey
Vanilla and salt to taste
We sifted the dry ingredients together then mixed lightly to incorporate ingredients, careful n9t to overmix.
The timing was about 15 minutes, bc recommended 20 burned the bottoms a bit.
I'll add more salt next time, but I have to tell you....
Muffin, any way you like it, warm, cold or room temp, is fantastic with coconut milk whipped cream. There's 1 gram sugar, not a good thing, but those bites are spectacular in the mouth, ime. Highly recommend if you like custard like cake tasting a bit like coconut. Last night I added raspberries, such a great.
The temp was 400 DEGREES! DD set the oven. If you add cinnamon it tastes like French toast muffins.
Recent meals include white chili with pork and plenty of fresh jalapenos with added pickled peppers.
Baked chicken breasts with crunchy almond and parm topping. We can have hard cheese bc dairy removed.
Baked chicken legs with ghee and dry bbq rub, yum. Will be making those different ways, bc easy to find irganic and so inexpensive. I can make a Sheetpan full for about 6.00, whoo hoo. Yummy leftovers.
We like sauteed greens with garlic. I mix leftovers into other things or have them later.....easier to cook more ahead to have on hand.
We enjoy curry chicken every week. Sometimes we make curry zucchini ahead to have on hand.
There's no rice or bread or pasta and, shockingly, we don't miss it. I think feeling full makes our brains feel obligated to eat the nutritional stuff, knowing there's no hunger or room for big carbs.
DD has been craving dark chocolate and I have not. Nutritionist said it's an indicator DD missing magnesium....maybe other things.
This is one of the big mysteries, bc DD typically hates chocolate of all kinds and I love it.
Upside down world.
Lighter
lighter:
NRP told Jenna it will take her body 18months, not weeks, to heal her gut. Much longer for me, bc I'm not shooting all those growth hormones younger people have to spare. Week 1, DD's gallbladder, pancreas and adrenals weren't online. She wasn't digesting. Digestion threw everything off.
This put things in perspective, for me. This is getting off the Western treadmill of eating, to become sick so big pharm can treat my symptoms with drugs, creating more problems with symptoms to be treated with drugs, creating more symptoms till I die in a spiral if sickness and medical treatments isn't how I want to spend the years I have left.
I read over that paragraph and think...that's dramatic, but is it? Unfortunately, it's the norm in this culture. Not my opinion. That's how I see it.
Everything has sugar. We need a degree in chemistry to understand labels. We need a magnifying glass to SEE labels in some cases.
OK. DD supplements are standard Process
Berberine Active
Cholacol
Multizyme
Zypan
Choline
Garlic Forte just added to handle something bacterial....gallbladder related.
We're both on Adrenal Tonic Phytosynergist, double the recommended dose. DD18 just finished that and maybe one other thing....I'm on second week of Adrenal Tonic. Adrenals messed up, but I feel SO MUCH BETTER with therapy....I forget better isn't healed or normal. I don't really remember normal, truthfully.
I also take:
Antronex
Immuplex
Betafood
The Tonic ingredients are:
Rehmannia Root
Ashwaganda Root
Echinacea Root with purified water, alcohol
and maltodextrin.
My gallbladder and liver needed support. They improved, but adrenals took a dive, bc but I'm trying to work on that.
Lighter
lighter:
I have some healthy anger coming up around eating "healthy"food, while omitting chemicals and inflammatory food stuffs being labeled "dieting", generally, in our culture.
It's negative and destined for failure if one shifts back to eating things considered "normal".
We're sheep? Maybe, but we're conditioned and programmed from birth. With man made baby formula and advertising.
Eating real food isn't dieting, but we single ourselves out as difficult, I know.
Hard to feed, eat with, be fed by. When we explain it, bc people ask, we're preaching crazy talk, bc they do
Not
Want
To
Hear
What
We're
Saying
About their food choices.
I don't want to say it, believe me. I'm tired of saying it and more tired of people having surgery, taking meds and spending their life savings in the final months of their lives.
And this is my thread, so I will go on about it a bit more.
I know I hurt my liver with meds to calm my shoulder injury. I'm tending to it now. Will take some time.
I know the majority around me will always see healthy food choices as dieting, a fad, stupid, elitist hippy dippy stuff...and May be a little scary, bc.....look at our society. There's undeniable truth about what we do to ourselves with food....just look around. Look at ourselves.
And I'm working on not feeling anger, though it's useful just now, imo.
I'm wirking my way towards acceptance and turning away from what's taking my attention, over and over.
I have other things I want to feel and do with that time.
Lighter
sKePTiKal:
Whatever other people choose to eat, is their job to decide. You do you - and if that means you bring something you CAN eat with you to social gatherings, so be it. I've often eaten (not religiously) in alternative ways. "Diet" as a word, isn't accurate enough to explain to others because of the connotation with weight issues. No way that association is going to change quickly.
Other ways to express your food choices would be:
conscious eating
clean food philosophy
medicinal nutrition
I like that last one the best, because it means you've accepted that the food you eat contributes to your overall well-being; you are responsible to you for adopting that -- and in no way does it imply that others should eat this way; they are free to make their own choices without judgement against those choices. It also, I think, makes discussing commercial food and alternatives, a little easier without triggering people's auto-reflexes of defensiveness.
Do I see the parallel between my parsing & selection of words and how they're presented? OH YEAH. (The irony of this being a "voicelessness" board hasn't escaped me.) To my own ears, it's overly "precious" and self-effacing. But that's our world these days. Even just saying what personal choices you've made is often taken by others as a prescription for everyone to follow - or else. Annoys the hell outta me, but this too shall pass... and I have full permission from my self to blurt out the blunt truth (as I see it) without consideration of time, place, audience or "appropriateness". Knowing full well, I bear the brunt of any hurt feelings or consequences. The irrepressible "know it all" and "smartass" in me, simply can't be restrained ALL the time.
LOLOLOLOLOL. ;) So be angry; I'm OK with that. One of the reasons I hate being "out in the world" is because there are so few options for eating good clean food. McDonalds even found a way to over-process salads for cryin' out loud.
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