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DD18 seeing nutritional response practitioner (NRP)
lighter:
I see nutritionist today and spent evening and morning with my friend in Atlanta....who lost her h recently.
There was one moment on the phone where she was unhappy I was arriving later than she wanted to eat, but every other moment was....like cool fresh air. Like she released a tight knot or accepted something she'd resisted and her light flowed and there was joy and I was observing, sans judgment, just noticing and curious about my parts in whatever tensions we've experienced through the years.
She looks great, self care is important and it's obvious to see.
Zero alcohol.
Good food and conversations flowed....I brought warm Pho and cold garnishes. I'm so glad I didn't cancel this appointment, which should go well.
I need to make eating big b eakfast salads easier, bc I feel better all day.... it's a piece in inflammation and weight falling away, alchemy like magical no brainer discipline I can't understand NOT doing all the time as habit without fail.
I haven't changed enough old habits, but I'm working on it......I am.
A fundamental shift goes in and out of focus.
One would like to have it, but continue the old habits.... just not possible, though the mind pulls toward it, like a magnet.
Sometimes I catch it. Sometimes I slip back....2 forward. 1 back and it's ok.
Just noticing the process is interesting and hopeful where I used to feel badly and criticize myself.....feel hopeless when I failed.
I can hear personal tectonic plates moving about, internally.....and it puts a smile on my face I can't stop making.
Lighter
Hopalong:
I love the idea of big breakfast salads, Lighter.
I do need protein mornings but can always add that.
I notice when I do my "shakes" that I feel much much better the first half of the day.
No granular knowledge behind this (though some general) but this grassy-tasting recipe is based on basic things I do know and some I just add for MORE VEGS. This is the latest one I made that I'll have alternate days for a week:
pea protein (5-6 heaping scoops)
banana, 1.5 to 2
froz. blueberries (loads) -- sometimes w/peaches
apple half (just have it on hand)
cup of celery/carrots (leftover crudites)
kefir (cup+, for probiotics)
froz. org. kale and/or spinach (1.5+ cup)
tumeric (blob)
red pepper flakes (judicious)
liquid organic stevia (8-10 drops)
All in my ancient Vitamix, which would give you rolling-pin juice if you put one in it -- amaaazing machine. Bought it for $200 about 40 years ago from a man at Rodale who'd tried to cure his wife of cancer with nutrition and couldn't. I was grateful and he was lovely. And I'm a big believer in the power of intense nutrition, just kind of sloppy in how I do it. Can't afford other supplement powders so it's just raw food.
I notice:
--my shakes are not delicious. They taste kind of grassy but nothing revolting or to choke on. I'm happy drinking them because I know how I'll feel 20-30 min. later. I freeze 4 and breakfast on one.
--every OTHER morning I have these shakes. The alternate bfast is two egg whites w/ one yolk (us. boiled). I make a simple sammich with a yolk divided into two pita half-pockets and the rest of the cooked egg white jammed in to fill. (Pooch gets other yolk.) Salt and pepper and I'm reluctant to admit it, but a fat coating of Veganese inside. Yummm.
I know I must be short on some stuff in the shakes but so feel when I stick to them every other day, I feel better. (I am happy when I wake up on "egg day."!)
Feel free to review my bfasts, I'm curious! And congrats on how your regimen is working for you. Bravo!
hugs
Hops
lighter:
I'm drinking more shakes, rather than skipping breakfast entirely, Hops. Yours sound yummy and fruity.... I'm stepping around fruit mostly. All sugars are avoided, for the mist part.
Your post made me super hungry for a fried egg, which I'll have shortly. Yum. Been eating 2 soft boiled eggs on salad with turkey, pomegranate seeds, nuts, beets and fig balsamic vinegar....too much sugar, but I pick my battles.
I miss bread.....a little.
My appt with nutritionist was great.... I'm all 10s and pulled back to 3 supps. I'm afraid nutritionist and I had a "chat" she was upset over. I wasn't upset.
She feels our schools, vet services and all prison/justice systems are splendid....without fault besides "a few people dropping through the cracks."I can't agree and didn't, but really had no need for her to agree.
Her assistant was nodding as I spoke, btw. It's sad there's a chance she'll soup Nazi me out of her practice, but that's how she rolls.
I feel I'm doing ok if she cancels me. That's a relief. I've never had such a level appointment with her. I was so calm and relaxed.....we had a nice chat, actually.....DD wasn't there. It was just us two. Then she was talking about EFT, how she used to teach it. I loved that and wished our children could learn it in school.... that's where the wheels started falling off. I think any suggestion the US has room for any improvement is taken as unpatriotic rhetoric by her.
Not needing people to agree with me or get it or understand is.....coming up for me.
I think I just listened to my newly widowed friend and it was part of her feeling lighter and happier. Just to have someone listen w/o trying to inform or judge or change anything at all....is.... precious.
Lighter
And I realize,even if it's not ok.... it's ok.
Hopalong:
Hey Lighter,
Just wanted to share that after the horrid panic bout (mid SLEEP!) last night (yay, Christmas) I went on a serious hunt for help that might not involve Rx. I sooo would prefer to avoid SSRIs if I can.
Ran into a supplement powder (myo inositol) that has had a FEW real (but really small) studies and one of its purported uses is for panic attack prevention. Got some, just downed it, and have to say the kicker was it's also recommended for winding down racing thoughts that prevent sleep.
Can you imagine? If this stuff (easy to take in water) calms anxiety and also helps sleep, with zero side effects, I'll be in hog heaven. I mean, it'd be a personal MIRACLE.
No idea yet whether it'll work (I'm starting with a dose way smaller than the clinical experiement mega-doses), and doubt it'd be useful for you (it's a form of sugar) but from the potions and powders department, I'm provisionally really hoping. A lot.
hugs
Hops
PS Cleverly, because this brain don't do no math, I took a double dose. Turns out 2 tbsp is the dose and I took 4. Whoo. (Aiming for 18 grams as in the studies but the algebra defeated me.) Worst thing that could happen is extra potty time tomorrow. TMI.
lighter:
I wonder why doctors don't learn about supplements and Eastern medicine.... at least a little, just so they're not ignorant boars on the topic and maybe so their toolboxes are expanded and more helpful, proactive and less toxic.
Looking forward to how you respond to a normal sized dose, Hops.
Maybe take with food.
Lighter
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