So long time no see...Let's go over the basics of the last couple months...I took a deep breath and jumped off a cliff. I quit my job, left my career, liquidated my assets, moved back to TX, got married, bought a new car, and started a new job all since the 19th of April.
This means changes, OMG, changes. I'm soo much happier. As for my fitness and my food life? I'm working out regularly again which is a hard battle and I'm respecting the dietary limitations my body sets and am trying to eat better within them.
What that all means is I'm starting over, again. Dietary limitations are as follows:
1) A soy sensitivity.
2) An allergy to artificial sweeteners
3) An allergy to fish
4) An allergy to onions
5) An allergy to pineapple
6) A dairy sensitivity.
7) Stimulants
The allergies first, some of them are because my body just plain doesn't know what to do with it either ever or anymore (artificial sweeteners and fish are in that category) and some are because they do weird things to the inside of my mouth (that would be onions and pineapple).
The sensitivities? Well dairy just plain makes me not be able to poo, if I eat too much of it. So I try not to eat a lot of it. Soy makes me go crazy. See I have an estrogen sensitivity and soy acts like estrogen in the body. Imagine always having PMS, that is life for me when I'm eating soy then add in that I get depressed and discouraged easier and life is just down right awful for me and the people around me. (I'm doing this for you!) The hard part with the soy is it's everywhere and no one realizes and since it's not the allergy, I can't even eat the processed soy.
I eat soy-free and it's easier than I thought.
I cook for myself and I call ahead to restaurants. I have a growing list of soy free places that I LOVE to go. I'll be posting more about those.
See there is no good website that I've found that lists where one can eat out. It's in the fryers, it's in the bread, it's in the sauce, it's in the marinade, and it's in the chocolate (God help me!)So I'll start profiling them. Now that my camera on my phone is fixed you'll start to see more pictures.
As for stimulants, I have cyst in my breasts (little fluid filled sections of tissue). Stimulants make the cysts grow. If they get too big, they burst and I bleed to DEATH in a matter of minutes. So... no stimulants but I've been doing that for awhile. I starting quitting that in 2004 and it took about 6yrs to get completely off of them. Except for chocolate.
The allergies first, some of them are because my body just plain doesn't know what to do with it either ever or anymore (artificial sweeteners and fish are in that category) and some are because they do weird things to the inside of my mouth (that would be onions and pineapple).
The sensitivities? Well dairy just plain makes me not be able to poo, if I eat too much of it. So I try not to eat a lot of it. Soy makes me go crazy. See I have an estrogen sensitivity and soy acts like estrogen in the body. Imagine always having PMS, that is life for me when I'm eating soy then add in that I get depressed and discouraged easier and life is just down right awful for me and the people around me. (I'm doing this for you!) The hard part with the soy is it's everywhere and no one realizes and since it's not the allergy, I can't even eat the processed soy.
I eat soy-free and it's easier than I thought.
I cook for myself and I call ahead to restaurants. I have a growing list of soy free places that I LOVE to go. I'll be posting more about those.
See there is no good website that I've found that lists where one can eat out. It's in the fryers, it's in the bread, it's in the sauce, it's in the marinade, and it's in the chocolate (God help me!)So I'll start profiling them. Now that my camera on my phone is fixed you'll start to see more pictures.
As for stimulants, I have cyst in my breasts (little fluid filled sections of tissue). Stimulants make the cysts grow. If they get too big, they burst and I bleed to DEATH in a matter of minutes. So... no stimulants but I've been doing that for awhile. I starting quitting that in 2004 and it took about 6yrs to get completely off of them. Except for chocolate.
I now have to quite chocolate for two reasons. 1) So I don't kill you and 2) So I don't kill me. So basically, if you see me eatting chocolate run and hide and get ready to call 911 less one of us dies. :)
Ironically, the soy bean picture above is called soy-beans-fighting-cancer.jpg. Apparently they fight cancer and you kill people so really it's all balanced.
Ironically, the soy bean picture above is called soy-beans-fighting-cancer.jpg. Apparently they fight cancer and you kill people so really it's all balanced.
Craziness! Pineapple does funny things to my mouth too. I enjoy it on very rare occasions. Kiwi too.
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Yeah pineapples make my tongue burn which the internet told me is an allergic reaction to the enzymes in it. The same ones that make it so you can't make jello with pineapple chunks in it. :)
ReplyDeleteI think I might be allergic to pineapple too! I get a tingly mouth when I eat too much of it, and a sore stomach if I eat even more. I've found that I can eat more of it if I grill it on the BBQ though, which was interesting. Anyway, good to hear from you again! I hope the crazy times have settled down a bit, and I'm so glad to hear that you're way happier!
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