tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13657076422103271212024-03-13T00:09:35.300+00:00I Think My Stomach Eats MeWhen the health advice out there doesn't apply to you, you have to find your own way. I'm hunting for a way to eat freely. For me, freedom means without concern, effort, endless thought, and without pain. Join me on the experiment which I am hoping will end with a versatile diet which combines the best of the Paleo, Hay, and Raw Food Diets, as well as my own simple guesswork. If you think your stomach's eating you, instead of your food, join my project to Eat Pain Free.louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-91583765631299119202013-05-03T00:58:00.002+01:002013-05-03T00:58:29.414+01:00Moving...But Something Cooler Is Coming<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm moving this blog over to Wordpress, but not <i>just </i>because it looks better over there.<br />
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Check out <a href="http://freedomeating.com/blog/">this post</a> to find out what's coming.<br />
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Happy pain free eating,<br />
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Louise<br />
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louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-40538886675093486552012-12-13T16:44:00.001+00:002012-12-13T16:44:08.994+00:00Why Tweaking the Paleo Diet is Necessary: 48 Things Palaeolithic People Didn't Do<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Paleo diet is great, but I'm not sure how much I agree with the idea that nothing has changed sinced the days of our ancestors. Perhaps biologically we are very much the same, but our lifestyles are vastly different. Does this not affect the way our body functions? Palaeolithic people <i>didn't:</i></div>
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<li>Read</li>
<li>Write fiction</li>
<li>Drive/fly (not without machines, you understand)</li>
<li>Play games</li>
<li>Write articles or non-fiction</li>
<li>Write academic essays</li>
<li>Do maths</li>
<li>Go to school</li>
<li>Watch TV</li>
<li>Use electronics</li>
<li>Live on Facebook</li>
<li>Live on Second Life</li>
<li>Research on the Internet</li>
<li>Exhaust themselves clothes-shopping</li>
<li>Exhaust themselves food-shopping</li>
<li>Stand in queues</li>
<li>Stand (or sit) on the Underground/Metro</li>
<li>Stop mid-walk to take a photograph</li>
<li>Puzzle with a map</li>
<li>Use a microwave: food was freshly made and prepared, and took time to cook over a fire.</li>
<li>Use an oven</li>
<li>Use a fridge</li>
<li>Use a kettle</li>
<li>Take a bus</li>
<li>Take synthetic medications</li>
<li>Watch a film</li>
<li>Go to the cinema</li>
<li>Go to the theatre</li>
<li>Take a plane</li>
<li>Travel to colder climates</li>
<li>Travel to warmer climates</li>
<li>Use money</li>
<li>Play cards</li>
<li>Play board games</li>
<li>Go to casinos</li>
<li>Go bowling</li>
<li>Cycle</li>
<li>Use a gym</li>
<li>Inhale fumes from factories, cars, planes, etc</li>
<li>Do 'manly' things, if they were women. Women might cook, clean, bear and look after children, catch fish, collect vegetables, and do some manual labour. </li>
<li>Do 'feminine' things, if they were men. </li>
<li>Use plastics - <a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/Natural-Health/Safe-Plastics-Endocrine-Disruptors-BPA.aspx">http://www.motherearthnews.com/Natural-Health/Safe-Plastics-Endocrine-Disruptors-BPA.aspx</a>; <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14991881">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14991881</a></li>
<li>Have access to foods from all over the world, all seasons: they ate what was available in their area at a given time of year.</li>
<li>Grow up eating sweets, crisps, chocolate bars, ice creams, prepared foods....</li>
<li>Eat gluten</li>
<li>Survive medical conditions and diseases which could not be treated by jungle (natural) medicine.</li>
<li>Write a silly blog post about all the things they don't do.</li>
<li>Have a desk job</li>
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Have I missed any?</div>
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louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-45847685754608242542012-12-08T19:09:00.000+00:002012-12-08T19:09:25.840+00:00FREEDOM EATING<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little thought, little planning, and zero pain, sets an Eater free.</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I want a diet with foods I can digest. I want a diet which I can both work and exercise with; which gives me energy, strength, focus, and stamina. I want a diet which SETS ME FREE. And you know what? Beyond a certain stage, I don't want to have to think about it. How's that for an aim?</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Help create a website which will help us to do just this: like <a href="http://www.facebook.com/freedomeating">this page</a>.</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>HOW IT WORKS</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. There are no rules. Only guidance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. There is no perfect diet. There is only variety, and your diet. Learn about the others. Choose the best theories. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Find pain-free foods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Choose the rules from the diets or theories you favour. Add your own rules, but don't call them all rules unless you're being really strict. Call them guidance. Make a guidebook to the universe of you and your stomach. Your guidebook will make it easier to eat in and out and about. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Find variety that works for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Make use of The Ultimate Meal Plan (the terrible names may vary...): a database in which foods are colour-coded according to when, how, and with what you can eat your foods. Foods are also labelled according to whether they are 'staples,' 'fillers,' or 'flavours' so that you don't need to worry about planning meals ever again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. Find your freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. Get out and live. Keep your guidebook by your side, along with some delicious pain-free food. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along the way, join a community of Freedom Eaters, people who are searching for a way to have no pain from symptoms or thought or planning from the attention required by digestive complaints and medical conditions in which diet plays a part. These people want to find advice which relates to them. We want to get out and live, with pain-free food by our sides. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strike>This is just another dieting website.</strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strike>This is just another health blog.</strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strike>This needs science behind it.</strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strike>This needs a professional behind it.</strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is for <strike>only</strike> those eating Paleo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is for those with stomach conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is for those with multiple health conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is for those trying to find the right diet for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is for those with health conditions affected by food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is for those who need to eat little and often.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is for those with strict diets who want to stop thinking about when, how, and with what they can eat foods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is for those who want to feel good after a meal out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is for students and <i>others</i> who want to eat well, push limits, and feel good for less money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is for people who don't have time to research, but still want to find their own way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is for those who are trying to have more energy, be healthier, fitter, faster, stronger, pay attention, feel awesome, feel free, get out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This is</b> <strike>not</strike> <b>for everyone.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>THE SITE AIMS WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH:</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- the <b>Forum</b> here - <a href="http://eatpainfree.moonfruit.com/#/the-forum/4568132376">http://eatpainfree.moonfruit.com/#/the-forum/4568132376</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you go back to the Index on that Forum you may be able to see what I'm intending to do here: the various different theories of a 'perfect' diet will be explained through extensive research, criticised through research surrounding theories which are contradictory, and essentially 'put to the test' by inviting people to comment on their experiences on those diets. Proponents of each diet/leaders of websites which propose certain diets will be invited to talk about their diets and further encouraged to determine who their diet might be best for (as no diet is perfect for everyone). It will be especially useful for those of us with multiple health conditions who find that diet advice is contradictory (eat this if you have this condition, but don't eat it if you have this condition. What if I have both?). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- I hope to have a <b>tool in which the rules of each diet</b> (i.e. what to eat, what not to eat, how to eat foods) are separated and individuals can pick which rules they want to follow. Using my own example, I follow the Paleo diet but not the rule that it's okay to fast sometimes. I then combine this diet with some rules from Raw and Hay diets, and tweak Paleo to the Perfect Health Diet, in which the rule is to eat more starches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This tool should allow people to create a diet which suits their health conditions and lifestyle, </b>taking note of the fact that there are a huge amount of diets out there and not every one can be perfect. Through the tool you can also add your own rules, for example I would add rules which tell me to eat every three hours and to eat simple meals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-<b> I hope this tool will produce a cool little 'guidebook'</b> (point 4) which can expand in detail. I have a small filofax with a list of foods which are colour-coded and have extra information according to how, when, and with what I can eat them. This is great because it means I can look up a food and know everything I've recorded about how that food is likely to digest if I eat it with food X. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <b>A database. The Ultimate Personalised Meal Plan.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Point 6 refers to the database I've created, which will hopefully be more expansive when the website is complete. The database takes the information out of my guidebook (the colour codes and food lists) so that I can choose a food type or a meal type (breakfast/lunch/dinner/mid-morning/mid-afternoon/evening snacks) and build the rest of the meal according to my own rules. This creates meal plans which are personalised, and there will be a function to allow individuals to change colour codes and foods or add their own, <b><u><i>creating their own personalised meal plan. </i></u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The final aim of the site is to help people stop researching and get out and about, with pain-free foods in their bags. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH: </u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- A <b>visual representation</b> of a supermarket which shows people where foods are which they may want to eat. This is mostly useful for those eating Paleo, I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- A photo blog, <b>notjusteatingchicken.com</b>, not yet set up, which highlights the need for us to pay attention to ingredients. I've picked up a packet of cooked chicken in a supermarket before and seen at least five ingredients which have absolutely nothing to do with chicken!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Some help pages, health pages, and reviews of various things I've tried on my own blog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- A <b>community</b> blog and photo upload ability, for people to share their FREEDOM EATING ways!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>ABOUT ME: </u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>MY BLOGS:</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furthermore....<a href="http://societyspeeches.wordpress.com/creative/">http://societyspeeches.wordpress.com/creative/</a></span><br />
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louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-19924968015161584902012-10-30T14:25:00.000+00:002012-10-30T14:25:30.775+00:00Why I don't agree with Personal Blogs...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>...even though I now have one.</i><br />
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We all have issues, don't we? Every single person thinks that they've been through something and that whatever they've been through was hard. We might meet someone who's been through something worse than us and feel a little bad about how much we moan about our lives, but then we consider: <i>they don't really know what I went through.</i> Humans are selfish. So why, despite this moral judgement hanging in my brain, do I still choose to write about my health? After all, my health really isn't that bad at all: a few small-ish conditions, the only one of which could be serious is thyroid disease (and there are millions of people out there with it so why should I speak about mine?), and nothing which is life-threatening on a daily basis.<br />
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Every diet or blog on the internet has come out of someone living their life and finding freedom from their health condition(s) and finishing by saying 'hey, look, I've done it and I bet people don't realise this <i>amazing, new</i> technique is even possible! Maybe people will want to read about it. Hey, <i>maybe I could write about it!'</i><br />
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And there you have it: another idea, another blog, another<i> 'this is the right way to live!' </i>hovering around in the Cloud, waiting for you to discover it, as if the world has seven billion secrets -- one for each of us -- yet each individual believes there is only one, and all you have to do is point your mouse in the right direction...and find it.<br />
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In reality there probably are seven billion answers to how to life your life to the full, or how to be healthy, or how to overcome an illness. If we all like to think we've been through the worst and each experience is unique then why not believe that we have found the big secret to living?<br />
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I guess, selfishly, I believe in this too. It is hard not to, when you consider the possibilities of what one discovery could lead to. But more than anything I believe that there are no answers; there are no rules. It is true that we are biologically alike and have come out of the palaeolithic era with relatively similar foods to eat yet vastly different eating habits, but now many of us are being kept alive by medications. Many of us live lives we would never have lived. We may not have evolved much and we may not be amazing while we are defiant to death, but do we; does science, really have a full idea of what the impact of defying death or disease is on the human body? Perhaps my requirements are different to yours because I have thyroid disease, not just because I need to ensure efficient absorption of the medication. My beliefs about life, ageing, energy, vitality, death, and living life to the full will certainly be different to yours. They will again be vastly different to anyone who has had the poor fortune of going through a tougher experience or of surviving a condition with more sudden impacts, or of surviving every day when every day a single mistake could put them in a hospital bed. We are too individual to follow the same rules, but too alike to ignore them altogether. It is for this reason that I write a personal blog.<br />
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The aim is to find your own way; your own rules; your own <i>guidebook</i> to eating or to living. </div>
louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-20991360794655591452012-10-24T19:24:00.000+01:002012-10-24T19:24:05.806+01:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Ladies and Gents, </b><br />
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<b>In 1854 a poetic and philosophical man made a comment which is now buried in the pages of his book. 'To be awake is to be alive,' he said. But every man and woman is too drowsy for daily life and too far asleep to participate fully in the highest tests of their lives. Hats off to us for trying, but we could be so much better.</b><br />
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The man I refer to was Henry David Thoreau. He favoured getting out into the wild in order to reclaim our vitality. I favour this too, but there is something the modern world tends to forget when it comes to being awake and truly alive. That something is proper nutrition.<br />
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Nutrition is vital in our lives. It is one of several processes which feed our body. It is the reason we feel deeply for those who are unable to access enough food. It is also the reason we have become aware of the dangers of an economic climate which leads people away from the shelves of healthy food and towards the fast-food stands. Few people are aware of the true list of ingredients and the lack of nutrition prevalent in even the prepared foods which look healthy. Those with digestive symptoms may search for the right foods for their body, but many others with medical conditions might not actually realise the impact that some foods, no matter how good their diet, have on their symptoms.<br />
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Let me tell you something. At 17 I was diagnosed with the autoimmune form of hypothyroidism. A year later I asked my specialist how long he thought I had this disease without knowing. Well he shrugged a little and said, '7 years.'<br />
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I spent a while considering all the parts of my life which may have had something to do with the disease, all the things people had said about me, and all the things I had overheard. Rarely, if at all, during those 7 years, was I ever really awake or alive. I was processing things at a different speed, and the times I was really alive are still hard to remember, as blurry, distant memories which is just the way I was.<br />
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Thyroid disease is serious in that, given time, it can kill you. The symptoms will be more pronounced than any ordinary form of tiredness in the same way that fatigue is greatly exaggerated in similar conditions compared to everyday forms of it. But let me ask those of you without these conditions now, how often do you feel alert and functioning to your highest standard? How often do you not feel bloated? How often do you lack the energy and vitality required to participate fully in a conversation or activity? As good old Thoreau said, none of us are really awake. None of us are really alive. Too many of us are being held back by symptoms and too few of us are aware of the foggiless world that's out there if we just get out in the open and away from the smog and breathe it all in with pain-free food by our sides. Admittedly we are not all the same. We are all humans (last time I checked) but in the modern world we have vastly different lifestyles, are in different environments, and are in different medical states. But there is no doubt that we all have foods which slow us down and make our bodies feel more like machines grinding away and sounding awfully like a train clanking along an uneven track while a dead rat hides in the middle carriage, instead of course of the wonderful image of an organic being full of chemicals flowing delicately in the right order and amount. Yeah right, right?<br />
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So, if you frequently feel drained, foggy, slow, more like a half-functioning robot when you don't even have a medical condition to put it down to, then wherever you are right now, put your hand up. Now stand up.<br />
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Okay, now everyone with a digestive condition or ongoing symptom, stand up with me. And those who have to eat every three hours? Those with conditions, symptoms, or issues ranging from all autoimmune conditions to other hormonal conditions, to poor focus, to the ones which are so unusual that you feel left out in this list,<br />
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And anyone with medical conditions for which the advice is contradictory; the treatments useless and littered with side effects? Stand up.<br />
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And finally, anyone who wants to eat healthier but doesn't know how; any student who, like me, is trying to eat well to reach their full potential and not be held back, but is facing the issue of expensive bills and too much stuff clogging up a small fridge, stand up.<br />
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Okay, now if you feel well, or like your diet and health are good or under control, sit down. Anyone who thinks I'm going on about rubbish, also sit.<br />
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Who's left?<br />
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Now let me tell you what I'm doing in a nutshell. If you think it will help you, I want you to sit down. And then I want you to like the following photo album.<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.296397733799913.57833.296392280467125&type=1">Click here to take a look</a><br />
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If you're still standing now, let me know whether something is missing from the proposed website. If you're sitting and it's not because you gave up on the idea, let me know I've got a job to do with this website.<br />
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louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-27772716322530574252012-08-22T20:40:00.000+01:002012-08-22T20:40:00.577+01:00Eating for a Better Brain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-48776831089223143132012-08-14T14:39:00.001+01:002012-08-14T14:39:47.812+01:00How to Make the Transition to Paleo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>The Paleo diet is easier for some of us than it is for others. If you are eating a diet which consists mainly of sugar and carbs, particularly the really processed ones, the Paleo diet may sound like Kill-Joy's perfect way to get you wound up. Paleo experts suggest dropping your current diet and switching to <a href="http://whole9life.com/category/whole-30/">30-day trials</a> without every food you've been used to, or <a href="http://personalpaleocode.chriskresser.com/">a 30-day Reset</a>. But what if you need to function at your best and can't function when you're body has been thrown into a place it hasn't met in, say, 10,000 years? And what if you've never cooked a chicken in your life? Don't run away, and don't bark back at Kill-Joy, who means well. Instead, try a proper transition, slow and steady. </i></div>
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A 30-day trial is fine if you want to start seeing results quickly or you want to be aware of the real difference between how you felt on your old diet and how you will feel in 30 days. But what if you actually need to function during those 30-days? What if you are pushing your limits of activity? What if you can't take the 'carb flu', as I hear it's called, and either you need to keep going or you become extremely agitated when your body won't let you stay awake through the afternoon? And finally, what if you've never cooked in the manner advised by many of the meal plans online? What if you don't know how much the average supermarket chicken weighs and you've never had to squeeze its slimy legs into the oven before? A recipe with a long list of weird food preparation guidelines may be seriously off-putting for the five-minute kitchen spender or the person who is more familiar with the identically sliced meats in the cooked food aisle of the supermarket than he is with a very long kitchen knife. </div>
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So, for anyone who even slightly fits into this category, try making smaller changes to your diet. Try experimenting with one recipe one day and another on a different day. Try slowly replacing your poorly formed, energy-depleting, high-carbohydrate, passed through thirty hands in a factory meal with something which looks like you could have hunted, caught, grown, or picked, yourself. And then evaluate the results so far.</div>
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<li>Protein comes from poultry, eggs, and meat. Only. That's actually a massive variety of sources.</li>
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<li>Get your poultry and your meat from the relevant 'fresh' aisles in the supermarkets. Choose grass-fet or organic where possible, but if not just go for <b>something</b> which requires cooking. The chicken breast fillets or the beef pieces in packets are fine. What you're doing right now is increasing the amount of poultry and meat you eat and buying ones which haven't been prepared, cut into shape, and depleted of nutrients. Seriously, turn over the packet and have a read of the ingredients. What does it say? Chicken? Beef? As expected? Right, now walk over to the cooked meats section. Pick up a packet of chicken. Turn it over. Read the ingredients. More than one? Anything you don't recognise? How comfortable do you feel now?</li>
<li>For eggs, choose ones which are organic or where the packet says that welfare of the chickens was good. Not only will it stop you feeling guilty, it will taste better too.</li>
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<li>Replace all 'carby' meals with their equivalent veg sources. Let's break this down:</li>
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<li>Want pasta or noodles? No problem. Just replace the pasta itself with zucchini, carrot, spaghetti squash or other starchy vegetable source. Grind down until it resembles noodles, or you can play around to make pasta shapes, and then boil, fry, or think of something new. Now add the sauce. Great.</li>
<li>Want pizza? Make the bread out of flax and almond flour. </li>
<li>Want bread? Ditto.</li>
<li>Cereal? Porridge? Oh my gosh, you have just reached the amazing Paleo meals! Nuts can make porridge. Did you know that? Nuts can make milk. Bet you didn't know that either. Combine an apple (without skin) and a pear in a blender, add maybe five almonds, and you have the same magnificence. You can also use buckwheat to make your own fabulous cereal. Try fresh fruit with almond milk for breakfast. Yum.</li>
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<li>What have I missed?</li>
<li>If you do eat all the crap you're not supposed to eat (ehem, crisps, sweets, etc...chocolate is debatable), make these instead:</li>
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<li>Sweet potato chips (dehydrated in the oven)</li>
<li>Other vegetable chips</li>
<li>Smoothies, sweet porridges, and dried fruit (limited!) to get your sugar craving sorted.</li>
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<li>No fizzy drinks. N.O. Make fresh fruit juices instead. </li>
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<b>---> Get that sorted, and you're on Transition Road! ---></b></div>
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louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-34137422620645871242012-08-08T10:18:00.000+01:002012-08-08T10:18:00.288+01:00The Paleo Diet in Translation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Essentially it means, eat only useful calories.<br />
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I always look at a food and think, 'what will this give me?' What purpose does this food have? Will it make me feel better? Will it make me feel worse? Will an extra helping make me feel sick?<br />
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With the paleo diet, you look at every food and ask this question: is it something useful? Something my body can recognise and digest? Something that can be put to good use inside my body? Even sauces can contain proteins. </div>louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-25206141344579835612012-08-07T11:02:00.000+01:002012-08-07T11:02:00.114+01:00Paleo and calories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Back in the day, you ate what you could scavenge or hunt. You would eat after trekking at pace, concentrating on your prey, and then killing it. Today, we typically pick set hours in which to 'exercise' and we eat while sitting at a desk, having sat there all day. Calorie use is therefore different, and we might think that eating calorific meats when we haven't sprinted through the forest and wrestled with a wild animal, might add a little too much pudge to our fat-fighting selves. But, and here's the catch: <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">is it possible that the foods we <i>eat </i>influence how much we <i>do</i>? </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Okay, this may sound a little strange. I mean, why not eat a lion and then have its strength, right? That's the old wives tale which directs peer pressure in camping groups, isn't it? 'Go on, eat the big fat boar. Then you'll be just as strong as it,' say the inticing group around the campfire. But this adage has a simple truth to it: the best predators or the cleverest animals may actually be so nutrient and vitamin-dense that, by eating them, we <i>will</i> (gradually) gain strength, energy, and better brain function. <br /><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Note:</span></i> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>in cases of illness and deficiency which is not food-related, changing diet may not solve the problem and is unlikely to increase strength, energy, and brain function...or anything else for that matter. Thyroid Disease is a particular example here.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">In what I have read so far, I have discovered that first-hand accounts of experiences on the paleo diet all follow a similar theme: an individual changes their diet, and starts running. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a way, this makes sense. If you have indigestion, or you feel sick, or you jump on the treadmill but you are distracted by the food which keeps pushing its way up your trachea, running becomes difficult. You may also feel bloated, heavy, off-balance, tired, or just uncomfortable. But if your body is working brilliantly you are likely to <i>feel</i> light, quick on your feet</span>, and in the mood for a run. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">What is curious about the above, though, is that it was <i>running</i> which all these people took up. Why not cycling, or swimming, or weight-lifting for that matter? It appears that the paleo diet works very well with increased cardio output. But are they <i>running</i> foods? It's not something that I've heard before.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I don't like the idea that we are genetically able to eat in a certain way, and that if we eat those foods we will find ourselves functioning to the true calling of human beings. But we always think of the diet-exercise connection in the following ways:</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Increase <span style="color: black;">your exercise + <span style="color: blue;">decrease <span style="color: black;">your calorie intake, particularly of any unhealthy foos which may be in your diet.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Exercise <span style="color: black;">--></span> reduced weight/increased energy <span style="color: black;">+</span> supports a good diet</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">The paleo diet, however, if I am interpreting it correctly, appears to be suggesting the following:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Increase <span style="color: black;">the</span> 'good' <span style="color: black;">calories</span></span></span> </span>only</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;">A good diet <span style="color: black;">--></span> increased [cardio] exercise</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">This is not to say that<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">you should simply change your diet and then wait for the 'magic bullet' which makes you suddenly able to run miles, but the theory is that you will feel like you want to do more and are able to do more once your diet is sorted. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The challenge, of course, is finding the right diet. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-13074375339063892392012-08-06T11:04:00.000+01:002012-08-06T11:04:00.428+01:00Paleo, money, and my shopping list<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In the past, as with tribes across the world, your food would be whatever you could scavenge or hunt. It would take a lot of energy and concentration (and luck, to some extent), but it would also be <i>free.</i><br />
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So buying all of these ingredients in small packets makes my shopping list very long...and expensive. It is another reason for tweaking the paleo diet to your own needs. I will try to find a way to be on the paleo diet for relatively cheap. <i> </i></div>louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-85046295580078848182012-08-04T13:08:00.000+01:002012-08-04T13:08:00.124+01:00Why Photographing your Food is such a Good Idea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li>It's a record of the times you've eaten, so that if you have forgotten to take note, you don't need to worry.</li>
<li>You'll start paying attention to what's on your plate, not how much you can fit on the plate. A bowl of leftovers won't look so good for the camera, so you'll shy away from it. And the result? An easier task of digestion on your stomach. </li>
<li>If you can't be bothered for food diaries or are bored of them, this is a much more interesting and much more creative way to record what you are eating.</li>
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If I ate badly then I would most probably not be able to digest anything. And then I would probably be diagnosed with something different, perhaps something more serious, or perhaps the more serious version of my condition. Perhaps I would need a pacemaker because I would have ruined my stomach entirely. I'm not saying that people with these more serious conditions have ruined their stomachs, but I am suggesting that motility disorders and preprandrial bradygastrias, particularly when combined with the symptom of regurgitation or acid reflux, have the potential to be much more worse. If my stomach is in a bad state, I might, say, bring up a bit of water in the car on the way home, or bring up the water I take first thing in the morning. Might I, one day, bring up the pill I take at around the same time?<br />
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If I let my stomach get worse and worse, I will bring up it all.<br />
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I need to acknowledge that this condition can become pretty bad. Just like if I stop taking my thyroid meds in the morning, I will get worse and worse, if I lose control of what I eat, I will <i>also</i> be worse and worse. Food hurts me, but I also need it. Food is my medicine, and like any medicine with rules surrounding how, when, and with what should you take it, so too does food require as much attention.<br />
<br /></div>louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-20693517424345577712012-08-02T14:43:00.000+01:002012-08-02T14:43:39.841+01:00The Smoothie Test<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is my first proper smoothie. By proper, I mean I actually spent time on it. It's genius. I mean, it's so genius that it had me sqeaking in excitement. It made <b>two whole </b>glasses worth! What a reward for all that hard work chopping one apple, a few strawberries, shoving lots of frozen fruit in a jug, and hitting the stir button on the food chopper. It's not my recipe: it's from '<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Superjuice-Juicing-Michael-van-Straten/dp/1840001488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342219058&sr=8-1">Superjuice: Juicing for Health and Happiness</a>,' by Michael van Straten. I added two mint leaves, because I thought it looked cool. But does Rusty like it? <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here it is: the yummy looking smoothie in a glass.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here he comes. I think that's a sniff. I think that's a definite like!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And why wouldn't he?</td></tr>
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<li>The recipe called for one cooking apple, but there just happened to be a Pink Lady apple sitting in the fridge, so I stole that.</li>
<li>I couldn't find a scale (I know, I know: how do I live my kitchen days?) so I just took some leftover strawberries, some frozen mixed fruit, removing the blackberries, and some frozen mango (the recipe called for one whole mango, but I was all out), and some pineapple from a tin. The amount fit into a 1 litre measuring jug (right)</li>
<li>I tipped half into a plastic bowl and used the food mixer. Then I poured this amount back in and mixed it all at once. This way it all fit. The final amount made just under 1 litre, or 2 tall glasses. </li>
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</div>louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-12404560477083288912012-06-29T21:02:00.003+01:002012-06-29T21:02:43.048+01:00Experimental Mania<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've been experimenting over the past month or so, scrapping my old diet and trying a lot of different foods. Here is a collection of simple meal ideas, all of which avoid wheat and were made in minimum time and with little effort. More detailed posts are coming soon, along with focused posts on specific foods/meals. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm not usually a prawn eater</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stir-fried beef with onions, plus some salad. Relatively simple</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not simple enough: I think this was cottage cheese, seeds, and a sprinkle of herbs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fairly simple: two gluten free <a href="http://www.mrscrimbles.com/products/snacks-sweet-and-savoury/corn-cakes/#" target="_blank">Mrs Crimble's corn cakes</a>, a couple of brazil nuts (these are high in selenium. While this is good, apparently you shouldn't have more than one at a time. Okay).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cottage cheese, seeds, a few nuts, and there's a couple of coconut chips there. Not simple enough. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yoghurt and <a href="http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=267280074" target="_blank">Tesco's Free From Pure Oat Fruit Muesli</a>: yum. And highly addictive.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My standard mid-morning snack on my old and new routine: freshly chopped strawberries and blueberries along with a handful of dried berries if available (cranberries, blueberries, or goji berries). This is a high Vitamin-C, high antitoxant, nicely packed tub of sugar, and easy to digest snack. Frozen fruit works okay too, but the liquid in it leaks through tuppaware, and fresh fruit is nicer and less sweet. The problem is keeping stocked-up on fresh fruit, and ensuring it doesn't go out of date.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As above</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quite crackers: <a href="http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=260763954" target="_blank">The Food Doctor wholegrain Spelt crackers</a> with a mixture of fresh and frozen veg and kidney beans. There's also one <a href="http://www.mrscrimbles.com/products/snacks-sweet-and-savoury/corn-cakes/#" target="_blank">Mrs Crimble corn cake </a>there. This was okay, but as you can tell from the sheer number of crackers, I was more interested in the carbohydrate factor. Those crackers are also quite addictive. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tuna and kidney beans. Meh.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=262925357" target="_blank">Munchy Seeds Omega Sprinkle</a> and salad. As you can see, I had a preference for the seeds. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stir fry: chicken with a mixture of fresh and frozen veg. Flavourings mostly came from lemon and sprinkles of herbs, but there may have been a few drops of sweet and sour sauce. Fried in olive oil. It was yum, but a bowl full on this routine is far too much food. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leftovers with almonds, and half a <a href="http://www.mrscrimbles.com/products/snacks-sweet-and-savoury/corn-cakes/#" target="_blank">Mrs Crimble corn cake</a>. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tinned tuna, chopped tomatoes, sweetcorn, and almonds. I had a thing for the almonds and scavenged for more later. Not the best snack/meal here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A warm tuna salad with tuna, veg, chopped tomato, probably a few almonds, herbs, a squeezed lemon (or the juice from tinned lemon), and one <a href="http://www.mrscrimbles.com/products/snacks-sweet-and-savoury/corn-cakes/#" target="_blank">Mrs Crimble corn cake</a>, in little bits. Fairly good, though not 100% on the digestion factor.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mid-morning snack alternative, after a morning cycle and trip to the gym: fresh fruit, crushed, and water. Give it a shake. You don't need a shaker. The seeds from the fruit simply collects on the sides of the bottle. But it's all the better if you eat them too.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More of Tesco's <a href="http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=267280074" target="_blank">Free From Pure Oat Fruit Muesli</a>, with some yoghurt. Just couldn't stop buying the muesli.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=264621686" target="_blank">Frozen fruit mix from Tesco's</a>, waiting to defrost.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=266889905" target="_blank">Tesco Summer Fruits</a> with an orange. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A big breakfast: yoghurt, strawberries, blueberries, and corn flakes. Making a breakfast of this size is unlike me. It was very nice, but too much.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An even bigger breakfast with less yoghurt, but a few dates. Yum, but sickening.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plain times: corn flakes, freshly chopped stawberries, blueberries, and a couple of blackberries from frozen.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yum. Two John West salmon fillets, and two <a href="http://www.ryvita.co.uk/products/crispbread/pumpkin-seeds-oats-crispbread" target="_blank">Ryvita pumkin seeds and oats crisbread</a>. These crispbreads are made from rye, not wheat, but many other products in the Ryvita range do have wheat flour in them. I can't find a link to the salmon, but I brought the product from the Co-Operative store.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Breakfast: one pot of <a href="http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=251791087" target="_blank">Yeo Valley Natural yoghurt</a> (their fat free version has extra sugar instead of the fat) with a <a href="http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=271074543" target="_blank">raisin mix</a> (correct product link to be confirmed; this one has vegetable oil listed in the ingredients), a few <a href="http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=262202314" target="_blank">natural apricots</a> (these brown apricots are high in iron and taste a lot better to the orange-coloured ones), and some freshly chopped strawberries.<br /><br />On last year's diet I never ate more than half a pot of yoghurt at once. Hmm.<br /> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's amazing how excited I was at the fact that I managed to fit it all in.</td></tr>
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As a student in a house of five with a standard-sized fridge/freezer between us all, I am quite used to hogging my half a shelf whilst doing my utmost to not intrude on the other half.<br />
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Given this, my walk around Tescos is usually accompanied with mild paranoia and frequent squeals by my conscience of 'there's no room! <i>There's no room</i>!' which I end up, on occassion -- like any one put in a good mood by the presence of good food -- ignoring. <br />
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Arriving back home, then, following my rule of 'doing my utmost,' usually involves opening all the bags of vegetables,
squeezing out the air, and then tieing them tightly with elastic bands;
emptying fruit into a single container; ordering everything like a
jigsaw puzzle; and when things get really tough....putting <i>everything</i> into tuppaware. No one has ever spent as many minutes unpacking food as I have. <br />
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Still, although I may have gone slightly over my half-a-shelf line this time (as you can see from the pot of yoghurt...and the eggs on the shelf above), the tuppaware strategy worked. So my tip? Always buy a big set of tuppaware (for all of a pound from IKEA), and <i>never</i> think you have to buy presized portions of fresh food simply because you are pushed for space.<br />
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Now I really hope I don't need that box of salad underneath everything else anytime soon...</div>louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-5470938992264853502012-06-20T10:46:00.001+01:002012-06-20T10:55:56.466+01:00Five Stages of Health: Which Are You?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Health-seekers know what they're after, <span style="font-size: small;">and they know when they've found it.</span></span> 'It' is good health. 'It' is better health. 'It' is a chance to forget that they were ever seeking something in the first place. I can't think of a single health-seeker who wouldn't jump at the chance of becoming a health <i>freerider</i>. But that, unfortunately, is stage five. Which stage are you at?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">THE <i>LOST</i> STAGE OF HEALTH: You have no idea what your alien body is doing, you don't understand your symptoms/condition(s), and you have no idea what to do about it all.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enter the <i>experimental </i>stage of health: you start testing which foods are making you feel ill (if any); you start working out at which times you have the worst symptoms; you start recording when those symptoms occur; and you start trying different routines, diets, and activities.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You are now on a <i>regimented </i>routine or/and diet, but it's not really working. It requires huge amounts of effort to sustain, you keep having 'crash' afternoons or whole days, you keep getting it wrong, and you keep wanting to detox and start over, and over, and over again.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Your routine/diet is working. You feel good, you have more energy, you are happy with this near-'perfect' routine or diet, and you sit down for a meal out, happily annoucing that you have just swum or run a mile <i>because everything is just so good right now</i>. Your friends are impressed, so you sit there smugly and grin at the waiter: if you eat the 'wrong' food tonight, your stomach/body in general is in such a good place already that you probably won't even notice the mistake. Grin widely.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the pinnacle of your health journey: <i>freeriding</i> (symptom-free). You may have had a taste of this for a few days, or a week, or maybe even a month at a time, but now you are finally here and it seems like everything is pretty stable. You don't have to think about your routine or your diet: it seems second-nature to you. Your stomach hasn't rebelled in a long time and that means that you are more able to eat occassional meals out and not feel stressed or <i>lost</i> afterwards. Health <i>freeriders </i>no longer feel like there is a challenge surrounding their health or their diet. Good health...<i>just happens</i>.</td></tr>
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Which stage are you at right now? <br />
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</div>louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-12282412707860635742012-06-06T12:00:00.001+01:002012-06-07T14:30:29.902+01:00Starting to Go Healthy, but Not From the Bottom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My diet avoids the following foods <b>already. </b>This means that if you too are health-crazed, and looking for a way to be <i>more</i> healthy, I won't be telling you to stop eating the following foods. I'll be finding ways to improve diets <i>over and above</i> that first task. If you need to eat little and often but you are fed up of seeing the following foods on the suggestions list, follow along.<br />
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<li>Chocolate</li>
<li>Sweets</li>
<li>Wheat</li>
<li>Pizza</li>
<li>Pasta which is not gluten free</li>
<li>Large meals (except on rare occasions...I make an exception for Chinese!)</li>
<li>Foods which are high in synthetic fat and/or sugar -- the dessert favourites. </li>
<li>Fizzy drinks</li>
<li>Coffee </li>
<li>(etc)</li>
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</div>louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-50861614619794693942012-06-05T20:00:00.000+01:002012-06-07T14:26:35.236+01:00Symptoms<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">If you're stuck with any of the following moans and groans or symptoms, this health blog may be a place to check in every once and a while: </span></div>
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<li>regurgitation (not sick or acid reflux)</li>
<li>having to eat little and often</li>
<li>ensuring there are enough vitamins and nutrients in your diet</li>
<li>motility conditions - in which you absorb foods at weird rates and can't take meals which have a large variety of ingredients in them, particularly if liquids are combined with solids.</li>
<li>prepandrial bradygastria (my condition) or rhythmic disorders of the gut/stomach </li>
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IBS and other bowl conditions may also share some - but not all - symptoms. </div>
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My theory is that for those of us with these conditions/symptoms, <b>there is no single cure, and thus no single theory of how to deal with it.</b> Along with my own experimenting, I will be referring to some theories and books - the paleo diet, the hay diet and general food combining, and others - but I will be taking out <b>bits</b> from each one, and finding something which works for people who need the easily digestible foods on the paleo diet, but who also need easily accessible foods (i.e. from a supermarket) which are also affordable and do not fill up a fridge or a cupboard. </div>
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The aim is always to find the ultimate 'perfect' diet which doesn't budge no matter how hard it's nudged. In reality though, this 'perfect' diet may need to change, or be redrawn, year on year due to a change in routine, activity level, the notorious 'H' for hormone, or even the weather which influences Vitamin D levels and, y'know, whether you want a hot drink or a cold one. The real aim then, most only be to find the most easily adaptable diet, or to understand your body/stomach well enough to know what you need and what you simply can't take. </div>louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365707642210327121.post-46363987202643622122012-06-04T20:36:00.000+01:002012-06-07T14:20:45.831+01:00I tell my Doctor I'm sick. He tells me to eat healthily. I already do eat healthily. What do I do now?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finding health advice just doesn't relate to you? <br />
Follow me as I find my own way.<i> </i></td></tr>
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<b>Health blogs, recipe books, and advice from so-called "experts" all have one thing in common: they mean absolutely nothing when I relate them to the intricate workings and demands of <i>my</i> stomach.</b> </h4>
Health blogs and experts advise me to stop eating unhealthy foods in order to feel better - but I <i style="font-weight: bold;">don't</i> eat unhealthy foods. And no, that isn't a lie. My definition of unhealthy is over-eating on dried fruit or consuming too much yoghurt. Recipe books, meanwhile, show me how to make meals out of a hundred different ingredients. That's great, but I'm a student: I have a cupboard, half a shelf in a fridge, half a shelf in a freezer, and a budget which does not afford buying flavourings simply because they make the dish look better on a plate (not to mention the fact that my stomach cannot take unnecessary ingredients). The recipe books also show me how to cook from a fantastic list of choices. Unfortunately though, the large majority of recipes have at <i>least</i> one food which I can't eat. Why can't I eat them? Well, because I have a stomach which likes to be spoon-fed simple portions and gets a little confused by multi-coloured plates, a little frightened by a massive bowl of food sliding down my throat, and a little moody at just about anything which doesn't adhere to the two rules above.<br />
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The intricate details of my stomach are hardly private news: I announce them at every dinner table, every trip away, and in just about every conversation which involves food. The next logical step in this openness must only be to shout out on the platform of <i>Blogger: </i>'Howdie! I have the weirdest stomach condition <i>ever! Wanna see me regurgitate?'</i><br />
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In 2010, having tried two medications complete with their side-effects, I was advised to 'experiment' with my stomach to find out what worked. Medical Science can diagnose it, attempt to cure it, but other than that it <i>hasn't got a clue</i>. Since 2010 I have been doing exactly this: trying out different routines, experimenting with foods, drawing charts, and recording my symptoms. For a while I had it almost perfect. Now I'm experimenting again, except that this time<b> you get to share the fun. </b></div>louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12484187479315872179noreply@blogger.com0