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  • My GAPS Story Day 17

    Just a quick post. I went to bed last night at 7pm, hoping to get to sleep early so I could try to get 9 hours sleep on a work night. I failed. I was still awake at 8pm. I ended up sleeping until 4:35 and I have to leave for work at 5am to be there on time! It is okay because they are relaxed at my job, and besides I am one of the first ones there in the morning. It’s all good. My point is that I didn’t get my NINE hours sleep. 🙂

    I did take my bath last night. My feet gloriously are still not hurting. I had three scrambled eggs [affiliate link] with butter for breakfast. I had cashews once I got to work.  I brought peas and cauliflower left over from last night for lunch, with 3 Clementine Cuties and some frozen beef soup my hubby made. I never got around to eating lunch. I had a few mouthfuls of the peas and cauliflower, and one Clementine Cutie. I don’t want to use the microwave, so ate the food cold. Then on the way home  I ate the peas and cauliflower, plus two Clementine Cuties.

    Dinner tonight is pork loin, steamed broccoli and yellow squash. OH, and Brussels Sprouts. Are we allowed to have those, I wonder? And my hubby called me on having butter. He didn’t know I was still eating butter. I told him I can’t give it up yet.

    I told my mom about what’s been going on, on the way to work. Told her about being able to sleep, and my feet not hurting. She wants me to get her a copy of both books! I told her she is so close to being there. She was telling me about an adrenal fatigue supplement she is taking. Somehow I got to talking about GAPS and as it turns out our elderly uncle who lives with her has bad gas, digestive problems and diarrhea! That is why she wants a copy of the books! I am just glad she is going to check them out.

    I also told two coworkers today. I told one because I wanted to let her know I can’t eat out. We sometimes do that on the Christmas break at work (skeleton staff). They both seemed genuinely interested. I told them how I’ve been able to sleep 9 hours. I’m glad I didn’t start the detox baths until after I started sleeping better because I would have thought it was the detox baths.

    Well, I’ve been home about one hour. Oh, my husband milked for me. Thank goodness, because I got home late. Now it’s time for my detox bath.

    I need to take my cod liver oil. And I don’t know how much longer the liver concoction will be okay. I had better eat that tomorrow.

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  • Day 16 – Breach

    It was an accident on my husband’s part. He was trying to do something nice and made chicken soup for breakfast for ES. I was offered a bowl, and accepted it. The broth was delicious and the chicken breast was pretty tasty. It also had cut green beans and bright orange carrots. Then I got a piece of chicken that seemed like it had a layer of fried skin on it, and I braced myself for the sensation of fat in my mouth, and that was when I realized the chicken breast had a coating of flour on it. Dh says he found some chicken breast that YS had brought home from work, and he scrubbed off all the coating. <Alarm, panic!>

    He didn’t realize how strict I’ve been with my diet for the past 15 days. I’ve now ingested flour, and no telling what else was in the coating. MSG? I’ll have to ask YS what was in the coating. I halfway suspect it was the chicken he cooked for himself last night, which was coated with Caesar’s salad dressing.

    Well, I didn’t get much, so I guess it is my 1 teaspoon or so to see how it reacts in my body.

    We talked again to ES this morning, as he was hacking and spitting, that we have to start eating a new way. We have been slowly cutting him down on pasta. I need to get into the cupboards and get rid of at least all the “white” pasta. Like me, he doesn’t seem to like the wheat pasta as much. ES acted sad and distressed about our discussion. After dh made him the soup, he sat there and looked at it for a long time. Then he finally got up, went into the kitchen and started a pan with water heating, and came up with a small bag of macaroni. Dh and I looked at each other, now dh knows how I’ve felt for the past few months when I try to make something “nutritious” for ES and he goes and does his own thing. At least there was only about 1 to 1.5 cups macaroni in the bag. I just need to clear out the cupboards.

    I don’t want to make this any more of an issue than it needs to be. I do not feel it’s fair to have food in the house that ES can cook and eat, if we don’t want him to have it. He simply cannot conceive of why he can’t have a certain food when it’s right there. I would say he is probably at the level of understanding of a four year old in this regard. We are trying to explain to him that it will help him stop feeling bad.

    More later.

    After I stopped eating the soup I wasn’t hungry for a while. Then I had a couple tablespoons of the liver concoction. It is nearly gone. I don’t want to keep it around for too many days without freezing. I had a coconut milk [affiliate link] smoothie after that.

    I forgot to mention in previous posts that I started taking my Cod Liver Oil again. Today will be day three if I remember to take it.

    12:52. I also took Kava-Kava yesterday, and today. I am working from home today. My job should not be this stressful. My boss has been letting me work from home on Mondays, instead of driving 65 miles (one way) to her house because *she* works from home on Mondays. My normal drive is 50 miles (one way). The CEO came to my office on Thursday and asked me if I was going to be working at my boss’ house “next week”. I said I would be working from home on Monday. He said, “Working from home?” He does not like for us to work from home. No matter if you get more work done, if you are trusted implicitly to get your work done, he doesn’t like it.

    I almost wish I had a diagnosis for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, because I think that would be a definite help in continuing to work from home. It makes my work day eight hours long, instead of eleven or twelve or thirteen (for the driving, getting dressed, etc.)

    Okay. Well, nothing much to say right now. I will report back later though.

    3:19pm. I was done with my work at 2pm. I am hungry now. YS made popcorn! I told him in exchange for making popcorn in an attempt to tempt me (he invited me to have some), he was going to have to help me clean my SUV. Besides, he already agreed to help me with that sometime this weekend. I have this really awesome parking spot at work, it is so wonderful during the summer when the interior of vehicles in Phoenix can reach temperatures of 200°F. The only problem is I have to park there every day I’m there, or I “lose” the spot, and during this time of the year the olive trees which I park under are frequented by birds, who love to eat the bitter things and then of course they poop black/purple all over my vehicle. My vehicle is 13 years old, soon to be 14, and the finish is still very nice. But I don’t need to have olive bird poop making things any worse.

    Then I have to milk. I’m hungry again. I need to find something to eat. Maybe some steamed vegetables.

    More later. Maybe.

    4:55pm. Back in from milking. YS helped me wash my truck. And what do you know, there’s cloud cover. It may rain. That’s okay. I really needed to get it cleaned.

    I think I’m going to make some burgers for dinner, I guess fried foods really aren’t appropriate but I’m too tired to think of anything else. I think I’ll be steaming some cauliflower, too.

    ‘Night.

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  • People Don’t Understand “I’m Tired”

    People don’t understand tiredness. They understand, “I’m on chemotherapy for cancer and I’m worn out tired.” They understand, “I have chronic fatigue syndrome.”

    But I don’t have a diagnosis. It’s a good thing I don’t have many close friends because that would drain me too much. I have one friend that I used to hang out with, and then I moved, and then she moved, and now we live about sixy miles away from each other. She’s visually impaired, so she doesn’t drive. And there is no public transportation out here. I feel guilty that I never make the time to go into town and spend time with her. We tried to get together on our birthdays for a few years, but then I got even more tired.

    I was talking to my mother-in-law on Sunday morning  just a little bit about this “diet”. She was fairly understanding about, having just recently talked to someone on a diet that will cause “die off”. She told that I should not discount all that I’m doing, working, taking care of Eldest Son. She said taking care of Eldest Son alone is a full time caretaker job, so I should be tired! She asked if I had taken any type of vitamins specifically to help with my energy level. I haven’t, but I don’t feel like it’s going to do any good if my diet has wrong foods in it.

    I have thought about that – I should be tired for all that I do.

    I have this one friend she lives in an assisted living complex. She and her husband are visually impaired, and they are independent, but they can go downstairs to the dining room and choose from several meals for lunch and dinner. They have no pets. Their place is one bedroom and pretty small, so not a lot of home to keep straightened up. They don’t have a car, or the expenses of a car. And I think sometimes, it must be nice to have nothing to do.

    And I think… maybe that is the problem. Maybe I just have too much stuff on my plate. But I know how it feels to have a day where I feel like I have some energy to get something done. It’s a great feeling to feel alive and energetic and happy.

    So when I think it’s just that I have too much to do, I find myself thinking well this is just how it’s going to be. I’m going to be worn out and tired all the time. It’s normal.

    When I think it’s normal, I’m less inclined to do anything about it, but passively accept the tiredness.

    I feel guilty about not going to church. We go to a church that is an hour’s drive away. So when I go to church, all I have the energy to do for the day is get dressed, go to church and when I get home, take a nap. And then it’s time to start the week all over. So I don’t go to church. I used to tell myself, there is this other lady that is tired and worn out like me. But she doesn’t have to work. And yes, she has three children and she homeschools, but she has them help her with a great deal of the housework. If I didn’t have to work, maybe I could find the energy to go to church. Our pastor will say he knows how it is to be tired, he has to get up at 4:30am, and he still has Bible study in the evenings. But he also doesn’t have to drive an hour to get home. He can leave and be home in 15 minutes and asleep within half an hour. He can still get 8 hours sleep and get up by 4:30am.

    Anyway, I’m really glad I don’t have any friends who want to spend time with me.

    My poor family learned years ago that I have no energy to spend with them. I have a niece that is going to be 16, and I’m supposed to hang out with them on her birthday. I don’t know if I’ll be able to. Especially since I’m on this “diet”.

    I need to ask my husband or Youngest Son to glance at the scale so I can get my weight recorded.

    Anyway, I just wanted to write about how it’s hard when people don’t understand how tired I am.

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  • Day 15 I’m Able to Sleep for 9 Hours Without My Back Aching!

    I was able to stay in bed again for 9 hours! Amazing. Fourth night in a row for the first time in 8 years. It has to be GAPS. I even watched some of a movie on television last night, something my husband was watching and it looked interesting. Turns out it was a movie called Midnight Clear starring Stephen Baldwin. We only caught the last 30-45 minutes.

    Watching a movie instead of sleeping is something I absolutely dared not do for the past eight years.

    Now I need to figure out what to have for breakfast. Oh, I should update the rest of my food for yesterday.

    I took my bath, and had a nice soak. I put epsom salts and dead sea salts in the water. The tape seemed to hold, although when I pushed on it, bubbles came out. I taped over three times, so I hope it stayed dry underneath. I love taking a hot bath, and Baden says to stay in the hot water until you start to sweat, well, read her description here. Anyway, I did shower afterward to wash my hair. I forgot I was out of baking soda [affiliate link], so I only rinsed my hair with water. It will look a little greasy today, but that’s okay, I’m not going anywhere.

    Anyway, after I got into bed, I realized I was hungry. I got up and had a couple more tablespoons of the liver pate stuff that I made. I thought that would be enough, but I was still hungry, so made myself a Coconut Pumpkin Smoothie. I put a banana in this time, and didn’t add any ice cubes. It was too thick, but still very delicious. I had dh try it and asked him if he didn’t think it was better than a Dairy Queen Blizzard. He asked me what was my obsession with DQ Blizzard’s, that he’d never had one. But he said he would rather have my smoothie, than ice cream. That is a high compliment! He then said he doesn’t even really like ice cream, only once in a while he wants some.

    Also, I didn’t have my cup of broth yesterday.

    I was still tired, although I did manage to wipe off all the kitchen counters and wash two loads of dishes, wash my laundry, milk the goats. I have this long to do list that I’m supposed to get done this weekend. I should probably try to focus on it.

    More later.

    7:30pm. I get to work from home tomorrow, but still I must get into bed at a decent time, since I want to give myself 9 hours to sleep. I’m craving a bath again, so I think I’ll honor my body with that request.

    I made almond flour [affiliate link] pancakes and zucchini scrambled eggs [affiliate link] for dh about 2:30 and had some, too.

    Dh fried up hamburgers for dinner. I had one with cooked cabbage on the side. I also had two Clementine cuties.

    Dh told me today he’s giving up the Gobstoppers! We discussed our plan for the 10 day trial. We are going to have to go through our food supply and get rid of anything we don’t want Eldest Son to eat. I read some of Dr. Campbell-McBride’s book to dh. I am underlining anything I come across about Down Syndrome so we can get an understanding of what might be going on for ES.

    I talked to ES, I told him I’m going to be taking a week off from work, and me and him and going to be eating buddies. That’s when we’ll do intro. I am just confused on how to do it! I have heard three days, six weeks, or maybe even longer periods. I don’t think we can do it longer than three days. I am just not sure what we should do. But we can always do intro again.

    It is just difficult because I am not able to stay home full time and monitor ES’s eating. He loves being independent and making his own meals. I feel sad that we didn’t know this sooner in his life, and get him started on eating foods that are good for him. But hopefully we can make the change.

    I am still managing to not eat junk foods. YS made brownies this evening!! He is delighting a little bit in that he can eat what he wants, and the rest of us are on a diet. Although he did say dh and I are fighting less since starting this new diet. I am not sure what he means by that, because I think my dh and I get along pretty good, and I think we rarely argue and fight.

    I found some neat posts at Baden’s today. One was on how her feet used to hurt before GAPS, and this really neat post with success stories. The one especially inspiring to me was JenniferG from August 13, 2009. She had posted when on GAPS about a month and was still tired, and finally at 2 months she was feeling energy for five days. When I read it earlier today, I thought she said she was having more energy after three weeks, and I’m at 15 days, and thought it can’t be long now. I even told my dh. I will have to tell him I read that wrong. Still, it is encouraging.

    I have had a lot of eye matter today. I will try to remember to notate when I have it. Maybe I can find something I’m eating that is causing it.

    Those brownies smelled real good, but I avoided having any. I am still a little in shock that I am able to abstain from the foods I am avoiding. I realize it may become harder as the bacteria die off. I guess all the tiredness is from die off. I am so glad my dh is giving up Gobstoppers!

    Well, I had better go so I can take my hot bath and soak.

     

     

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  • Overcoming Overeating – Body Acceptance

    After my one experience with dieting when I was 29 years old, I eventually found Overcoming Overeating: Conquer Your Obsession with Food Forever by Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Hunter, also the authors of When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession.

    I learned a lot from these ladies, and from all the other body acceptance books that I’ve read in the past decade.

    I can thank Jane and Carol for helping me to make peace with food. Over the years I legalized many foods. I didn’t actually have the funds to stock up like they suggest, but I did eat anything I wanted, as much as I wanted until eventually I realized that many of those foods I thought I wanted, I didn’t even like that much. Or more importantly, I noticed how poorly I felt after eating them, or how I felt the next day.

    I have friends who tell me they can’t have ice cream in the house, or they will eat the entire half gallon at one sitting. Ice cream has never held that strong a hold over me, but I do find that if it’s in the freezer, I will want some each night. Just a little dish or two. At least I’m not afraid I’ll eat the entire thing in one sitting. So it’s easier to just not buy ice cream.

    Carol and Jane helped me learn the difference between mouth hunger and stomach hunger. Am I really hungry? Or has something happened to upset me, and now I want to eat to make me feel better?

    Carol and Jane helped me really understand that body hatred – bad body thoughts – are seldom about our body. In a nutshell, it”s just a convenient way to keep our minds occupied and distracted from the real issues in our lives. The premise of the book When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies is to think about how much women could accomplish if we stopped obsessing about our bodies, and our weight! Just think about how much time the average woman spends worrying about her body and her weight. Too much!

    Carol and Jane helped to persuade me to get rid of my scale. I didn’t have one in the house for years. I chose to do as they suggest, and monitor my body by the way my clothes it. We do have one in the house now, Youngest Son bought it as he was curious about his own weight. It has been helpful because I feel I need to monitor Eldest Son’s weight. But it is not just sitting there on the bathroom floor, goading everyone to step on it, and get their fortune read for the day.

    Did you gain weight? Oh dear, you are disgusting. What a fat pig you are. You have GOT to do something. Anything! This has got to stop! Now march into the kitchen and find something to eat to help stuff these feelings of horror at your size.

    Or, did you lose a pound or two? Oh, you’re good. You’re doing something right. Wow, let’s go see what we can eat to celebrate!

    I know many people who worry when they gain ONE pound. I can’t understand how they think that means anything. When I was younger, before I had children, my weight fluctuated between 120 and 125. And I was perfectly happy with that. I was never concerned to see it go up or down. I accepted that as being normal. I am after all a human being, I am going to have some fluctuation in my weight depending on how what kind of food I eat, how much salt I ingest, where I’m at on my cycle, and on and on.

    I have tried desperately over the years to accept my body at this size. I have done mirror work and I guess for the most part I’ve accepted my body for its flaws. After all, it did carry my two children and has been with me all these 46 years. I just hate seeing photos of me and how big I am. Am I really THAT big?!

    I can thank Carol and Jane for helping me learn how to feed myself. That was a hard one. I remember being SO impatient. Hungry again! Why you just ate! What’s wrong with you!?

    Now I know. Many of the things I was learning were very good, but when you put food into your body that doesn’t nourish, and is feeding bad bacteria, it is hard to feel satisfied.

    I learned about Nourishing Traditions probably around 2003. I was scared to death to even get the book and look at it, because I was scared to death to restrict myself from any foods. I wasn’t ready to stop eating anything, and everything. Even though I was observing how some of these foods made me feel.

    I’ve always been good at avoiding some foods, like artificial sweeteners, and foods blatantly laden with MSG. I did find myself trying to avoid certain foods, for I knew how awful I would feel the next day. Like pasta. I love it so much. But I would feel drugged and worn out the next day. So I stopped eating it. I stopped buying it and bringing it into the house. My husband would bring home Doritos and potato chips, and I’d have some, and then keep eating and eating and eating. But if they weren’t sitting right there, open, I wouldn’t stop at the store and buy them.

    That’s why I find this all so weird, being able to abstain from all these  foods.

    Am I lying to myself?

    Will I look back on this period of time in a few years, and say, “I was really feeling deprived. I was totally wanting those off limits foods. It was all a lie.”

    Youngest Son just came home with a Frito Pie from Sonic. It smells good. 14 days ago I would have asked for a bite. I know it doesn’t taste that good.

    I know one very vital thing that is happening is the food I am eating is nutrient dense and nourishing. It’s not fake food. It’s not fat free, or low fat.

    And I also think it’s important to realize that we need to eat when our body says it is hungry. It helps to know about “mouth hunger” and “stomach hunger”. I do really believe there is distinct difference between the two, at least for myself. It is very important to keep our body fed when it comes to healing or preventing adrenal fatigue. From the article by James Wilson (this is a very enlightening article, btw):

    Hypoglycemia, without proper snack and meal placement, also encourages overeating when food is available. The overeating causes rapid weight gain because the increased insulin is circulating in your blood, ready to usher that excess energy (glucose) from the extra food into your fat cells where it can be stored as fat. Even though you may not like its effects, this is an elegant compensatory mechanism that has helped us survive…If you do not want to gain weight you should avoid those low blood sugar dips that not only make you so hungry you overeat, but, also create a tendency in your body to store energy as fat. This means regular exercise and eating the kinds of meals and foods that control hypoglycemia. It also means not eating those sugary foods and caffeine that send your blood glucose levels on a roller coaster ride and worsen your adrenal fatigue and hypoglycemia.

    I have belonged to a list that discusses the theory OO. It is kind of difficult as I want to shout to the members, the reason why you aren’t feeling satisfied is because you are putting junk into your body! You’ve got to eat REAL food!

    I guess that’s all for now.

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  • Day 14

    Another 9 hours sleep! This is wonderful! Honestly, for the past 8 years I have been unable to stay in bed for more than 7-7.5 hours without waking up with my back stiff. The stiffness was painful, and it would take a while for my back to limber up. I’d have to sit up in a chair and let it slowly relax. I haven’t been able to stay in bed and sleep 9 hours in a row, in years!

    Now I just have to find out exactly what was causing the stiffness. I have a feeling it’s gluten, but I have no way to know.

    I started reading through the GAPS book from the beginning yesterday. I hope I can make my way through it this weekend. I have post-it-notes and a yellow highlighter close by, because I am planning to highlight every mention of Down Syndrome.

    I read something (in the book? online?) about how some foods with some of the bad bacteria make you feel like you have a hangover and you feel crappy like that every day. That would be horrible to feel like that every day.

    I guess for breakfast I’m going to try the chicken livers recipe that was mentioned on the GAPShelp list. I have been a liver hater all my life. I had to eat it as a child, and totally hated the stuff. But as an adult I found I liked braunschweiger and liverwurst. I’m not eating it now because it is processed and contains things I am not eating right now. The weirdest thing is the chicken livers recipe actually sounded delicious, if you can imagine that! I mean, my being a liver hater… we’ll see. I asked dh to buy some chicken livers, because I think I may have some anemia. Maybe that is why I’m so tired.

    More later.

    6:23pm. Dh put a pork roast in the crockpot and wanted green chili burritos for dinner. He bought two dozen flour tortillas. I truly love flour tortillas. But I am abstaining. I wish I could have a burrito, but it’s not too tempting.

    I will have some of the pork, pulled, with butter slathered on it.

    Oh, I did make the chicken livers thing today. I’m trying to remember what all I’ve had to eat today. I think I have had a Clementine cutie, a banana, and the chicken livers. Well, I was fairly disgusted by the smell when they were cooking. It was pretty strong. And the taste of the liver was very strong. I ate about 2 tablespoons in chunks, and decided to hit the remainder with the stick blender. I have eaten another 4 tablespoons, at two separate times. Not because I’m limiting myself of foods, but well, the stuff seems to grow on me. Grossly enough, it looks like mushy um, well, you know. But it has a certain taste to it that isn’t half bad.

    I am hoping it will help my energy level. Dr. Natasha in her book says if you are a GAPS person, you almost certainly have anemia. And she says that will cause tiredness. So I am hoping the liver will help.

    I slept nine hours last night, and by 1:30 today I felt tired again. I snuggled in my comfy bed with the GAPS book and read for about half an hour, then took a two hour nap. My dh had just arrived home and we went out to milk after about thirty minutes.

    My feet are definitely feeling good. My dh mentioned that I’ve been sitting a lot lately, so maybe that is the reason. They are just healing.

    I have thought of a plan to fix the hole in my bathtub. I am going to put a piece of tape over the hole (it is only about the size of a dime) and then I am going to put a napkin or something to absorb water, and tape over that, but a bigger area, like maybe 3″ inch tape over the little piece of initial tape. Then another napkin or paper towel, again to absorb water and then maybe a 6″ patch of tape. This tape is supposed to be waterproof. It is a metal type tape that is used for air conditioning units outdoors. And it is very sticky, so I hope it will seal my tub well enough so that I can take a bath.

    I am feeling more and more desperate to take a bath. As I have said in other daily reports, I’m not much of a bath person, but occasionally I want a bath, and usually during winter. And I’ve been craving one for days. Maybe a week.

    8:06pm. I ate a few pieces of the pork roast for dinner. I was planning to saute some cabbage, I do love cabbage. But I got my bathtub taped and now I want to take my bath. I just need to wait until my clothes finish drying in the dryer. I wish I’d had a chance to wash my bedsheets. I love getting into a clean bed after taking a nice long soak. Here are Baden’s recommendations for detox baths based on Dr. McBride-Campbell’s book. While looking for the bath recommendations, I also found this post which I was happy to see that I should be getting plenty of rest. I am so excited to see if I am able to sleep nine hours tonight. This means my new bedtime for work nights is going to have to change to 6pm. Whoa. Hey, and while I’m at it, I found a post at Baden’s blog about foot pain!

    Maybe I *should* have the cabbage first. Then I can go right to bed and relax and go to sleep.

    At any rate, I’m planning to go to sleep now.

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