: Thanks, Sandra. A hug for you, too!
:

: I appreciate the extra eyes. I have
: been doing the food and feeling
: fantastic for more than five
: years, and this is the worst I
: have ever felt. I need to fix
: this.

: My journal is filled with “that
: didn’t work” kinds of things for
: the past couple of weeks.

: Some things I know...steel cut oats
: no longer stay in my system long
: enough to give me any nutrients (I
: imagine)...as of about two weeks
: ago I don’t really want to eat,
: feel kind of cruddy before and
: after whatever I am eating. I have
: started to eat some of my old
: standbys even though they don’t
: appeal to me and logically
: shouldn’t work....like who eats
: salmon for breakfast, or who eats
: pizza-y stuff when she feels
: nauseous...but at this rate I feel
: kind of like I have nothing to
: lose. These things I have been
: eating have always worked for me
: before, for a long time, and held
: me beautifully, so I am kind of
: force-feeding myself. Hope that
: makes sense. (Weight down a bit.
: Protein needs at .4 = 68-70
: grams.)

: Over the past month or so I have been
: eating less popcorn and butter
: than I sometimes did, and less
: corn and corn chips. First I
: thought this might be some corn
: detox, but adding a bit in and out
: seems not to make a difference.

: Sleep is great I’d say, in bed by 10
: if not before, and I sleep well
: through the night almost all the
: time. I walk 30-40 minutes 3-4
: times a week lately not much more
: exercise than that right now.
: Usually I have just a bit of sweet
: potato or baby food sweet potato
: before bed. I drink water, and add
: 1-2 tsp. apple cider vinegar
: morning and night as I have for a
: long time.

: Wednesday, today, up at 7 am: 4 oz
: salmon, cup GF old fashioned oats
: and about 1/3 c – ½ c blueberries
: by 7:30.

: At 9 I was feeling nauseous and I had
: an ounce of almonds.

: Lunch at 11:30: quinoa, (box-sized
: serving, like ¼ cup dry, almost
: one cup prepared) with 3 oz beef
: roast, a zucchini, 1/8 of large
: gala apple and some (about an
: ounce) white corn chips.

: 3 pm: home-made oatcake with almonds
: and PP in them

: Supper at 5:30: 2 and a half pc
: millet toast and some lean sausage
: and cheese pizza-ish topping, ¼
: cup brown rice, cup spaghetti
: squash, cup broccoli, 1/8 apple.

: It is now 8 pm and I feel slightly
: nauseous and off, just not right
: at all. Which I am getting used to
: but don’t like at all. I’m going
: to have sweet potato (or force a
: protein and carb snack?) and go to
: bed early again. Tomorrow I won’t
: have oats but I’ll try cream of
: buckwheat instead.
: ~~~~~~~
: Tuesday up at 6:30: salmon, GF oats,
: blueberries, almonds

: 9 am: GF seed crackers

: 11:30 lunch: 3 oz beef, cup brown
: rice, peas, balsamic vinegar
: dressing,
: ½ sweet potato, few corn chips

: 3:30 snack/picnic: ½ cheese stick,
: about two oz of ham, ½ zucchini,
: few seed crackers

: Supper at 5:45: 4 oz chicken breast,
: ½ cup black beans, lots of
: spinach, cup quinoa, balsamic
: dressing, 7 blackberries

: 8 pm popcorn with butter, about 4
: cups, early bed by 8:45, slept
: well
: ~~~~~~~
: Monday up at 6:45: salmon, GF oats,
: blueberries
: 9:15 am: seed crackers, reg V*8 jc
: 12:30 lunch (late): miracle soup with
: celery, sweet potato, golden
: potato, 3 oz pork, large sweet
: potato from microwave, 8
: blackberries
: 3:15: snack of almonds
: 5:40: lots of spinach, 4 ½ oz
: chicken, ¾ cup brown rice, ¼ large
: gala apple, cup spaghetti squash,
: lime corn chips
: 8:30 pc millet toast with PB
: ~~~~~~
: Sunday up at 6 am: shake 24 gr pp, ½
: cup almond milk, large spoon
: almond butter, steel cut oats, 1/3
: cup blueberries (This did not stay
: with me, and made me stop trying
: to use my normal steel cut oats
: which I had been having for months
: before this. I am using GF old
: fashioned this week with not much
: better results.)
: 9:30 snack of two oz chicken, few
: bites of zuc and brown rice
: 11:45 am: pork, black beans,
: tomatoes, corn Qdoba naked
: burrito, corn chips
: 3 pm snack: 2 oz chicken, zuc, brown
: rice
: 5:45 pm: 3 oz beef, 2 pc millet
: toast, seed crackers,
: blackberries, peas
: 9 pm: oatcake

Hi Susan:

It's good to hear your voice. I hate to state the obvious, but what if you are still sick? You might want to check in with your HCP.

Hugs,

Dori