raising myself from perdition

[lunabee34]

1. I had bloodwork done today--thyroid and celiac panel. I wanted an actual appointment with the doc, but this will do. I should have results by Monday. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET MY THYROID BE DEAD AND THUS BE AN EXPLANATION FOR THESE BODILY SHENANIGANS.

2. I found a dress for that freaking wedding. Naturally, it's Calvin Klein. I made myself deeply sad by going to Dillard's (excellent online plus size selection, maybe a fourth of that in store) and then David's Bridal. But Macy's was awesome. I found multiple dresses that fit me. I left the store feeling awesome.

3. After we go to the wedding, I'm doing a thirty day autoimmune diet. It's crazeballs restrictive and will require a metric fuckton of planning as I will not be able to eat out or eat most of what the family is eating. After the thirty days, I'll go back to eating most of what I was eating before with some exceptions. I'll post more about that closer to time.

4. I'm also going to focus more on strength training in the coming months. Lots of good info from you guys on that front.

Comments

[kore]

But did you grip yourself tight? //ducks

I hope you get good results on the blood tests! Also, I hate restrictive diets. I'm on one basically for life now. I know it's so much healthier for me, but....meh. :-/

[monanotlisa]

1. Oh man, I hope you get clarity! It's the worst to not!know. I remember getting bloodwork, and my GP squinting at the weird combination of low platelet counts, high inflammation markers, and low iron, without any condition he could really pinpoint (he had already treated me for a thyroid problem, and he had actually resolved it so those markers were fine -- bless that old doc).

3. Wow, intense! Tell me about it. I am finishing a special course of treatment right now, and will hopefully find the time and energy to blog about it!

[lunabee34]

1. I'm just ready for my thyroid to actually die. Until then, I'm dealing with symptoms without meds. Maybe the meds won't really change anything, but I'm hopeful.

3. I would love to hear about your course of treatment. I hope it's been helpful for you. I will definitely blog about this bizarre diet when I start it.

[lunabee34]

Ha ha. You don't know how hard I tried to get the whole thing into the title, but it just sounded so weird: gripping myself tight and raising myself from perdition LOL

I'm sorry you have to deal with restrictive diet. :( What are you not allowed to eat?

[kore]

"I'm the one who helped you grip yourself tight and -- " no, no. "I'm the one who saw you grip yourself tight and -- "

I have chronic pancreatitis, so it is a long, long list. Basically a whole lot of fatty foods (red meat, most cheeses, butter, yoghurt, pizza, anything fried, potato chips, ice cream). Also a lot of storebought baked goods like cake, cookies, candy, doughnuts, bagels, etc. I can have some organic versions of food I like (organic whole wheat bakery bread, hummus made ONLY with olive oil, homemade candy that doesn't have a lot of additives in it) but basically most processed stuff is Right Out. It's not curable, or reversible, but I can control it pretty well through diet, and it resulted in me basically learning how to cook. It's a very HEALTHY diet. It's just....like, the opposite of what I ate for most of my life, LOL.

//MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MOI'S PANCREAS (shit, I didn't know the pancreas did anything other than insulin until mine went haywire)

[lunabee34]

No, no, I do want to know this stuff.

I think the part about the restrictive diets that is so annoying is that there are no short cuts. All the already prepped stuff and quick easy food is off the table. Since going gluten free my mom has commented more than once that she's eating well and doesn't at all feel deprived but that meal planning and prep are so much more tedious and time consuming than before.

[kore]

If you want to know all about trying to control chronic pancreatitis through diet, I AM YOUR GIRL. I don't want to take the enzymes, for various reasons, and while there's no cure and I can't Fix It, eating well does keep it under control. I'm very very lucky in one sense, that I don't have the really horrible chronic debilitating pain some people do. I do get some bad pain, but it's infrequent and not unbearable.

Since going gluten free my mom has commented more than once that she's eating well and doesn't at all feel deprived but that meal planning and prep are so much more tedious and time consuming than before.

FUCKEN EXACTLY

I mean, I actually now kinda like cooking! I think I am not even that bad at it! (At least my husband is VERY appreciative, which is nice.) I know I'm eating better and it's a lot better for me in the long run! BUT....it also means you never get time off, and if you're having a bad day or crash or whatever, it's a lot harder. (Some friends of mine have healthy snacks or even frozen premade meals, I'm usually not that organized.) It's good sometimes in that even if I'm really depressed, if I make the food and eat it I usually feel better, and then can tick off something on the 'done list,' but at the same time....dammit sometimes I'm just tired and want comfort food and not to CHOP STUFF and just want a piece of pizza. And nope, because now pizza makes me sick.

Usually then I'll have some oatmeal. Heh.


-- Oh yeah I forgot, eating better is so much more expensive, both time- and money-wise. It really is. And people wonder why poor people eat prepackaged unhealthy crap, other than the prepackaged unhealthy crap being shoved down their throats (seriously, there are books I've read about how giant corporations deliberately set up corner stores in poor neighbourhoods stuffed with those snacks, there's Burger King, etc.). //off soapbox

[lunabee34]

OMG, the time part.

It's so convenient to eat a sandwich or use packaged broth or pop a pizza in the oven or open a can of soup. Fortunately, I've found items in all those categories that are gf, but they are almost invariably more expensive.

At least my mom got diagnosed first so if I am, I can just piggy back on everything she's learned. LOL

[kore]

Yeah, the first thing I do now whenever I buy or eat ANYTHING is look at the labels, and not to see if it's 'healthy' either, but if there's any kind of soybean oil, safflower oil, blahblah anything but olive oil, NOPE. HCFS is right out, too. And if there's no label, I don't eat it, because not eating something outweighs being sick.

Bah.

[gloss]

*cheering for you, always*

[lunabee34]

Thank you, sweetie.

[archersangel]

glad you found something to wear for that wedding.

hope the blood-work turns out alright.

good luck with with the diet.

[lunabee34]

Thank you on all counts!