The Good:
- I’m learning more about what the hell is wrong with my body. Specifically, when I go to the doc on Friday this week, I’m going to request a full sex-hormone panel and a full thyroid panel, including a TPO test (to rule out Hashimoto’s). Today my sister is having the rest of her thyroid removed. If I was a person who prayed, I would pray for her today.
- Not having to snack – I know I keep mentioning this, but it’s such a benefit I have to say it again. Today I’m going to be in my car or at a training for almost 10 hours. I know I’m not going to be desperate for snacks during that time and I’ll be alert to drive 6 of those 10 hours. That’s awesome.
The Bad:
- Dysmenorrhea - I’m 2 weeks late. Took another prego test. Still negative. I’m just hormonally screwed up. And the icing on the cake is that every few days I have another bout of PMS – bad mood, argumentative, tired, over it. Had one of those days yesterday. This isn’t the first time I’ve been late – as I mentioned in a previous post, my cycle has been a bit screwy since I had a miscarriage a year ago. This is the latest I’ve ever been though, without being pregnant.
- My Mother – had another phone conversation with her yesterday that left me feeling like crying. Actually I did cry (see #1 above). This was our conversation:
Me: Mom, have you checked the margarine in your refrigerator yet for trans fats?
(I’m taking it slow with the dietary recommendations. My parents don’t make big changes.)
Mom: Oh, I’m not eating margarine anymore.
Me: You’re not!?!?!? That’s great!
Mom: No not because of that (i.e. “you”), but because of something else. I went to my doctor and told her I was eating margarine, and she said, “Margarine! Why are you eating Margarine! You’re on a low-fat diet!”
Me: Oh Mom…NO ONE should be on a low-fat diet.
Mom: (making uncomfortable noises, but otherwise silent. Then…) Well, anyway, the margarine will be bulking up the back of the refrigerator from now on.
Me: You’re not going to just throw it out?
Mom: (more silence)
Me: Will you at least check it for trans fats if you’re going to keep it? Partially hydrogenated oils? That’s pretty much the worst thing you could put in your body.
Mom: Oh.
What a bunch of crap. My poor brainwashed mom has struggled with her weight my whole life (and probably longer). She believes her damn doctor who tells her she needs to cut the fat (as if low-fat margarine wasn’t low enough), despite 40+ years of experience to the contrary. No wonder she’s always been depressed.
Gotta go. Baby’s up. Let the adrenal fatigue fest begin.
I nearly blew a circuit today when I read what Dr. Kruse wrote on ritalin and ADD. I sent the follwing e-mail to my mother:
Dr. Jack Kruse, MD, a neurosurgeon wrote the following about Ritalin/Adderal, and other stimulants etc….
“… That it why i am not a fan of treating all kids with stimulants. Stimulants also have big unintended side effect of uncoupling metobolism from leptin signalling so these kids always grow up with weight and thyroid issues compounding their clinical picture. The worst reverse T3 (Leptin Resistant) levels i have seen are in ADD adults. That makes dealing with their diets real tough. The data on transporters is copied from wiki…..enjoy! Twin studies indicate that the disorder is highly heritable and that genetics are a fact”
Leptin Resistance is when the weight theromstat in the brain is broken and allows uncontrollable weight gain because it can’t sense from the fat cells that they are “full” so one keeps eating/gaining weight. Also, similac/gerber foods, not getting breast fed also screw up signalling. I seem to recall getting fat after I was on my Ritalin pills in fourth grade that that child drug pusher, Barbara XXXXX at the XXXXX school kept pushing so my handwriting might be a little more straight. Nice one teach!…dumb shrinks and “teachers” destroying peoples health to make their jobs a little easier drugging kids.
Feh!
BenG – Ya, the worst part of all of this, in my opinion, is being misled and deceived by so-called authority figures. Part of me feels like it’s my duty to inform the masses of the truth about food, nutrition, and carbohydrates. Problem is, so far, no one wants to hear that from me.
I guess I’ll just have to be a beacon of fabulous health and vitality, which will naturally elicit questions as to how I did it. I wish the process was faster.