What are we eating and what's bad for our LS?
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I'm learning in this forum that one girl's treat is another's poison. There's no one right diet. Here's what I eat:
I make my own yogurt with excellent organic small-local-dairy whole milk and started from a local cheesemaking supplies place. I preserve my garden's fruit and use it in the yogurt. We have organic oatmeal most days for breakfast, with our neighbours' maple syrup and fruit and yogurt. Lunch is usually great seedy bread and nut butter. Suppers are vegetable-intensive with small servings of meat. Even when we have burgers or sausages on a white bun (which is about the worst thing we ever eat) it's local organic artisan pork and local grass-fed beef. If I snack at night it's organic cereal and almond milk.
We've cut out all the bad stuff in the last six months. I was very lucky that my husband's nurse practitioner told him to lose twenty or thirty pounds. Instantly I was able to stop buying him chips and chocolate, pies and butter tarts. And I only bake occasionally, an oatmeal fruit crisp.
Recently I've learned that a big piece of chocolate cake or a large ice cream cone or two butter tarts are all too much even for an occasional treat. I get a blowtorch butt immeditaely. It's been extra good in the month or so since I quit that.
I drink two cups of organic coffee brewed through paper and two five-ounce glasses of make-your-own red wine (less preservative in it that off-the shelf)
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Morrell1951
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Jeepers Morrell1951
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Had LS about, I think, 11 or 12 years and it was fairly settled for quite some time, clobetasol twice a weeek, but last two weeks it is well out of order and I don't know for the life of me why this is.
Off to eat my organic porridge now!
Morrell1951 Jeepers
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But I have LS.
I think stress is much more important, and decades of accumulated stress isn't easily shaken off.
suedm Morrell1951
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The sad thing is that the young today appear to have even MORE stressors in ther lives than we have had
jenfullrecovery suedm
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I was diagnosed with CFS, fibro and depression back in 2003 and lived with it from 2001 - 2009. I am now fully recovered, thriving and teaching women how to break out of the viscous painful cycle.
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suedm Morrell1951
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Hope that hasnt put you all to sleep!
jenfullrecovery suedm
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suedm jenfullrecovery
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Morrell1951
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suedm Morrell1951
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Because of the diverticulitis caused I believe when I had a series of lunch time meetings where sandwiches on white bread were served- and the working days were long and eating late in the evening meant snatched snacks after a long train journey home . A week on an antibiotic drip morphine and PAIN convinced me; and I resolved leaves roots and fruits - with some proteins thrown in were my best bet. Because i could hold my liqueur and could eat a whole box of chocs- these had to go too- can't drink and think, and chocs became too rich For many years I have opposed the use of antibiotics in animals feed as a routine so I try and stick with organic when possible and when I found the number of chemicals and pregnancies cows had to keep them lactating I thought not for me! That is the first time iI have 'fessed up to the real reason why I dont drink milk in tea or coffee- or indeed neat! LS was after ACUTE stress on top of chronic stress (i used to get chest pains when my husband walked into the room- he was Mr Angry and I would tense up -- the lack of proper breathing caused the pains - I had rapid response to chest pain investigations and was found to be very healthy 'cept for not breathing properly!)
Morrell1951 suedm
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jenfullrecovery Morrell1951
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suedm jenfullrecovery
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Best wishes to you Jen
jen01988 Morrell1951
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Morrell1951 jen01988
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I've really decided recently that sugar is the biggest food threat to my LS. My Chinese doctor had me straightened out on sugar twelve years ago and I'm feeling better all the time, with less desire to eat more than I need of anything.