September 2011
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Fever, go away!
Fever won’t let up, body aches, total and extreme exhaustion. This is one of the worst flares I can remember.
Also, my blood work came back with less than stellar reports. 5 of my blood irregularities worsened. My WBC count is too low. And other oddities. I am sure this is normal when you go off your meds. I am just ready for some of these natural remedies to work. I don’t...
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Had a bit of a stressful week. Sure enough, it send me in a flare. I am hoping it will go away soon. On Friday, I started getting a fever and stayed in bed almost all day. Followed that up by today and tomorrow in bed with fever.
Still eating vegan. Still exercising. Still losing weight. Slowly, but surely! Hair falling out and face breaking out (always happens on flares).
But tomorrow...
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How I am feeling.
For those of you who would like to know how this new diet is affecting me, I can tell you the following:
-I am NO worse than I was ON the meds. Yay! I am hoping it will only go up from here.
-I do have more symptoms like sores in my nose and hair loss and fever, BUT I have NO tummy pain! This has been a life of tummy pain that I am out of for the first time EVER.
-I think it may be working! ...
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Healthy and Fabulous Tacos! (Shhhh, they are...
Today, dinner was a huge success! I was really skeptical that I could pull this one off. My kids know that every dish I put in front of them these days is somehow a vegetable….either in disguise or straight up. One cares, the other doesn’t. My picky one takes a microscope out, it seems! And she is the one who first said the meat was great! Yes, she thought it was taco MEAT! And...
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The shake blues.
So sometimes I am all gung ho on those shakes of mine! I have now managed to get to the 3:1 ratio of veg to fruit, on the recommendation of Elisa at http://www.eaturveggies.com. Yay, me!
And then today, I woke up and wanted NOTHING to do with those dang shakes! I am tired of kale and collard greens for breakfast! One kidlet was having cereal with bananas in it and the other was having...
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My doc ROCKS!
For real. People constantly say things about doctors not being on board with natural remedies. Well, mine is defying the odds!
I went in today, the first time seeing him since going off of my meds, fully expecting him to make some sort of medical recommendation. He didn’t! He was happy with where I am. He wanted me to keep at it. He asked specifically what foods I was avoiding and was...
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Pie!
To celebrate the completion of my first successful juice fast, Luck and I made a pie. Gretchen had shared the website and recipe that she found online. It seemed like just the right thing to make. I was veeeeery skeptical what the kids would think. A pie with no added sugar? No flour? No butter or oil? The only thing that bothers me about this pie is the canned mandarin oranges. Sure, I got...
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Liquids!
Liquids, liquids, and more liquids!
I am SO ready to chew something! It is not that I am all that hungry. I just want to chew!!
Each day has looked like this:
Breakfast: Juice, that I juice myself…of any of the following: apple, beets, pear, orange, cucumber, carrots, etc… (prob a cup and a half of juice)
Lunch: Blended Kale or bok choy with carrots and tomatoes or fruits.
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Juice fast begins!
I am still having fever, achy body, exhaustion. My hair is falling out like MAD. My sores on my scalp are not going anywhere. I need some relief.
So the next step in this process of natural healing is doing a juice fast. Ideally, a water fast would happen right now, but I am back on Lexapro. And it may be too hard on my organs. My dietitian is recommending that I stick with juices that I...
