HOwever, I've had a couple issues to deal with lately. One, I haven't been able to get online to this board for several days, and wanted to so much. So I was left to figure this out on my own til I could get here. I went to a nutritionist as an alternative way to try to manage my chronic pain issues thinking nothing about my weight coming into her picture. I'm so tired of living on pain pills and muscle relaxers for 20 yrs. So she sold me a fortunes worth of supplements, vitamins, and diagnosed me with a long list of stuff my Dr. thinks is insane.
But what really got my attention was her telling me she wants me on the Blood type diet and gave me the little book for it to get me started. So I read it, and decided Id' try it but COMBINE it with NO-S living. Boy was that hard... I don't have any problems eating the "books" way, since being a blood type A, I'm supposed to feast and survive mostly with totally natural foods, fruits and vegetables. Well wouldn't that be good for ANY blood type? As in, people in general?
At any rate... there were some specific limitations she put on it, as in certain types of wheat stuff, no sugar at all, not even fake. Only the natural stuff from the health food store, et... Well that's sort of what I was leaning to anyway, to eat healthier in general. I guess where it got hard was deciding what to do with the fruit or SF jello she told me to eat in between meals as snacks, and then of course, I would NOT be able to enjoy a sweet treat that NoSing would have allowed on weekends. So there were some clear differences where I had to make a decision, on which one to go with.
I do think there's a way to combine them, and still satisfy her on wanting to get rid of all the yeast and other crappy stuff she says is in my body... But yesterday and today, it was NoSing all the way honey. Blueberry bread pudding, last nights snack and todays breakfast. But you know what? I feel like crap after eating so much of it that I did. Ive been a glutton about it in fact. And I think I know why. I was stressed, having to deal with "rules" again, struggling at the grocery store on whether this type of whatever was better for me than that type. So I reverted back to my last 35 yrs of food issues, weird food relationship crap,etc... I got into that "I'll show them" mentality, and did whatever the hell-o I wanted to do. Even though I'd lost 2.5 lbs in the last couple weeks, I probably just ruined it this weekend. Does any of this make sense??
I was learning a bit about control doing the NoS way, and feeling good about making positive changes with my food relationships... then pigged out this weekend to the point of feeling badly about myself like I've done all these years. And all because of trying to follow a specific plan, but mostly mad about having to deal with details, how many grams of this vs. how many of that, how much wheat was in it, gluten, etc... sugar...blah blah blah. I mean I was JUST getting away from that kind of crap, then she tells me I have all this stuff that I need to release from my body. I mean I'm not even supposed to have strawberries and mango, or even apples, and no mushrooms (yeast) or even cucumbers! What's up with that??? What could possibly be wrong about those? Any nutrition people out there to help with this? They're all things I enjoy a great deal.
I just think I need to do my NoS thing, with as much healthy food as possible, and if tha occasionally includes strawberries, mangoes, etc... then so be it. I was just getting into the mentality of wanting to focus on healthy foods, then wham. Some of the healthy stuff I was enjoying are banned now, and I don't know why. So now when I start to eat a strawberry or an apple, I'm dealing with guilt issues again. WHEN WILL IT STOP???????????????
The only positive to all this is my little weight loss thing, and I did join the Y this week too, but only worked out once so far. I just don't know what to attribute the loss to.
Anyway, sorry for ranting and thx for listening. I'm off to read threads.
