........Since I last posted. I am not sure if anyone is still checking in. However a little update from me on the days after.
I am still awaiting a follow up appointment with Ewa. I found my empty herb bottles, ripe for recycling the other day. It seems like a long time ago that I was brewing overnight teas and learning to dropper into my own mouth like an sick cat. My follow up will probably have to be early in October as September is already running away with me. I will let you know how this goes.
As for sugar.....I have not resumed my daily dark chocolate eating and I am still veering off some sweet foods. I am just getting used to honey again, although it feels incredibly sweet and I can only handle it in things at the moment as oppose to on breakfast stuffs. I have strangely gone off bananas, they seem very sweet and sticky and unappealing. Fruit like apples and berries has been fine. I am indifferent to fruit juice most of the time. This may all change........
I have re-introduced a few alcoholic drinks here and there, a couple of cyders and gin and tonic (although there is some debate as to whether the grains in gin are rendered null for gluten intolerance due to the distillation process or not). I can't face the fizzy crew (coke and ginger beer and things) although I have managed lemonade once or twice.
The best thing is that I think about sugary stuff whenever I consider food options for the day but I just acknowledge it and don't respond to it all the time. Sometimes I do, but to not be always considering a nibble of dark chocolate or cake is a relief. Like I mentioned before I don't want to be beholden to consuming anything except every day, except probably water! I still have an odd relationship to food where it feels more like a brain game than enjoyment but I am trying to see food as medecine and fuel, some of which should taste really good and some of which I should eat because I need it even if it tastes a little bitter or a flavour that I don't instantly love. I wouldn't force down anything really unpleasant to me, I find wrong textures impossible to overcome but weird flavours can grown on you. I am interested in the plants and food stuffs we instinctively know we need, a "gut" feeling as to what to eat, and the cravings which sometimes override these urges (which I feel are more mind-driven).
I am looking forward to having my own place and therefore a store cupboard of essentials back in my life. Day to day food shopping gets expensive. I am unsure if I cut the sugar out for long enough (one month) but I am keeping it low from now on regardless. It is nice to not have to scrutinise every single label and be a little bit more relaxed about it all.
I am still awaiting a follow up appointment with Ewa. I found my empty herb bottles, ripe for recycling the other day. It seems like a long time ago that I was brewing overnight teas and learning to dropper into my own mouth like an sick cat. My follow up will probably have to be early in October as September is already running away with me. I will let you know how this goes.
As for sugar.....I have not resumed my daily dark chocolate eating and I am still veering off some sweet foods. I am just getting used to honey again, although it feels incredibly sweet and I can only handle it in things at the moment as oppose to on breakfast stuffs. I have strangely gone off bananas, they seem very sweet and sticky and unappealing. Fruit like apples and berries has been fine. I am indifferent to fruit juice most of the time. This may all change........
I have re-introduced a few alcoholic drinks here and there, a couple of cyders and gin and tonic (although there is some debate as to whether the grains in gin are rendered null for gluten intolerance due to the distillation process or not). I can't face the fizzy crew (coke and ginger beer and things) although I have managed lemonade once or twice.
The best thing is that I think about sugary stuff whenever I consider food options for the day but I just acknowledge it and don't respond to it all the time. Sometimes I do, but to not be always considering a nibble of dark chocolate or cake is a relief. Like I mentioned before I don't want to be beholden to consuming anything except every day, except probably water! I still have an odd relationship to food where it feels more like a brain game than enjoyment but I am trying to see food as medecine and fuel, some of which should taste really good and some of which I should eat because I need it even if it tastes a little bitter or a flavour that I don't instantly love. I wouldn't force down anything really unpleasant to me, I find wrong textures impossible to overcome but weird flavours can grown on you. I am interested in the plants and food stuffs we instinctively know we need, a "gut" feeling as to what to eat, and the cravings which sometimes override these urges (which I feel are more mind-driven).
I am looking forward to having my own place and therefore a store cupboard of essentials back in my life. Day to day food shopping gets expensive. I am unsure if I cut the sugar out for long enough (one month) but I am keeping it low from now on regardless. It is nice to not have to scrutinise every single label and be a little bit more relaxed about it all.
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