Food log

Date:   7/27/2006 8:24:33 AM ( 18 y ago)

Today I broke down and had chocolate and peanut due to period problems.

Summary thus far:
This is the 10th day of no dairy.
This is more than the 10th day of no wheat, and essentially no gluten (slight bits of gluten can be in the flavorings of the processed foods I've eaten).
For both dairy and wheat, I do not crave them constantly now, but there are moments where I do, then it passes quickly.
Chocolate is another topic entirely. When the craving hits, it hits for hours - see notes on moods, below.

I'm happy to report however, that I can now go without dairy and wheat without getting high cortisol reactions, like I did last winter. Last winter I was so high-cortisol at night when attempting to avoid these two food categories, (withdrawal), that it affected my sleep, and I had to abandon the diet.

The biggest problems I've had over the past week are NOT cortisol; they are:

1. What to have available to treat surprise headaches? On days when I'm not having regular BMs and enemas don't work, and I get a resulting back-of-neck headache, trying to find foods that ease that headache. (I made a hand written list of ok foods that help)

2. What to have available to treat surprise mood problems? like the mood that led to the chocolate incident today. My period being due aggravated this today. But there were previous days when my mood would change quickly. When it was a sadness issue, tryptophan helped, but when it is an angry-depression instead of a sad one...not sure. I've been taking the following things as a routine to try to level my moods: Gingko, Vitex, and Calcium-D-Glucarate.
Note: this month I was taking just one vitex capsule per day, and had some surprise depression feelings crop up suddenly on some days, and had my period be late. Two months ago I used TWO capsules of vitex per day, and although my period was late then too, I experienced NO depression on any of the days leading up to the period. So...maybe it requires that higher dose of two vitex capsules for the mood improvement... but jury is still out on the effect on my period.

3. What to have available to deal with lack of BMs on some days, despite use of epsom salts and herbal laxative at times? This condition causes the headaches, and also severely aggraves cravings.

What to eliminate next? Only one day of chocolate doesn't mean I'll need it tomorrow, my period will probably appear and the craving for chocolate will thus be resistable. So, over the past week I have learned to live without wheat, just about all gluten, dairy other than butter, and all cocoa products, and I'm ready to eliminate something else. Peanuts or corn maybe. To be announced soon...

Today was a VERY difficult day. Period is due, I get severe cravings at this time. Felt an angry-depression today (not a sad one, which I can treat with tryptophan). This added to my cravings for the chocolate. After eating the chocolate, the angry-depression disappeared.

BREAKFAST
Vegetable broth
Raw nuts (no peanuts)
A few carrots and slices of raw squash
A little sauteed vegetable with garlic
Breakfast sandwich: egg and raw salmon with ketchup on rice cake
(ketchup has corn ingredient)
Raw tomato

EARLY LUNCH
Beef patty with lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup, mustard
(ketchup has corn ingredient)
Lemonade with Splenda (still working on getting rid of that)
Raw nuts with homemade carob coating (no peanuts)
A piece of sugarless gum
A little black coffee
Rice crackers with butter (crackers have soy, corn ingredients)

MID AFTERNOON SNACK
Broke down and had CHOCOLATE with PEANUTS. At least it did NOT have any dairy in it.
Also a very ok smoothie: coconut milk and frozen strawberries.

DINNER
Salmon
Raw potatoes
Soy/Oat fiber "bread"
olive oil
DESSERT: blueberries, and a little buckwheat bread with butter

 

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