Friday, September 13, 2013

who's driving the malaise-car?

I woke up cold this morning, and a couple of times (briefly) during the night.  This means that something i consumed YESTERDAY was deleterious to my well-being.  I'm lucky that i have a promptly-responsive barometer, because those who have problems that take awhile to be observed have a much harder time figuring out what went wrong.

What i ate yesterday:  black coffee, important supplements, the last serving of Fat Fast Cookbook cheese-broccoli soup (the first time i had no problem on a larger bowlful, so i exonerate it), swiss cheese and pork rinds (similar side-comment), one small Campari-and-soda (ditto), 6 oz. chardonnay (ditto), and the condemned-by-elimination leftover-pork-roast-based chow mein i made!  It contained the coconut oil i cooked it all in, a minuscule amount of konjac flour (the stuff shirataki noodles are made of) to thicken, meat and natural broth, a little shallot, a little canned mushroom, moderate amounts of celery and canned bean sprout, and the largest vegetable component, my half of the small can of bamboo shoots i shredded to make the "noodle bed."

Insignificant quantities of carbs, as you see!  Can't blame the rice because i didn't have any.   Not likely the shallot or celery as i seem to find them non-toxic.  I've had the same brand of mushroom recently, and they're from the same cartonful of cans, so that too is unlikely.  Only suspects, the histaminic buildup of the meat, or the MULTIPLE GOITROGENIC COMPOUNDING of the bean sprouts and bamboo shoots.

Even eating tiny quantities of certain questionable foods can gang up together to give a sensitive person problems!  Now, imagine that your doctor is trying to help you determine how much your dosage of exogenous thyroid hormone should be, and you're eating a mixed diet of all sorts of things that affect your native output...!  No wonder it can be such a battle and such a puzzle.

What i DIDN'T eat yesterday, now -- ruminant meat that i know makes me feel GOOD...

7 comments:

  1. In my case, the less milk products I consume (like cheese and especially Greek yogurt), the better off I am, but you know how it is difficult to point your finger on something.

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    1. Yes, i rarely use yogurt or sour cream, and i'm careful with the amount of cheese i eat. All January 2012 i did a paleo elimination diet, and i added cheese back in February -- i was at the airport and needed food before a trip, and the fruit and cheese platter was the only thing that place had that would do the job. i probably had about four ounces, and i was miserable afterward. Nowadays, i can handle two ounces fine (as long as i'm not having a histamine-intolerance flare-up), but i DEFINITELY keep it under four! :-)

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  2. I am recovering at the moment after eating yogurt for a week. My excuse was that I would possibly benefit from some probiotics because I had a week of antibiotics treatment prior to it ,as a precaution after having dental implants inserted. I choose to follow all instructions because if anything would go wrong, it would be huge.
    The problem with yogurt reaction - it never starts immediately, it allows me to be trapped into the illusion that that time would be different. Ha!

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    1. sometimes, antibiotic therapy is completely appropriate! it's good to be able to replenish the gut-bugs we lost. :-) maybe next time a probiotic supplement will make you feel better than the yogurt does? good luck in re-establishing them....

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    2. Tess, I was just lazy - My husband believes he needs yogurt , so it is always in my refrigerator, and supplements I had to buy. Next time I hope to be better prepared.

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  3. hard to say what part of your sandwich made it a shit sandwich.

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    1. :-) true. but knowing what DIDN'T helps one do the detective work. i really hadn't noticed the sprouts and shoots on lists of goitrogens before, but when i looked them up individually ... there they were.

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