Laura said:
Away With The Fairys said:
Our daily morning meal here is bacon and eggs or Gluten free chicken sausages , and for me xylitol in my cup of tea thats it. Keeps us going until we need to eat again. Have to say since being gluten/dairy free I never get any hunger pangs. Also talking of cravings , just dont get them. My mouth use to water on smelling the cakes being baked in the supermarkets etc. The price even fell on one of my old time faves (killers) Jam Donuts and i just look through them these days.
I am SOOO glad to hear this, AWTF! Your condition was very serious a year or two ago, but getting a grip on your diet seems to have done the trick. Maybe you want to share what was going on then?
And yeah, I hear ya about just not ever feeling hunger pangs like I used to and being able to just walk past the bread and cakes and all of that without a moment's hesitation. It's an amazing kind of freedom.
sure. I was Ill and I mean very ill. I had a number of operations in the local hospital , i´ve forgotten how many now but over 6 operation within a two week period. The problem at that time was believed to be due to my type 2 diabetes , I had abscesses in my groin area , and having never been to hospital in my life I was terrified in case I kicked the bucket and so put up with the pain -(The word pain being an Understatement really)
It was not just painful though. I could not stand up or walk either , if i tried to stand up the gravity would leave me near to screaming. , When inflamed i would be laying on the sofa for any time from , at the beginning 2 weeks. I would live on dissolving pain killers into water and hoping for the best.
The ugly bit was waiting for the abscesses to burst , then i would feel slightly better , be able to stand and walk and then carry on my life as I had done before , eating chocolate bars , cakes , jam donuts , drink beer and so on. Meals where mostly vegetarian , very high in Carbs.
Then the happy period would be over after about a week or so and the abscesses and the pain would return , and then back to sofa living because i simply could not walk or stand up. This went on for years , i have forgotten how many now , but definitely more than three years.
Sometimes I would get the abscesses under my armpit also. This even in my teens , 30 years ago.
Anyways the final straw was when weeks turned into months of laying on that sofa , I tried every remedy i could find in the alternative world , but this time they were not going and the abscesses were growing.
I lost the capacity to think , meaning I reached a point were i did not have thoughts at all , only excruciating pain which I knew was not going this time. I wept for I knew I could fight the pain no more and I had to go to hospital. The Hammer who had had to put up with my moaning and groaning all this time allowing me my free will of not wanting to go to the hospital was relieved when I asked her to call a doctor to come out.
The doctor came out , took one look and the next thing was I had an ambulance team carrying me down stairs on a weird stretcher/chair kind of thing.
I received morphine at the hospital straight away but it did not alleviate the pain.I was put on a drip and the first operation took place the following morning.
Operation after operation , they could not find the HQ in my body for the abscess making.They found one Abscess in me which was the size of a chicken egg they said.
After the period of operations were over , i shuffled for some time before I could walk again , I was depressed for some time before and after the operations and believe me when I say I just wanted out of this life , I wanted out. I did not really care for very much .
As time passed I continued with my old addictions/habits and yes you guessed correctly the old troubles appeared again.
Not so bad as to end up back on that sofa , but if something did not change then it would not have been long.
Then I started taking note of the new knowledge and research here on the forum re health and diet , it took some time to start taking it seriously , but eventually I did . Laura offered suggestions to me off list which I took and am eternally grateful for , and voila!
It was a little harder for The Hammer to cross over as she had been a vegetarian for a verrrrry loooong time , the thought of eating meat was a little repulsive to her , but she knew she had to try because what she was reading here also made sense to her.She has a medical background so knew the research coming up made sense.
Im not 100% free of potential problems , there are certain things that need to be added to my daily intake once , and if finances pick up. Soon we will be moving into our renovated house which will free up some cash as we are paying two rents at present. Then pro biotics and other items will be added to our intake.
We bought a hell of a lot of pure swine fat before the fat tax came here in Denmark.
Our two year old is also totally gluten and dairy free , he is one for the bacon and real beef , chops and so on. He has not had so much as a sniffle in two years.True! Is that usual?
He is also quite strong.Rugby player springs to mind :)
I have also lost over 12 kilos since the gluten , dairy , lo carbs intake also.
By taking my health seriously and following the paleo diet I am enjoying meal times much more , I have much more energy than I have had in many years , but I really thought that I would never reach this point in my life ever again.
As I said I sense that when we make the move to the new house I think there will be even more improvement.
I totally realize more than ever that people make lousy , stupid excuses for not attempting to better their health , they indeed do take some strange kind of enjoyment out of their suffering , but don't seem to be able to observe this in themselves.
You really have to want to be healthy , and to break those unhealthy chains , you have to say STOP! I look back at the years i wasted in stupidity because I would´nt stop , the addictions to crap was a stupid way of escaping reality in some way , like the story of ostriches putting their head in the sand.
I really only have Laura , Psyche and others here to thank for their persistence in bringing "
what is" to the publics attention.
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