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06 June 2016
Weigh-in:
155.8 lb
lost so far:
3.8 lb
still to go:
0.8 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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losing 2.8 lb a week
03 June 2016
I love learning everything about food and how it can be used to heal the body. That healing could come from what the food can naturally offer you, or possibly omitting certain types of foods to better yourself. I feel a lot of health issues are caused by food allergies. Nothing could have proved this to be truer than knowing first hand the affects of food on my body.
I have a condition called vulvodynia. There are conditions related like clitorodynia and others that I cannot recall the names of. They all basically have to do with pain…down there.
It requires me to eat a low oxalate diet...and that can be really hard at times let me tell you. As long as I follow the diet though, I'm not in discomfort/pain.
The thing that sucks is I cannot eat things like spaghetti, chocolate, nuts, potatoes, oranges, spinach… the list goes on.
When I first started having pain I was misdiagnosed by my obgyn multiple times and put in worse pain before I stopped with the doctors and did some research. I came across the low oxalate diet and saw that everything I’d been eating recently on the top of the list, especially things like chocolate, hummus, nuts and beans. The list ranges from high oxalate foods to low oxalate foods. Seeing those on the top of the list definitely raised red flags for me and I immediately stopped eating them. They suggest you omit high oxalate foods at first and then slowly work your way down to medium, then low. But forget that nonsense! ….I cut out everything but low oxalate and waited to see if it helped.
Within 2 weeks the pain I had been feeling for years went away.
There is no way for them to test me and see if I have vulvodynia, so there is no point in me going back to the doctor to tell them “hey guess what I found out…”. They diagnose you with it when you have unexplained pain that they cannot diagnose with anything else. A lot of woman suffer from it and do not even realize.
So as you can imagine, it’s frustrating trying to eat healthy. It’s one thing to have a certain food allergy, like nuts or shellfish. But when you’re allergic to such a wide variety of things it can get hard.
When I tell people I’m allergic to, let’s say, chocolate, they assume I’m going to break out into hives, get really sick to my stomach or go into anaphylactic shock if I eat it. And honestly…most of the time I let them think that. I don’t want to explain to them that..yea, no…it just makes me who-ha feel really awful. That’s just not something you talk to someone about as they’re offering you a chocolate cupcake lol.
Low oxalate diets are also good for people with a wide range of other health issues, especially kidney stones.
It's not all I am, but when it comes to food (and this is place to keep track of that) it is the thing I'll focus on the most.
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03 June 2016
Weigh-in:
157.0 lb
lost so far:
2.6 lb
still to go:
2.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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losing 1.2 lb a week
28 May 2016
Weigh-in:
158.0 lb
lost so far:
1.6 lb
still to go:
3.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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losing 2.8 lb a week
23 May 2016
Weigh-in:
160.0 lb
lost so far:
0 lb
still to go:
5.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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steady weight
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