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clevermanka) wrote2012-09-26 10:05 am
clevermanka) wrote2012-09-26 10:05 am
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Chewing on it
I think I forgot to post about something I discovered about my post-eating swelling issues. They're worse (much worse) when I'm stressed. Physical stress, mental stress, doesn't matter. If my cortisol levels are elevated, I swell more.
Here is a perfect (but not the only) example: after Smoker on Saturday (after fasting all day), I ate a piece of the rosemary roasted chicken left over from Feast. Just plain roasted chicken. No sauce, no nothing. Just a piece of roasted chicken. By the time I got home from site, my belly was hard and rounded (it stuck out almost as far as my boobs). That wasn't the first time I've noticed a more dramatic reaction to food eaten during or soon after a stressful situation (even if I don't feel stressed out).
This was the final indication to me that my issues stem from my adrenal problems. So that is where my focus is going to be for the foreseeable future.
I am putting some thought into the idea of how long it might take me to get a handle on my health issues if I put all my time and money into pursuing health. Would it be worth six months of being broke and mostly socially unavailable if it meant I could see summer of 2013 in good health? Would it be worth nine months? A year? How would I react if, after X amount of time, effort, and funding, I was no better than I am now? How devastating would that be?
Pondering.
Tonight I'm trying yet another type of therapy with another practitioner in the Kinetikos office. Clementine does a type of energy work (I know, I know. Energy work?) that put me off when I read about it, but after speaking with her about her own techniques I have a little more confidence that this might work for me. It sounds not terribly different from the NMT therapy that Mikell Adams used to (resoundingly successfully) treat my seasonal allergies. A lot of the treatment has to do with a patient's conscious and unconscious readiness for change and improvement. So...it'll be interesting, at least.
I'm conducting another food/eating experiment today. If I eat a sizable breakfast by 9am but fast for the rest of the day, will my stomach still be swollen by 8pm? Is the act of sleeping crucial to my de-swelling, or is it just time? Because if I can eat breakfast on Friday and not have to do two full-day fasts in a row this weekend, that would be fantastic.
Here is a perfect (but not the only) example: after Smoker on Saturday (after fasting all day), I ate a piece of the rosemary roasted chicken left over from Feast. Just plain roasted chicken. No sauce, no nothing. Just a piece of roasted chicken. By the time I got home from site, my belly was hard and rounded (it stuck out almost as far as my boobs). That wasn't the first time I've noticed a more dramatic reaction to food eaten during or soon after a stressful situation (even if I don't feel stressed out).
This was the final indication to me that my issues stem from my adrenal problems. So that is where my focus is going to be for the foreseeable future.
I am putting some thought into the idea of how long it might take me to get a handle on my health issues if I put all my time and money into pursuing health. Would it be worth six months of being broke and mostly socially unavailable if it meant I could see summer of 2013 in good health? Would it be worth nine months? A year? How would I react if, after X amount of time, effort, and funding, I was no better than I am now? How devastating would that be?
Pondering.
Tonight I'm trying yet another type of therapy with another practitioner in the Kinetikos office. Clementine does a type of energy work (I know, I know. Energy work?) that put me off when I read about it, but after speaking with her about her own techniques I have a little more confidence that this might work for me. It sounds not terribly different from the NMT therapy that Mikell Adams used to (resoundingly successfully) treat my seasonal allergies. A lot of the treatment has to do with a patient's conscious and unconscious readiness for change and improvement. So...it'll be interesting, at least.
I'm conducting another food/eating experiment today. If I eat a sizable breakfast by 9am but fast for the rest of the day, will my stomach still be swollen by 8pm? Is the act of sleeping crucial to my de-swelling, or is it just time? Because if I can eat breakfast on Friday and not have to do two full-day fasts in a row this weekend, that would be fantastic.