Marcia K wrote:Stanz, In hear you! I look forward to the day when we just take a pill and no longer eat food. I really don't enjoy eating anymore. It's like the movie Groundhog Day. I try to stay positive and I know so many people are worse off, but nonetheless it's tiresome.
Hi Marcia,
It is difficult to keep a postive attitude but I sure think my life is worth it to be the best it can possibly be, and I am in control of a positive or negative outlook on life, nobody else can do it for me, sure, it is tiresome living with these limitations our disease has put on me ,but I don't miss those foods anymore, I love how I eat now, these foods I now eat ( limited variety) I look at the silver lining in that, I know what I am eating is a whole food that doesn't have additives in it. Gosh,when I think back on the many foods I just ate not even reading the label, most times just eating ingredients, I could never pronounce and just turned a blind eye to it, thinking these people who make this stuff must know what this is because I sure don't. Now, I don't eat anything unless I know what it is in it, period, I love sweet potatoes and there are so many recipes on internet to make everything from sweet potato muffins to sweet potato coconut milk ice cream, I have such an open mind to
inviting this world of possiblities into my mind of what to eat and when, I don't care if it is breakfast or lunch or dinner , I will eat what I want in my safe foods and not feel deprived. My last trip overnight in a hotel, I awoke one morning and was able to use a microwave to reheat my left over
turkey soup for my breakfast and sat at a table beside some stranger who remarked " soup for breakfast, your are weird" I just didn't look offensive when I noticed he had donut and some coffee and I said " well, you should try it , instead of a donut sometime" It is delicious" He just smiled and watched me eat it and I made sure I said " yum" after every mouthful.. I wasn't lying it was delicious full of things that I knew wouldn't cause me any problems and a beautiful start to my day. That was one experience where , it could have turned into a very
horrible day for me feeling insulted but I turned it around and felt great. I want to take care of me, so I can be the best "me" I can bring to anyone that I love and loves me for "me" If I am down about my disease I drag everyone else down, if I look at my disease as a tool to live life healthy and care about " me" Wow that is amazing what you can do with your life to live and not just exist. I love my food and would hate to just take a pill.. get back to loving your food again. put it in a fancy bowl , I cut my GF toast flavoured with melted coconut oil, into strips, and stick them around the sides of my bowl to have a crunchy element to my vegetables plate, if I am having my homemade soup made with my soup broth, I make sure to add a little coconut milk drizzled over top to make it look all fancy and it just tastes great. All those foodnetwork shows and even Youtube, despite having many foods I can no longer eat, do have something I enjoy doing looking at how food is presented on a plate and you do indeed eat with your eyes first. In fact, once when I had a meal in a restaurant prepared especially for me by a chef, he put my plain sweet potato unseasoned into a little bowl all by itself garnished with a basil leaf, and I ate it just as it was and it was delicious, not ladden down with a bunch of sugar, or cream nothing that took the natural flavour of that sweet potato taste. Also squash if it is tolerated is also a great dish to get creative with as well. I roast my two spaghetti squash halfs in the oven at 400 for 40 mins, and then take and then swirl the fork around inside the cavity of the squash and create the noodles, add to this some avocado mashed up
along with my leftover turkey cut into chunks and mix it in the noodles and it it absolutely delicious. I have eaten this for breakfast and I love it
Don't give up on your creativity, if I can come up with new ideas to rethink the traditional meals , anyone can do it. Who was the first one to say that you had to eat only certain foods for breakfast, I say eat what works for you body and makes you feel wonderful to start your day not feeling deprived but feeling alive..
Very inspiring and beautifully said! Thank you, twirlitgirl!!
Love, Patricia
Patricia, thank you for feeling inspired, I know being positive especially after the loss of two most amazing people in my life, it really opened my eyes
I received so much loving support from both and in fact one wasn't sick when I got my diagnosis and now she is gone and I sometimes really can't wrap my head around this, but in order to go on I must accept it and make living in a positive way, the best it can be. I have that power and I choose to use it. I know it is taking this phrase from a commercial for hair color.. but " I am so worth it" I love who I am now.
take care and have a great day. the sun is shining here, but even if it wasn't, a cloudy day isn't so bad, I am here to enjoy both. keep smiling
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