Food Journal Sun 16th Feb

[huneypie]

Oh dear - it's coz we didn't get brain surgery... I still want mine, but I need someone else to be the guinea pig, are you feeling brave @JackieOnLine ?

I swear by all that's holy if I never ate food I don't actually want I would be a size four (again)

I realize not everybody is like that.

as in other ways, I feel like I am back to the beginning again. yesterday I bought a big bucket of cookies and ate quite a few of them before I realized they didn't taste very good and they made my tongue itch (WTH?)

OK - it's Monday morning. I'm almost done with the first cup of coffee and then it's 20 oz of water before I have the next cup.

ONWARD!

 

[JackieOnLine]

The up side...it might stop the cookie binges.

very true, if I pay attention I really don't want sugar. or much, anyway.

@huneypie I would take a brain transplant. where do I sign up?

 

[huneypie]

Brain TRANSPLANT - I'd never thought of that, I just wanted the junk food craving part lobotomized out... now I gotta decide whose brain I'm gonna steal!! :LOL:

Can I have a dude's brain? I think I'll take Tony Robbins (he's a big guy and can probably spare some) - he has a lot of clarity, I'd love to come up with that sort of stuff on my own instead of just listening and agreeing. :biggrin:

 

[ProteinSnob]

...before I realized they didn't taste very good and they made my tongue itch...

Your theory of a food allergy is a good one, but there are also some really weird ingredients going into stuff these days. Twelve years ago, when I went through the Weigh Down Workshop (yet another failed diet attempt), I can remember Gwen Shamblin lecturing all of us on video that a molecule was just a molecule and that organic wasn't important.

Except there really are strange things happening in the food industry. It's hard to trust ready-made anything anymore, much less feed it to my children.

I may be watching way too many food documentaries on Amazon Prime these days.

 

[Taterweight]

I completely agree, when my son was diagnosed with autism I went back to basics - whole foods only, nothing processed and he flourished. I know it's also much to blame for all of our metabolic woes! If it weren't just so darn convenient! Sigh.

 

[ProteinSnob]

That's impressive. For a child who thrives on routine, pulling off changes like that are not easy! I am surrounded by autism "woo", only I often think they make some good points.

 

[Taterweight]

Yes transitioning and changes are very hard for him. It was very hard at first, in his terrible three's, but once I was able to break through and make things he really liked, I was good. (Of course I am sick to death of them!) When he was about 11 or 12 I could reason with him more and talk about if he felt he was having an "A" (autism) day where it was just frustrating and hard...that helped me a lot as his mother to decide how far I could push into his world or needed to back off. So he is still OCD about food and what he'll eat, and left to himself in college now it's Panda Express fried rice and mushroom chicken morning noon and night. It could be worse, I guess. But I make him come home Friday-Monday so for 4 days he gets wholesome food and vegetables! Needless to say, Tuesdays he is alert and bright, by Friday he's a zombie.

 

[ProteinSnob]

Wow, college? So he must be higher-functioning then?

I wish that dietary changes (we tried going GF and CF) had made a difference for my child, but they did absolutely nothing except to make my child miserable and scary-skinny. As soon as we backed off the diets and worked on feeding therapy, my child got back to just healthy-skinny. It's great that they seem to work for some kids, though. For those who don't know this, autism affects people very differently. There are even differences, we are finding, between the sexes.

My child was completely typical until a severe regression, loss of all language and skills. No one can tell us why; all of the specialists say that "it's just one of those things". I think about it all of the time, though, especially since my child is lower-functioning. I often wonder if it had something to do with my RNY or a vitamin deficiency that wasn't caught.

 

[Taterweight]

Sorry to hear, PS...my son had severe language delays, head butting, rocking, and didn't walk until after the age of 2. By the Grace of God, he gradually got better, the diet helped a lot, behavior therapy, I homeschooled him, we worked on social behaviors a lot, etc he is now high functioning. He is my one and only, my blessing, but he is a handful. Socially and emotionally he is still delayed, but I'm hoping he will catch up up eventually. I wish you all the best in your journey, it is an exhausting one, but not without it's victories and hope.

 

[JackieOnLine]

wow, that's incredible!

 

[huneypie]

Funny to find a fellow ex-Weigh Downer

Your theory of a food allergy is a good one, but there are also some really weird ingredients going into stuff these days. Twelve years ago, when I went through the Weigh Down Workshop (yet another failed diet attempt), I can remember Gwen Shamblin lecturing all of us on video that a molecule was just a molecule and that organic wasn't important.

Except there really are strange things happening in the food industry. It's hard to trust ready-made anything anymore, much less feed it to my children.

I may be watching way too many food documentaries on Amazon Prime these days.