The diet has gone great the past few days. I've been feeling a lot better, and have had more energy. Sunday I made a delicious sweet potato soup. I loved it. It's probably my favorite recipe I've made so far. My abdomen has been swelling up some (when I'm late for a meal, or eat something acidic). I'm really working at healing my intestinal lining, and it doesn't help when I don't eat on time. I know I need to keep working at it. The warm soups feel good in my stomach and intestines so I think I'll keep eating some more soups. I'm not digesting fats well probably because my intestines are so damaged. I just need to keep doing what I know helps me. Sometimes when I'm in a hurry I don't cook my veggies I just eat them in a salad. That leads to intestinal spasms that are hard as a rock the rest of the day and into the night. I've been able to remedy that some by taking peppermint capsules every morning. It's all a work in progress, I just need to keep at it.
I've been exercising every day. I jumped on the trampoline today and it felt so great. It was so exciting to start feeling young again, or my age again. My fibro symptoms are getting a lot better with the diet and exercise. It was such a vicious cycle. My food sensitivities, swelling, and distention would make exercise very difficult, my fibro would flare up because of inactivity and possibly inflammation in the body, and I couldn't do anything to help it. Now that I'm getting my abdominal pain down I can exercise more and I'm able to help my entire body more. I've also been making sure I relax more by going outside to meditate, getting an occasional massage from my husband, and cuddling up in my cozy blanket. I am overall starting to feel a lot better.
Today was my husbands day off so we went out to the movies and mall. My husband is a big comfort food guy and when we go out we always get goodies. We went to candy shops, a restaurant, and to the movies (where he got more goodies). He couldn't stand that I couldn't eat some goodies with them, but I got through it. He handed me a number of things in the hopes I would forget what I was doing and eat it. I pushed them all away and tried to help him understand why I needed to do this. By the end of the day he warmed up to everything, but it was hard. I wasn't giving up that easily.
I WILL NOT GIVE UP!
Yeah! You go girl! Way to be tough. We ate out this weekend and it was SO hard. James had a Stuffed French Toast with glazed peaches and a special syrup on top. That was one of the hardest times for me not to break the diet. I love french toast! Way to be strong.
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