Thursday, 21 February 2008
Had my first appointment with a nutritionist
Which went well and I’m really hoping she can sort out some of my long-term health problems, especially the chronic exhaustion which makes pursuing creative endeavours so difficult, especially when a day-job is involved. I’ll receive her final verdict in the post on Saturday, most likely. But the general plan is that for the next six weeks I’ll be on a pretty strict diet: no wheat, no dairy, no red meat – poultry 3 times a week, otherwise fish or tofu – along with vitamins and herbal supplements to help my system get back to where it should be. I was kind of mentally prepared for the no-wheat-no-dairy. I did suspect some adjustment to the red/white meat ration would happen, but not that red meat would be ditched entirely, but the thing that I suspect will definitely be hardest will be trying to cut out salt almost entirely. I do love my salt. So this means no bacon, no soy-sauce based stir-fry sauces, no salt on meat, no stock (unless of a reduced salt variety, or, I guess home-made without salt) and of course having to watch everything I buy to make sure I’m not inadvertently consuming too much of it. Sheesh! It’s going to be hard work, but if it perks me up then it will be worth every minute of it. I’m easing myself into it over the next couple of days – we do have some red meat in the freezer that otherwise would be wasted (pork chops tonight, plus a beef roast that will have to be scoffed before Sunday) but I’m going to try to cut out wheat and shift over to some sort of non-dairy milk (I’m trying an organic oat milk to start with) and start reducing salt and sugar, and cutting out coffee before throwing myself totally into the fray on Sunday/Monday. Going to be… interesting!
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