This past year has been a year of seemingly endless chaos. Spinning out of control. Roller coaster of emotion. Drowning in a sea of constant bombardment (of a wide array of things). So, with all that negative "stuff", I slowly swam over to the "dark side" and turned my back on being healthy.
I ate small amounts of junk here and there. Then I ate some more frequently, then I ate some junk a lot more. And then I looked up and it was junk food every single day (for a grossly large proportion of the food I was eating on any given day). I started to have the emotional waves that comes along with not caring for your body. I would be so happy one minute, and the next second (literally) I would be blowing out steam and anger and all these other things that cause your family to fear you and definitely mar the name of Christ. My mind became a big fog. I would get side tracked by the drop of a dime. I would forget what I was saying mid-thought. Focusing on a given task was unheard of: I had to jump from thing to thing to thing and back again. My scalp got super dry and flaky on the top and oily in the back. My skin started to get dry. Random patches of rough itchy skin started popping up. My toes and fingers would start to tingle and feel weird. I got dizzy a lot. My vision, though passing with 20/10, became hard to focus. I mean, I could see everything, but getting my brain to tell me what it was I was looking at took awhile. I had restless nights most every night. My energy would come in sputtering spurts. I would have no energy, nor motivation, to do anything for days on end, then I would have the urge to purge things and get a task accomplished, and then I'd limp around worn out again.
Last night I finally had enough. I quit junk food cold turkey. I self diagnosed myself with hypoglycemia. Minus the blood sugar test (because I don't have the tools to test it...and I don't want to spend the money on acquiring those tools to test it) I have all the other signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia. I knew it was coming. I would joke around with people when they'd give me their leftover sweets (because we all knew I would eat everything they shared with me) that I was going to wind up hypoglycemic. Well, it's time to pay the piper Amanda!
So after ignoring this blog for almost a year, I'm going to use it to be my wellness journal. I am going to try to keep a log of what I eat daily, how I'm physically, mentally and emotionally feeling, as well as share my healthy concoctions (or those I have made from other people's ingenious ideas).
Day 1
Chronological Food log:
1 oz almonds
1 carrot
1/2 oz cranberry almond medley
1 slice fresh pineapple ring
1/2 avocado
2 Tbsp peanut butter (just peanuts and salt, not sugar or oil)
1/2 avocado
2 Tbsp peanut butter
1 1/2 Tbsp chia seeds soaked in 3 Tbsp water
1 oz almonds
6 pieces of the Kashi Berry shredded wheat cereal
1 Tbsp peanut butter
1/4 apple
2 Tbsp peanut butter
1/4 slice of pbj sandwich (scraps from the kids' sandwiches)
1 cup leftover mexican rice (white rice and salsa) mixed with 1Tbsp sun dried tomato pesto
2 Tbsp greek yogurt- vanilla
2 servings homemade sloppy joes from the Make Ahead Paleo cookbook
2 french hamburger buns for the sloppy joes.
This morning I felt hungry, but nothing seemed to satisfy my cravings. I would eat my healthy food and then feel a little nauseated afterwards. Nauseated isn't the right word. I didn't want to puke or anything, but my belly was like, "this isn't what I want!" When dinner rolled around my belly accepted what it was fed without a complaint. I didn't have much energy this morning/afternoon, but I got some around 4pm and still feel pretty good. I'm getting tired, but not the exhausted tired that I normally feel at night...the "I'm so tired but can't sleep" feeling. I really feel as if my body is getting ready to sleep! Yea! My toes have still tingled pretty much all day, but not so much my fingers. I haven't gotten dizzy, but it's still hard to focus my vision. When we ran errands and made a library stop (which took longer than expected) I did start to get irritated, but I also didn't have any snacks with us to munch on. So the lesson learned today is: always have healthy snacks readily available, i.e. in a lunch box to take along on outings/errands!
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