What Are You Doing Right Now?

I love cashew butter! (It really is a thing.) That is what I make my gourmet firecrackers with.

Of course I need to go make one now!

 

Hey, Lynn....How are you? Are you trying to lose weight?

Mine started in October with major heartburn all of the time....and then a heartburn attack after thanksgiving dinner that had me immobolized for a few hours. I started popping tums like candy......and started to get very afraid of food after that...I gave up my large light and sweet coffee right away every day and soda.....and started to eat very little being afraid of everything I ate.....
i researched heartburn as much as I could and learned that a stalk of celery calms it and makes it go away instead of tums...so i gave up the tums and got celery to be on hand all of the time instead.

I started not to eat much at all, and of course one's stomach shrinks to the size of a peanut after not eating, and it took and takes only small bites of anything to fill me.

I got on the scale about a month ago and realized 10 pounds slid right off, and i was not trying to lose weight but was alarmed so much weight came off in a month......and have been weighing in almost every day now...with another 10 pounds gone now, too.....

I realized applesauce was easy going down easily and felt good to go down, as well as probiotic yogurts.....mixed berries...every day, i seem to want to try something else. One day i wanted a pear....and last night I had half a grapefruit.....It seems I gravitate towards fruit the most...and berries.....

I try bread once in awhile, but that gives me a bad reaction, so i am beginning to think I am gluten intolerant....Every day is an experiment on what I can eat with no problems....and as i said, earlier,....just a few bites fills me up like a 3 course meal.....

I did not like the gastric doctor I saw...so I am scheduled to see another doctor later in the month,. he will probably want to do and endonoscopy and colonoscopy, too........but I am afraid of that......i am afraid of most doctors and their practices in filling quotas for tests and and medications.....

My mother went in for some test, where they shot dye into her...and then she got sicker...and started losing all of her weight in the 90's......so i fear most medical practices........and doctors in general...and don't know if I will go through with anything major for tests,. I am trying to medicate with foods and what I crave now, learning little by little what I can tolerate.......The heartburn has pretty much disappeared now......as I know what I can eat with no problems......

I never did have a big relationship with food anyway.....and always got most of my calories on sugary drinks.....

 

Moonie, I'm going to send you a pm about my situation. lol

I HATE hearing you are going through all of this! I have almost an unnatural fear and/or distrust of "specialists". Of course I logically(?) realize that the medical profession and specialists are necessary and needed by all of us at times in our lives. However, that doesn't change my inner/heart feelings toward testing and such. So, I certainly can't judge you for not wanting to go through testing when they shoot dye in you.

A dear sweet woman (just turned 40) I've been friends with for 25 yrs has just gone through the 5th surgery for a hernia since September of last year. I am so concerned about her and want to slap this doctor. (but she likes him...sometimes there is no rational reason for how people feel huh). The 1st surgery was planned and scheduled but the other 4 (FOUR!) were emergency surgeries! She has this tube running from a hole in her stomach to a canister on her side where the infection drains to. I hate even thinking about this; and guess I'm just saying physical and medical things are no joke, for sure.

and yet my mean-as-hell 98 yr old mother has the health of a young strong teenager. lol

Please keep trying the different things because I am quite certain you really do not need to lose this much weight. Grapefruit and grapefruit juice are 2 things that would and do occasionally give me a bit of heart burn or indigestion. I bet you could make some soup with chicken broth and maybe quinoa and a carrot that could give you something else to get nourishment from that wouldn't give you heartburn.

How is one tested for gluten allergy I wonder...

I wasn't really trying (actively) to lose weight although I had put some on over the last couple of years. I was actively thinking about it! Anyway...stuff happens and I had to change my diet. I'll pm you this evening.

 

Just finished watching a few episodes of "Mom"
(Asmo's favorite show)

 

Stan's chiropractor is really an amazing man. He is also a doctor. The few times I ever went to him, I walked out of his place feeling like a million bucks.....so I know he is good at what he does.
I am not talking out of my ass with quotas the medical profession have to make....as he is privy to lots that go on with all the doctors in the area and things. My regular doctor announced her leaving 2 months ago...and the chiropractor told Stan it is because she did not prescribe enough procedures or write enough prescriptions....so she has to leave. She is going somewhere else with her husband.....The chiropractor, funnily enough, can't stand the first gastro doctor I saw either..He had him once for a standard procedure.....That doctor will never get that far with me...as my instincts kicked in immediately saying...no, way, jose....to you....lol......so I am not alone with that not liking that....wet noodle, slimy handed know it all.....

Stan and this chiropractor are really good friends, too...so I get a lot of inside information.......but it is ridiculous what doctors these days are expected to do...It is all big business....that is all....


I don't know about gluten allergy...but I have heard gluten intolerance...and many people have it. I am just guessing, as the products with gluten seem to affect me adversely....so I am learning by myself, I guess. A friend of mine mentioned it to me,....and after looking it up....I learned more about it.

Stan bought a pan of penne ala vodka home today, so tonight I am having a child's sized bowel of it, as it is out of this world....I guess I will find out later...if I suffer from it.....I hope not.

 

What did I eat? All of 12 penne noodles....?

At first I felt pretty good, but about 3 hours later....it attacked me....must be the gluten in the pasta...Bummer.....I had a bad night from it.....and it makes me sad, as i always liked pasta, but cannot eat it anymore, I guess....

 

Watched some tv today.....true crime shows...disturbing.....In one show, the guy shot and killed a female....and investigators were asking the guy's neighbors had they seen any signs of trouble from him growing up?....and one neighbor said she saw him in front of her window with a live possum...skinning it alive with the blood dripping down on him.....ye gods! who can do something like that? that upset me for hours........

Another crime show.....the guy was married for many years....but then realized he wanted a gay relationship.....and cheated on his wife....he wound up telling her about it.....but then he got prostrate cancer and had his prostrate removed.....and was cancer free, but could not have sex anymore...as that is what happens once a prostrate is removed...i did not know that...his wife stood by him, as she could not turn her back on him...but then he went online and fell for a young transgendered female from a male........and it turns out she was only 16......and he was a professor....but he felt safe to have this relationship online and not in real life, anyway...and could not stop himself........He and she wound up sending nude photos of one another to each other.....and then the girl's father comes on and threatens to expose this very highly respected professor....and asks for money to get his daughter into therapy....and the professor allowed himself to be extorted from...as he was afraid of his reputation and the fact she was a minor......The wife still stood by him once she found out....and told him, it was fraud.....a set up, but he did not believe her, as it was all real to him........and then he found out they were saying things about him on a site about professors..........and he wound up committing suicide.....they got his guy playing the father in the end......though. He was playing both roles...his daughter and himself, and his daughter had no idea.....He had raped her as a child, too....and used her nude photos that he made her pose for to lure people online.

Jesus! what kind of world do we live in? what eye openers every single day.......about EVERYTHING!

is there anything happy anymore?

 

You don't fool me, Gina Lee...you never did...My love is drag....try being stalked by someone for years now and see how you like it. I am sick your shit , and never claimed to love you never..once I found out what you were all about. You can fool most of the people most of the time...but not all of the people all of the time.

and to return your gif to you....from the beginning...i know who you are, too.

At least, I don't pretend to be someone I am not, to lure people in.

 

Bought a new mattress. Now I'm pushing on it with my hands, still unconvinced that it will live up to the standards set by the old mattress.

But the old mattress had to go.

 

Gina lee is still around?

 

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. I watched this show for about 15 minutes. I forgot how annoying Anna Faris is . And nothing else about it really pulled me in so I turned it off. I have to be hooked in the first 15 minutes or I cant be fussed with it

Sorry Eric, Asmo wins this round. Better luck next time

 

placing bets on the next amtrak wreck .

 

yeah Anna Faris is definitely the character that causes me to turn the channel. I like everybody else on there...but her whiny pouty self is usually too much for me to tolerate. I enjoy the show until she comes on. lol

 

How could you possibly forget that?

It's like forgetting Will Farrell is annoying.

 

You have to time Will Ferrel. Like, when you have some weed. And are in the mood for such comedy.

I could not watch movies he's in most days, yet I've enjoyed most of it.

 

Well, I can't win em all, good job Asmo you win
I initially wasn't sold on it either, just like Roseanne, Scubs, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, etc. In the future, try to sit through a whole episode, or a different episode. I don't care much for ANY of the characters, but I enjoy the comedy, I guess it just comes at me the right way. Thanks for at least checking it out.

 

Scrubs is dope

 

I'm sure I might have sent this to you before, and if so, here it is again

 

I'm going to sit this one out