Wow, I can't believe it's been over a month since I posted on my blog. I finally feel the desire to do this again. I've been definitely in a funk lately and just didn't want to spend the evening blogging and posting pictures when I could be doing other things like sleeping. I know Marilyn and James love reading the blog and seeing the boys, so I'm going to do my best to post at least once a week or more. So, I'll be catching up everyone with what we've been doing over the past month.
I didn't finish my cleanse :(
After my footbath, I had a colonic and a lympathic massage the following Saturday and I felt worse (really tired and bloated and gassy). I called Stacie who did my iridology (I posted about this on a previous entry) and she recommended I see Dr. Swilling, he has a PhD in Clinical Nutrition. So, I went to see him the following week and he put me on a totally different diet.
I'm drinking a fortified drink all day long which contains: raw milk, raw eggs, wheatgerm, lecithin, nutritrional yeast, whey powder, udo's oil, liquid minerals, raw honey and iodine. It doesn't taste good, but I just need to drink 1/2 cup of it 6x/day. I'm also suppose to eat small meals 6x/day to keep my blood sugar up and every meal should have protein in it. He's very into eggs, raw dairy, yogurt, cottage cheese, nuts and good grains like millet, quinoa, buckwheat, beans, lentils and fish. I can't believe I went from eating all raw foods to eating raw milk, eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese, and beans and grains. He said if I followed his recommendations and took all the supplements he gave me, I can get rid of my Sjogren's Syndrome in a couple of months. So, after I tried this way of eating for a few days, the Sjorgren's flared up and I had horrible fatigue and joint pain. It was so awful!! But I stuck with it and my joint pain and intense fatigue went away and I felt a little bit better (no bloating, but still had some gas). I'm still struggling with eating small meals frequently. I've gained weight in my stomach because of the rich foods, so I'm trying to figure out how much food I should be eating for every meal. I've email the Doctor and waiting to hear his response. I will try this way of eating for a few months and see how my body responds. He said my body needs more protein to get my body back to normal. It's just so hard since I really love eating raw. But I have to say it's made eating with the kids easier since we are all eating the same things (yep, the kids are drinking raw milk (from Organic Pastures), raw cheese, & eggs). It makes less hassle and fighting since I'm usually just making one thing (but I still feel like I'm in the kitchen all day). I'll keep everyone posted with my results!!
We've been busy with kids as usual. On January 19th (Saturday) we went on a hike at Laguna Coast Wilderness Park to meet the Outdoor Family Meetup Group. We didn't get to talk with the group except to say "hello" because they all had older kids that could walk a lot faster. So, we ended up just hiking with Blythe and her family which was a lot of fun. Ian hiked the entire way (3.8 MILES) except for about 2 minutes of carrying and Ronan was carried about 1/2 of the time (poor Matthew). We thought the hike with 2.5 miles, but it ended up being longer and it was a lot of up and down hills. Ian was awesome and did great except for the end when he was complaining and said he never wanted to do that hike again.
The pictures above are from that hike.
More posts and photos to come! :)
Another wonderful Toddler in the Garden class at Upper Newport Bay. We saw a snowy egret and some hawks flying in the sky. Jodi has a great bird book that has the pictures & sounds of the birds, so we found the birds in the book that we saw in the Estruary.
That's it for now!! Enjoy :)
