I’m finding that my new doctor, the nutrition guy, is not a “hit-you-over-the-head-with-it-granola-zealot”, but he is gradually indoctrinating me. He has me keep a detailed food journal and each week we review it. He highlights the items that he disapproves of and explains why. The list of prohibitions is getting long: sweets, breads, soda, fried or processed food, and even pasta. It’s basically sugars, oils, and grains. (The latter due to FDA-mandated chemical treatments.) Each week I do a little better and get fewer highlights. It isn’t so much that these things are bad for MS, he is just trying to do everything to promote healing from within as he is steadily detoxifying my system.
Today I stopped in for a quick question. Ryan was with me and we were planning on grabbing some lunch afterward. I had an idea: I’d ask his advice on what might be tolerable from the Taco Bell menu. I said “So, we’re going to Taco Bell and…” He cut me off with “No you aren’t.” I asked, “Wendy’s?” He said I should avoid all fast food. What? That is one of the staples in my diet – probably the healthiest. I tried to explain. You see, we are really bad, nutritionally, at our house. If he went through our pantry and refrigerator, he would say “Go to Taco Bell.” The most wholesome and natural thing we have is a box of Good n Plenty. He laughed, “I’m sure it’s not that bad.” Oh, it is.
I went to a movie over the weekend with Kara and passed on the popcorn and soda, but I did indulge in some chocolate-covered raisins and a few Bit o’ Honey. While perusing my food log the doctor asked, (showing his junk food shelter level) “Bit o’ Honey? Is that a cough drop?”
“What?! I thought it was a food group.”
By the way, energy level: better, vision: good (I'm reading a Dickens novel), but the voice is still a disaster. I can go up the stairs without the handrail but not down.
5 comments:
I'm so glad you are eating better. It did wonders for my dad, who did not have MS, but he had other problems.
makin' me giggle out loud....as usual.
can you have home-made pasta? Life without pasta would be disastrous.
He says that grain (in the US) is chemically treated to the extent that it is harmful. He is LDS, and does believe the Word of Wisdom, and I don't know that I agree with the massive chemical throeries but at this point, I'm just doing what he says. I can't afford to be too skeptical.
Loved the post, and I too think Bit O Honey should be a food group.
Good for you. Happy to provide input if you want it. Quinoa and brown rice pastas are fantastic. Whole wheat, not so much.
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