Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Going Nuts

So after a month of eggs and turkey bacon five days a week I wanted to branch out. I know toast is on the prohibited list for me (something about flour being a thyroid stressor) but what about hash browns?

I asked Dr. Ardis and in a display that he’s starting to anticipate possible ulterior motives, he said, “At McDonald’s? No, not OK.”

“No,” I explained, at home, where I actually shred potatoes, brown potatoes, organic turkey-brown potatoes I think.”

He said that would be OK, but that I should fry them in coconut oil. Even though I’d never heard of that, I nodded as if I was an old hand at alternative oils. I didn’t even know coconuts had oil, but sure, why not? If turkey can have bacon…I'm learning all kinds of things.

I secretly crossed my fingers then I timidly asked, “Ketchup?”

He asked, “At home?”

3 comments:

jamie hixon said...

I love hash browns cooked in macadamia nut oil. Mmmm. So glad you are sticking with the diet.

Mar~ said...

Dave,
Even though you are going nuts, are you seeing (feeling) any improvement?
I would love to know.
I hope it is helping.

David said...

It is hard to say but I think so. It's just that I still have a lot of issues and I have good times and not so good. Nerve damage doesn't reverse quickly so I am taking a longer view of this. I do think that I have more energy most of the time. It just vacillates so much, especially in this blast furnace that we live in at present. I will say that I have more encouraging than discouraging signs.