mostlylurking
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you're welcome.You have given me so much of your time and I do thank you.
It is important to listen to your inner voice which can get drowned out in the cacophony of many helpful opinions. I remember spending many hours when I was not well, between 2:00am and 6:00am, alone with myself, reading Ray Peat's wise articles and writing my own thoughts in the borders.My intention is to do that but armed with all the information you have given me here. It worries me greatly though that you might be offended by my intention and regret spending so much time with me. Everything which you have shared I have stored away in my mind and will be here on this thread for reference. I hope you will understand that coming from a place of so many years of anorexia and orthorexia, the experience of simply eating is a nightmare (which is why I posted this thread in the first place).
I've spent over 25 years living with severe food allergies/sensitivities that laid me low and affected my brain function so I understand about your concern about orthorexia. I've learned that there really are substances in the food supply that really are dangerous and I really do have to avoid them if I want to survive. I am not concerned about what other people may think about me regarding that. I look on it as a survival skill and nothing more.
I hope you find the info helpful. Glad to have the opportunity to try to help.You have given me so much of your time and I do thank you.
I'm not offended; you have to find your own way. Ray Peat's wisdom was my life line. Not only did he provide good information, he also taught me how to think and to discern so that I could research further on my own. I hope you use the two search engines I provided earlier; I have found them to be enormously helpful.You may have read Peatful's advice to me above: that I should leave this forum and go and eat.
My intention is to do that but armed with all the information you have given me here. It worries me greatly though that you might be offended by my intention and regret spending so much time with me. Everything which you have shared I have stored away in my mind and will be here on this thread for reference. I hope you will understand that coming from a place of so many years of anorexia and orthorexia, the experience of simply eating is a nightmare (which is why I posted this thread in the first place).
It may terrify you for good reason. Listen to your body. There's a discussion (on an Herb Doctors' show) that Ray Peat had with "Jeana from Kansas City" about weight loss (I think) where he said that having a very narrow diet of very nutrient dense foods that are well tolerated is not necessarily a bad thing, especially if you are working on getting well. Or something like that. He was proposing a diet to lose weight consisting mainly of 2 quarts of 1% lowfat milk plus a quart of orange juice for maybe 6 months. I may have garbled two Ray Peat responses together but I think the point is valid.I am most certainly going to try OJ again and I am back on milk and feta cheese already. But I realise that to overcome orthorexia, I need to learn how to experience eating widely, care-freely, even voraciously. All of which terrifies me.
I've lived through years with leaky gut which allowed partially digested food molecules into my bloodstream. This caused me to develop multiple severe food allergies and sensitivities. I had to severely restrict my diet in order to get my gut to heal. The two biggies are gluten and polyunsaturated fats.
Arming yourself with knowledge and a few printed medical journal articles when you go would probably be helpful.Having said all that, I cannot ignore the possibility of Beriberi and will make an appointment to see my GP and take information with me.
I'm not annoyed with you at all. You have to find your own way.I am sorry , it is too hard for me to say more here because I feel you might be annoyed with me. It has meant so much to me to have corresponded with you. I need you to know that.
Thank you.And to know that I wish you well and hope that, as the months go by, and as NDT and HDT continue to do their work, you will experience even greater good health.
Anytime. Take care and listen to your body.I so much hope that when I find my own courage to heal and pop up here again, we will somehow be able to correspond once more, just so that you will know your work with me has not been wasted
My warmest best wishes,