StevenLaura

My "Hippie" Diet

I started my funky "eat mostly raw fruits and veggies, no sugar, no night shade veggies, and no fatty meat" diet (see below for more info) to see if I could eliminate fibromyalgia pain. It's proved to be about 80 to 95% successful. (It'd probably be 98% successful if I wouldn't keep "cheating.")

It's had a nice side effect. I've lost around ten pounds in the last three months. This may seem like an obvious side effect to most of you, but I have NEVER (I repeat: NEVER) been successful at dieting before. Plus when I started this diet I was determined that I would NOT starve myself, reminding myself that I wasn't in this for the weight loss, just for the loss of pain. So I stuffed myself on nuts and apples and anything else that was "allowed."

Now I'm back to my pre-freshman weight. To celebrate I put on a suit top that I'd gotten right before going off to college my freshman year. Mom thought it'd be good for student teaching, that it would make me look professional, but I'd never gotten the chance to use it. By the time I got to the spring of my freshman year (when school visits began) I'd gained five pounds, making the suit bulge in odd places and just not look good. My floor mates wore the suit more often than I did.

I'm wearing the suit now! And no weird bulges. I don't care much about my weight fluctuating ten pounds here or there (Steve admittedly doesn't notice if I loose or gain 10 pounds) but it is nice to have some old outfits back again. I am now back to dreaming that I can maybe someday reach my "ideal" weight (which is about 15 pounds less than my current weight -- a weight I haven't been at since junior high/high school). We shall see... may the positive side effects continue.

P.S. to those who have been following my heart-saga... I am fine. The ultra sound gave the docs a wonderful picture of a perfectly healthy 25 year old heart. Sometimes my chambers contract early, but it is not a problem, just a little weird. :) But then again, we've always known I was...