{"id":15486,"date":"2011-06-15T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=15486"},"modified":"2013-05-04T09:24:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T13:24:30","slug":"my-body-reboots-itself-and-i-get-a-fresh-start-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/my-body-reboots-itself-and-i-get-a-fresh-start-again\/","title":{"rendered":"My body reboots itself and I get a fresh start — again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the most part, I’m real healthy eater. \u00a0I eat lots of salads, fresh greens and veggies and \u00a0I make my own soups with fresh and organic vegs. \u00a0I cook Asian style stirfrys and use a lot of freshly ground spices. \u00a0I’ve got a website at Goddess Grub, Luscious Lowfat Meals for the Goddess on the Go<\/a> with many of my recipes and my story of eating myself back after a health scare in 2004. \u00a0I also eat chicken and turkey on a regular basis now, as well as potatoes. When I eat the wrong things now, my body lets me know and reboots itself, giving me a reminder to\u00a0get back on track. \u00a0 That’s what happened Monday morning, after a month of slowly adding a bag of chips here, a three Musketeers bar there, increasingly more pasta and, oh yes, take out Chinese food. \u00a0 I should know better.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to trick myself, because I let it sneak up on me when I begin to eat things like that. \u00a0 It’s like it begins to accumulate and then out of the blue my body says “Enough!” and won’t process anymore. \u00a0That’s what it did Monday morning.<\/p>\n

I’d last eaten about 9:00pm Sunday night, so my stomach was empty when I began to be sick about 6:00am. \u00a0It was a 10 hour journey of up every 15 minutes, losing bile<\/a> until 4:00pm. \u00a0When this happens, I keep a log of when I’m up and down so I know for the future what to expect. \u00a0I used to get very anxious when I’d get nauseous and sick, but that was because I didn’t know what was happening. \u00a0Knowledge is power. \u00a0 Now I know right away what causes it and how long I can expect the purging spell to last. \u00a0\u00a0I also know it doesn’t matter if I take anything in between my 15 minute spells or not, be it water, ginger ale or antacid. \u00a0If I do, I’m nauseous for those 15 minutes. \u00a0If I don’t, I can nap those 15 minutes. \u00a0 I opt to nap instead.<\/p>\n

All day Monday, my body was also going through soaking sweats and chills, which I know now is just part of the process. \u00a0When the being sick subsided, I began to rehydrate, drinking sips of water every few minutes. \u00a0I had a bottle of Gatorade in my room and even though I dislike it, I knew drinking the water would rehydrate my body, but I needed the\u00a0electrolytes of the Gatorade to wake up my brain.<\/p>\n

By 7:00pm I was awake enough and had energy enough to take a shower. \u00a0 A good friend and neighbor was kind enough to bring me some ginger ale. \u00a0I \u00a0began drinking that, diluted with water, every few minutes until I felt energetic enough to walk into the living room. \u00a0I never knew what a huge house I had, this huge 1919 square feet! \u00a0I made some hot vegetable boullion and flopped into the big puffy chair to drink it before I fell asleep. \u00a0It felt good to sit up and the organic boullion further revitalized my brain and body.<\/p>\n

By morning I was back to normal, as I knew I would be. \u00a0I was hungry but knew not to eat too quickly. \u00a0I had some more vegetable boullion and some applesauce. \u00a0I came into the office and worked from 9:00am until almost 9:00pm and it felt good to work. \u00a0I soft scrambled some Eggbeaters for dinner, then after 2 bites I opened a can of chicken noodle soup and had that instead.<\/p>\n

It’s a process but I’m learning. \u00a0At least now when I eat the wrong thing, I don’t eat that much of it and I don’t eat more often than every 6-7 hours. \u00a0That makes for a much shorter down time. \u00a0Yay to progress and me smartening up!<\/p>\n

Andrea<\/p>\n

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