I have been able to do a lot more reading! YES! That's two-fold. First reading, just something that I have enjoyed doing in the past. Second, that I can read without falling asleep almost instantly. I know I am still a long way from completely being in remission from Hashimoto's and I say say remission since you can never be cured of it. In the past any time I picked up a book I would get drowsy or I could really comprehend what I was reading and had to go over the sentence, paragraph or page over again. Completely frustrating as you may know! So this is huge anyway since I will be starting classes in September (NTC - Nutritional Therapy) and need to have my brain! I did purchase all my books and hope to read a majority of them before that time.
Currently I am reading Izabella Wentz's book The Root Cause.
It's been eye opening and so factual and happy that I am doing most of the things in the book and thinking of the things that are keeping my symptoms around. Like a broken tooth (maybe?), the spot on my leg I just had biopsied. This books really gets you thinking on how your Hashimoto's started, why it could be getting worse and what you need to do to heal yourself so you can manage the autoimmune disease. I have mentioned for me there are certain things that I need to keep in check and sometimes it's harder than others to manage them.
Now to my pancake fail and that I will be trying again this week. I think my problem with the gelatin egg was that I was doing too many other things and I let it sit too long (it was a blob!) so I couldn't get it to incorporate well and the pancakes turned into a gooey mess! The mix was super chunky. When I post this it will be Thursday and it's breakfast for dinner night and I will try out my recipe again and hopefully have success.
Currently I am reading Izabella Wentz's book The Root Cause.
It's been eye opening and so factual and happy that I am doing most of the things in the book and thinking of the things that are keeping my symptoms around. Like a broken tooth (maybe?), the spot on my leg I just had biopsied. This books really gets you thinking on how your Hashimoto's started, why it could be getting worse and what you need to do to heal yourself so you can manage the autoimmune disease. I have mentioned for me there are certain things that I need to keep in check and sometimes it's harder than others to manage them.
Now to my pancake fail and that I will be trying again this week. I think my problem with the gelatin egg was that I was doing too many other things and I let it sit too long (it was a blob!) so I couldn't get it to incorporate well and the pancakes turned into a gooey mess! The mix was super chunky. When I post this it will be Thursday and it's breakfast for dinner night and I will try out my recipe again and hopefully have success.
Except they were gooey and almost translucent, okay yeah I had one goop apart too! UGH!!
I feel like I'm all over the place but this is the top things that are happening right now! I changed my thyroid meds recently as I mentioned earlier from Armour to a natural thyroid and my body temp has been low, but I feel hot as hell! I am running between 94.6 and 96.8 on an average. I know this is a sign of my thyroid not being too happy but I know I need to wait it out and see the adjustments. I'm cooler in the morning and then higher in the afternoon and then go back down in the evening, typically. I'm still tracking it and will for a while.
Stress management and meditation! This is so important to mine and everyone's health and it's the thing I have had a problem with doing the most of! I mean I struggle with it. It's nothing that takes a long time - 5, 10 maybe more minutes. This is not a lot and yet I find I can't even do it. I feel like I need to be doing all the there things and I don't. I have the mind set that I need to do all the things during the morning and day and at night when I get home I don't want to do anything or go anywhere. Probably why I don't like to go to the gym after work and it's just insanely crowded (more on weekly workouts soon).
I think I'm nailing it this week, like a boss. I'm not setting any time goal. If it's before bed and I can do 5 minutes I will do that. I was at the doctor's office waiting and I took the time to meditate while I sat there on the table. I mean come on! This can be done anywhere! I don't have to be at home on some yoga pillow. If I have a few minutes at work I am going to do that there as well. I think taking those breaks at work will be extremely helpful. So much going through my head right now and I know meditation is the way to go. Not only will it help keep my stress level down but also help me shuffle through my thoughts and make clear decisions on things to do and how to plan.
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