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Suz
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 Posted - 06/23/2005 : 15:03:35
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I am at my wits end with my diet/food restrictions. If I have this TMS back thing, then surely or maybe the food difficulties could be exactly the same. I cannot eat any type of grains or sugars as I blow up like a balloon - My focus is always on what I am going to eat - just veggies and Proteins.
Anne G - can you please give me some more info on your food intolerances you used to have. I am absolutley blinking fed up of the whole thing. I cannot seem to get the courage to just eat what I want as before I had skin problems and digestive problems. I am an avid follower of the blood type diet - but am I too avid a follower??? Could the whole thing just be nonsense???? |
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Laura
USA
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Posted - 06/23/2005 : 20:58:16
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Suz,
Here's a story. Years ago (30 to be exact, when I was 16) I was working at a restaurant washing dishes to earn college money. I hated it! My boss was a real jerk, always giving me stupid jobs to do other than washing dishes but not paying me more money (i.e. working as a prep person paid more). One day, he had me peeling shrimp. I blew up like a blow fish. It was scary. My throat didn't close up or anything but it was bad. For 30 years I didn't eat shellfish because I thought I was allergic. About two years ago, my family and I were at a Japanese teppan table. When they brought the shrimp around, I said "You know, I'm getting really tired of watching everyone eat shrimp and not me. I love shrimp. Maybe I'm not really allergic afterall." So, I had one, and then another, and I cleaned my plate. Guess what? I'm not allergic at all. I eat shellfish all the time now. Thirty years of avoiding something that I am not even allergic to.
I think what you need to do is tell your mind that you can eat whatever you want and just go for it. If symptoms start, remind yourself that you are okay and that you CAN eat the food you are eating. This is happening to you because you are telling yourself, or programming yourself if you will, to get sick and "blow up like a balloon." By the way, I tried the blood type diet and it didn't do squat for me. I was trying to lose weight. Now, I simply eat less carbs but I still enjoy a little sweets now and then and plenty of green veggies and protein.
Try simply eating for the enjoyment of eating and for the sole reason to nourish your body. Eat a variety of foods - everything in moderation as they say. I'll bet you can tackle this food thing the same way you have your back problems. The mind is a tricky thing!
Good luck!
Laura
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Laura
USA
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Posted - 06/23/2005 : 21:00:09
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P.S.
By the way, I lost ten pounds by simply cutting down on carbs. I didn't lose a pound on the blood type diet. I have five more pounds to go and then I'll be at my ideal weight of 130.
Laura
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art
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Posted - 06/23/2005 : 21:18:22
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I've got food sensitivities that have really kind of wrecked my life. It got to the point where there really weren't many things I could eat. When this all started about fifteen years ago, way before I knew anything about TMS (perhaps even before Dr. Sarno knew about TMS), I tried desperately to not buy into it...It just seemed so absurd that here I was suddenly unable to eat foods that I'd been eating all my life..I kept thinking this thing just hadto be "all in my head"..
So I used to challenge myself, daring my body with all my might to not accept what I was putting into it...
Well, I finally had to bend because it became clear that if I continued to ignore what my body was apparently telling me, I might just die, that's how sick I would get...
Now that I know about Sarno and TMS I'm proceeding gingerly...whatever is at the bottom of this, I'm 100 percent positive that there's a genuine physical component that I've got a lot of respect for.. |
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aorta
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Posted - 06/23/2005 : 21:31:33
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Suz,
I have to be so careful what i say, however I also have food intolerances for the first time in my life. I was wondering if you had intestinal symptoms, and if by any chance the intolerances started after you made a drastic perhaps voluntary diet change.
For example you had g.i. problems tried an extreme diet like vegan, then noticed later that you couldnt tolerate many types of foods.
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Suz
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Posted - 06/24/2005 : 13:55:45
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Thanks folks for all your input. This is a really tough one for me. My food intolerances started a couple of years before the back pain - about 14 years ago. I had a mild eating disorder then so I was definitely weird about food. Food has been a long, complicated journey for me. I was put on loads of antibiotics for skin problems (acne) and so I started to get constant yeast infections (sorry for this detail) - I found that I was better when I didn't eat too many carbs or sugars. I feel really good when I eat protein and veggies mainly. About 8 years ago, I was suffering from Chronic Fatigue and terrible back pain (now I know TMS) and I cam across the blood type diet - well immediately I felt better. To this day, I feel like a different person on it - clear skin, lots of energy and really good. Last year I was put on steroids right before I found Dr. Sarno and these wrecked my body. When I came off them, my adrenal glands went into failure and I was developing diabetes as my body didn't react to sugar properly. I put on 15 pounds in one month (common occurence with steroids). Ever since then, it has been hard to shift the weight - I have really stuck to the blood type diet. Apparently I still have bad yeast problems and so must avoid sugar. I am on lots of supplements to kill the yeast and I still have constipation. PHew!!
Sorry for very boring health report!
So - could all this be caused by the brain? According to the blood type doctor (he is my ND doctor) - I am an O type and do very poorly on sugar and grains and really should avoid them - they make me fat and tired and O's really suffer from yeast infections - go figure!! |
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Laura
USA
655 Posts |
Posted - 06/24/2005 : 15:16:02
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Suz,
I used to get chronic yeast infections also, years ago. My diet is not any different now, just my perspective. When I stopped focusing on them, they went away. I have a friend who has had the same thing. Now she is in chronic back, neck, and shoulder pain but has not had ONE yeast infection in years. I think it's part of the whole fun TMS scenario. I just know that people (mainly older people) have this "everything in moderation" philosophy and they never seem to have ANY of these problems. My grandfather, my husband's grandfather (to name a couple) both had that attitude about eating and both lived to be well into their 90's, healthy as can be. I had a friend whose grandmother was close to 100 years old. This lady ate fat from steak, in fact she loved it. She also drank a glass of red wine every evening with dinner. She was healthy as a horse. I think this lady lived to 105 years old. Yeah, I'm sure a lot of this is genetic, but I think when we give too much focus to anything it controls us and runs our lives.
I've been suffering from a stomach flu for the past week, with extreme nausea. I haven't had of my usual dizziness, no back pain, no headaches, just a constant sick and quesy feeling in my stomach. I keep hoping it will go away and keep waiting (My mother has had this for almost two weeks) and I am very focused on it. If I were to be focusing on dizziness or something else, I'm sure that would be making me crazy too. When I was really fixated on trying to lose weight, and going to the gym and working out two hours a day like a maniac, I was actually gaining weight. When I simply began eating less carbs, lots of greens, and everything "in moderation" the ten pounds seemed to fall off of me. In fact, I haven't been to the gym in about two months. Our thoughts can cause our bodies to do some strange things.
One thing I will suggest to you, in addition to the TMS work, is that you take Acidophilus. It's a good all around thing to take daily because it does help keep the yeast, bacteria, etc. within the body in check. I take two every morning on an empty stomach, half hour before breakfast. It must be kept refrigerated and they must be active cultures.
Good luck!
Laura
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Baseball65
USA
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Posted - 06/24/2005 : 16:05:33
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The "Blood type diet" is one of the more recent inventions that can take the place of Chiropractic,kinectic medicine,whatever your favorite mythology is......
It is unscientific and here's why...People of ALL cultures have every blood type...we have only been a cosmopolitan melting pot society for say...the last 100 years or so.If blood type eating was effective,than the implied result scientifically would be that agricultural(lots of carbs...grains,dairy) regions would have worked certain blood types out of their 'group' and hunter/gatherer types(Mongolians,herding types,Bedouins....lots of protein,meat dairy)would have done the same.Their descendants of the 'wrong' blood type would have been worked out of the gene pool as they would be unfit for their environment.
Since virtually every culture has all blood types,the inverse is implied....in other words,somebody wrote a book and made some money....I read a lot of other books before I read Sarno's....close,but the models made no sense.
People of African descent have sickle cells in their blood and genetic code...excellent for fighting malaria,but not excellent for anemia....that's why white people died of Malaria while natives did not....THAT makes sense and evolved over uncountable generations.I scanned the blood type book and it has no basis in fact....it just presumes you take it on faith that this writer had discovered something...I think not.
My wife(who did read the book and was convinced...though she doesn't follow it at all)told my son he was allergic to corn,and her quack chiro confirmed it.He began to complain of feeling ill after eating corn and that of course confirmed it.
Fact.Iron and stone
I had some candy,but unfortunately it had corn syrup....tsk,tsk..."sorry son,but you're allergic to corn and this has a corn product"
Miracle cure on the spot
The 'eat for your blood type thing' is just another stab into the great ocean of things we don't understand.
The Neolithic diet,Vegan diets and the like at least have reasonable assertations.....both speculate on the unlikely evolution of our palate to match our available food supply.I follow neither,but at least they're not so far fetched.
if you eat something and it bugs you....drumroll....eat something else!!!!
I don't like Beer so I drink Bourbon.I like candy corn ,but not chocolate .....I like milk but it gives me gas....so I drink it when no one else is around..
a quick shot of common sense that all of us seem to lose at times.Me included.
Miracle cure on the spot
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Edited by - Baseball65 on 06/24/2005 16:09:55 |
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Louise
USA
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Posted - 06/24/2005 : 16:42:10
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Baseball - thanks for making me laugh. You are the best.
For what it's worth, this is not a food allergy, but here's my allergy story. For years, I had an allergic reaction (redness, itching, swelling) if I wore pierced earrings that were not at least 14 ct. gold. Every time I tried non-gold earrings, I got a reaction, within minutes.
Guess what? At some point after kicking my "asthma", my earring allergy went away. Too funny. I am of the opinion that TMS, being the opportunistic little F-er that it is - will pick the thing that will most bother you to try and grab your attention.
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aorta
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Posted - 06/24/2005 : 21:29:44
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Suz,
This reply will outwardly have little to do with tms im afraid, but i did have a simiilar situation occur in that first, i had a colitis type problem, in order to treat this i thought id try something like the specific carb diet, rather than get reemed and put on prednisone etc.
I went from eating almost everything, to just meat and vegetables , mostly vegetables. It did seem to help the bowel problem, but i just didnt feel right. Later panic disorder surfaced, and when i tried to eat things i used to eat, i would get ill. Like you sugar was a big problem and to some degree carbs also. Its just as well with the sugar, but i gradually began to sneak in some other items, small amounts of corn flakes and things like that. I too took supplements thinking all my nutrients were messed up, but decided i didnt really know what was in a lot of those either. It sounds as if your system is in some type of shock thats for sure and while youre doing your tms work, i would suggest just taking a quality multi, a probiotic,
and slowly try to add small amounts of other food types to your diet.
My intolerances have improved, and i hope yours does quickly as well, i know this can drive you crazy(figure of speech).Best wishes.
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Suz
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Posted - 06/27/2005 : 11:21:13
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thank you everyone for all your responses - I have convinced myself so much that this Blood type diet is the only way to eat. I had some chocolate cake at my engagement party and I woke up feeling awful the next day - it seems to me that this might just be TMS. I think I am going to drop all of this - take a big breath and just start eating little amounts here and there of other things. I do want to lose a few pounds and so will try not to eat too many carbs. Ever since I have been obsessing over this diet and losing weight - I haven't lost a pound anyway!
Wow - this TMS thing is unbelievable! Baseball - I read the book and have seen the doctor numerous times - it certainly convinced me. Most people I know who do the diet seem to feel amazing. I agree with you that if you tell yourself you are allergic, your brain will use that to give you a reaction - at least it seems to work that way with back pain. My back pain has come back and consequently, my skin has broken out and I have constipation again - hmmm, all at the same time - since I stopped seeing Sarno's therapist for a while. Back to her I go! |
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Baseball65
USA
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Posted - 06/27/2005 : 12:55:52
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Hi Suz.
I don't know if ANYBODY has the right blood type to eat junk food.Everytime I binge on zingers or cake I always feel like crud...I don't know anybody who DOESN'T!!
I've noticed when I'm too busy to eat at home...(sandwiches,salads,pasta,muffins) I always start to feel cruddy.I start doing Taco Bell,or Jack in the box and yecccccchhh...NOT good!
I imagine if all of us ONLY ate what we bought when we were shopping at the market(basic stuff,bread,meat,vegetables,fish) we'd all feel a lot better...I know I do.
The problem is,our culture has this 'speed' fixation that means we don't really plan out what we eat.We're always on the run,and end up eating junk.
Now....if only I could follow my own advice!!
gotta go.....in a hurry
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Edited by - Baseball65 on 06/27/2005 12:56:21 |
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Food intolerances - help!
