Re: (Courtenay-food tips) Tips #1-3 (attempt two)

[Guest guest]

Actually, I was trying to convince my mom to move to Lubbock. She

says she hates Houston, but she thinks she will lose her pension if

she leaves her job...

She is a nurse...is this true, can she lose her pension?? She is

planning to work until she is 67 and she is only 49.

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> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > > I'm still interested in the Broda diet...looked

> > > > > for the book

> > > > > while out shopping last weekend, but the B & N I was at

> > > > > didn't have

> > > > > it, and I ran out of steam before I got to another

> > > > > bookstore! From

> > > > > what you've shared, it sounds like it's pretty similar

> > > > > to what I do,

> > > > > as I'm avoiding all processed meats, etc, and stick to

> > > > > whole foods.

> > > > > I just don't have fruit too often...still makes my

> > > > > blood sugar wacky.

> > > > >

> > > > > Does anyone else have a problem with chicken? I've

> > > > > never been

> > > > > allergic to it (and I have lots of food allergies) but

> > > > > over the last

> > > > > few months I've noticed I get " drunk sleepy " every

> > > > > time I eat it.

> > > > > I'm not completely avoiding it, just don't have it for

> > > > > lunch anymore

> > > > > because I always end up on my office floor asleep if I

> > > > > do. If I

> > > > > have it in the evening, I usually just have to go to

> > > > > bed and sleep

> > > > > it off.

> > > > >

> > > > > Niki

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Sharon,

Is the first appt and allergy testing done consecutively (in two

days)? My mom can give me injections, she is a nurse. I can also

give myself injections...

Do you know of any environmental/allergy doctors in houston that you

would recommend?

> > > > > >

> > > > > >

> > > > > >

> > > > > > I'm still interested in the Broda diet...looked

> > > > > > for the book

> > > > > > while out shopping last weekend, but the B & N I was at

> > > > > > didn't have

> > > > > > it, and I ran out of steam before I got to another

> > > > > > bookstore! From

> > > > > > what you've shared, it sounds like it's pretty similar

> > > > > > to what I do,

> > > > > > as I'm avoiding all processed meats, etc, and stick to

> > > > > > whole foods.

> > > > > > I just don't have fruit too often...still makes my

> > > > > > blood sugar wacky.

> > > > > >

> > > > > > Does anyone else have a problem with chicken? I've

> > > > > > never been

> > > > > > allergic to it (and I have lots of food allergies) but

> > > > > > over the last

> > > > > > few months I've noticed I get " drunk sleepy " every

> > > > > > time I eat it.

> > > > > > I'm not completely avoiding it, just don't have it for

> > > > > > lunch anymore

> > > > > > because I always end up on my office floor asleep if I

> > > > > > do. If I

> > > > > > have it in the evening, I usually just have to go to

> > > > > > bed and sleep

> > > > > > it off.

> > > > > >

> > > > > > Niki

> > > > > >

> > > > > >

> > > > > >

> > > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > > Sharon

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > > __________________________________________________

> > > > >

[Guest guest]

Why no chicken???

Cath

>

>

> and we always check seasonings for culprits like MSG

> (I make most of

> my own seasoning blends now, anyway).

[Guest guest]

Uncle Sam's New Rules for Retirees. Those born, I believe, at or before

1934 still retire for full SS at 65, less at 62, but us younger ones retire

on a formula that depends on how old we are in increments. It's stupid and

it's just another way for the Feds to keep more of our money. I think mine

is like 67 also, but I'm taking the other way out, with the Divorced Widow's

Pension. I can hardly wait. Watch them change that law right in the yr

before I attain age 60, that would be about right. On her personal job

pension, with her present employer, that depends, I suppose she would, if

she quit.

Re: (Courtenay-food tips) Tips #1-3 (attempt

two)

> Actually, I was trying to convince my mom to move to Lubbock. She

> says she hates Houston, but she thinks she will lose her pension if

> she leaves her job...

>

> She is a nurse...is this true, can she lose her pension?? She is

> planning to work until she is 67 and she is only 49.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Levelland is right next to it. It is definitely level land, everywhere you look. I lived in Levelland with my first husband, as a young chick, and I abhorred it, was very boring to me. Dry dirt blowing everywhere you looked, and not much vegetation. Of course now I live on the Gulf Coast for the last 35 yrs, where the vegetation is lush and green, and the air pollution could kill an elephant. I think it's the chemicals and steroids in the air that make the plants and trees so big and green, actually. I actually grew up further North in Childress, Tx., but it was even dryer the last time I was there.

Re: Re: (Courtenay-food tips) Tips #1-3 (attempt two)

We think about it all the time. My husband loved Lubbock when he was in school and for the 10 years he lived there. Me, I love the high desert!

[Guest guest]

Chicken, in traditional Chinese medicine, is warming.

Pork, however, is cooling.

I am on a cooling diet because I have " liver heat " , as

evidenced by certain symptoms and the redness of the

rim of my tongue.

TCM/acupuncture is 2,500 year old medicine form.

Whatever the acupuncturist has suggested so far has

actually worked. So, I'm happy and I've got more

energy.

Best--

Courtenay.

--- cstherineflores wrote:

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Why no chicken???

Cath

[Guest guest]

Interesting. What are the other symptoms.

Courtenay wrote:

Chicken, in traditional Chinese medicine, is warming.

Pork, however, is cooling.

I am on a cooling diet because I have "liver heat", as

evidenced by certain symptoms and the redness of the

rim of my tongue.

TCM/acupuncture is 2,500 year old medicine form.

Whatever the acupuncturist has suggested so far has

actually worked. So, I'm happy and I've got more

energy.

Best--

Courtenay.

--- cstherineflores wrote:

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Why no chicken???

Cath

[Guest guest]

pancakes are killer - unless I eat Buckwheat with extra protein and no sugar added yougurt on top!

[Guest guest]

We very seriously considered moving to Lubbock at one time. :-)

Somehow we picked Wyoming instead ... I am feeling leaps and bounds

better with the fresh air, little to no stress, etc. I need to be

better about my diet, though! I have been reading with interest the

posts about Celiac, gluten sensitivities, food allergies, and BB

diet. I know there's a key in there somewhere for me. This morning

we had pancakes and I just HAD to lay down after breakfast and

sleep ... I haven't had to do that in months!

> > Have you ever thought about moving to Lubbock?

> >

> > Yahoo! for Good

> > Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

[Guest guest]

I get this thing after I eat, even now, where I have

to sit for about twenty minutes after I eat (or

nap).... Is that just one of the oh-so-fun side

effects of hypoglycemia?

And Sharon, I don't know how you managed for all of

those years! I mean, my symptoms had kind of a creep

effect over a ten year period, but when the big one

came-- it was really obvious that something was wrong.

I'm so glad that you caught up with your illness.

Best--

Courtenay.

--- smr79410 wrote:

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,

I used to have these terrific reactions to certain

foods. I would eat certain things and

immediately go into what I called a " food coma " .

These started about 11 years before I was

diagnosed. How I ever made it to the day I got

diagnosed, I will never know!!!!! A large part of

my getting better involved food allergy testing. I

was tested for 75 foods I ate all the time. I

was allergic to 65 of them. I took 6 allergy shots

for a year. Again, the change was very slow.

I would say that I did not even see any change until

at the end of the year, I started to re-add

food to my diet and it didn't make me sleepy or make

me itch or make my brain fog. Amazing!

Sharon

[Guest guest]

The sleepy thing happens to me if I eat wheat! they say that's a sign of food allergy.

It can also be reactive hypoglycemia for me.

steph

[Guest guest]

Yup, that's what I've got-- reactive hypoglycemia.

--- sle816@... wrote:

> The sleepy thing happens to me if I eat wheat! they

> say that's a sign of

> food allergy.

> It can also be reactive hypoglycemia for me.

> steph

>

[Guest guest]

Hypoglycemia, or gluten sensitivies, or Celiac disease.

> The sleepy thing happens to me if I eat wheat! they say that's a

sign of

> food allergy.

> It can also be reactive hypoglycemia for me.

> steph