Re: being yourself--salt and plans

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Eating without salt: have herbs/spices on hand, I sprinkle Herbes de Provence on

my salad, oregano on my vegies, etc. I roast vegies with garlic and pepper.

Fresh or frozen basil is great on chicken, etc.

if looking for a plan, the most powerful plan is self-made. Like a menu for your

day or week.

When I had a family at home, I made a menu each Sunday, using a freezer/fridge

inventory and family calendar. Never wasted food, and always had a plan ready

for tired times. Now I'm alone, but I keep some delicious healthy foods ready

(homemade soups, e.g.). I will try to get back to menus.

Foggy

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> >Hi, C L. My husband had to go to the doctor today and I went with him. I had

a fight within myself to ask if the podiatrist could see me. He is a good doctor

and can perform operations on the feet. I kept reasoning with myself while I was

there -- do I ask the doctor if he can see me, or should I not ask him? Finally

I said to myself, this is really silly -- I'm here -- how much closer can i get

to the doctor? Then I said to myself, well, if he doesn't have time to see me,

oh well ... maybe I " ll go to someone else. Turns out he saw me and told me that

my broken toe was healing and allayed my fears about the leg which was turning

red (I thought maybe it was something very serious). He said it was a reaction

to the break. He also noticed some spots on my other foot and told me it was a

fungus. He recommended a medication, and noticing my slightly hysterical

reaction, he told me it was a topical cream. I self-treated the toe when it

first broke, although I

> did basically the right thing, as I look back on it, I'm thinking I should

have seen the doctor anyway. :-) Live and learn. That is, if we live. <smile>

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> >I saw a Woman's World magazine and bought it because the front cover was

talking about gaining weight on salt alone. I know I have to work on this, so I

figure I'll start reading. sigh. Imagine food without salt? sigh again. Tai

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> >To: IntuitiveEating_Support

> >Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 5:07 AM

> >Subject: Re: being yourself

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> >Hi Tai,

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> >    I think it is terrible the way some doctors treat people. No wonder

there are a bunch of us sitting in waiting rooms filled with dread and a host of

other emotions just working up our blood pressures to those " dangerous levels " !

Quite honestly, I'm glad my blood pressure is responding to a perceived threat,

because that way I know I'm still alive and feel!

> >   Yes, I think you have a great point about doing your research and doing

what is comfortable for you. I too am not and can not provide medical advice, I

just know from my experience that a little trust in oneself can go a long way. I

also monitored my blood pressure and wrote it down a few years ago, but it

didn't seem to help. I want to do it more regularly again now that I am with

different doctors. I find the doctors I've been seeing lately are much nicer

than the ones I grew up with, and even nicer than the ones in my twenties. I

find I am much more honest and get the treatment I need when I have a trusting

relationship with doctors who listen and don't berate me-and most other people

for that matter! I think IE is another way for me to be honest with myself and

allow the trust I haven't always had for my body to build. IE is my good doctor!

> >Take care and keep trustin'!

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> >To: " IntuitiveEating_Support "

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> >Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 12:07:24 PM

> >Subject: being yourself

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> >Hi, CL. Thanks for answering. I actually am refusing to go to my doctor, for

better or for worse, because she always takes my pressure and starts in about my

high blood pressure. I know she will give me a lecture. I just can't stand

taking the medication or hearing her lectures. At least on medicare I can go to

a specialist without a referral from a primary physician. You had a transplant

when you were 12? That must have been traumatic. I do understand a bit about

doctors and nurses not listening. A few years ago I broke my leg and they just

sat me up on the table while I was wincing in pain, I demanded, begged for, and

asked for a pillow to prop my leg up. Finally they answered my request and I was

so much more comfortable. I try to be nice to doctors, but frankly, I usually

tell them in the initial interview that I don't like doctors. I know that'll win

'em over. My doctor told me that loss of weight doesn't always get the pressure

down. Last time she

> called an office worker in while she insisted on having a witness to her

warning -- that if I didn't take my pressure meds, I would either die, have a

heart attack, or a stroke. I cried afterwards, but I knew I was not going to

take the meds. I had taken them for years, and it seems it just got worse

instead of better. When I was taking the meds, my pressure hardly went down, my

ankles swelled up anyway, I would forget to take it sometimes, I would get

tired, and they wanted to prescribe more and more meds. I did research on this

and sometimes they don't even know why the pressure is so high. Doctors went to

town with all sorts of meds, remember the ulcer business years ago until they

found out that it was not the food we were eating, but it was a bacteria in the

stomach or something like that? I could not have a tooth pulled a few years ago

until I got my pressure down, I did take the meds then, I don't want to have a

stroke, but I asked my doctor if

> people can live their lives through without a stroke, heart attack, etc., and

not take their pressure meds, he said it's possible. So ... I'm hoping I don't

have a stroke, but I " ll betcha that with a little research, I'll see that even

people who take pressure pills can and do have strokes. Not everybody is good to

receive treatment, I'm not saying what anyone should do. Tai

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