Since 2020 I have had to have surgery twice to repair a hiatal hernia and even after the second surgery and the use of mesh it still popped up and is considered a moderate hernia. No one knows if it’s connected but I also have terrible bouts of nausea that come and go without warning.
This is part of my struggle to get back into the regular swing of things. It’s not usually gentle nausea, I get violently ill with very little notice. Thankfully I have meds that will stop it because it could damage my hernia further to wretch violently.
I have eliminated so much from my diet and changed so many habits and I am able to see some connections to meat and sugar. I think the hardest thing I have done is I gave up soda (which was really hard cause I love me some bubbles) … When I do break down and have soda (every month or so) I can feel it almost within 20 minutes and I feel horrible. I rarely eat meat, no chicken at all, after realizing it not only made me feel poorly but it also showed up on my Everlywell food sensitivity test. If I choose to have meat I look for top notch grass fed organic loved beef and I have very little and I still may end up sorry within a day or 2. I have a few lesser processed sugar treats I can indulge in but not too many and nothing chocolate…unless it’s high quality dark chocolate I get awful reflux and so sick the next day… so as I think you can imagine, that was a huge loss.
I woke up today and started as usual but within a few hours my head was spinning and my stomach was turning. I had to stop and lie down and eventually had to take zofran to stop it. It works. I am upright and even at my computer bitching about it.
Why today though? I know why, I knew it could happen and I still I couldn’t stop myself. I had a couple of marshmallows last night… I think I only ate 1 but I put 3 in the microwave for 30 seconds to make them all sticky and I ate them with a couple dark chocolate chips and a grahm cracker. Now, I know I can eat a couple dark chocolate chips once in a while and be ok, and the organic non GMO Krispy treats usually don’t bother me so I hoped the marshmallows wouldn’t. AND, I know if I ate just a graham cracker it wouldn’t bother me. So why not all of them? I didn’t have more than 1 marshmallow, 3 chocolate chips and half a cracker. WTF ….
If I am honest I knew it wasn’t going to work out well for me. I tried this once before a few months back and had too much (I ate all three marshmallows and therefore more chips and crackers) and was sick the next day. I thought if I had just a little this time it would be different. My husband even said “You’re going to regret it.” and I said “no no I will just have a little bit and it won’t hurt me.” duh!
What am I learning here? That I am bordering on the edges of crazytown because doing the same thing (almost) and expecting different results is… well CRAZY!!!
But more importantly,… NO SUGAR is better for my body. It sucks. I like candy.
Another revelation around food this week… strawberries make me sick! My body has declared strawberries unwelcome. I think that’s why my smoothies were no longer making my belly happy. The good part to that is I will make a smoothie this week without strawberries and with any luck my belly will say yes to it.
Thankfully potatoes remain my friend.
Everyday is something new. Gotta stay open to learning and changing… evolution.
