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Apr. 7th, 2012 10:17 pmSo I switched from antibiotics to tons and tons of probiotics and my heavy miserable lazy meh phase abruptly ended, leaving me feeling SO GOOD comparatively...and then Grant was doing dishes and listening to Radiolab about how probiotics really are being looked into as a prozac-level mood and energy booster. The episode is here - http://www.radiolab.org/2012/apr/02/
This is similar to how I became a vegan and then experienced something like pre menstrual psychosis, a month or two or whenever ago, and then read about how that is treated with big doses of B vitamins (of which one is only found in animal products and others mostly in animal products), and then read this article about a study saying women who don't eat red meat are way more depressed: http://gizmodo.com/5895227/scientific-proof-that-red-meat-makes-you-happy
Which is all VERY similar to how, years ago, every cold I got turned into tonsilitis and I woke each morning sneezing and sniffling for an hour or so - until I quit having a lot of runny dairy all the time. Annie is anemic if she eats too much dairy (which makes you not just low on hemoglobin but, thusly, low on energy and happiness - dairy blocks iron absorption, for what it's worth).
The point is, it can be very hard to figure out, and it can be very hard to stick to your new guidelines if you do figure it out - but what we put in our bodies has a massive effect on us. Not just our physical body but our brains, our immune system, our feelings and mental function. It's worth digging deeper about and paying attention to your body for. It's annoying to think about, and there's a lot of contradictory stuff to wade through, but I know someone who's husband is permanently brain injured and unable to ever work again from (previously) undiagnosed gluten intolerance (and eating lots of gluten, clearly). My OWN husband is SO DIFFERENT on or off CORN of all things...
Crazy stuff.
Isaac, at dinner: I'm really really full...ugh I can't eat any more of this food...can I have some cantaloupe now?
Me: Of course not, you just said you're really really full.
Grant: Classic parenting trap.
Isaac: What? Cantaloupe is good for me!
Me: Yeah, but you just said you can't eat any more, and you didn't eat any at all.
Isaac: You mean I have to eat all of this if I want to have any cantaloupe?
Me: No, but you can't just not eat any and then say you're full to get cantaloupe.
Grant: That's a beginner's mistake.
Isaac: So I have to eat all of it if I want to have any cantaloupe?
Grant: That's not what she said.
Me: I just answered that question.
Isaac: No you didn't!
Me: It's not that you have to eat every little bit of it, I'm just saying you can't skip all of dinner and then have cantaloupe instead. If you say you're full it means you're done eating.
Isaac: What?
Grant: If you said, "I don't like this dinner, can I eat something else instead" that would be different.
Me: Yes, that would be respectable.
Isaac: So do I have to eat it all?
Grant: You need to eat a lot of it, we didn't give you that much.
Isaac: I don't understand.
Me: This is a concept you have to figure out for yourself, we can't hold your hand and guide you through.
Isaac: To cantaloupe?
Sometimes early mornings snuggling with this beast are the best part of the day.
She has several new dresses but has to wear a preschool tshirt to preschool. Simple solutions:
Loot from the Easter party.
This is what happens when I try to take a picture of Ananda and I in the grocery store...
And so I go in for a retake and get...
WTF iPhone? We laughed.
Style for days.
Tea.
10 year old heartthrob.
We saw this on the 836 the other day. Seems legit.
Oliver.
I took an afternoon nap in the hammock today: napping goes, this guy on my lap acting all cute and ridiculous.
He climbs away and I'm gettin all cozy and dozing off
And Elise appears, and wants to talk and talk and talk about why the moon comes out during the day and when Dad is gonna fix the trampoline and how Oliver is always nice to HER and then I blacked out and didn't hear the rest.
And then he was sad about something, but cute enough to make up for waking me for like the 15 time in 5 minutes.
Grant made this fabulous pasta bake for dinner (this is pre-baking). It involves chopping up/shredding/slicing onions, garlic, squash, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, mushrooms and tomatoes, and also several types of cheese, and geez dude. Just geez. The man can throw down.
This is similar to how I became a vegan and then experienced something like pre menstrual psychosis, a month or two or whenever ago, and then read about how that is treated with big doses of B vitamins (of which one is only found in animal products and others mostly in animal products), and then read this article about a study saying women who don't eat red meat are way more depressed: http://gizmodo.com/5895227/scientific-proof-that-red-meat-makes-you-happy
Which is all VERY similar to how, years ago, every cold I got turned into tonsilitis and I woke each morning sneezing and sniffling for an hour or so - until I quit having a lot of runny dairy all the time. Annie is anemic if she eats too much dairy (which makes you not just low on hemoglobin but, thusly, low on energy and happiness - dairy blocks iron absorption, for what it's worth).
The point is, it can be very hard to figure out, and it can be very hard to stick to your new guidelines if you do figure it out - but what we put in our bodies has a massive effect on us. Not just our physical body but our brains, our immune system, our feelings and mental function. It's worth digging deeper about and paying attention to your body for. It's annoying to think about, and there's a lot of contradictory stuff to wade through, but I know someone who's husband is permanently brain injured and unable to ever work again from (previously) undiagnosed gluten intolerance (and eating lots of gluten, clearly). My OWN husband is SO DIFFERENT on or off CORN of all things...
Crazy stuff.
Isaac, at dinner: I'm really really full...ugh I can't eat any more of this food...can I have some cantaloupe now?
Me: Of course not, you just said you're really really full.
Grant: Classic parenting trap.
Isaac: What? Cantaloupe is good for me!
Me: Yeah, but you just said you can't eat any more, and you didn't eat any at all.
Isaac: You mean I have to eat all of this if I want to have any cantaloupe?
Me: No, but you can't just not eat any and then say you're full to get cantaloupe.
Grant: That's a beginner's mistake.
Isaac: So I have to eat all of it if I want to have any cantaloupe?
Grant: That's not what she said.
Me: I just answered that question.
Isaac: No you didn't!
Me: It's not that you have to eat every little bit of it, I'm just saying you can't skip all of dinner and then have cantaloupe instead. If you say you're full it means you're done eating.
Isaac: What?
Grant: If you said, "I don't like this dinner, can I eat something else instead" that would be different.
Me: Yes, that would be respectable.
Isaac: So do I have to eat it all?
Grant: You need to eat a lot of it, we didn't give you that much.
Isaac: I don't understand.
Me: This is a concept you have to figure out for yourself, we can't hold your hand and guide you through.
Isaac: To cantaloupe?
Sometimes early mornings snuggling with this beast are the best part of the day.
She has several new dresses but has to wear a preschool tshirt to preschool. Simple solutions:
Loot from the Easter party.
This is what happens when I try to take a picture of Ananda and I in the grocery store...
And so I go in for a retake and get...
WTF iPhone? We laughed.
Style for days.
Tea.
10 year old heartthrob.
We saw this on the 836 the other day. Seems legit.
Oliver.
I took an afternoon nap in the hammock today: napping goes, this guy on my lap acting all cute and ridiculous.
He climbs away and I'm gettin all cozy and dozing off
And Elise appears, and wants to talk and talk and talk about why the moon comes out during the day and when Dad is gonna fix the trampoline and how Oliver is always nice to HER and then I blacked out and didn't hear the rest.
And then he was sad about something, but cute enough to make up for waking me for like the 15 time in 5 minutes.
Grant made this fabulous pasta bake for dinner (this is pre-baking). It involves chopping up/shredding/slicing onions, garlic, squash, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, mushrooms and tomatoes, and also several types of cheese, and geez dude. Just geez. The man can throw down.
Tags:
- ananda,
- b vitamins,
- corn,
- dairy,
- dinnertime,
- food,
- isaac,
- pictures,
- tea,
- vegan
