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If there’s one good thing that came from the MAE (and there were many, but just for example) it’s that I learned to make and appreciate a good salad.
Store bought ‘spring mix,’ ham pieces (cubed Canadian bacon), and chopped kalamata olives, in a nice dressing. Yum!
(3g carbohydrates, but now that I’m not counting it’s so much less stressful.)
First week off the MAD:
-finding food is easier
-but I have to be really careful, because the temptation is to just eat cookies all day and I know it would make me feel awful
-I’m really sugar sensitive. Like, I just ate a banana and I’m sugar high. Whew!
-everything is easier to digest, and my stomach is happier more often
-I have more energy overall
-there’s the temptation to eat only fruit/veg/grain and let my blood sugar levels spike and plummet. Keeping that from happening is harder without the draconian measures that I was taking.
-can’t tell if it’s changing my seizures at all.
TL:DR I mostly feel better but it’s a big adjustment to go back.
So I went off the Modified Atkins- I just couldn’t stand it any more. If it works for you, excellent, well done. But if it was making a difference for me, the difference wasn’t so noticeable as to stand out in my seizure diary. March was amazing- Only four seizure days! But then, so was November. Probably more a coincidence than cause and effect.
So I gave up. I am sitting here drinking a smoothie, and I didn’t weigh the ingredients first. YUM.
I’m still not eating much sugar. I’m avoiding starches, and I’m still hard to feed between allergies and intolerances. Spikes and drops in my blood sugar mess with my meds. But wow is it nice to eat a granola bar when I get hungry, instead of peanut butter or a chunk of fatty meat.
If my seizures increase I’ll go back. But as of now, I’m pretty okay. And this weekend? I’m getting a latte.
Talking to my different doctors like:
Me: “Hey neurologist, I suddenly lost all interest in sex. Think this might be related to my sudden change in diet?”
Neuro: “No, totes not, nope, no way. Talk to your gynecologist.”
Me: “Hey gynecologist, I suddenly lost all interest in sex. Think this might be related to the new birth control I’m on?”
Gyno: “No, totes not, nope, no way. Talk to your neuro.”
:|
And it’s not even like I miss it; I didn’t have much to begin with. But the Goober misses it, and I’d miss him, so there we go.
Nuggets!
I saw this recipe for chicken nuggets: https://ketocook.com/2012/08/21/chicken-nuggets-2-0/
... and it looked tasty and fun, so last week I ordered a mini cupcake tin off the internet- silicone so I can use it hot or cold and pop the little guys out easily.
But the package still hasn’t come and I am impatient, and I want to make my chicken nuggets already! They’ll be all chicken and tasty and ready to eat... Harrumph.
Social food worries
Today is my first time seeing my best friend since I started this diet, and we’re going to be spending enough time that I’ll need to eat. So I’m bringing my own food, and I told her my ‘safe foods,’ but my favorite thing that we always eat together is NOT safe, and she was looking forward to eating it with me, and I’m pretty sure I can’t. >(
Current nosh: Salad
Warm weather means I’m in the mood for salad. (Apparently salad has its own mood now? Weird.) And this week’s salad involves ham and olives and greens.
Handful of “mixed spring greens” from Stopnshop (.25-.5g carb)
2oz ham (2g carb)
5 kalamata olives, chopped into 2-3 pieces
soy ginger salad dressing, 0g carbohydrates (because it’s mostly oil)
I’ve had about 2 big bowls of this a day for three days now, with or without olives. I’m almost out of ham, running low on olives, but those big boxes of salad are ginormous and the greens will probably eat me in my sleep.
If it’s not SUDEP, it’s our vegetable overlords. Farewell my dears. We who are about to snooze salute you.
Epileptic Trekkies dream of...
I had a dream that I was on a Federation star ship, in the meal hall, and I was served a bowl of wide rice noodles. I was really hungry so I wolfed them down. Halfway through the bowl I realized with horror that I’d just eaten WAY over 20g of carbohydrates, and totally screwed up Modified Atkins. But I kept going, finished the bowl, because they were so good.
Next thing I know I’ll be dreaming about cantaloupe...
