i got the poison, i got the remedy
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the_siobhanThis is me stressing about my meat stuffs again, so hit the downspace key right now if you're tired of it.
One of the instructions that seems to be pretty much universal for dealing with my acid reflux issue is to eat more frequent and much smaller meals. Which I've been trying to do, while working around the fact that the breaks at work aren't really long enough to do much more than grab a coffee and skate back up to my desk.
The problem with this is that to deal with my teeth issue I have to spend 10 minutes cleaning up my mouth every single time I eat or drink anything other than water, no exceptions. This has resulted me having oh, at minimum about an extra hour a day devoted specifically to the task of how I feed myself.
Add that to the fact that I'm trying to avoid grains this week as part of my "figure out how to make at least one of my physical problems just go the fuck away and stop pestering me" strategy and yesterday I didn't eat breakfast at all. I honestly just could not come up with one single thing that I wanted to eat badly enough to have to deal with doing all that scrubbing and flossing and rinsing afterwards.
As you could probably have predicted, physical issues are turning into enough of a resource hog that they are starting to leak heavily over into the realm of mental issues. This whole situation is twigging my eating disorder Stuff like you would Not. Fucking. Believe. And I'm not kidding, my main defense? My full-blown anorexia was in 1985-86, so I keep visualizing going back there by picturing myself in leg-warmers and headbands and teased bangs.
So what I am essentially communicating to you all is that the knowledge that a 45 year-old women would look like a complete 'tard in leg-warmers is the only thing that stands between me and bugfuck crazy.
This is one of those situations where I'm honestly not sure which is worse, the disease or the cure.
One of the instructions that seems to be pretty much universal for dealing with my acid reflux issue is to eat more frequent and much smaller meals. Which I've been trying to do, while working around the fact that the breaks at work aren't really long enough to do much more than grab a coffee and skate back up to my desk.
The problem with this is that to deal with my teeth issue I have to spend 10 minutes cleaning up my mouth every single time I eat or drink anything other than water, no exceptions. This has resulted me having oh, at minimum about an extra hour a day devoted specifically to the task of how I feed myself.
Add that to the fact that I'm trying to avoid grains this week as part of my "figure out how to make at least one of my physical problems just go the fuck away and stop pestering me" strategy and yesterday I didn't eat breakfast at all. I honestly just could not come up with one single thing that I wanted to eat badly enough to have to deal with doing all that scrubbing and flossing and rinsing afterwards.
As you could probably have predicted, physical issues are turning into enough of a resource hog that they are starting to leak heavily over into the realm of mental issues. This whole situation is twigging my eating disorder Stuff like you would Not. Fucking. Believe. And I'm not kidding, my main defense? My full-blown anorexia was in 1985-86, so I keep visualizing going back there by picturing myself in leg-warmers and headbands and teased bangs.
So what I am essentially communicating to you all is that the knowledge that a 45 year-old women would look like a complete 'tard in leg-warmers is the only thing that stands between me and bugfuck crazy.
This is one of those situations where I'm honestly not sure which is worse, the disease or the cure.
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Date: 2007-09-13 07:32 pm (UTC)I don't suppose you have a link? The only one I could find was to these</a<, and they seem to be more geared towards making your breath smell good than towards your actual teeth. (http://www.ciao.co.uk/Oral_B_Brush_Aways_Disposable_Teeth_Wipes__Review_5531789)
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Date: 2007-09-13 08:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-13 08:51 pm (UTC)I tried these
Date: 2007-09-14 12:38 am (UTC)I have a proposition for you. I feel like going to Toronto for a nice little vacation after the 1st. of Oct. If you guys let me crash with you, I'll bring you 6 months worth of folic acid. I'll show you how to make a spray out of the tablets. It's pretty easy. Just grind a crapload of them in a coffe grinder, add water and filter like coffee. I get 50% off on our products so I can get you a 6 month supply of spray for about $10US.
jv
Re: I tried these
Date: 2007-09-14 01:03 am (UTC)Re: I tried these
Date: 2007-09-14 01:31 am (UTC)jv
Re: I tried these
Date: 2007-09-14 03:53 pm (UTC)Re: I tried these
Date: 2007-09-14 05:20 pm (UTC)There's also Fresh at Queen & Shaw. I've been wanting to check them out because they have a cookbook for sale that I might be interested in buying.
Re: I tried these
Date: 2007-09-14 06:39 pm (UTC)Fresh is very good, and the cookbook looks quite fab. We bought it a bday gift for a friend last year, and the recipes looked great. The only drawback is that the dining room feels a bit cafeteria-like.
Re: I tried these
Date: 2007-09-14 07:00 pm (UTC)Re: I tried these
Date: 2007-09-14 01:17 am (UTC)Axe and I were in Little India and we passed by a restaurant that offered all-vegan southern Indian food. I immediately thought of the place you & Sarah took me to in Chicago.
Awesome!
Date: 2007-09-14 01:30 am (UTC)jv
Re: Awesome!
Date: 2007-09-14 03:24 am (UTC)Re: Awesome!
Date: 2007-09-14 03:51 pm (UTC)Re: Awesome!
Date: 2007-09-14 03:54 am (UTC)