My Health Journey: I've Made Some Changes to My Diet Since Learning I Have Bone Loss

I've been experimenting with food and learned something new. I can eat a significant amount of pistachios in one sitting and not gain any weight, but it would be the opposite if I were to eat the equivalent in chips and dip. After a number of excellent results with pistachios, I've recently added those to my diet.

I've also added delicious, goat milk kefir to my diet and absolutely love it. I've been on the Pritikin diet (low fat, high fiber) for 45 years, but consistently made a lot of unhealthy choices. I've also been vegetarian for the most part ever since I was a teenager, but mostly chose vegan options for everything I consumed.

I'm trying to get on the fast track to better health, but haven't noticed any major changes so far- 6 1/2 months. I'm still always exhausted and some days, I can barely lift my head off the pillow.

I was on thyroid medicine for 10 years and never noticed a damn bit of difference in how I felt, even right from the start. I went to a homeopath and she told me to stop taking Throxine and since I didn't want to have 30% bone loss, I quit. A Doctor told me the bone loss isn't 30%, but when I looked at my mom, it made me wonder...

I've always felt tired and as crazy as it sounds, I envied the quadriplegic man my mom was caring for in our home, because he didn't have to do anything. I was 5 years old.

Some people point to my vegetarian diet as the reason for my fatigue, but I was not  vegetarian in my youth and I've had fatigue all my life. The fatigue is obviously caused by childhood incest and trauma, which has been shown to cause lifelong chronic illness. Nothing is being done about childhood trauma in the medical system, school system or prison system. The principals in New Hampshire schools claim that 50% of kids have trauma and they're at a loss as to what should be done about it. 

Abuse memories are often repressed and held in the body, causing immune disease and other disorders that Doctors don't want to deal with, such as fibromyalgia. Childhood trauma is found in people with fibromyalgia. 

It's one of my pet peeves that women are still treated as second class citizens inside and outside the medical community. Even women Doctors are still treated this way, which makes it even harder for women to be heard.

I'm so proud of my daughter for her therapeutic yoga/massage group sessions that are always fully booked. She loves teaching yoga and giving massages.