It's going to be interesting times. Starting this Saturday and proceeding for over 3 weeks, my diet is going to be vegetable broth, and after a week, I can add vegan ice cream to the mix. It would be more varied if I weren't vegan, but that's ok. But I do expect to be perpetually hungry until past the restrictions. With any luck, the restricted diet will cause some weight reduction (at least temporarily).

I'm having a significant series of stomach surgeries on the 14th of April that should resolve my gastroparesis enough that I can return to a whole food plant based diet, as opposed to junky processed/ultra processed food I've been forced to consume for months now. The specific surgeries are a G-POEM, laparoscopic cardiomyotomy, and gastric stimulator, which I posted about on my previous instance a month or so back.

Fingers crossed the surgeries provide the help I am seeking!

#Surgery #RestrictedDiet #Vegan #Gastroparesis #GPOEM #GastricStimulator

[comfort, support, solidarity, understanding would be welcome—advice not]

I'm having such a hard time.

A person in the house does keto to an incredibly disordered extent, obsessively counting calories for an extremely restricted intake.

I have a long history of a contentious relationship with food, stemming mostly from my mother decrying how fat I was as a child (I wasn't), and that we rarely actually had any food in the house (literally).

I'm finding it SO triggering to be around this person because pretty much the only thing they talk about is their diet.

My therapist and I spoke about it before I left. We have plans to start up EMDR therapy when I get back in March, to counter the trauma I hold around food... which is great, but also it's a long time until March.

#Food #ED #EatingDisorder #eating #keto #RestrictedDiet #DietCulture

My last bloodspot result came in, and it was 394umol/L!!

I’m so happy and proud of myself for managing to keep my levels down for a whole entire YEAR!! Past me wouldn’t believe such a thing, and yet here I am!! 😁🎉🥳🎊

#bloodspot #pku #phenylketonuria #phenylcetonurie #lowprotein #restricteddiet #health #phenylalanine