Thursday, March 6, 2014

Dag nabit!

  Tonight's rendition of my experiences was going to be one for the record books due to my desire to please my readership, ha! And I say that with tongue in cheek and with many winks to boot! (Since in reality I do believe that most nights it is only me that is pleased, or not...ha!)

Although, I do enjoy writing until I am done, done...
Sometimes, just sometimes, my ability to complete my self imposed assignments are harder than one may think.

Like for tonight; I was all ready to tell you about some interesting article I read in a freebie toss paper found on display at the Cultural Center yesterday, Feeling Fit. Why not I say? Which had an intense item about a little known disorder called 'orthorexia' the name has been around since 1996, but yet has been not been accepted as a formal diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the bible of psychiatric illness.

"Orthorexia
Obsessiveness about the quality of the food being ingested, ensuring that it is the most healthy, the most organic, etc."


I bet most of you didn't know that, hmm?
Neither did I, don't you love learning?

A hallmark of orthorexia is perfectionism, finding the perfect foods. The culture immersed in the right way to eat: Juice, Paleo, low-carb, no-fat, and GMO-free diets abound! Some people get so obsessed with making sure that they eat this not that, that they break down emotionally and eat nothing!
Fascinating stuff, and who hasn't met someone in this day and age who didn't tell them they shouldn't eat this or that due to this or that!

Why that whole MS site that I was first on was dictated by a woman who insisted that what she was eating is what everyone should eat to be cured! And now I do realize she had the symptoms of this known disorder, ORTHOREXIA! And the end result according to this article is that these people, yep I used the phrase, 'these people' you betcha, any-who these people have a mental disorder and eating disorder, hmm, sad, but true.

Too many of us get sucked in by well meaning people thinking that their way is the only way in so many things... think with your GUTS people, if it feels wrong back out, as fast as you can go!
Just a suggestion, far be it for me to tell any of you what to do, really!

It makes me laugh thinking what I said, about thinking with your guts, well that is another thing that seems to have taken hold with that popular society that our 'guts' are the centers of our universal health issues... who knows, but that is why they believe that eating THEIR way or no way is how to resolve that issue! If only...

Today, I had my reg doc visit and she was to give me the results of my blood-work and mammogram, and she did have most all of that... mam was fine, I did smile as always, and my low dose thyroid medication is working and so my thyroid is stable, but the rest of the answers were not answered since the second page with my cholesterol and diabetes A1-c were not done, and so they took those today and profusely apologized. Dr. Nord knows that I am a hardass I guess i.e. with people messing up, but since it was their first time I said , " they're only human", and wait there's more... “that Kelli who did the last one and I am sure that it was just an oversight",
have you picked yourselves up off the floor?

I should have those results by tomorrow I was told.
Doctor Nord gave me a hug and cheek kiss goodbye, and I said, "nice touch". And she smiled.

I also got my five year pneumonia shot and so I am now good till 2019!

On those notes which I really thought I wasn't going to get to, since I really was feeling yucky after dinner tonight, nauseous and weak and dizzy... but I survived! Must have been something I ate, ha, ha, ha! So allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
 

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