50. Food Diary Day 32

Went out to a meeting this morning and suddenly remembered I’d forgotten to eat breakfast and that I’d left my porridge still in the microwave!

As the meeting was from 10am until 12.30, my tummy was rumbling very loudly.

So I had a coffee and a hot chocolate to try and keep it quiet. There was nothing to eat.

When I got out I had sushi, carrot cake and apple juice from the nearest shop. but that was a lot healthier than my first choice of a fast food take away. I think I did really well to stick to healthy food, despite my climbing the walls with hunger!

The cool thing was I kept my cool! A few weeks ago, in the same situation, I would have had extreme low blood sugar and been gasping for air, and be unable to concentrate on ANYTHING but where my next meal was coming from.

All this porridge has paid off – even if today’s got neglected til this evening!

Other food included a banana

Baked potato, with spinach, prawns and mayonnaise

an apple

cornflakes

tea

49. GERD Diet

Gastro Reflux can be caused by stress, and or NSAIDs anti inflammatory drugs. Your stomach is producing too much acid, and is damaging your stomach wall. This can result in stomach ulcers, hiatus hernia or acid reflux, or a combination of all three.

You could take milk of magnesia for temporary relief, but for longer term you may need proton pump inhibitors, special pills to stop your stomach producing too much acid. Your doctor will decide what is best for you, but you can greatly reduce the effects of GERD by eating ther right foods, and avoiding the wrong ones. I would also strongly recommend a food tolerancy test, if you already haven’t taken one. Ask at your family doctor’s or health food shop.

Recommended Food:
Goats milk , chees and youghurt, preferably low fat.
melon, banana, pears, apples, berries, peaches
All vegetables
lean poultry and fish

Foods To Avoid:
whole milk and chocolate
All fried foods
Fizzy drinks
Tomatoes
All citrus fruit
Vinegar
All animal fat
alcohol and caffeine
beef, and all cow products
so milk, cheese, yoghurt and cream

48. Days 30 and 31

Day 30

Apple

Porridge

Coffee

Pepper salad; raw sliced mixed peppers with olive oil, garlic and thyme

Fennel Tea

boiled egg

Apple juice

celery and carrot with avacado dip; made with yoghurt, mayonnaise and soft goats cheese

same dip with prawns and spinach, and Potato

Decaf coffee

went out: 3 glasses of tomato juice and one apple juice

Day 31

Cornflakes

Coffee

Porridge

Apple

Fruit smoothie

chicken supreme with potato. I forgot to have lunch so I had no time to cook rice, so I did a chopped potato in the microwave.

White sauce; soya spread, soya milk, cornflour, chicken stock, pinch of garlic, dash of white wine.

Coffee – very sleepy today

I had chicken supreme tonight as well with rice.

porridge