Notes on life, philosophy, and medicine

Search no more - why is the fight for healthy eating so difficult! Because so many things on supermarket shelves are high processed and it seems like everything has added sugar. This month, as part of whole 30, I attempted to eliminate among other things any added sugar to my diet. I'm not at an unhealthy weight but I hated the fatigue and the joint pain. This is one experiment I highly recommend doing because it's about getting to know yourself and knowing what foods do to your body so that you can make good decisions. So - I'm just going to start this list but plan to continue to add to it as I find products that are delicious without the added sugar. 1. essentially anything whole/unprocessed fruits, vegetables, meats, fish etc. 2. organic dried mango - I've found great bags of these at trader joes and Costco 3. organic peanut/almond butter from Costco 4. RAO's tomato sauce. YUMMY. 5. Mixed Nuts from Costco. 6. Traders Joe's Kale Gnocci 7. C

My patients struggle. I struggle. I don't have diabetes. I don't have a hurt back (at least not anywhere close to what my patients experience). I don't have some autoimmune disease. I am not obese. But sometimes I eat things and know that I'm eating it because it makes me feel good now but I may regret it later. I eat it out of spite for what I'm experiencing inside of me. I want to stuff my face and my gut so full of processed chemicals or sweet moist chocolate something or rather. I want to drive through McDonald's or Jack in the box and chase away tears and find memories of my past that maybe brought happiness. So, that struggle sucks. Rather than somehow face some nebulous emotional problem that has no immediate answers, I want to inhale food. So much so that I guess it makes it harder to find the answers and then maybe we hate ourselves a little. Maybe we ask of ourselves to be better. We find a way. We know what works. We try again, we feel good b