Jeff, I understand you are worried that you are damaging your health as well as helping your health! I have been there to.
However, what I have found is, right now I have more energy, I feel better, I look better, my pain is non-existant, even my iritis is getting better. Yes, we do not eat what the 'recommended food guide' tells us to eat! But there are plenty of others who also can not eat what the recommended food guide recommends! My daughter is one of them, it would damage her health to eat all the fruit and veggies that the food guide tells her to eat! [She has cystic fibrosis and what her body needs is animal fat, dairy fat, and more fat!!!! in order to put some meat on her bones! she is 3 years old and weighs about 26 1/2lbs] However, when I tell people what she needs they say 'Oh okay, I understand that' but when I tell people what my body needs they say 'Oh no, that is not healthy for you, you are not eating the right amounts or combinations of food'!!
It is my conclusion that my body will tell me by response what I need to eat. I am able to eat dairy as long as I don't go overboard with it [I stick to cheese, little milk, whipped cream and have just added some Probiotic Yogurt that I found, very tasty: French Vanilla!!]
I have also worried about taking supplements, and have even bought a few! However, I have never been good at remembering to take my vitamins, so needless to say all the bottle are still full!!! I will try to take some of the supplements though, but there is such a long list! Right now I have some GoldSeal Wild Salmon Oil that I am trying to remember to take, and it doesn't seem to bother me.
Have you lost a lot of weight on the NSD? I have lost about 20-25 lbs, and am now weighing about 105 lbs [I am only 5' though so it is not as bad as it sounds!] My husband is monitoring my weight situation as he doesn't want me to get too skinny! and he knows I tend to worry about it!
I hope you get some encouraging replies to your post, Jeff. I say just hang in there, eat the food that your body wants you to eat, and continue to be as pain-free as possible. Don't worry so much about what other people say [especially friends and family] as sometimes when they are worried about you they will want you to go back to how you were before [I hope that makes sense!?] They don't want to see you in pain, and they just want it to go back to before when you didn't know about the AS [does that make better sense?!]
Cheers,
Rita
