Aytundra's Diary (not Wai diet)

[Aytundra]

Sun Sept 6, 2015
9:03
9:30 1 cup watermelon, 9 dates
14:45 1 banana, 5 dates, 1 tsp oo
18:30 3 tomatoes
19:00 300 g wild salmon**
23:30 8 dates*, 1 tsp oo*, 15 g almond*, 1.5 egg yolk*
23:50 - 8:55*
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* I did not have much of an acid-after-taste on waking up, but after I brushed my teeth I did feel a sour note, but not like in the whole mouth. I did not eat any breakfast yet. I think by brushing the white coating off the tongue, a coat formed by the egg yolks, I think it allowed my tongue to taste the saliva which was acidic. I probably did not add enough fatty foods with the dates, I halved what I ate yesterday night, and a little less, as I already had salmon in the evening. Solid sleep though.
** My skin looks nice, as usual after eating salmon.

[Aytundra]

Mon Sept 7, 2015
10:25 1 banana, 1 bite of apple
11:30 15 g almond grounded, 5 dates
13:00 500 ml oj (5 cara cara oranges)
18:50 3 tomatoes, 1 apple
19:30 200 g salmon
22:30* 13 dates
0:36* 5 egg yolks
23:30*, 00:36-00:50 - 6?+1 nightmare -9:28
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I couldn't fall asleep because after ~1 hour if eating lots of dates without oo or egg yolks I started feeling the acid-after-taste creep in.
I finally decided to eat some fats egg yolks, but I did not touch oo.

Dates:
The week before exams in August, Sun Aug 16 to Sun Aug 23, I wrote I craved apples on Aug 18, at that time I did not have any dates stocked for those weeks. I did not want to experiment with dates in my diet while going through studying chaos, can't be distracted by sour-taste right?

My current box of dates are almost finished, about 15 pieces left.
Dates will occasional treats list along with raisins, as I can't depend on them for calories, because I think it causes my acid-after-taste feeling.

Tue Aug 18, 2015 (I have not ate apples for a long time (apple cost the same as orange $/lb, and orange has more nutrients so I rarely buy apples), but suddenly I crave them.
Maybe I am low on copper?

I doubt that.
Copper in various foods, in microgram per 100 gram:

1300 Brazil nuts {was not stocked in Aug 16-23, 2015 = ---}
1280 hazelnuts {---}
880 walnuts {---}
850 sweet almonds (I ate more grounded almonds in that week)
800 dried apricot {---}
330 dried dates {---}
225 avocado {---}
200 salmon {---}
105 banana
59 orange
53 apple (I think it makes sense that I wanted apples that week.)
I guess, it is not that I was low, just that I had to switch sources of food items.

[RRM]

I think it makes sense that I wanted apples that week.

How does it makes sense?

I had to switch sources of food items.

Why is that?

[Aytundra]

Tue Sept 8, 2015 (not Wai items)*
9:28
11:50 1 banana
15:30 1 banana, 15 dates, 3 egg yolks
18:00 500 ml C-ojMntMdO*
20:20 500 ml C-ojMntMdO*
21:20 500 ml C-ojMntMdO*
23:30 2 tsp oo, 390 ml C-ojMntMdO*
24:00 - 6, 8, 8:54wake
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[Aytundra]

Wed Sept 9, 2015 (not Wai items)*
Mood: Super Happy, & mildly excited to post. (excited, because I have to get posts out of the way this morning for later when I have something more formal to post).
8:54
11:50 1 banana
15:40 2 banana, 14 almonds
18:27** 200 ml C-ojMntMdOVend*
22:00 1 cup watermelon, 16 almonds, 200 g salmon, 250 ml C-ojMntMdOri
23:00 - 6, 6:25, 7:21
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Title: Orange Juice The Bad, The Good, & The Ugly...
I thought I would never have anything more to write about orange juice, but apparently I still do.
Yesterday** I tried the worst-est orange juice ever! (Worst-"est" with a grammar break (grammar can also take breaks), because it was the worst-est taste ever.)
I brought orange juice from a Vending Machine.
Huh, aytundra what did you do?
In my defense I was stuck in a food desert {again}.
Having decisively decided against eating from a bakery store,
I took out a blue coloured bill {blue money for blue foods, though I am buying something orange, it is a bad omen already.}.
I pressed B6, {nothing vitamin B6 will be from there.}.
Drop, the Minute-made bottle settled itself into the dispenser of the vending machine in less than a minute {it even cheated me of 52 seconds of what it promised would take a minute}.
I looked at the bottle, summarized that it could be the C-ojMntMdO of what I could usually get from the supermarket {though smaller in size and double the price}.
Except that at the bottom there was a 5 mm orange sediment at the bottom.
I shrugged, whatever, and cracked the black lid, to drink.
And before I could even finish sipping a gulp,
the stench of shelved orange juice was so strong!
That I almost wanted to spit but didn't,
however, the bottle did drop to the ground;
and I lost half of the bottle to plastic to the floor.
To janitors who might read this page (I doubt any one will find that I write here),
I confess it was that juice bottle that made a mess {food-desert-aytundra will never own up to the fact that she bought the juice, the juice did it, the food desert made her(do it).}.
The worse-est orange juice ever!
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The best-est orange juice I have ever had, is still the fresh kind made at home.

[Aytundra]

I think it makes sense that I wanted apples that week.

How does it makes sense?

I had to switch sources of food items.

Why is that?

I think apples are also a source of liquid and calories, the previous week I had a lot of oj daily. But that week I went orange-less for over half a week.
I had to switch sources of food because I ran out of stock and did not have time to shop due to studying assignments etc... : 1) almond -->ground almond, 2) orange --> cucumber, apple, melon, plum, tomato 3) dates --> sugar, apple
I also had to add food because my weight reached 40 kg + studying on campus --> so I bought cooked foods, chicken wrap, I think I really liked the sugary taste of lettuce it was a different sugary taste compared tofruits.

[Aytundra]

Now the fun post!

I already knew the results a few days ago, but I did not have data.
Data is exceedingly boring and normal, only vitamin D is low.
All the lipid stuff are in normal range, no diabetes {despite feeling that I was drinking so much juice and eating spoons of sugar}, no low vitamin B12 {despite feeling a lack of burgers and steaks on my menu (eggs and fish are not exactly as decorative on a plate).}, the only thing low is Vitamin D, and that is because I probably sit indoors too much {maybe I should stop typing here and enjoy the outdoors}. So there you go, transitioning from cooked to minimally cooked did not do anything strange.

September 2015
Cholesterol: 3.92 mmol/L
HDL: 1.60 mmol/L
LDL: 2.08 mmol/L
Triglycerides: 0.53 mmol/L
TSH: 1.02
Glucose 4.5 mmol/L
Vitamin B12 289 pmol/L

Vitamin D 43 nmol/L (low)
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Comments?

[Oscar]

Boring = good

"Although there are differences of opinion regarding the 25(OH)D levels that define vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency, there is virtually unanimous agreement that a serum level of 25(OH)D less than or equal to 12 ng/mL (30 nmol/L) defines vitamin D deficiency in the United States." Eat an extra egg yolk

[Aytundra]

Boring = good

And I thought I was gonna have some new super powers tested from the blood test.
I guess the only super power I got was time traveling (which is quite a common phenomenon here, a few possess it); and which never showed up on the blood test, so this means our secret is safe from detection in the real world.

"...12 ng/mL (30 nmol/L) defines vitamin D deficiency in the United States."

hmm opinion differs where I live "25nmol/L".

Eat an extra egg yolk

That is an unique advice for 25-olD.
Ostrich or quail?

[Aytundra]

Thur Sept 10, 2015
7:21
11:50 1 banana, 10 almonds, 250 ml C-ojMntMdOri
18:00 14 almonds, 500 ml (5 oranges), 200 g salmon, 250 ml C-ojMntMdOri
23:00 1 banana
23:30 - 8:08
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Fri Sept 11, 2015
8:08
9:44 1 apple, 20 almonds, 1 banana
12:00 1 apple, 30 almonds, 6 egg yolks, 3 tsp sugar
19:00 300 ml (3 caracara oranges), 100 ml (1 orange), 150 g salmon
24:00 - 6?, 9:33
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[Aytundra]

Sat Sept 12, 2015 (not Wai item)*
9:33
12:00 1 banana, 1 apple, 350 ml (3 oranges), 10 almonds
14:00 6 egg yolks, 12 tsp sugar, 1 tsp oo
2 hour nap, (weather is cold).
18:00 1 tomato, 200 g salmon, 1 cucumber
22:00 1 banana, 250 ml C-ojMntMdO*, 1 apple
23:00 - 9:51 (weather is colder now, so it might affect sleep time to be longer)
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Foods I avoided**:
13:00 bean flavoured chips, bread flavoured chips, pizza
19:00 corn, rice, sushi***, cooked fish, chicken, pork, roasted duck, cabbage, squash, icecream
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** If it was 1.5 years ago, all these items would have been posted in my diary.
Smirks, I avoided one whole day of food interactions successfully.
Partially it was because I ate before I sat at the table.

At the dinner table with relatives:
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-:"I got you some sushi (fake crabmeat with avocado). There is no meat."
a: "I am not a vegetarian."
"You've had sushi before, didn't you?"
--:"You don't even get her. She eats for other reasons."
--to another guest: "Did you know her blood test came back fine."****
Granny: "Eat some food."
a:"Uhm, I have to check on the veggies that are cooking, be right back."

**** apparently blood test fine, means some won't bother me about my eating habits anymore.
Actually I am getting more beans and fiber questions these past two days.
Of which fiber I can easily defend, because vascular structure plants with fibers only evolved when plants migrated from oceans to terrestrial life, hence, fiber theoretically is not needed, plants acquired it to live on land. However, beans, I am still a bit uncertain as to why I might exclude them. I defend the exclusion by phytoestrogen that might occur in beans, and the toxicity of under cooked beans.
Meanwhile others are still oblivious to what I might eat, and include me in their portions that they would like to share with me.
For example, a slice of pizza still sits in the fridge from yesterday.

[Aytundra]

Sun Sept 13, 2015 (not Wai items)*
9:51
10:00 1 banana, 20 almonds, 400 ml C-ojMntMdO*
13:30** 30 g chips*, 1100 ml C-oiMntMdO*
17:15 1 banana, 1 tbsp oo
17:46 pimple on ear
19:30 2 grapes, 20 almonds, 200 g salmon
22:00** 1 spoon asparagus*, 2 apples
23:00 1 tsp oo
00:00 - 8:38***
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**So my ability to stay away from eating junkfoods I have never tried because it is a new flavour or a new brand, or new method, currently sits somewhere between 6 hours (the cinnamon bun I had last month, new brand) and 24 hours (chips I had yesterday, new flavour; not as tasteful as I imagined to be [plus 1 pimple several hours later, that was really quick]), or a new method of food preparation (asparagus, pureed; it was slightly bitter).

*** woke up with no acid after taste, but dry saliva taste, could be air conditioner.

[Oscar]

hmm opinion differs where I live "25nmol/L".

Even better

[Aytundra]

I like to think that they selected 25 because it is easier to remember: toxicity = >250nmol/L and insufficiency = <25nmol/L for 25(OH)D.

Mon Sept 14, 2015 (not Wai calculator items*)
8:38
9:21 2 peaches
11:00 1 tbsp clover honey, 1 tbsp oo, 10 almonds
12:00 1 banana, 1 apple, 5 grapes, 10 almonds
16:30 1 tbsp honey, 10 almonds, 2 pieces (1 inch cubed/piece) slow cooked lamb*
22:30 2 gala apples, 2 tbsp sugar, 3 egg yolks*
23:00 - 9:17*, *no acid-after-taste on waking.
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Honey, is a new item I am adding.
I don't think I have really ate it during the course of my diary.
I was looking for something sugary to eat, because I ran out of oranges and dates.
I wonder if I will accumulate an acid-after-taste, if I eat it consecutively for a few days?

[Aytundra]

Tue Sept 15, 2015 (not Wai items*)
9:17
9:30 1 banana, 2 apples
13:00 50 g chips , 1 banana
20:30 1 fruit muffin*
21:00* 450 ml soup = (chicken, rice, cream, spicy,) and 1 tbsp butter and 1 bread roll
22:30 1 orange
23:00 1 tbsp sugar, 500 ml water
00:00 - 8:51
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I got a little braver yesterday.
Braver as in I tried to challenge the menus at those restaurant in the food dessert.

- I asked two different restaurants "Could I have a lettuce and tomato salad?"
-- "Let me bring you a menu, there is a small selection."

I looked at the menu, nothing was salad, everything was cooked.
- "Just tomato and lettuce? It is really quick." {I am not even asking for something fancier than a lettuce, like a cucumber, I am certain they must have tomato and lettuce in their fridge because they make hamburgers.}
-- "I'll check with the chef."..."Sorry, we don't offer those items at this time we changed to the night menu."

I went to another restaurant, which I am sure they have lettuce and tomato as their grilled sandwiches have them.
- "Could I have a lettuce and tomato salad?"
-- "Sorry we don't offer salads here."

Next, I tried to think like a vegetarian, but that didn't work either, because vegetarian options are all vegetables with cheese or cream and heat treatment, i.e. cream soup, or crispy pierogies with cheese.

Finally, I gave up thinking, because I was hungry.
I wonder what food choices are there for people that are really vegetarian + lactose intolerant + gluten sensitive?