Toasted Sesame Seeds
Short Grain Brown Rice and Electric Steamer
These two picture represent a radical switch in the change in my lifestyle.
Brown rice is the staple food in the Macrobiotic Diet and most on the diet like myself put toasted sesame seeds on their rice.
I talked a bit in the last few posts about going back into macrobiotics and vegan, but besides for weight loss, there is another major reason.
I have arthritis.
It is not official. I still need to see a Rheumatologist and get x-rayed or an MRI, but everything I have read suggests that I have a pretty classic cast for someone my age who also has psoriasis.
I have some on a joint on both hands, which is not too bad. But the real issue is that I now have it on the right side of the bottom of my lower back.
What does this means?
Almost over night I went from being normal functioning person (just out of shape) too not.
It is now hard to walk up stairs, walk fast, I need to be careful getting out of bed, getting up from sitting, getting out of the car and a subtle twist in motion can set it off.
And forget lifting heavy things, jogging or other activities.
It basically sucks. (Maybe I will look back and be grateful, but not today)
I feel like I became a old person over night. This all basically started a week or so ago at least on my back.
As for what to do about it, I am taking glucosamine/chondroitin, which is the standard go to supplement for arthritis and I am also taking fish oil.
The big change is a switch in diet, which is anti-inflammatory like macro/vegan.
This is all in the try and see phase because no one really knows what to do. I a still waiting for a treatment for psoriasis that won’t destroy my immune system in the process (and not even work).
As for medical science, besides for a handful of meds with major side effects (I cannot even take advil because of a reaction and hydrocortisone, which cause sblotting…also bad because it can create edema) I am basically on my own.
This is about the time Dr. House is suppose to come in with his miracle cure after misdiagnosing me at least three other times. He will give me some meds, a shot or IV drip to make me all better.
But that is TV and this is real life.
With that said, there are a bunch of books on arthritis with diet, supplements and exercise with some folks (on amazon book review) stating positive results.
At least that is something.
In the mean time a macro/vegan diet (with some fish) is the course of action.
No matter what, losing the 80-90 pounds I need to will help out my back (I hope) and I need to do this no matter what.
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