tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71883515939172962292024-02-20T19:32:39.020-05:00The Happy Rehab DocOne Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Doc Learning How to Be Pain-Free and Live a Longer, Healthier Life!Dr. Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07623932786998472098noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188351593917296229.post-76798153326649344762014-03-15T13:48:00.001-04:002014-03-15T21:36:11.265-04:00Plant strong toddler!<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So we have a happy and healthy 16 month old and it's amazing to watch him grow! He is already becoming plant strong. His favorite quick meals are Dr. McDougall's ready to eat soups! He LOVES the lentil soup. Even when he's tired he'll eat lots of it and sign for "more, please" (we use baby sign language while he is learning to talk.) </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He gets a real treat when I make the big cup soups and he can drink out of the cup like daddy! So far his favorite is the spilt pea.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't think that it's all ready made food here though! I have gotten adventurous and come up with some fun stuff! We often have Tacos Thursdays but recently I mixed it up. I took the mushrooms we usually start with for the tacos and added some blackstrap molasses! Rich in iron, calcium, magnesium and other micro nutrients blackstrap molasses added a gentle earthy sweetness to the mushrooms. Now when I cook I often don't measure so much as add to taste but I will try to recreate what I did so you can try it yourself if you wish.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well A Happy Husband is back! The Happy Rehab Doc has been very busy and since I have more time available I'm going to work to provide some interesting and insightful content! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have been doing much of the cooking in our new house, we've moved half way across the country this year and the Happy Rehab Doc has started a new job (I did mention that she was busy, right?) So I'm looking to share some of the fun things I've learned while cooking!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So here we are. I'm new to blogging but I love the idea of sharing some of our fun, our experiences, our struggles and more importantly our successes! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I'm sure you noticed, over the last few months I have not been blogging. My attention has been focussed on my family: my father's serious illness and my newborn son. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is with great sadness that I share the news that my wonderful sweet Dad has died while awaiting organ transplantation. It was a beautiful death surrounded by friends and family just as he wished. </span><br />
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Dr. Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07623932786998472098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188351593917296229.post-35537558312774343732012-12-06T03:00:00.000-05:002012-12-06T03:00:12.319-05:00THANKFUL THURSDAY is today!! :-)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ok I'm restarting "<i>Thankful Thursdays</i>" on the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/HappyRehabDoc">Happy Rehab Doc Facebook site</a>! Come join us!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">For me, living in a state of gratitude does many things:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">1) gets me out of my own head so I can be of better service to others</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">2) helps me to let go of any self pity party I was having for myself and makes me appreciate the good things in life that I miss</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">3) all of the above <u><b>help me not to eat compulsively</b></u>. Overeating and binge eating for me have nothing to do with food (as I shared <a href="http://happyrehabdoc.blogspot.com/2011/12/dear-268-pound-me-letter-of-weight-loss.html">here</a>)--it is alllllllll emotional so by being thankful for what I have, I can't build resentments and I can't tell myself I "deserve" a treat. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>I have found that living in gratitude has helped me lose weight more than almost any other major "dieting" technique I tried in the past!!</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">So join us today<a href="http://www.facebook.com/HappyRehabDoc"> over on Facebook</a> & share what you are grateful for this Thursday! Small things, big things...whatever you can share will inspire us all!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thanks! :-) Dr. Cat</span>Dr. Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07623932786998472098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188351593917296229.post-67280007498659621442012-12-03T17:45:00.000-05:002012-12-03T17:48:59.219-05:00Twelve Tips to Survive the Holiday Food Season!! :-)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well its that holiday time of year and many of my dear compulsive overeater friends and myself are facing the Thanksgiving to Christmas food season. Its a happy time of year but it can also be really stressful! No matter how much you love your family, the social pressures around the holiday (buy more! eat more! decorate more!) just are enormous this time of year. Its no wonder it is so easy to find yourself significantly larger by the end of December! Then January hits and you are in a mad panic to "re-start." What if we skipped that this year & stayed healthy throughout the season?!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last year when the blog was fresh and new I did a blog post on how I survive the holiday season by sharing a few tips on how to manage my desire to overeat. The nice thing about having this disease of compulsive overeating is that the tools that bring me sanity don't change that much--its just that I sometimes forget to use them! So these tips are pretty much as true today as they were a year ago!!!!! That said, if you are anything like me, you need reminders (frequent reminders in my case!) of how to manage food sanely. And so, I'm going to re-post that old post in the hopes you will find it as helpful as I did when I just re-read it!! I won't be facing the same challenges as last year--I'm at home on maternity leave instead of working so I'm not inundated with baked goods daily the way I was last year--but I WILL be attending my work's holiday party (baby in tow) so these tips are helpful for me too! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ok so this time of year is <u>always</u> a challenge! For goodness sake, I work in healthcare--the land of drug rep holiday gift baskets & nurse's homemade treats! Anyone who has ever worked in health care can attest to the volume of unhealthy food available to you during the whole month of December! I think that this is pretty much the same for ALL of you out there--whether you work in healthcare or not! And then there are the parties! And family dinners! Ack--no wonder everyone starts January with all those weight loss resolutions!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>So I'm not perfect (by any small stretch of the imagination) but since the holiday season was my favorite binge-worthy, full-of-excuses extravaganza--I use a few tried and true techniques I use to stay on track despite the UNBELIEVABLE temptations everywhere!! (I literally just had leave the room averting my eyes from the table here at work to avoid some of my favorite sweets displayed in the nursing workroom)</i></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The KEY to ALL Food Planning at the Holidays is SUBSTITUTION! Try to find foods you are comfortable with to substitute for other foods. For example, I may do the mashed potatoes (if vegan) instead of the sweet potato casserole (covered in marshmellows). Or at dessert, I may bring a tasty, sugar-free treat (see blog list below for recipes) to have while everyone else eats the high-fat non-vegan stuff (note: always bring enough of that treat to share!) </i></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><u>Do not do what I used to do</u> and rely on parties to fuel my appetite (justification: free food!) OR be so busy getting all the gifts etc that I don't stop to eat at home.</i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Plan your food for the week as usual and make grocery shopping and cooking happen ahead of time. This is a good time to cook in bulk and freeze for reheating after a chaotic day.</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><strong>MAKE YOUR HEALTH THE PRIORITY</strong>--What are you going to do if gifts don't get wrapped properly or you've been running all over and still can't find the right toy of your kids' dream? Guess what--I've discovered that no one really cares or remembers--if you pop your gift in a gift bag it is ok (not perfect of course--once again perfection=impossible) & your kid will forget that toy until January when they will be ecstatic when you surprise them with a late gift. Trust me. What you WILL care about & remember is feeling awful on December 26th. And you will always remember starting the slow climb of self-punishment with a week of negative self-talk before Jan 1st starts your new resolution. So STOP and put your health first before errands or people-pleasing. (This has been an ongoing challenge for me which is why I share it!)</i></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>If there is the potential for you to be unable to eat 50% of the meal--eat a FULL meal of your FAVORITE food before you leave. Not some dinky bowel of cereal--trust me, if you eat something you aren't enthusiastic about before you leave, you WILL want desperately to eat toxic things at the event.</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>If you anticipate that you will be able to eat more than 50% of what you are served eat a snack & pack a small ziploc of emergency snacks and put it in your coat pocket or purse to access if needed.</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Pick things to eat with lots of fiber so you actually ARE full!</i></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>If you get a specific enough menu, write down what you are going to eat and only eat that at the party. Commit it to someone else. It helps.</i></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>If you notice <strong>someone new at a party</strong>, be kind. Go up to them and introduce them to others. What does this have to do with food? <u>All service to others gets us out of our heads and away from our disease of overeating.</u></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>If its a <strong>work party</strong>--its really about networking, not about eating. Once again, focus your attention on others. Everyone likes to talk about themself. You'll be surprised at how much a relationship can change by practicing this--people love undivided attention. And you can really be of kind service.</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>If its <strong>a party you DREAD</strong> (an obligatory event) or find uncomfortable, once again focus on others BUT before the party write down a gratitude list for the event and keep it scrolling in your brain so you don't pout internally and seek food for comfort. For example: "I'm grateful for not having to sit next to John because he yells in my ear when he talks. I'm grateful that this event is only once a year...etc"</i></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Leave the event (if it is absolutely killing you not to eat it). Explain later.</i></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Change your gift giving: I don't give candy or sweets as gifts--choose something non-edible or healthy. I really feel like I'm harming others by giving them potentially addictive substances.</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Go on a holiday hike or ice skate or do anything active with friends instead of a happy hour or party if you think either of those events will be an issue.</i></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://happyherbivore.com/">The Happy Herbivore</a></i></span></li>
<li><a href="http://healthygirlskitchen.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Healthy Girl's Kitchen</i></span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2010nl/oct/holiday.htm">AWESOME Holiday Menu Ideas from Mrs McDougall (Dr. McDougall's wife :-))</a></i></span></li>
<li><a href="http://veganepicurean.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Vegan Epicurean</i></span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://veganplanet.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Robin Robertson's Vegan Planet</i></span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://simplysugarandglutenfree.com/category/allergy-friendly/dairy-free/"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Simply Sugar & Gluten Free</i></span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.heartattackproof.com/"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn: Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease</i></span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forks-Over-Knives-Plant-Based-Health/dp/1615190457"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Forks Over Knives Recipe Book!</i></span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Inflammation-Diet-Recipe-Book-Arthritis/dp/0897934857/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319934909&sr=1-1"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The Anti-Inflammatory Diet by Jessica Black, N.D. (Amazon link)</i></span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.diseaseproof.com/"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Blog</i></span></a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><u>Be gentle with yourself</u>, restrict ONLY certain foods not EVERYTHING unhealthy.</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Remember you are not on a diet. Diets don't work in my experience. Healthy living is forever. </i></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">My husband (the Happy Nurse) and I are excited to announce the birth of our adorable baby boy!! We'll be calling him "the Happy Baby" on the blog :-) Tall like his Mom & Dad--21 inches and 9lbs 8oz at birth! He's a redhead like his Daddy and super cute. We feel so lucky to have him!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was an amazing birth and I'm really grateful because I was able to do it naturally (drug-free). With the help of my outstanding husband, I used Hypnobirthing techniques, had an incredible doula and a collaborative OB. It helped that I was in pretty good shape physically I think, but more importantly I was really emotionally and spiritually ready to give birth. I still can't believe that I was able to do it--he was much bigger than expected!!! I'll share pieces of my birth story at some point along the line--maybe I'll even do a blog post on it depending on peoples' interest. :-) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am so grateful. I know that my HP & my 12 step eating recovery program made it possible for all of this to happen and I'm very very aware of how it never would have happened when I was 100lbs overweight five years ago. Life in recovery has been such a gift and our beautiful baby boy is the best present I've received in recovery after meeting my husband. My cup runneth over!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm looking forward to spending some more time blogging while on maternity leave. I'd like to share my experiences coping with the changing body shapes in pregnancy and now post-pregnancy, my struggles to maintain my plant-strong diet and what I'm doing foodwise/healthwise/recoverywise now! It has just been too hard to manage the pregnancy, work and blog. But I'll be home on maternity leave for a short while and I need to start writing the blog again. It is an important part of my recovery and I know its a helpful service so I'll look forward to building it back up to where it was with all of your help!! (maybe with not quite so many posts--sleep is paramount of course with a newborn!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I hope that this post finds all of you well & I'll look forward to hearing more from you as we go along! Monday Meditations will be back next week and we'll be starting "Thankful Thursdays" again on the Facebook page so I hope you will participate!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hey all! Well I'm nearing the end of my pregnancy (due date at the end of the month!) and have started my maternity leave early to rest up. Not working 10-12 hours a day has been amazing--I think I slept my way through the first few days at home because I was absolutely exhausted. Now after several nights of a good 8-10 hours of sleep nightly (of course interrupted by the usual late pregnancy up and arounds), I'm starting to feel human. Maybe even ready for motherhood! At least ready enough :-) Its been just what the doctor ordered!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">This also means that I have time to do some writing on the blog!! Hooray! I've missed you guys and missed the pleasure I get from writing and cooking regularly. I don't know how long this honeymoon phase of a break is going to last but I'll post as often as I'm able :-) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've been working on updating my "<a href="http://happyrehabdoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/tip-4-key-things-you-need-to-know-about.html">Medical Info Sheet</a>" to take to the hospital with me when I am in labor and it has reminded me how important it is for each and every one of us to have one of these! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is a <a href="http://happyrehabdoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/tip-4-key-things-you-need-to-know-about.html">Medical Info Sheet</a> you ask? Well do you all remember that series of posts I did last year on how to get the best hospital experience? I had a lot of great feedback from you all that it was really helpful to best understand how to optimize medical care in the hospital so I will definitely re-post the series for new readers. <a href="http://happyrehabdoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/tip-4-key-things-you-need-to-know-about.html">One of the posts was on how to make your OWN Medical Info Sheet</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Basically, a <a href="http://happyrehabdoc.blogspot.com/2011/11/tip-4-key-things-you-need-to-know-about.html">Medical Info Sheet</a> is a short, legible one pager that sums up all your past medical history, what meds you take and why, what your allergies are and who your doctors are. It is a highly awesome tool to have at finger tips in case of emergency or frankly, for any doctor's appointment to make sure their records are appropriately up-to-date! It cuts down on the questions that they need to ask you when you arrive in an emergency and MOST IMPORTANTLY, it will help make sure you get EXCELLENT care from your medical providers. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>I want to encourage every one of you to sit down at your computer tonight and quickly type this up and print it out (or write it out LEGIBLY and make copies). </u></b> It takes almost no time to type up the skeleton of it and then you can update it over time. If you have a complicated medical history than follow my suggestions below. If you have a loved one who may manage your own care than give them a copy too (i.e.--younger patients give to their parents, older patients give to their children, married/committed folks give your spouses, etc). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Here is the original post I wrote last year on how to make these sheets! There are a few more specifics...enjoy! :-) </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ok so today I'm going to talk about PREPARATION! This is something REALLY important that you can do to <u>immediately improve the level of care</u> you receive from the moment you walk into the hospital! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">We health care providers LOVE organized patients because</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> your organization</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> allows us to quickly get a full clinical picture of you--therefore giving us the opportunity to treat you more effectively & efficiently. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The other reason we LOVE having an organized, prepared patients is because it is very obvious from the beginning that you are OUR TEAMMATE! By preparing your medical info sheet you indicate to us immediately that you are NOT a passive participant in your health care! You are actively trying to understand what is going on in your body. This bodes well for both your recovery & your survival of serious illness!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">1<b>) Know your medications & keep them with you at ALL times on that clearly written/typed list: </b></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Include EVERY vitamin as well & things like Birth Control Pills & Metamucil, etc. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>If you don't know the answers to these questions, call your primary care doctor to clarify and/or have them "proof" your list. </i></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">ONCE AGAIN: PUT THIS INFORMATION ON A CLEARLY WRITTEN/TYPED LIST (The Medical Info Sheet) & TAKE IT WITH YOU EVERYWHERE! </span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">past hospitalizations WITH dates! </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">if you are a cancer patient or have a history of cancer, write out what treatment you received or are receiving & when </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">4) <b>Your Immunization History: </b> Every nurse you meet will ask you about this--just bring it with you WRITTEN DOWN ON THE MEDICAL INFO SHEET with the dates you got the shots.</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">This will be one of the first questions you are asked--the admitting department usually asks it at first actually!</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't care if you are 22 and in perfect health (there are always the risk of car accidents, etc) or if you are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">95 and ill with a myriad of chronic illnesses: YOU NEED ONE</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'll write more about this in one of my Tuesday "Medical System" Posts</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyways, its Fall and its Apple season.......YAYYYYYY!!! I loaded up my poor husband with pounds and pounds of apples so I can make our fav--homemade sugar-free applesauce! :-))) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The baby belly is getting pretty big but I think I can still manage to chop apples and put them on to boil :-) I LOVE applesauce with the apple skins on, with oat milk poured over top and toasted walnuts....heaven!!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">As noted before--I'm not a chef! I prefer to showcase my favorite recipes from other blogs...but here is my very own simple homemade applesauce recipe--no sugar added. My long-time readers have seen it before but why not re-post the recipe since it is sooooooo yummy!? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">My trick to making sugar-free applesauce is using pears to sweeten it and choosing sweet apple varieties. I like using asian pears because I like the flavor and I can get some from the same orchard at the market. As far as apple types are concerned, I rely on the farmers' advice for the sweetest varieties at the market but I've frequently used Gala, Golden Delicious, Braebern, etc. This time I've picked two new "sweet" varieties and of course I can't remember their names now! Next weekend I'll look at the market and figure out which once I chose!!! Enjoy!:-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>8-10 apples</b> (or more--I usually put in as much as I can fit in the pot!) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy New Year my readers! When reflecting on what to write for my 2012 New Year's resolution post I started to wonder what advice I would have given myself four years ago when I weighed over 268lbs (last known weigh-in, likely more). So I wrote myself a letter. This was very helpful to me so I wanted to share it with all of you! As usual, with any advice I give (even to myself! :-))--take what you like and leave the rest.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know your body is hurting right now and you can't make it up a flight of stairs without becoming short of breath. I know you eat chips & dip while hiding in your closet and sweets when you think no one is looking. I know that the take-out wait staff in all the local restaurants know your name and what meal you want to order. And I know you go home alone to eat enough food for five people while sitting in front of the TV. I know you try to hide your secrets from your friends and family because you don't think anyone will like you if you are honest about who you are and what "bad" things you do. I know that you dream about going to sleep in this body and then waking up thin like an overnight miracle from God. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">But more than anything, I know that you hate yourself for weighing 268+ lbs. I know you are sitting in your house today, New Years Eve, plotting your strategy to lose weight in the New Year. As a side note, I also know that you went to your favorite restaurant today and got all your best binge foods to have a "last supper" of sorts before the clock strikes midnight and your new diet begins!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I want to tell you that someday you will be able to laugh with friends who share your disease about the crazy things you did for and with food. Someday you will even have a body that doesn't hurt every time you stand up and a large size set of women's surgical scrubs instead of a XXX size from the men's section of the locker room. Someday you will be able to be comfortable enough with your slender body to fall in love and marry a wonderful man. Someday you will be proud to be a doctor who is living the advice you give your patients. Someday you will actually like who you are--inside & out. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">But that someday is not today. Today I'm going to challenge you to forget your usual resolutions with weight loss deadlines & detailed plans of how to get there. All I'm going to ask you to do is to do five things. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every year you start to lose weight and then one day you get on the scale and discover that you've gained a pound instead of lost one. You shake this off but berate yourself for being "bad" that week and vow to be "good" from here on. And then things get stressful at work, you don't have time to cook and you skip the daily intensive workouts. Then next month you get on the scale and discover that half of the weight you lost in January is back, or worse, you are actually heavier than you were when the year started! So you give up and go get a "treat" to feel better. You look in the mirror and are disgusted with your laziness and your inability to have enough will power to change. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lets do something different this year. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. So why don't you be a bit gentler with yourself and eliminate the opportunity for self-critique based on numbers on a scale. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Guess what, you don't need a scale to tell you if you are gaining or losing weight. You can feel what your body is doing--are your clothes getting tighter or looser? Are you eating nutrient dense foods or junk? Do you feel more energetic or extremely tired? Let these questions be your scale. Weigh yourself every 3-6 months if you have to and tell your friends about your progress in clothing sizes. Someday you will be able to say you went from a 26 to a 14. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">You know that dying young is not your greatest fear. Your greatest fear is becoming disabled and having your family have to care for you. You know that most people who eat poorly or are obese don't die suddenly--they waste away, losing their independence slowly and painfully from strokes, congestive heart failure, pulmonary edema, GI bleeds, some cancers, depression and severe osteoarthritis. Don't take chances and put food-based pleasure above preserving your independent lifestyle. I know you don't like to change but you'll find that you actually really like vegan food when its done right. And you will learn to do it right. In fact, you won't even miss meat except at special occasions when its right in front of you. But when that happens, you will look at your family over the dinner table, picture them having to take care of you as you age and that meat won't seem so important any more. You will know that you made the right choice.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know you think you have this all figured out. And I know you think that weight loss is just about the food & exercise. Its not. Its about a lot more than that. You will discover that it has to do with your emotions and your spiritual center as well. And to feel comfortable being honest about your overeating behavior, you need some supportive friends who share your struggles. You need to hear encouragement from living, breathing success stories sitting in front of you. You need to hear how someone hasn't eaten sugar in 20 years or that that cute guy over there lost 175lbs and you can't even recognize him from before even though you knew him. You need to know the hard stuff too, that someone else hid in their closet to eat, snuck food from the refrigerator at night or ate until they felt sick but couldn't seem to stop. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">You also need to know that some people's disease is mild compared to yours--they just were tired of failing diets or couldn't manage to eat the food portions they wanted. You need to know that some people's disease is worse than yours--they eat out of the trash, have been hospitalized multiple times or can't make themselves eat enough to stay a healthy weight. You need to know that no matter what problems people have with their food, they are all accepted and acceptable. You need to see others having the courage to be honest and to ask you to be too.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span class="style30">it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. </span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span class="style30">The point is to have a long-term perspective.”</span> </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is easy to tell ourselves that taking time for ourselves is selfish. That the people we care for need us 100% of the time. That when we leave their side to pursue our own self care we harm them by our absence.</span></span><br />
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Dr. Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07623932786998472098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188351593917296229.post-26212641893429423082012-08-30T14:20:00.000-04:002012-08-30T15:02:18.640-04:00RECIPES: What the Happy Nurse & I Have Been Eating: Enchiladas, Spinach & Artichoke Pie, Carrot Cashew Salad & MORE!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well it been surprisingly harder than I thought to get back into the routine of blogging! For the past few months I've been commuting 3-5 hours round trip daily to work at a special hospital and between baby preparations, work, studying and driving--well, lets just say it has been very hectic. Blogging on a consistent routine was challenging pre-pregnancy but not nearly as complicated as it is now! Anyways, I'll just do the best I can! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Having yummy vegan meals on hand was just the boost we needed for me to become energized about returning to the kitchen again! So now I'm doing a little bit of cooking each week--nothing near the bulk cooking that my husband and I did pre-pregnancy (I just don't have 4 hours in a row to team cook--WAY too much to do turning our home into a kid-friendly space when I get a block of time off!) and I'll share some of the dishes I'm making myself in a later post.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1) <a href="http://healthygirlskitchen.blogspot.com/2012/05/mushroom-kale-and-spinach-enchiladas.html">Healthy Girl's Kitchen's Mushroom, Kale & Spinach Enchiladas with Roasted Poblano Cream.</a></b> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.happyhealthylonglife.com/happy_healthy_long_life/2012/05/curry-enchilada-fusion.html">The Healthy Librarian raved about this dish</a> and already being a huge fan of Wendy (HGK), it was the first recipe I asked our friend to make. OMG--SOOOOO good! A fantastic mix of flavors and the Poblano Cream just totally made it outstanding.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>2) <a href="http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2011/07/cashew-carrot-salad.html">Fat Free Vegan Kitchen's Cashew Carrot Salad:</a></b></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBY85WZ4NUvlEyRQV4vQ7Asw_AvES_IJ-vv00yfK5_xmgJA-v4ihyujWXXth_3KyDjNF3KVDiDDrK2T8r16gNXjlKeo5ipig00SFPve76ELk8WyjvzfqI5pisjl3JMX4-tLHf7m8YvW_hL/s1600/IMG_2326.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBY85WZ4NUvlEyRQV4vQ7Asw_AvES_IJ-vv00yfK5_xmgJA-v4ihyujWXXth_3KyDjNF3KVDiDDrK2T8r16gNXjlKeo5ipig00SFPve76ELk8WyjvzfqI5pisjl3JMX4-tLHf7m8YvW_hL/s200/IMG_2326.jpg" width="149" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ok let me just say that my husband ADORED this dish. He picked it off Susan Voisin's site and wanted it made both weeks we got help. I loved it too! Sweet but not too sweet. Made without sugar--this is a seriously good carrot salad and if you have a sweet tooth (as I have this entire pregnancy) then you will LOVE it! </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfUnboiiAFE1SCPl-GiytyAnUj-ekVT7ML_QgfRwfoHyCc2o1Eijn5hWV7h_FmuW1_zn14Fr9q9DVl4HmLJk58hVY4VzU3uXX9XS_G2InJGrTZESJsi4LbS3UzhTBaUrERCVorxykHOUDk/s1600/IMG_2329.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfUnboiiAFE1SCPl-GiytyAnUj-ekVT7ML_QgfRwfoHyCc2o1Eijn5hWV7h_FmuW1_zn14Fr9q9DVl4HmLJk58hVY4VzU3uXX9XS_G2InJGrTZESJsi4LbS3UzhTBaUrERCVorxykHOUDk/s200/IMG_2329.jpg" width="149" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>3) <a href="http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2006/07/international-quinoa-salad.html"> Fat Free Vegan Kitchen's International Quinoa Salad</a>: </b> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once again, another pick from the Happy Nurse. SO good. The lime juice is such a great combo with the quinoa and chickpeas. I completely agree with Susan Voisin--you don't miss the olive oil AT ALL! Packed with protein--definitely an awesome meal for a person growing a human being! :-)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ok so obviously I'm a huge fan of this salad! I've blogged about it many many times in the past (<a href="http://happyrehabdoc.blogspot.com/2011/12/recipes-what-happy-nurse-i-are-eating.html">here</a> for example)--there is just something awesome about shredded raw kale and carrots. Talk about dense nutrients--adding the cabbage and the sesame seeds and its a nutritional home run. YUM! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love the way I feel physically when I eat vegan--my body just feels so clean and well fueled. Like its happy I gave it the gift of good nutrition. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well the blog has been in hiatus since early April & I want to start off by saying how much I've appreciated the kind emails and messages encouraging me to post again. It really means a lot to me to know how much you like the blog and how you actually miss it! Thank you! I want to apologize for not getting responding to a lot of those emails--for the last three months I have needed to disconnect completely from my blog life and focus on managing my pregnancy. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yup thats right folks, you heard me right.....here is the big secret news & the reason I stopped blogging for awhile: we are pregnant! :-) I'm absolutely SO happy, grateful and excited about being a Mommy (our first!)! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">That said, I think its important to share honestly on this blog. So I need to tell you all that for most of my early pregnancy I was scared, anxious and almost paralytically overwhelmed at the responsibility of nurturing a life inside my own body. I fixated on doing the pregnancy "perfectly" (which of course is impossible) and then I critiqued myself constantly when I didn't live up to my expectations. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I particularly felt like a failure because I wasn't able to maintain a 100% vegan diet. All my best intentions went out the window with the nearly constant daily nausea and then I was hospitalized for food poisoning in the first trimester only to discover my blood protein levels were dangerously low. I don't believe my low protein was because I was eating a vegan diet--I believe it was because I wasn't eating very many vegan protein sources. For some reason eating more vegan protein just seemed to be beyond me at the time, and I got scared so I ended up turning to my old omnivore ways part of the time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And so it went, week after week I felt sick, I was angry at myself for not enjoying this pregnancy that I longed for and not eating perfectly and I was building up a major resentment about having to work SO hard at my job when all I wanted was to stay home and rest. In that chaotic mental state, its no wonder I didn't felt like blogging! I just wasn't sure what I was going to say! And even more than that, I felt like a hypocrite! How could I possibly write about the importance of the vegan diet when I was eating meat a few times a week!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank HP, finally one of my twelve step eating recovery program friends said "Cat you need to start writing again. Just write about how you feel & be honest. You are eating mostly vegan anyways so just write about that." She shared that wisdom with me two months ago and its taken me all that time to forgive myself enough to share my feelings with all of you (and to have my life calm down enough to have blogging time!). I have such high standards for my own behavior. When I don't meet those standards, years of program work has taught me how to be gentle with myself. And I was, gentle with myself. Until I discovered that I had started growing a life inside of me and I seemed to forget that!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now that I'm nearing the end of my second trimester things have changed. I am so happy and grateful and feeling physically really good. I'm much more able to truly celebrate the awesome gift we have been given. I'm a LOT kinder to myself and accepting of my imperfect self. Unsurprisingly, these good feelings have accompanied increased work in my twelve step overeating program! I've come to accept that all the anxiety I felt at first was really me trying to control the impossible--my own body. Over time, after I'd worked through a lot of the extremely negative body image issues (putting on weight was initially terrifying as I felt like I was heading back up to my 100lbs heavier self instead of having my body do what it was supposed to--nurture a new life!), I have been able to let go of the rigid desire to control this process & can now marvel at the changes in my body. My hips are wider but that is because they need to support the baby better and prepare for labor. My shape has changed because the baby needs room to grow. And so on and so forth. I'm actually enjoying being pregnant--it really does make you feel incredible to have this life inside you. At first it was extremely exciting and very weird to feel the baby move! Now it just makes me smile deep inside because it is amazing to me to know that we as women have this ability to nurture life insides us--awesome.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">So that is where I am :-) In a funny way, going off my 100% anti-inflammatory vegan diet has really taught me how right my pre-pregnancy diet was for my body! When I eat meat, sugar, gluten & dairy I have an amazing immediate reaction within 24 hours--body aches & headaches! My GI issues have come back powerfully with the re-introduction of meat. I know that some of you will think--well this is just due to pregnancy but I really don't believe that. I believe it is due to the dietary changes--so over the last month I've been cutting back even further on the omnivore diet, heading back to a more predominantly vegan diet. The trickiest part is that I really am not cooking much right now and I often get overwhelmed trying to count my protein carefully like I need to do when I eat more vegan sources. But I'm going to keep trying because I really want to raise my child in a vegan household--I just believe it is more nutritious and will help them (and my husband and I!) live longer. I will be breastfeeding (at least I strongly intend to) so I will need to become comfortable eating more vegan protein for quite some time--<u>would love to hear any ideas or recipes you guys have for higher protein vegan meals! </u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have done quite a bit of research this pregnancy on nutrition (among MANY other things baby & birth related) and I do think I will share some of my pregnancy-related findings on the blog. I have been blessed to continue my abstinence unbroken in this pregnancy--which was only possible by my taking the advice of my new sponsor and others who helped me be comfortable with increased flexibility in what I consumed. So I will share about that. But I really want to continue to write about nutrition, recovery from obesity and medicine. Being pregnant is obviously defining my life right now so I will write about it some--particularly some of the body image stuff because I think it is helpful to hear about that (I think its a pretty taboo subject so of course I want to talk about it!). But the majority of my blog posts will be similar to those in the past. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love writing this blog and despite my broader personal diet I will continue to only write about my experiences with the vegan diet b/c I believe as a medical professional it truly is the healthiest way to live. I've really missed sharing with all of you and I'm excited about returning! And yes--I will share some photos of my journey :-) The photo above is not current but it does capture part of my pregnancy journey :-)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">My blog posts will be much less frequent--probably about one per week instead of three or four--but I do hope you'll stay tuned in and comment. Your words enrich my life.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I'm back and happy to be here. Thanks for reading & for all your love and support! </span><br />
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</div>Dr. Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07623932786998472098noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188351593917296229.post-32353842001402420922012-03-29T10:56:00.001-04:002012-03-29T10:56:13.986-04:00An Interview with Blogger Susan Voisin of FatFree Vegan Kitchen!!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm so excited to finally share with my interview with the brilliant and lovely Susan Voisin! When I first became an "Esselstyn" vegan, I really struggled to find low fat recipes that met the "Esselstyn" criteria. One of my first recipe searches introduced me to Susan's blog: <a href="http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/">FatFree Vegan Kitchen</a>. It was a treasure trove of delicious & healthy recipes!! I was SO happy to discover that my husband & I were not alone in our vegan quest AND that even though we were trying to eat fat free we could do so with pleasure since her food was (& is) SO tasty!!! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Susan's blog is awesome and she also runs several other sites, including the </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://fatfreevegan.com/">Fatfree Vegan site</a> and the <a href="http://www.veganconnection.com/">The Vegan Connection</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the course of completing the interview process, Susan has become a friend. She is warm, kind and humble--as you can see by this interview. I'm so happy to share her thoughts with you today & hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did!! <b> I know that MANY of you are HUGE fans of her (like me!) so feel free to share your love in the comments section of this post!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are all so lucky to have Susan as one of the first trailblazers of the vegan blogosphere--without her, none of us would be here!! Enjoy the interview!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s been so long ago (18 years since I became vegan) that I can hardly remember what I felt like before. Once thing I can say for sure is that once I became vegan, I stopped getting bronchitis every winter. Even as a vegetarian, I would get a terrible respiratory infection every winter, but that just stopped happening once I stopped eating dairy and eggs. Who knows what other maladies I might have now if I hadn’t become vegan?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>2) In medicine, I have learned that EVERYONE has an interesting life story! Before you started your amazing blog, what did you do with your time? Did you ever have formal training as a chef?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ve always liked to cook, but I never even considered a career as a chef so no, I have no training. Up until 13 years ago, I was a college English teacher. I took a break from that to be home with my daughter when she was very young, took a few online classes in website design, and started a second career building websites. Well, it was more a hobby than a career because I had only a handful of paying clients. At the same time, I built my own vegan sites, <a href="http://www.veganconnection.com/">The Vegan Connection</a> and, later,<a href="http://fatfreevegan.com/"> Fatfree Vegan Recipes</a>, and found that that I was more interested in providing information to vegans than building sites for other people. But those sites didn’t really take off--and I didn’t find my true calling--until I started <a href="http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/">my blog</a> in 2006. Blogging let me combine the things I enjoy most: cooking, writing, educating about veganism, and photography (which was something I didn’t know I’d love until I really got into it).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>3) You started your blog in 2006 and now it is well deservedly the most popular vegan blog on the net!! What motivated you to start blogging and what do you remember fondly about those early blogging days?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;">What I remember most clearly is that I didn’t even know what a blog was! I was running the <a href="http://fatfreevegan.com/">Fatfree Vegan site</a>, and Karina Allrich, who had contributed recipes to the site and had just started her <a href="http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/">Gluten Free Goddess blog</a>, suggested that I write a blog. I thought, “Why? I already have a website.” But I looked at her blog and a couple of others and thought it looked like fun. I could just write about whatever I was making that day. I figured I’d give it a try as a sort of off-shoot of the website, and if it didn’t work out, I could always stop. I never dreamed that very quickly it would turn into the most popular part of the site. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline;">I love blogging--the fun of creating a new recipe, of trying to capture it beautifully in a photograph, of sharing it with others, and--especially--of getting feedback from people who try it. So for me, blogging is its own inspiration. I do sometimes hit rough patches where I’m not sure where the next recipe is coming from--after having written so many, it can start to feel like I’ve exhausted the possibilities for fat-free cooking--but then I’ll read something in a cooking magazine or a reader will ask a question that will lead me to a new idea. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;">The great thing about blogging is that I fit it in around my family life, not the other way around, like most “real jobs.” So when I need a vacation, I take one (and try not to stress out about time away from the blog too much).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>6) Your recipes are creative, delicious and extremely nutrient dense. I realize that this might be like asking you to pick amongst your children but what are your favorite recipes on your blog and why?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline;">Why, thank you! Picking my favorite child--that’s exactly how I describe it! It would be so much quicker to tell you which of the recipes I </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">don’t </span><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline;">like! One of my readers recently asked me the same thing, so what I did was go back through my recipes, find the ones that I make all the time, and add them to a category on my blog, Family Favorites: </span><a href="http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/category/favorites" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/<wbr></wbr>category/favorites</span></a><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline;"> They’re not always the fanciest recipes, but they’re the ones I make over and over again and that my whole family loves.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;">Because it’s the largest city in the state, Jackson has just about any vegan specialty item I could want, as well as several international grocery stores that make it easy to pick up ingredients that people in more isolated towns might have trouble with. So even though there isn’t a thriving vegetarian community here, I’m lucky ingredients-wise. For people who live in areas without access to specialty foods, I recommend online shopping. Practically anything can be found online these days, so take advantage of free shipping through Amazon and other retailers. And also take advantage of the vegan communities available online; they really kept me going when there were few vegans to talk to in my “real” life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;">Sorry--no news! And I am totally to blame for that. I’ve had opportunities, but I really can’t decide if I want to take time away from my blog to write a cookbook. I know myself, I’m a perfectionist, and I can’t imaging being able to do a good job at both and still have a life. So we’ll see.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Thank you Susan for taking the time to share with us today!! You can <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FatFreeVegan">follow her blog on Facebook here </a>& check out her amazing blog <a href="http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/">FatFree Vegan Kitchen here</a>!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week I'm super excited to finally publish my interview with the amazing, talented & lovely Susan Voisin, author of the <a href="http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/">Fat Free Vegan Kitchen blog</a> among many other things! She is a very special person. I'm grateful that despite her insane schedule she was kind enough to answer my numerous questions and become a friend in the process! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was so fun getting to know her and I think you all will enjoy her interview!</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh side note-- I'm reviewing a really interesting book--Chef AJ sent me her book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unprocessed-achieve-vibrant-health-weight/dp/1456576097">"Unprocessed"</a> and I'm really looking forward to trying her recipes when I get back! Have any of you tried any of her recipes? I'm excited because they look super yummy!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And last but not least--and I'm going to apologize for the delayed posting to my reader who really wanted to prepare for her joint replacement in April-- I'm finally going to post on a great rehab topic---how to prepare for joint replacement! I think the post will be very valuable to share with any folks you know who may be undergoing joint replacement and actually may be helpful even after joint replacement--I'm going to talk a bit about a few exercises you can do to speed your recovery & also share some pre-op nutritional recommendations based on the book: "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Prescription-Nutritional-Healing-Fifth-Edition/dp/1583334009/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332775681&sr=1-1">Prescription for Nutritional Healing</a>." It should be a helpful combo of suggestions!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ok so that is what is on the horizon! Happy to be back and happy to "see" all of you!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hugs,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>As caregivers we are responsible for juggling many things all at once. It is easy to become consumed by our responsibilities and begin to feel dissatisfied with our lives. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>We forget that <u>how we feel is a CHOICE</u> and we oftentimes become very negative--particularly towards the very people we are trying to support! </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Our resentments take over and people (including ourselves) do not enjoy spending time in our company. We become even more "stuck" than before and can even start to feel hopelessly trapped in our own negativity.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>No more.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><u>Just for today, I will remember that I have a choice. </u></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><u><b>I can choose a positive attitude that will lift me and those around me UP. </b> </u></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Or I can choose a negative attitude that will bring me and those around me DOWN.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>This week I will choose to be positive & see how far my heart will soar!</b></i></span><br />
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</div>Dr. Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07623932786998472098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188351593917296229.post-45611514349296430882012-03-25T21:58:00.003-04:002012-03-25T21:58:56.823-04:00I'm back!!<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hey everyone!! Wow have I missed blogging! Its been a rough few weeks but I'm finally feeling more like myself and life is good :-) I've really appreciated all the love my readers and my fellow bloggers--you guys are awesome!! Thank you!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Time to start posting again! Hooray!! I'm got some really excellent posts coming up this week so please tune back in! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Love,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">:-) Dr. Cat</span>Dr. Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07623932786998472098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188351593917296229.post-35398809798522381652012-03-19T00:01:00.000-04:002012-03-19T00:01:03.668-04:00MONDAY MEDITATIONS FOR HEALING: Appreciating the Present & A Commitment to Self for Caregivers<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Oftentimes in life we feel like IF we just had THAT one thing happen or if we were lucky like THAT person than we would be truly happy!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Unfortunately, as we wait for the magic moment where what we want comes true, we miss the rest of our life. And sometimes, even if the magic event happens or we acquire the treasured possession, we still aren't be satisfied with where & who we are.</i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Today, I will pay attention to what IS happening around me instead of what MAY happen in the future.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I will notice the good things in my life TODAY & appreciate the person I am.</i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This week, I will commit to try to stay PRESENT in my life instead of trying to live in someone else's.</i></div>
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</div>Dr. Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07623932786998472098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188351593917296229.post-41292332977117236682012-03-16T00:41:00.001-04:002012-03-16T00:43:15.774-04:00I Have Been Ill and Apologies!Hey blog family,<br />
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I just wanted to post a quick note because you may have been wondering why I haven't posted anything this week. Unfortunately I actually was hospitalized for what looks like severe food poisoning for several days at the beginning of the week and then have been on the road traveling since (unfortunately everything happened when I was out of town on business!)! I'm so grateful for all the support from good friends and family! I'm feeling MUCH better now thank goodness!!<br />
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I've missed blogging but my own health and wellbeing along with my professional commitments have taken precedence over my extracurriculars (as I'm sure you agree they should!)<br />
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Next week when I get some time to regroup I'll be back to my usual blogging schedule so keep your eyes out for new posts then! <br />
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Thanks for your patience and kind understanding!<br />
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Be well,<br />
:-)Dr. Cat<br />
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