Diet issues during treatment
I’ve been obsessively observing whether there are differences in how badly I feel and what I’ve been eating.
What I’m wondering now is if eating more meat lately has anything to do with why treatment has been making me feel like crap again. Round 5-8 weren’t so bad. It’d barely hit me. When I look at my food journal, I see I’d eaten less meat and more berry varieties plus grapes the month leading up to round 5.
Then I got sick of blackberries. 🤷🏻♀️ And raspberries at the store were mushy. So I stopped buying them.
Grapes just gross me out sometimes. Couldn’t say why. Stopped eating those too.
Recently, I’d been on a breakfast food kick. I was making a lot of turkey bacon and sausage (I don’t eat pork). I also felt like having more steak and lumpia. And round 9 & 10 have been miserable again. Not as bad as the first few, but enough that I’m not able to just go about my day; I’m back in bed the majority of it, waiting for nausea, weakness, or pain to subside.
I think this is a major reason why the difference. That’s okay. I’m not the biggest fan of meat anyway. I go through phases when I want steaks but most of the time, I just don’t care for it. The problem is that my nails turn paper thin when I stop eating meat. I know there are protein and iron alternatives, but I’m not a fan of those either. (Funny how overbearing their smells and flavors of anything high in either are when you’re deficient).
This isn’t a post asking for suggestions. I’m going to see if eating meat is fine as long as I go back to eating more berries and grapes. I’m my own little science project. 🤭
What I’m wondering now is if eating more meat lately has anything to do with why treatment has been making me feel like crap again. Round 5-8 weren’t so bad. It’d barely hit me. When I look at my food journal, I see I’d eaten less meat and more berry varieties plus grapes the month leading up to round 5.
Then I got sick of blackberries. 🤷🏻♀️ And raspberries at the store were mushy. So I stopped buying them.
Grapes just gross me out sometimes. Couldn’t say why. Stopped eating those too.
Recently, I’d been on a breakfast food kick. I was making a lot of turkey bacon and sausage (I don’t eat pork). I also felt like having more steak and lumpia. And round 9 & 10 have been miserable again. Not as bad as the first few, but enough that I’m not able to just go about my day; I’m back in bed the majority of it, waiting for nausea, weakness, or pain to subside.
I think this is a major reason why the difference. That’s okay. I’m not the biggest fan of meat anyway. I go through phases when I want steaks but most of the time, I just don’t care for it. The problem is that my nails turn paper thin when I stop eating meat. I know there are protein and iron alternatives, but I’m not a fan of those either. (Funny how overbearing their smells and flavors of anything high in either are when you’re deficient).
This isn’t a post asking for suggestions. I’m going to see if eating meat is fine as long as I go back to eating more berries and grapes. I’m my own little science project. 🤭
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