Greetings friends!!!
It's been a while since I was able to write. This morning, I feel like it is totally necessary.
I stopped doing whole 30 a while ago and was trying to eat clean this past week. Yesterday, I splurged a bit with my dinner date and we had our favorite, Korean BBQ at our place in LA. Well, 4:30am, I woke up with the WORST stomach cramps on Earth. So much so, I had to take a pain killer and pray I didn't pass out. Luckily, I think I caught the pain just before the moment I loose consciousness. Normally, KBBQ does not effect me this way. I've never had an issue and I was so upset. I'm still quite weak this morning but planning on going to Pilates anyway. That moment, was another reminder of why I eat the way I eat. I can't live in constant fear of loosing consciousness over my stomach cramps.
For those of you who don't know, my gastroenterologist and cardiologist have said the loosing consciousness is called a syncopal episode. I've been having them for 20 years (literally since I was 9 years old). The nerve that runs from your brain to your rectum is normally not "tripped" unless in distress. Mine happens to be more exposed and the only way my body knows how to deal with extreme pain is to faint. Luckily this did not happen this morning. Which means I'm 6 months free of fainting! YAYA me. In any case, it was scary, as it always is but I got some new tricks this time. Ice cube instead of water. I'm known to faint mid-drink which is scary. So an ice cube really helps this. The pain was so intense, I was in a fetal position on my floor. My other half had to take the cats in the other room as they were trying to climb all over me. She was a trooper and really helped me through it.
This episode, as I like to call it, is a reminder to me. I really need to get back into my whole foods. And need to really be more conscious about my food, even though I've never had trouble with KBBQ, that doesn't mean my body won't react negatively to something I've always done.
So that's my latest story. Listen to your body and keep moving forward. Life lesson: make adjustments as necessary. Be gentle with yourself and keep moving.
