Today I went to a new-to-me accupuncturist. It was at East West Health Center in Greenwood Village, in the same office as my PCP, and their site is The Fertility Cure (oddly similar to The Infertility Cure which most of us have read, maybe they got special permission to use the name?). I knew they had a full staff of acupuncturists, but last IVF, I went where CCRM sent me. This place works with Conceptions. But it's super close and time is precious and so it's my new place.
The acupuncturist, Madalina, was great. Nobody ever looked at my tongue before and told me I must be stressed because the tip is red. She asked if I was type A. I said I'm a recovered type A. I wasn't trying to be funny but she laughed hysterically, which was good because she is soooo serious and super super smart, and it was nice to know she could relate to regular folks like me.
She had me write down information about my eating habits. When she reviewed them, she shook her head and said, you might want to change a few things. Yeah, yeah, I'm already planning to, really!! She gave me a diet. My last acupuncturist never gave me a diet. Some of the diet rules I knew. Well OK, all of them I knew, but some of them I pretend not to know, so as to not be overwhelmed with dietary changes. At any rate, now I have MORE rules.
- No refined carbs, including pasta. She said Whole Foods has pasta made entirely out of vegetables that's OK though.
- No diet soda -- I was going to give up Nutrasweet anyway, which also means giving up gum (except for Dentyne Fire because it's the only one I know of that doesn't have Nutrasweet). She told me some kind of flavored sugar substitute I can add to water, to replace soda, again available at Whole Foods, I can't remember the name but hopefully I'll know it when I see it.
- No decaffinated tea (not to be confused with herbal tea). Bye-bye Earl Grey.
- Lots of alkaline foods. Check out this site, Natural Alkaline Foods.
So tonight I went to the store and bought lots of alkaline foods - spinach, fresh tomatoes, raisins, cantaloupe, lemons, bananas, potatoes. I brought them home and GS said, "Oh now we're getting serious here. Hans and Franz are on their way." I said, these damn eggs are going to be top quality if I have anything to do with it.
Also I'm going to try to go gluten-free, as espoused by gluten-free girl, and which first came to my attention by Super Ovum. Having to read labels totally overwhelms me so this one I plan to do half-assed as well as I can.
Too bad I HATE HATE HATE diets. I'm all for eating moderatly and healthily, but I must have a problem with authority because I don't like someone telling me what to eat or what not to eat. The last time I went on a diet was over a year ago when I did the South Beach diet for two weeks and didn't poo for over a week. I know I should apologize for TMI, but I'm so over that. Anyway, that alone was enough to scare me away from diets.
Just think about Hans and Franz (that is going to be my new mantra). Without this %#$@!* diet, they may never be.
