Blog Archives for category Food & Fibroids
Is peanut butter okay to eat when you have fibroids?
I’m closing in on the end of my 4th day avoiding solids. Like I said in a previous post, I don’t have a set number of days that I’m trying to reach for avoiding solid foods and drinking only juices. I’m just going day by day and not making any declarations about doing a juice fast. My goal is to try to regain my lost sense of balance and get back into focus. I’m already feeling more balanced physically. My emotions remain a bit low, but I feel mentally stronger even while not necessarily emotionally energized. I am able to get up and do the things I need to do. So what’s the deal with the Is peanut butter okay to eat when you have fibroids question you might be wondering. Well, I have been putting a serving of peanut butter into my morning drinks to try to add some protein; but today I came across some material in which it was claimed peanut butter is one of the worst foods to eat. Peanut butter and popcorn apparently which is interesting because I was eating lot of popcorn just last week (the kind you have to pop in a pot on a stove) and I came to the conclusion that popcorn does not agree with my fibroid riddled system. Every… Continue reading »
Apple oat strawberry smoothie – The morning of day 14 of my 21 day juice fast
I have just had an apple oat strawberry smoothie. The taste didn’t blow me away but it was certainly a whole lot easier to get down than the green concoction I made yesterday. Just thinking about yesterday’s green smoothie is nearly as horrifying as the actual taste of the stuff. I’m feeling more than reasonably okay at the present moment, which is to say I don’t feel weak and hungry or like I have too much sugar in my system. I’m a little sleepy and my left eye has a weird strain but otherwise I feel okay. My stomach is still looking smaller and feeling softer to me than before I started this juice fast. Like I said in one of yesterday’s update posts, I can feel other components of my stomach where before all I could feel were the fibroids. Apple oat strawberry smoothie My Apple oat strawberry smoothie recipe can be found below. I’m just experimenting right now and probably shouldn’t presume to share recipes for my silly concoctions but hey… Just in case you’d rather try some recipes from more established sources, I’ve looked up some smoothie recipes that are similar. Couldn’t find any recipes specifically for making an apple oat strawberry smoothie but I did find strawberry oat smoothie recipes and apple oats smoothie recipes Strawberry… Continue reading »
Is broccoli good or bad to eat when you have fibroids?
Originally written 2011/06/26 It’s hard to know whether you’re coming or going when trying to find ways to treat fibroids. You go to one source and it tells you one thing. You go to another source and it tells you the complete opposite. Take broccoli for example. Some of the material you’ll find around the Internet, purportedly written by doctors, discourages eating broccoli if you have fibroids. Others recommend broccoli, those too supposedly written by doctors. So which is it? Is broccoli good or bad to eat when fighting fibroids? How do you decide who to believe? It’s possible that both sides of the equation might be right to some extent. There could be components of broccoli that have the tendency to feed the conditions in which fibroids thrive and there could be components that help with hormone balance which could help towards eradicating the problem assuming fibroids indeed grow as a result of hormone imbalance. I’m no expert in science. It was my worse subject in fact so you’d do well to consult with someone who knows what they’re talking about; but based on the research I’ve done for my own benefit, my conclusion is that avoiding broccoli is not necessary as broccoli contains diindolylmethane (DIM) which is said to have the capacity to balance hormones. How much DIM… Continue reading »