hello, angel, tell me where are you

[nematoddity]

Sick all day. Lovely. Sadly, I'd love to say I'm hallucinating as well, but alas, no, apparently Squidbillies is actually a real show. My brain hurts.

Also? Note the icon. Don't worry--it'll make sense when you hit the pictures. How'ver, I think I'm getting better at this PhotoShop thing. :)

What the hell??? This is just...warped. Really

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[nematoddity]

Yeah, see, here's the problem...I had weak, brittle nails that would peel away in layers before I went vegetarian--so now I have nails that peel back when I look at them, lift away down to the nailbed, and are highly ridged. That, I'm worried over.

I still have ridges, but they're not as deep or distinct since I stopped on the "rice soup, that's good, that's cheap, that'll work until I do the research" run for three months solid. :) (Yes, I know, I KNOW...I got better.)

So far, Quorn still tastes funny, but Quorn and mushrooms--and Quorn is mainly mushroom protein--seem to help my system a lot. Yves makes a good grain/soy ground meat substitute that I've been able to throw into a lot of things. I recently went out to the garage and pulled in a bunch of the Morningstar sausage patties, because I haven't been going out and getting them, and what the hell, if that's all that's stopping me...

It's all figuring out protein balances, what my body needs, what I can and can't eat. It'll take time.

Right now, I take a blend of the Omega oils--Borage, Fish and Flax, from Rite Aid, amusingly enough. Dunno why you take it, but for me, I did some research on how best to lower "bad" cholesterol, and both Evening Primrose Oil--which I was already taking for alleviation of PCO symptoms--and Flax/Fish oil popped right up. Flaxseed and fish oils not only support heart health and lower "bad" cholesterol, but they're also very good with joint pain and a variety of other conditions. Plus there seems to be some evidence for mood elevation with fish oil in particular, which is why I'm taking the fish/flax combo, not just flax.

[mutaytedjoe]

I take flax seed for my joints, actually. And isn't "Quorn" a band? Oh wait, that's "Korn." Nevermind.

[nematoddity]

:)

Yeah, I don't think any Quorn products have hit Spokane area yet. They're from the UK--I think--and they were started by a firm who researched various kinds of alternative protein sources and came up with mycoprotein--fungus--as the most easily absorbed form of protein by the body. They make a TON of stuph in bright orange and yellow boxes, and most of it is almost but not entirely, completely not the taste of chicken. As I said to poppycat once, it's how chicken would taste if it were formed out of something completely unrelated to chicken, by someone who'd never had any.

Actually, their "chicken"-flavored products taste weirdly like textured popcorn. :)

Yeah, flax seems to be good for the joints. I upped my glucosamine intake after I went off the Topamax and the joint pain and headaches came back with a vengeance, and that's taken the edge off. I may need to add in more pure flax oil, see if that helps further. :)