-
Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.
If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!
To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
M
My daughter's doctor has referred us to another doctor upon receiving the results of her thyroid test. Nobody has told me what those results ARE. Nobody is calling me. Nobody has given me any answers to any questions. I want to know the results! I want to know who this other doctor is and why we've been referred to them! If the results came back normal, we wouldn't have to see a different doctor.
I'm incredibly impatient and want to know what's wrong with my baby and how to fix it...NOW.
*sigh*
I'm incredibly impatient and want to know what's wrong with my baby and how to fix it...NOW.
*sigh*
Soooo I'm finding every other food is making me miserable. Gluten, dairy minus butter, and now sugars. I've known to stay away from refined sugars (white sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, corn syrup, etc.), but I've been using organic cane sugar and eating stuff that has evaporated cane juice instead and almost always NON-GMO Project verified. But I'm STILL having troubles with depression. Yes, I do realize I'm still grieving the loss of my mother. But, eating the wrong foods sure doesn't help it.
I've also been fighting some pretty miserable headaches.
But the big wake up call for me was, I made a gluten-free banana bread recently with the pancake mix I told you guys about. I used honey and coconut sugar in place of cane sugar. I didn't have much other sugar beyond that these past few days. And I felt amazingly better. I wasn't depriving myself of sweet things, either. Sooo now that I'm realizing this, I now have to do something about it. I'll probably have to make a lot more everything homemade now and eat out even less....heck I might as well call myself a hippie. Buut you know, if it makes me feel better, I'll gladly wear the hippie title. (Yes, you can now say you told me so, gypsygirl.
)
I've also been fighting some pretty miserable headaches.
But the big wake up call for me was, I made a gluten-free banana bread recently with the pancake mix I told you guys about. I used honey and coconut sugar in place of cane sugar. I didn't have much other sugar beyond that these past few days. And I felt amazingly better. I wasn't depriving myself of sweet things, either. Sooo now that I'm realizing this, I now have to do something about it. I'll probably have to make a lot more everything homemade now and eat out even less....heck I might as well call myself a hippie. Buut you know, if it makes me feel better, I'll gladly wear the hippie title. (Yes, you can now say you told me so, gypsygirl.
)
Soooo I'm finding every other food is making me miserable. Gluten, dairy minus butter, and now sugars. I've known to stay away from refined sugars (white sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, corn syrup, etc.), but I've been using organic cane sugar and eating stuff that has evaporated cane juice instead and almost always NON-GMO Project verified. But I'm STILL having troubles with depression. Yes, I do realize I'm still grieving the loss of my mother. But, eating the wrong foods sure doesn't help it.
I've also been fighting some pretty miserable headaches.
But the big wake up call for me was, I made a gluten-free banana bread recently with the pancake mix I told you guys about. I used honey and coconut sugar in place of cane sugar. I didn't have much other sugar beyond that these past few days. And I felt amazingly better. I wasn't depriving myself of sweet things, either. Sooo now that I'm realizing this, I now have to do something about it. I'll probably have to make a lot more everything homemade now and eat out even less....heck I might as well call myself a hippie. Buut you know, if it makes me feel better, I'll gladly wear the hippie title. (Yes, you can now say you told me so, gypsygirl.)
I've also been fighting some pretty miserable headaches.
But the big wake up call for me was, I made a gluten-free banana bread recently with the pancake mix I told you guys about. I used honey and coconut sugar in place of cane sugar. I didn't have much other sugar beyond that these past few days. And I felt amazingly better. I wasn't depriving myself of sweet things, either. Sooo now that I'm realizing this, I now have to do something about it. I'll probably have to make a lot more everything homemade now and eat out even less....heck I might as well call myself a hippie. Buut you know, if it makes me feel better, I'll gladly wear the hippie title. (Yes, you can now say you told me so, gypsygirl.
)
Coconut sugar? Hmm I've never heard of that..but yeah coconut is really good for you or so I've heard and read..if it made you feel better, then stick with it..
Recently, I was just thinking about how I wished my father and I had done hikes and such things together. He is very "outdoorsy" and was a Park Ranger before my brother and I came along. My brother's condition had the family move to where he got an office job in Sacramento, and the family was waiting for me to hatch before moving, which they did when I was one day old.
Though the family would go camping at least once a year, my dad never took me on the more "fun" trips that he did with his buddies, such as climbing Mt. Whitney or going up to the Cascades. But even when I was an older kid, he never took me.
I was thinking of this just the other day and chocked it up to the fact that many "normal" kids get neglected who are the sibling of those with special needs.
My dad called today about a family friend who had passed away. In our conversation I mentioned my middle daughter who wants to hike the Appalachian Trail after graduation. In his advice of starting her on smaller hikes, he mentioned a hiking trip that he and I went on near Tallac in the Tahoe area...except that we never took such a trip. I would have remembered since he said it was an overnight trip and we camped there with just our sleeping bags and no tents. He must have done that trip with his current wife's kid and got the details mixed up.
I'm sure I'm supposed to feel angry about this...I have no idea how I feel.
Though the family would go camping at least once a year, my dad never took me on the more "fun" trips that he did with his buddies, such as climbing Mt. Whitney or going up to the Cascades. But even when I was an older kid, he never took me.
I was thinking of this just the other day and chocked it up to the fact that many "normal" kids get neglected who are the sibling of those with special needs.
My dad called today about a family friend who had passed away. In our conversation I mentioned my middle daughter who wants to hike the Appalachian Trail after graduation. In his advice of starting her on smaller hikes, he mentioned a hiking trip that he and I went on near Tallac in the Tahoe area...except that we never took such a trip. I would have remembered since he said it was an overnight trip and we camped there with just our sleeping bags and no tents. He must have done that trip with his current wife's kid and got the details mixed up.
I'm sure I'm supposed to feel angry about this...I have no idea how I feel.
Recently, I was just thinking about how I wished my father and I had done hikes and such things together. He is very "outdoorsy" and was a Park Ranger before my brother and I came along. My brother's condition had the family move to where he got an office job in Sacramento, and the family was waiting for me to hatch before moving, which they did when I was one day old.
Though the family would go camping at least once a year, my dad never took me on the more "fun" trips that he did with his buddies, such as climbing Mt. Whitney or going up to the Cascades. But even when I was an older kid, he never took me.
I was thinking of this just the other day and chocked it up to the fact that many "normal" kids get neglected who are the sibling of those with special needs.
My dad called today about a family friend who had passed away. In our conversation I mentioned my middle daughter who wants to hike the Appalachian Trail after graduation. In his advice of starting her on smaller hikes, he mentioned a hiking trip that he and I went on near Tallac in the Tahoe area...except that we never took such a trip. I would have remembered since he said it was an overnight trip and we camped there with just our sleeping bags and no tents. He must have done that trip with his current wife's kid and got the details mixed up.
I'm sure I'm supposed to feel angry about this...I have no idea how I feel.
Though the family would go camping at least once a year, my dad never took me on the more "fun" trips that he did with his buddies, such as climbing Mt. Whitney or going up to the Cascades. But even when I was an older kid, he never took me.
I was thinking of this just the other day and chocked it up to the fact that many "normal" kids get neglected who are the sibling of those with special needs.
My dad called today about a family friend who had passed away. In our conversation I mentioned my middle daughter who wants to hike the Appalachian Trail after graduation. In his advice of starting her on smaller hikes, he mentioned a hiking trip that he and I went on near Tallac in the Tahoe area...except that we never took such a trip. I would have remembered since he said it was an overnight trip and we camped there with just our sleeping bags and no tents. He must have done that trip with his current wife's kid and got the details mixed up.
I'm sure I'm supposed to feel angry about this...I have no idea how I feel.
In the last few years I've had a lot of empathy for my parents. I'm not sure why your Dad didn't do those things with you. I wonder if he felt guilt because he knew that taking you someplace like hiking and camping would have left your brother out.
You said he stopped doing those things for a while. Maybe he was overwhelmed or felt lost, I don't have the answer. He probably has no idea that it hurt you.
lil_christian: Honey is a great thing to use. It is the only... read that again, the SINGLE ONLY known food that will never spoil. Most people prefer sugar because it's an anonymous sweetener, doesn't have any flavor of its own, but the flavor of honey is better. It's also sweeter than sugar, as in you have to use less of it to get the same sweetness.
Can you tell I'm a big fan of honey?
Can you tell I'm a big fan of honey?
lil_christian: Honey is a great thing to use. It is the only... read that again, the SINGLE ONLY known food that will never spoil. Most people prefer sugar because it's an anonymous sweetener, doesn't have any flavor of its own, but the flavor of honey is better. It's also sweeter than sugar, as in you have to use less of it to get the same sweetness.
Can you tell I'm a big fan of honey?
Can you tell I'm a big fan of honey?
But I think after this, I'm close to being done with using cane sugar. I can't live like that. I really can't. It's literally a recipe for disaster.
About two months ago I went to my chiropractor/homeopathic doctor and when he was testing stuff out, food came up, and cane sugar was one of the culprits, and he told me to limit my intake on it. I tried to at first, and then I just kind of quit it and didn't care. NOW I'm realizing I should have listened. What a shocker. The doctor knows best. Crazy, right?
So yeah. I think I'll listen to him on that, maybe wait a week or two, see how I'm feeling, and then set up another appointment to go see him and see how I've progressed and what needs fixed up.
Coconut sugar? Hmm I've never heard of that..but yeah coconut is really good for you or so I've heard and read..if it made you feel better, then stick with it..
It is VERY good and you can't tell the difference. Even my pickier sister who tried the gluten-free banana bread said it tasted amazing. I've used it in almond flour blondies, too. They're great! I just ran out of it, actually. I need to get more. 
Does it work?
Kirk, whom some of you may know from chat, once had a siamese kitten. One day in chat he suddenly said, "Yay, I have a self-feeding cat." It turns out he put the cat's food bowl on the floor, and the food bag on a table above the bowl. The cat gnawed a hole in the bag and, whenever he got hungry, he would hop on the table and slap the bag to make food fall out the hole.
Kirk, whom some of you may know from chat, once had a siamese kitten. One day in chat he suddenly said, "Yay, I have a self-feeding cat." It turns out he put the cat's food bowl on the floor, and the food bag on a table above the bowl. The cat gnawed a hole in the bag and, whenever he got hungry, he would hop on the table and slap the bag to make food fall out the hole.