First Day Low Iodine Diet

Here we are. Happy Monday! I am starting my new diet for two or three weeks. A low/no iodine diet for thyroid radiation treatment diet. I went  to grocery store yesterday and buying just enough veggies and fruits, since I had rice and noodles and like that, it cost over $80, for one person, for a week! Man, no wonder poor people are unhealthy and fat. Even middle class people actually - if they have a family or don't spend money on anything but food.

I soaked my first bit of dried beans overnight. This morning I will have home cooked oatmeal with strawberries and honey - no milk. Seems breakfast will be my hardest meal. or, being Monday, and having to go to work, I wonder if I will have time to cook the oatmeal! Might be banana and two pieces of the special bread with peanut butter.

Also realized this morning that last night I should have cooked the beans in a stew then because now, what am I going to take for lunch? Can't buy anything there. Oh! I could buy a salad and just use the oil and vinegar they have there with no salt. So many foods, actually, ALL foods prepared by others have so much salt I was amazed when really started looking at it.

Suppose if I do get used to this diet, it will be the healthiest I have eaten since the '70s. Maybe I could stay with it more and/or longer. at least be better at what I eat.

OK, already angry at the store because the strawberries I bought yesterday have mold on them this morning! Geez... would say that is a little too old - should have bought the ones that looked more irradiated and/or sprayed. Ha - these are probably not so chemicalized but if I can not eat them, so what?

I need to restart actually offering my food more with prayers. If offered maybe it will see all that chemical reaction taken away as well as the reaction from killing the plants to eat like the Bhagavatam says. One weird thing is generally concentrating so MUCH on food! It has been enough for 40 years to concentrate on just being vegetarian and offering prayers with it to various extents. All of a sudden I am back into only thinking about it - how to cook, what not to eat, what has it got in it, what can make it have more taste. Whew.

Went to the Indian resturant last night with a friend to have one last big, salty, dairy infused meal. It was good but I had to laugh, tasted too salty! I had said I did not want to go back there as last time it was not very good. It had too many "sticks" in it, the herbs. This time was cooked better, but was really too salty. Everything was over salted. My taste buds are so changed already, what will it be like in a few weeks? The dahl was delicious again and later I enjoyed the savories while watching a movie ;-)