tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265394983771680093.post1777500177526931046..comments2023-03-02T00:35:57.137-08:00Comments on My Mad World: I'm being selfish & I don't feel (too) bad about itHillary M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08762294970115037185noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265394983771680093.post-86430080876353108282011-12-30T09:33:31.193-08:002011-12-30T09:33:31.193-08:00I'm enjoying reading through your blog. I rec...I'm enjoying reading through your blog. I recently did a (not 100% perfect, but pretty good) elimination diet experiment, and I am now in the process of transitioning back to veganism. (I was a vegan for about a decade, about a decade ago.) None of this is focused on weight loss for me (which is not to say I wouldn't like to lose some weight), but rather the aim is to deal with chronic allergy/sinus problems. I think I have made too little, over the years, of the fact that my allergies didn't really take a massive turn for the worse until I had switched to a (not particularly healthy) omnivorous diet. It didn't really get bad until about a year and a half after; but I think it started to get a little worse almost immediately. My records aren't thorough enough to be really confident about things. But given that my allergy and sinus problems were much less extreme while I was a vegan, and given the fact that studies have shown vegan diets can help handle other types of inflammatory disease, it seems worth a try. If it doesn't work, I may just go back to being a reckless omnivore. If it does work, I may still try transitioning to some sort of plant-based ovo-pescetarianism, or maybe arrive back at being an omnivore, but a more health-conscious one. So like you, I am experimenting. Frankly, if I can regain my health and get active again, I won't be spending that much time missing food I can't eat anyway. So I could very well remain vegan.<br /><br />But I can relate to the weight loss. I have had weight issues most of my life, except for the years when I was a vegan. I got up to 180lb at one point while I was in high school, yet when I was a vegan in my 30s I got down to under 140lb at the point I was most physically active. Effortless weight-loss, indeed. I could binge pretty often as a vegan (not that that's necessarily a good thing) and still get away with it.<br /><br />And guess what? I ate at Thai Vegan yesterday and my sinuses have been better than average for the last twelve hours. I swear that place is some sort of covert center for healing. It's not just the chile or general spiciness, I'm sure, since I have had plenty of hot spicy food that only makes my sinuses feel better while I'm eating it. I think their food is loaded with healing herbs of some sort. Or maybe they materialize that food in the kitchen through chanting.Rudipheroushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13592695782911819122noreply@blogger.com