I wanted to bang my head on the wall in frustration yesterday morning, but I couldn’t reach it from the toilet. I just can’t wrap my mind around a disease where eating healthy makes you sick. I blame the whole thing on the nice, healthy bowl of broccoli I had with dinner the night before… Everything you read everywhere on diet says to eat your veggies and more veggies.

Then to add to the frustration I consulted with the Unhelpful Internet for ideas on what to eat when you still want to eat healthy and lose weight but your body doesn’t agree. (Yes I know everyone is different, but some guidelines please!) Getting past all the unhelpful stuff, what I did find out was, soup! Pureed vegetables are easier to tolerate, and while I normally like my soup “chunky” to be satisfying, I just need to rethink soup into a side dish and drink my veggies with dinner.

I got my appointment with a Virginia Mason gastro, June 1st since specialists are always booked out a month. I delayed on filling out the time off request since I wasn’t sure how when I don’t know how long to expect the appointment to be, unlike the old days when I could just say, “Hey I’m going to be in late tomorrow.” So when I did my office manager asked if I could reschedule because another coworker already had the day off for medical reasons!

Ugh, frustration! We’re not supposed to have more than one out at a time, but other coworker was allowed to run off to a spontaneous appointment in the past leaving me functionally alone, while my medical issue feels like an inconvenience!

Luckily I was able to reschedule to only a week later… if I was pushed out to July… just more ugh.