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Egg Fast Day 2

Intake for Day 2:

2 eggs

2 Tsbp. unsalted butter

some coffee with Leaner Creamer

Going to try to stick to the actual diet instructions today. 1 Tbsp. butter per egg is way too much! I can barely stomach it. It's so oily. I wonder if seasonings are allowed on the Egg Fast? These eggs could get quite boring to eat all day. I hope the creamer I use in my coffee is ok. It's only 10 calories per tsp.

How I feel so far: I think I'm constipated haha. Maybe it was because I didn't eat all the fat yesterday? But I was down about 1.5 pounds this morning I think. I feel like it was all water weight though. I know I kept running to the bathroom yesterday. I hope this weight comes off faster. I need to lose it fast!

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Egg Diet

Day 1

First diet! I found out about this diet called the Egg Fast where you mainly just eat eggs and some form of fat. Here's more info about it: Egg Fast. I started today. So far I've eaten:

12 eggs!

5 Tbsp. coconut oil - Yeah, I know it's supposed to be 1 Tbsp. of oil per egg, but the calories in all that kind of scares me. Maybe I will follow that more tomorrow. :/

1 Tbsp. chia seeds - This isn't part of the diet, but I just wanted to curb my appetite this morning. I was afraid I'd eat too many eggs and stuff otherwise.* Coffee

Lots of water!

Ok. So I didn't follow the rules completely, but at least it was very low carb still. I started getting a little bit of a headache a couple times today. Each time, I drank a lot of water and then ate some more eggs.

Hope this actually works!

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Dieting Experiments

I’ve spent the past couple of years trying out a whole bunch of diets: Atkins, crash diets, mono diets... It just hit me that it might be a good idea for me to document all my experiments. I always find random “lose pounds fast” diets online and wonder if they actually work. A lot of them are hard to stick to but hopefully, if I make myself do them as experiments and have to post about them, then this will be like my accountability mechanism. Maybe then I will see them through and find out if they actually work ;)

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How different drug classes affect the body. Via sketchymedicine.com

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All you need is hope and strength: hope that things will eventually get better, and strength to hold on until it does.

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Meet Team Vitamin!

Vitamins are the building blocks that keep our bodies running; they help build muscle and bone, capture energy, heal wounds and more. Today, TED-Ed wants to bring you your daily value and introduce you to the members of the team!

Vitamin A helps make white blood cells, shape bones, and improves vision. 

The B Vitamins are a complex bunch - some of them make up co-enzymes, who help enzymes release energy from food. Others help the body to use that energy.

From Vitamin C, we get the ability to fight infection and make collagen, a kind of tissue that forms bones and teeth, and heals wounds.

Vitamin D gathers calcium and phosphorous so we can make bones.

Vitamin E works as an antioxidant, getting rid of elements in the body that can damage cells.

Finally, Vitamin K helps us make the proteins that clot blood.

Without this Vitamin Variety, humans face deficiencies that cause a range of problems. On the other hand, too much of any vitamin can cause toxicity in the body. In reality, it’s all about getting the balance right, and hitting that vitamin jackpot! Thanks, Team Vitamin!

From the TED-Ed Lesson How do vitamins work? - Ginnie Trinh Nguyen

Animation by The Moving Company Animation Studio

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ANTIBIOTICS: COMPLETE CHART

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[Antibiotic Cheat Sheet]

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Medical school is the apex of educational achievement. Whether you are at the top or bottom of your class does not matter. You are already at the top. Were a chest full of gold, the gold on the bottom is valued the same as the gold on the top. This is not high school or college, there are no people left to push out of your way. You’ve made it. So while the weight of medical school starts to get heavier on your shoulders and causing depression of the scapula, realize that there are no failures here.

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Social Anxiety will make you do weird things, such as holding onto an apple core for 45 minutes during a meeting because you’re too anxious to go to the trash can that’s 10 feet away

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1. Trauma permanently changes us. This is the big, scary truth about trauma: there is no such thing as “getting over it.” The five stages of grief model marks universal stages in learning to accept loss, but the reality is in fact much bigger: a major life disruption leaves a new normal in its wake. There is no “back to the old me.” You are different now, full stop. This is not a wholly negative thing. Healing from trauma can also mean finding new strength and joy. The goal of healing is not a papering-over of changes in an effort to preserve or present things as normal. It is to acknowledge and wear your new life — warts, wisdom, and all — with courage. 2. Presence is always better than distance. There is a curious illusion that in times of crisis people “need space.” I don’t know where this assumption originated, but in my experience it is almost always false. Trauma is a disfiguring, lonely time even when surrounded in love; to suffer through trauma alone is unbearable. Do not assume others are reaching out, showing up, or covering all the bases. It is a much lighter burden to say, “Thanks for your love, but please go away,” than to say, “I was hurting and no one cared for me.” If someone says they need space, respect that. Otherwise, err on the side of presence. 3. Healing is seasonal, not linear. It is true that healing happens with time. But in the recovery wilderness, emotional healing looks less like a line and more like a wobbly figure-8. It’s perfectly common to get stuck in one stage for months, only to jump to another end entirely … only to find yourself back in the same old mud again next year. Recovery lasts a long, long time. Expect seasons. 4. Surviving trauma takes “firefighters” and “builders.” Very few people are both. This is a tough one. In times of crisis, we want our family, partner, or dearest friends to be everything for us. But surviving trauma requires at least two types of people: the crisis team — those friends who can drop everything and jump into the fray by your side, and the reconstruction crew — those whose calm, steady care will help nudge you out the door into regaining your footing in the world. In my experience, it is extremely rare for any individual to be both a firefighter and a builder. This is one reason why trauma is a lonely experience. Even if you share suffering with others, no one else will be able to fully walk the road with you the whole way. A hard lesson of trauma is learning to forgive and love your partner, best friend, or family even when they fail at one of these roles. Conversely, one of the deepest joys is finding both kinds of companions beside you on the journey. 5. Grieving is social, and so is healing. For as private a pain as trauma is, for all the healing that time and self-work will bring, we are wired for contact. Just as relationships can hurt us most deeply, it is only through relationship that we can be most fully healed. It’s not easy to know what this looks like — can I trust casual acquaintances with my hurt? If my family is the source of trauma, can they also be the source of healing? How long until this friend walks away? Does communal prayer help or trivialize? Seeking out shelter in one another requires tremendous courage, but it is a matter of life or paralysis. One way to start is to practice giving shelter to others. 6. Do not offer platitudes or comparisons. Do not, do not, do not. “I’m so sorry you lost your son, we lost our dog last year … ” “At least it’s not as bad as … ” “You’ll be stronger when this is over.” “God works in all things for good!” When a loved one is suffering, we want to comfort them. We offer assurances like the ones above when we don’t know what else to say. But from the inside, these often sting as clueless, careless, or just plain false. Trauma is terrible. What we need in the aftermath is a friend who can swallow her own discomfort and fear, sit beside us, and just let it be terrible for a while. 7. Allow those suffering to tell their own stories. Of course, someone who has suffered trauma may say, “This made me stronger,” or “I’m lucky it’s only (x) and not (z).” That is their prerogative. There is an enormous gulf between having someone else thrust his unsolicited or misapplied silver linings onto you, and discovering hope for one’s self. The story may ultimately sound very much like “God works in all things for good,” but there will be a galaxy of disfigurement and longing and disorientation in that confession. Give the person struggling through trauma the dignity of discovering and owning for himself where, and if, hope endures. 8. Love shows up in unexpected ways. This is a mystifying pattern after trauma, particularly for those in broad community: some near-strangers reach out, some close friends fumble to express care. It’s natural for us to weight expressions of love differently: a Hallmark card, while unsatisfying if received from a dear friend, can be deeply touching coming from an old acquaintance. Ultimately every gesture of love, regardless of the sender, becomes a step along the way to healing. If there are beatitudes for trauma, I’d say the first is, “Blessed are those who give love to anyone in times of hurt, regardless of how recently they’ve talked or awkwardly reconnected or visited cross-country or ignored each other on the metro.” It may not look like what you’d request or expect, but there will be days when surprise love will be the sweetest. 9. Whatever doesn’t kill you … In 2011, after a publically humiliating year, comedian Conan O’Brien gave students at Dartmouth College the following warning: "Nietzsche famously said, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ … What he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.” Odd things show up after a serious loss and creep into every corner of life: insatiable anxiety in places that used to bring you joy, detachment or frustration towards your closest companions, a deep distrust of love or presence or vulnerability. There will be days when you feel like a quivering, cowardly shell of yourself, when despair yawns as a terrible chasm, when fear paralyzes any chance for pleasure. This is just a fight that has to be won, over and over and over again. 10. … Doesn’t kill you. Living through trauma may teach you resilience. It may help sustain you and others in times of crisis down the road. It may prompt humility. It may make for deeper seasons of joy. It may even make you stronger. It also may not. In the end, the hope of life after trauma is simply that you have life after trauma. The days, in their weird and varied richness, go on. So will you.

Catherine Woodiwiss, “A New Normal: Ten Things I’ve Learned About Trauma”   (via thepeacefulterrorist)

It is such a pleasure and a gift to read this right now, to remind myself that all of us who have suffered trauma of any form will and do live on.

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Feeling lonely is not about how many friends you have; it’s about feeling disconnected from the rest of the world.

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It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it’s lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.

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So with this in mind, it follows that the best practice in life is to simply be kind to everyone you meet. The more time I spend in medicine and talking with patients about the intimate details of their lives, the more ardently I believe in the importance of practicing kindness.

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Week of 3/31/15

Tuesday: Almond milk only! Mono Diet

Wednesday: Almond Mono! Only eat max. 1 almond every 15 minutes. You can eat less often which is even better.

Thursday: Bananas?

Friday: Back to normal eating. Restrict! Try a banana and avocado smoothie?

Saturday: Coconut oil + Coffee for lunch. Oatmeal for dinner?

Sunday: Fat burner drink for lunch. Cucumber detox drink.