Boo urns - I'm on a low iodine diet for a week. I'm having a really tough time with it for some reason. I have to get scanned next week (thyroid stuff), and the scan uses an iodine tracer (to ensure I don't have any thyroid tissue left). For optimal uptake of the tracer, I have to eat low (read: no) iodine foods for the next week. It's kind of funny - I was just on the West Coast Trail (blog posts to follow!), where we were eating light weight, high calorie backpacking foods, all which have a tonne of sodium!
What I can't eat: anything with iodized salt (anything prepared....really most foods have salt!), plus no dairy, and no seafood/fish.
I've done this before, and it shouldn't be that hard. I'm down to 149 lbs after the West Coast Trail (probably to go back up, but I'll take it for now) - remember my 157.5 battle? I've been trying to eat very healthy as well. I'm no saint (why? everything in moderation, right?), but the thought of a week without fast food or chips....I eat that shit less than that already. Some stuff I could as healthy (for example, the hummus in my fridge that I would normally bring to go with those carrot sticks) is right out. It has 200 mg of sodium per two teaspoons! I could make homemade hummus, and that would be fine, but I was feeling really tired tonight. I did make a bunch of stuff before sitting down to right this, but fresh hummus is about to loose out to sleep.
It's the other stuff that I think is getting me. Dairy! I drink a lot of milk, plus I like yogurt and cheese. At least I am allowed a little bit of dairy - milk in cereal and coffee (love my coffee).
Sauces and dressing is right out, so I've had some pretty boring lunches of late. Yesterday I had a veggie Subway sub with no cheese or sauce (or pickles or black olives). Meh. Today I had a big spinach salad mix that was actually pretty good. It would have been delicious with dressing, but got a little boring at the end.
I guess the real tough thing is that I'm really busy right now (just back from the trip, I was behind on stuff before, and work is really busy), so it's hard to find time for extra food prep.
Maybe it's unrelated (I doubt it), but the last two days I'll felt crappy & low energy by about 3 at work. Tonight I re-stocked on groceries, so hopefully tomorrow will be better.
This would be super easy if I were willing to put my life on hold (as if I'd miss practice or BSB) or if I could stay home and eat my meals here.
Great sodium/dairy/seafood ideas? Please comment!
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I heard they just did a study and coffee is really high in sodium...just kidding! Good luck with the "diet". It sounds painful. If Jeff makes anything salt/dairy/fish-free, we'll be sure to invite you over or at least send you the recipe. I was off chips for months and can relate to your pain. I guess the "F" in HFA stands for "free" this week.
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