If you have Hashimoto’s disease you will totally relate to weird food cravings. When I started with Dr. Jack I was worried about the weird eating habits I had picked up with this disease.
I used to think it was me, but I have several Hashimoto sisters as I like to call them, so I know it isn’t just me that used to have the weird eating habits. It is a lot like the first months of pregnancy. One day, you get up you are dying for pasta, but two seconds after you start, it tastes awful to you. You can’t even finish it.
You can love a meal one day, next day you can’t even stand to look at it. You make a whole pot of something that sounds good, then ick …Then there are those days you crave all orange foods, like cheese, Cheez Its, and oranges. Next day, don’t look at them. Days you can’t eat at all, days you can’t eat enough. Days where you crave weird combinations, days where if someone even says it your skin crawls. You can pack something in the morning for lunch, and it looks awesome, by lunch, you throw it out.
I used to think it was in my head, but after awhile I mentioned it in a facebook group of women with this disease and they had it, too. One woman told me how she craved cotton candy so badly she bought something like ten bags filled, and told the cashier that she was having a party, another it was bacon, telling me she used to eat a pound at a sitting. One woman told me all about the weird combinations she used to eat, I won’t mention them because the thought makes me nauseous now.
I felt better knowing it wasn’t just me, and felt better knowing I would never eat that much of anything, but there were cravings that I got regularly that weren’t much better. Like milk! Or toast! And fruit popsicles. And sometimes peanut butter! Sometimes it was sugar and then it was salt and then it was neither. I could get up in morning feeling fine and by mid morning, the monster would start. I was worried that when I started Dr. Jack’s program, I would not be able to sustain eating some things.
Interestingly, that weird craving thing was the first thing to go. Once I started with Dr. Jack, and I told myself that I just needed to vary the food so that didn’t happen. I made it through the first few days okay and so I thought it was getting a little better. By week two, it was totally gone! And the best part was, so were the cravings for sugar, and breads, and junk foods. Do I miss some of those things? Once in a great while, but not very often and less and less as time goes on.
And then it hit me, this was my latest symptom. It was the first that left. Then about a week later, I noticed another recent symptom gone. If three weeks got rid of those things, what would a few, months rid me of? Well, here I am, four months in…… all symptoms gone….. Yes, you read that correctly, gone!
Sorry, Hashimoto’s Disease! Get yourself a new poster girl!