aw for crying out loud!

this is about to be a bit of a rant.















this was the end of my stinking weekend. after the fun that i had on friday night, saturday night reared its ugly head. the bout was a win for memphis roller derby, 170 something to 40 something. in case you can't tell, the captain had my number and she was not small. eeeeep! nonetheless, i was put in as jammer the two times there was a jammerless jam and i managed to score something like 6 points. not a lot but enough to keep the Tulsa girls behind.
late in the game, i put a hit on their jammer Sweet Sassy Mollassy that landed me in the box and her in the hospital. the hit was clean, though one of our skates was out of bounds so i did get a penalty for it. she fell wrong. i mean really wrong. her leg is broken through both bones just above the ankle. this was her first bout. i cannot tell you how much of a jerk i felt like while sitting in the box watching the ambulance take her away. i know that this is a tough sport and that people get hurt (especially people who have not been doing this for years) but i just did not intend to hurt her. i intended to knock her down.
here's the only vegan thing in this whole post and i dont even have a photo. i made butternut squash with black beans, mushrooms, green bell peppers and spices. i put the concoction in tortillas and baked them in the oven. apparently they were good (although i didn't even get one) because all ten of them were quickly eaten by derby girls at our after bout potluck...

at the after party which was downtown, someone busted in my window and ransacked my car. they stole my dad's radar detector, a cell phone charger, and ipod connector cable, and my watch. luckily for me, they did not find the ring that my mother in law gave me and they forgot to take my ipod. here is the glass that is now missing from my passenger side window. whoever did this sucks. gotta love Memphis. im not going to go downtown unless it is for some special occasion and next time Brandon is going with me. im thinking that after parties are a bad idea for me as well. my phone ended up in the toilet.


i went home crying to Brandon in hysterics as if i wasnt upset already. the icing on the cake- this whole daylight savings time switch thing has me so messed up that i slept twelve hours last night. i went to sleep at 8 and got up at 8. i guess i needed it. i don't know. it seems crazy but i've had kinda a crazy week!

weekend wall

i lose track of time during the weekend but i can tell you this one was busy. Friday night was cut a bit short as Brandon and i woke up at 4am to go to his parent's house (again, for him to sit in the woods dressed in camouflage....) after breakfast, Dona and I sat around and chatted while Brandon and Scott went out again. Then we went to get our tests run.
The items looked at were ph levels, age, weight, salt concentrations, albumin levels, and two nitrate solution tests. Now these are all fine and good, but here is what was not considered- daily diet and activity level. When we called Dr Challen Waycoff on the phone and reported the numbers, he asked me about my diet. I said the word "vegan" and he lost it. His initial response was "No one should be vegan." my jaw pretty much hit the floor. then he went on to talk about how cooked foods are good and you need calcium and etc. he was obviously confused about what the word means. he thought vegans were automatically raw foodists. his claim was that vegans brains do not function properly, they lack oxygen in the body and their organs grow old too quickly. Ok. this may be true for people on junky diets, but come on. I have had this conversation with MY physician who sees me at least once a year. I am rarely ill, very physically active, and i eat properly. He will tell you i am healthier than almost everyone he sees. He even did complete blood work and a physical. His only complaint- i might be a bit anaemic. I also have a history of diabetes in my family and have a tendency toward hypoglycemia. I have not eaten meat for 14 years. I am a graduate student who plays roller derby and does Bikram yoga. I mean, i am obviously not a little brittle boned skinny girl who is going to fall apart from not getting proper nutrition.

Here are my thoughts, because i was obviously a bit upset after being berrated for choosing a cruelty free diet. You cannot make a judgement on someone's diet when you don't even know proper vocabulary. Do some research. I have thought out my diet and tried to become as educated as possible about the benefits and potential risks of veganism. If you claim to be a naturopathic doctor, you need to get the whole story and not base opinions on a few unhealthy vegans/ vegetarians you have come across in your life. Also, i think it is important to take the whole person in consideration when consulting about their diet. I am not a list of numbers on a sheet. Someone thinking outside the box of conventional medicine should certainly realize that. Treat the person not the "symptoms" or results of tests you run. He should have asked how active i am and what an average meal consists of for me.
His other theories that are based on biochemistry seem very valid and applicable. One is to consume a certain amount of distilled water and lemon to clean out the system every hour. Another is to eat a kosher diet. I can appreciate these both. He even offers vegan (and he doesn't even know it!!) vitamin and mineral supplements. So i am not completely attacking his system. I just started to feel like the whole thing was a bit over marketed and almost gimmicky. You MUST have something wrong with you that i can treat so i can sell you my books and vitamins!! Anyway, i am going to get his book and read it, glean the information that i think is applicable and beneficial, and just ignore the fact that he is ignorant of a healthy vegan diet while choosing to stay the course of my lifestlye dicisions. Not everything works for everyone. Some vegans are overweight though veganism is sometimes touted as a weight loss system, just for example. Not everyone's chemistry is the same. Not all physicians and/or scientists are well rounded in their view of nutrition.