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It's back....

About 5 years ago I found out I had an ulcer. It sucked leading up to the discovery but I found a medicine that worked, fixed my diet and by the time I went in for my endoscopy the ulcer and damage to my esophagus was already healing.
But for the better part of this year I have been having stomach trouble, which I largely attributed to the grinder I put my stomach through to cut weight. Which I did 4 times last year and 3 or 4 times this year (some never made it all the way to fights and one got scaled back when I went up a class). Ever since the last one, I've struggled but I was somewhere in the realm of depressed at not fighting for a while and "treating" myself to the things I deprived my self of. Namely Coke, Dr Pepper and Sour Patch Watermellons. All things I shouldn't eat and shouldn't eat a lot of. So 4.5 weeks ago after some prodding from one of my best friends about the Cokes I stopped. Also I knew my stomach wasn't happy. So I cleaned up my diet. And that's when the pains started. It was like someone was grabbing my stomach and twisting it or that I had taken a fierce teep (though that may not make sense to everyone). I tried eliminating things, changed spices I was cooking with and then finally gave in and just started eating brown rice. A lot. Which will never help me loose weight. My body loves carbs. It helps me get heavier lifts, train longer and gain weight. I eat them, but everything for me when it comes to the nutrition for training is about moderation and timing. And then last week when I started to get cold sweats after eating, I gave in and went to the dr. Everything I knew to do, wasn't helping. So she put me on medicine to help with the acid and has sent me to a specialist, full well knowing my uncler is in full effect. She even remembered that Prilosec didn't work for me (I liked her before but now love her).
So cut the caffeine, alcohol, acidic foods, spicy foods, high fat, nuts and I'm at a loss of what to eat or how to cook my food. A lot of the vegetables I can eat, aggravate it and all the ways I prepare the ones I can eat, aggravate it. So my usual nutrition pattern is all out the window right now. I pretty much eat every starchy thing I can so I don't hurt. I'm on the last leg of my flight home from Vegas (which was definitely the least alcohol I have ever drank in Vegas) trying to figure out what I'm going to eat this week and how to cook it.

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