Introduction

Hi :)! 

I thought I would start my blog by introducing myself. My name is Maria, I'm a 16 soon to be 17 (well in approx five months haha... ) girl with passion for a healthy lifestyle. I just quickly want to add that I'm sorry if there may be some mistakes (as I'm not English but I'm living and was born in Norway). 

To quickly sum up my story, I've been diagnosed with an EDNOS( eating disorder not otherwise specified) in the beginning of october 2012 when I was hospitalised for having a too low blood pressure. And immediately I was put inpatient. 

I was a very specific kind of guest, the first ever with an eating disorder who did not cause any problems or whatsoever around food. I had the free possibility to choose what I wanted to eat and ate all my meals properly and on time (I had a nurse watching over me every time I would eat and had a limited time of 30min, if I would not finish they would feed me with the feeding tube)  I was the first one in the hospitals history who actually could walk around the rooms and not stay in bed all day from the very first day. Although no one was listening to what I had to say.
I felt horrible and sick to my stomach after almost every meal they gave me. I was given a meal plan which consisted of eating six pieces of bread during the day with either cheese, ham or jam,two glasses of full fat milk and either apple or orange juice. I wasn't aloud to drink water with my mealtime it had to be some kind of juice. But I was lucky enough to choose my dinner haha. So a lot of gluten, dairy and sugar. 

Normally once you are inpatient you stay around 2 months in hospital or more. I was the first one who only got to stay there for 3 weeks. The nurses were in general all very nice and lovely although there were some who wanted me to literary lick my plate after finishing eating. Anyways long story short, it wasn't exactly paradise. (there is so much more to the story but I won't bore you guys any longer with that). 

When I got home, the pains continued. None beside my parents believed me when I said I had awful stomach cramps. My weight started to drop again once I restarted school in January ( oh, and when I got out of hospital I was put outpatient. I had to see a doctor, therapist and some other people once or more during the week).And the whole time I had the same meal plan! 

I ended up having zero energy and got told I shouldn't go to school, so since then I'm home. I try to keep up the schoolwork tho!  

My parents got really scared as they saw my weight was dropping while I was eating and that I had stomach aches almost every single day. My relation ship towards food got somehow normal although big numbers still did scare me and still does sometimes. My mum got told from one of her friends to see a doctor that might help me and actually listen to us. We went to the clinic where Thor-Egil Skogli (the doctor) works called "funksjonell medisin" otherwise it would be functional medicine in English.By our first meet up, he immediately started acting and put me on a gluten and dairy free diet. For three weeks I had to completely cut gluten and dairy and then go one week eating it again before doing multiple tests. I started to feel much better after cutting gluten and dairy and my aches eased. That's when for the first time I realised gluten and dairy was the major factor causing my aches/bloating and discomfort. The test results came and I found out I was completely intolerant to gluten, cows and goats milk,also almonds and eggs.( For someone living out of Almond milk and almonds this was a disaster  !).

I also learned I had something called the leaky gut syndrome, two bacterias that shouldn't be in my gut and a yeast infection. 

So this is my long story short, I tried not to go to much into details.

(I find this quote quit inspiring :) And thought I'd share it with you)

I started a vegan diet about 8 weeks ago because of that (and so did my mum)we both went gluten free vegans. And since then I am felling so much better!  I always wanted to be a vegetarian though, and I not only did it because of my health issues but also because I'm against all sort of animal cruelty and I do believe that we humans are equal to all other living creatures. 

I have some goals I would love to achieve. First of all I want to help others! I want to help those with an ed and those having the same symptoms ( a yeast infection/leaky gut syndrome). Having a leaky gut syndrome is not easy to live with and living with a yeast infection because there is a strict diet to follow. Meaning cut and minimise all kinds of sugar(from high fructose to refined sugar the only sweetener really aloud would be stevia)! lowering the carb intake and going on a gluten and dairy free diet. 

I would love to study in the states something around nutrition(am considering maybe to become a health coach further in the future).
I love to cook and create what I mean are "Healthy" meals and I'am passioned about nutrition. I would also love to become a yogi and planning to start doing some yoga/pilates! 

To what you guys could be expecting to see more on my blog will of corse be recipes, maybe some tips not always food related and a bit of me and my life/health issues. 

Hope I didn't scare anyone away haha :), 

If anyone would be interested in the clinic I talked about please clic here 

Xx