Call me crazy but.. (my current experiment)
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 8:26 am
For the past 4, 5, maybe 6 months, I've factored out milk and 90 percent of dairy products, cut down on meat intake, and have gotten to a point where 3 out of 4 or more of my meals are bowls of cereal, toast, fruit, and other things that would seem to be good choices if trying to avoid BB... I'd still be eating meat, but extremely small amounts.. in other words, my protein intake was very little.. perhaps too little?
Well, I realize now that the time I started doing this cereal thing and kicking most meat and protein out of my diet, and the time I noticed an increasing sewery smell coming from my nose, excrement, and maybe everywhere else, appear to coincide with eachother... I also had a stale sweat smell when getting physically worked up.. these things weren't detectable before, at least from my frame of reference, until earlier this year.
On the rarer occasion that I would ingest meat or fish or cheese and the like, I noticed that it never really made my BB worse... In fact, I just recently noticed that some of my worst days of sewer BB didn't coincide with meat intake at all.. Seemed to be random.. And one of the worst days I had of it came after a day where I ate nothing but Honey Nut cheerios 4 or so times throughout the day.. (I probably had at least a piece of fruit or two though and fulfilled a diet that would appear to be healthy enough for that day)
... So beginning with the holidays, I figured, "what the heck" I'm going to eat whatever the hell I want, and really see if a meaty, protein filled diet has bad effects on my breath.... I'm only a couple days into it now, so I can't say how this will work, but I plan on going through with this for at least two weeks..
I really don't feel like I have much to live for right now, but the prospect of getting back into shape got me a little excited again.. I've lost weight and much of my muscle mass.. I'd really like to get it back, and this time, I want to go all out.. So since I've become too embarrassed to work out at the gym anymore, I've decided to purchase a weight bench, and a set of weights.. Can't wait to pound away at the iron again.. I might smell like crap, but At least I'm going to feel good about the way my body feels and looks.....
Anyway, I'm going to take a chance and load up on protein.. I'm even going to pick up some whey protein powder and start drinking shakes again... I'm sure the old traditional 'tonsil' breath will become worse.. I've already noticed that the coating on the tongue comes back quicker when I'm eating more than just cereal and fruit everyday.. Though that's pretty obvious.... But I'd rather have the tonsil breath (which I can at least surgically try fix some day [although it would cost me 5 thousand dollars >.<]) than sewer/egg/poop breath coming out of every orrifice.
I really don't know if this will help, and I do have my doubts, but eating 'cleaner' hasn't seemed to have done a thing for me.. and with my current theory, possibly even created this sewer odor.. Protein deficiency? I think it's just as plausible as any of the other crazy theories we go through every day.
If this doesn't work, I'm going to be at my wits end.. so I might open up to my father about it and try to speed up the process of somehow getting me some kind of health insurance (I've been subtlely pushing at this for months).. if even for a single month, so that I can afford a tonsilectomy.. I'm also going to look into the most effective probiotics and that silly (but apparently effective) danon yogurt.
Well, I realize now that the time I started doing this cereal thing and kicking most meat and protein out of my diet, and the time I noticed an increasing sewery smell coming from my nose, excrement, and maybe everywhere else, appear to coincide with eachother... I also had a stale sweat smell when getting physically worked up.. these things weren't detectable before, at least from my frame of reference, until earlier this year.
On the rarer occasion that I would ingest meat or fish or cheese and the like, I noticed that it never really made my BB worse... In fact, I just recently noticed that some of my worst days of sewer BB didn't coincide with meat intake at all.. Seemed to be random.. And one of the worst days I had of it came after a day where I ate nothing but Honey Nut cheerios 4 or so times throughout the day.. (I probably had at least a piece of fruit or two though and fulfilled a diet that would appear to be healthy enough for that day)
... So beginning with the holidays, I figured, "what the heck" I'm going to eat whatever the hell I want, and really see if a meaty, protein filled diet has bad effects on my breath.... I'm only a couple days into it now, so I can't say how this will work, but I plan on going through with this for at least two weeks..
I really don't feel like I have much to live for right now, but the prospect of getting back into shape got me a little excited again.. I've lost weight and much of my muscle mass.. I'd really like to get it back, and this time, I want to go all out.. So since I've become too embarrassed to work out at the gym anymore, I've decided to purchase a weight bench, and a set of weights.. Can't wait to pound away at the iron again.. I might smell like crap, but At least I'm going to feel good about the way my body feels and looks.....
Anyway, I'm going to take a chance and load up on protein.. I'm even going to pick up some whey protein powder and start drinking shakes again... I'm sure the old traditional 'tonsil' breath will become worse.. I've already noticed that the coating on the tongue comes back quicker when I'm eating more than just cereal and fruit everyday.. Though that's pretty obvious.... But I'd rather have the tonsil breath (which I can at least surgically try fix some day [although it would cost me 5 thousand dollars >.<]) than sewer/egg/poop breath coming out of every orrifice.
I really don't know if this will help, and I do have my doubts, but eating 'cleaner' hasn't seemed to have done a thing for me.. and with my current theory, possibly even created this sewer odor.. Protein deficiency? I think it's just as plausible as any of the other crazy theories we go through every day.
If this doesn't work, I'm going to be at my wits end.. so I might open up to my father about it and try to speed up the process of somehow getting me some kind of health insurance (I've been subtlely pushing at this for months).. if even for a single month, so that I can afford a tonsilectomy.. I'm also going to look into the most effective probiotics and that silly (but apparently effective) danon yogurt.