{"id":1339,"date":"2010-11-15T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T07:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2010-11-15T23:50:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T07:50:30","slug":"low-iodine-diet-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/low-iodine-diet-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Low iodine diet, Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who may, for whatever reason, have to go on a low-iodine diet, I am with you.<\/p>\n<p>What led up to this was a <a href=\"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/13\/my-thyroidectomy\/\" target=\"_self\">thyroidectomy<\/a>, a diagnosis of papillary thyroid cancer, and the impending radioactive iodine treatment (RAI).<\/p>\n<p>Today, I started the 2-week low iodine diet to prepare for the RAI plus one more week after that for the body scan. The day after the body scan is when I go back to regular foods.<\/p>\n<p>A brief summary of the foods high in iodine that I cannot eat &#8211; anything from the sea, including seaweed, agar, sea salt; dairy products including cheese, milk, butter &#8211; all my favorites, bummer!; potato skin; soy products including soy sauce &#8211; I can live without it; egg yolk; most of the beans such as navy, lima, etc.; and of course, iodized salt which most restaurants use to salt their foods, so that means no eating out, no convenience foods.<\/p>\n<p>What I can eat &#8211; meats in moderation; fresh veggies except rhubarb; fresh fruits; anything that does not contain the items above.<\/p>\n<p>Since commercial baked goods have eggs and milk in it, good-bye croissants and Hawaiian Sweet Bread.<\/p>\n<p>What I ate today:<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast &#8211; oatmeal with brown sugar and raisins, no milk; 2 -egg- white omelet with a little bit of diced tomatoes and green pepper.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch &#8211; grilled 2 oz boneless skinless chicken thigh with nothing on it, 1\/2 sweet potato.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner &#8211; rice, stir fry beef and onions with non-iodized salt, Chinese veggies plain, <a href=\"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/brussel-sprout-stalk\/\" target=\"_self\">brussel sprouts<\/a>, vegetable soup.<\/p>\n<p>I made pumpkin bread (without eggs or milk) and chicken soup with barley, carrots and zucchini as snacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who may, for whatever reason, have to go on a low-iodine diet, I am with you. What led up to this was a thyroidectomy, a diagnosis of papillary thyroid cancer, and the impending radioactive iodine treatment (RAI). Today, I started the 2-week low iodine diet to prepare for the RAI plus one more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thyroid-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}