Day Twenty-Four: Nothing Happened Today

Have you ever had one of those days where nothing happened?  I mean, nothing noteworthy or of consequence.  Well, today was just such a day for me.  Can’t think of anything to write about, so we’ll just get straight to the menu.

Did some oil pulling to start off the day (was feeling groggy), then had my litre of water.  Ate some chocolate frosting for breakfast (GOURD, I love this “diet”!), had a frozen, chocolate-dipped strawberry and a Greek salad for lunch, and dinner was a bit more frosting and, well, mustard.  I think I’m finally catching up on whatever I need that’s in it.  Jason says it’s high in sulfur, and since have trouble with alliums, which are high in sulfur (fresh garlic makes my stomach hurt – gotta cook it or wait 24 hours to eat it after pressed, and onions don’t even get down my gullet – or they come right back up) it could be that.  Whatever the reason, I am finally feeling like I’m getting enough.  The jar is 5/6 gone!  Ok, off to bed, and perhaps I’ll have a more interesting day for you to read about tomorrow.

Day Twenty-Two: Oi, The Cravings!!!

Another hard day with cravings.  I mean a HARD day!!!  But, was I craving anything from my “previous life” that was healthy?  Don’t count on it!  Greasy burgers, dripping burritos, nachos with chips fried in lard, topped with lard-filled beans, hot, stretchy pus-teuriuzed cheese, canned jalapeños and the ever popular hormone-laden sour cream!  Maybe a bit of fresh lettuce on the side?  Only on occasion.  REMARKABLE!  Not referring to the taste, just referring to how remarkable it is that I ate that crap for so long, and that I lived to tell about it.  I mean yeah, of COURSE I miss the taste!!!  It tasted freakin’ treMENdous!!!  How could I NOT miss those flavors?  But I just kept reminding myself that just this past winter, I couldn’t even stand on my own tip-toes.  Now I can hop on one foot several consecutive times!  So I don’t miss the horrible health that came with it, the groggy mind, the inability to wake up, the constant post-nasal drip … oh, the list goes on and on.  But Jay and I laid there in bed dreaming of our “past lives” and jonesing for that food so badly!!!  Jay wanted gyros with Greek salad, as well as a burger and calzones from places he’d been to when he lived in Florida.  Thank goodness we live in WA state and far out of the reach of things in other locales.

I’m getting a little sick of chocolate, actually, but I had a chocolate-goji bar that I made for breakfast, lunch was savory trail mix with another piece of chocolate, this time flavored with orange oil, and dinner was a Greek salad (Jason inspired me with all the earlier talk of it), and some chocolate-dipped strawberries for dessert.

Not sure why I missed this the 1st two times I watched Food Matters, but raw cacao is likely the highest source of iron in the world, and has a lot of vitamin C in it (which dies if you heat it up).  Fascinating.  I already knew about the magnesium content and antioxidant properties, but I’m glad to find these new things out.

Welp!  On to day 23!