Day One

Before I go any further, I want to say thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read my blog. I know there are a million other things you could be doing, so I feel honored that you are choosing to spend your time here. Thank you.

So, I survived DAY ONE! The eating part wasn’t too bad, but my period started last night and I woke up with a migraine. I had wanted to be all ceremonial and centered as I sat down to eat my meals and take my supplements and drink my tea. But mostly I was in pain. I took a lot of drugs, which felt weird while trying to detox. But I was alone with my kids all day and felt like I didn’t have much of a choice. I will be interested to see if cleaning out my system has any impact on my hormonal headaches. That would be nice.

Here’s what I ate today: rice cakes with almond butter and apple slices – yum. Veggies and hummus; a salad w/ a chicken breast and a hard-boiled egg and guacamole; Thai-spiced salmon w/ asparagus and half a sweet potato. Sounds pretty good, huh? None of it was too hard to prepare, either, so that made it easy. The fish was in the freezer, and so was the asparagus, so that took all of ten minutes to make, and the chicken breast had been grilled last night. It did take a lot of forethought though, which I am not used to.
It was pretty amazing to notice how often I wanted to just put something in my mouth. I had my mid-morning sweet craving; I wanted to munch on something before lunch; I almost popped the last few bites of E’s peanut butter and jelly sandwich in my mouth without even thinking about it; Gave C a handful of raisins at one point and could have easily had a few myself. And now, after dinner. Always have to have something sweet. So as I write, I’m nibbling my unsweetend carob chips and sunflower seeds. Not exactly Cherry Garcia ice cream, but it’s somewhat satisfying.
Well, I promised myself early bed tonight b/c of the headache, which is still there. I will write about our very SUCCESSFUL garage sale soon.
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