Haha, well you can all guess what I had for dinner tonight! It was good. I have no regrets. Yet.
Today was actually a pretty good day up until dinner!
Breakfast: protein smoothie with probiotics. I also remembered to take my 10,000 IU's of Vitamin D! I have been getting super hungry by 10 am, so this helped take care of my hunger until lunch. I use a special enzyme protein powder, but there is an excellent rice powder one you can find at King Soopers. I mixed a scoop of powder, rice milk, blackberries and 1/4 teaspoon of my special and powerful probiotics. Okay, my amazing husband made this for me, I was lucky to walk out of the house with both my shoes on this morning. The probiotics have already begun working and I feel sooooo much better.
I have discovered an amazing way to do lunches! Especially if you have a fridge at work. Each week I buy a good salad mix that will last me all week, lunch meat, and other toppings (this week is olives, garbanzo beans, and italian dressing) and eat that for the week! I don't have to remember to grab lunch every day! Its healthy and since Dan and I work together he brings bread and avocado to make a sandwich with the same ingredients. Brilliant! Because it is all healthy food, I am not sure it is actually saving us money yet or not... but I feel great!
Then dinner. Dinner I ate two amazing supreme beef chalupas with hot and fire sauce and a Dorrito loco supreme taco. I also had a strawberry cream frutista. So freaking good.
For Dessert? a cup of emergen-C and gluten free, vegan chocolate chip cookies I made using the Baby Cakes recipe. They don't look great, but they taste really good!
With that, I am off to bed and hoping for a better morning tomorrow morning!
Random Fact of the Day: did you know peppermint is known to increase your heart rate, so pregnant women should not use peppermint bubble bath or bath crystals? I read that on my new bottle of candy cane bath crystals. Peppermint is also known to relieve indigestion and upset stomach. I read that on my box of peppermint tea!
Monday, January 28, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
New Years Resolutions... 27 days late
So, as you guys might have noticed... I stopped blogging after 4 posts. The main reason? The holidays. Between Thanksgiving, Christmas, work lunches, and a trip to South Carolina to visit the grandparents and cousins.... I completely blew my dietary restrictions every day. With that came weight gain (duh), stomach issues, exhaustion, and a false positive pregnancy test (carbs messing with my hormones I guess). With all of that holiday binge eating going on, I think you might be able to see why I was unmotivated to blog about my failing experiment!
So then January happened. January 2013 marks the start of my 26th year. As I was having a slight personal crisis, listing every possible way I wanted to change myself in 2013, I noticed there was a common factor: self control. I have no self control in my life whatsoever. I start things I never finish, I rarely keep things clean, I eat whatever is in sight, I will sit and play 8 hours of video games or watch a whole season of LOST and then claim I have no time for God, and working out is as much of a far fetched fairy tale as sparkly vampires. As I sat and pondered these things I was really convicted of my lack of self control. I can plan and prepare to do things differently all day, yet if I do not have the will power to follow through with any of my plans, nothing will ever change!
So I started January setting daily goals first: today I am going to read my Bible. Today I am going to do yoga when I get home from work. Then as the day to day stuff worked out I realized that I had been gluten free for a week! What!? I had also worked out 3 times that week, and read my Bible more than I have since school started getting busy. I was really good about being low gluten, dairy and soy for the first 2 weeks of January, then the flu hit. Not me, but Dan. Most of you know Dan was hospitalized for pneumonia and the flu. During this time I ate chicken noodle soup because it was the only thing he could handle the smell of, was too exhausted from working full time and taking care of an out of commission husband to do anything. I don't know how working moms survive. Mad props. OH! But exciting: I didn't get sick!!! My immune system actually did something productive! IMPROVEMENT!!!!!!!
Life has settled down again in the Yoder house and the return of normalcy in our house also has also brought the return of working on my self control. I am no longer buying anything that contains gluten, dairy, or soy, and buying good substitutes for the few items Dan will not go without :-) And... ta-da- I have not had gluten in a whole week! Not even a little!!!! Amazing. Because I am eating what I should, I have energy again!! Our apartment is relatively clean... relatively... and my life doesn't feel like it is slowly unraveling :-) Yay! I find the more I work on self control, the more I have to rely on God to teach me grace. I cant beat myself up every time I mess up, but I also cant take messing up my diet as a reason to binge for the rest of the day.
Okay, enough ramblings from my very tired and head-ached ridden brain, on to food.
I have found a few things really helpful for my food allergies.
1. I am finding comfort food that I can eat. Starving myself of every good food was not working... I know, shocking! I have been eating Udi and Ruby's brand baked goods to help my cravings.
2. Finding good substitutes. If you have a soy allergy you MUST try Coconut Amino soy sauce substitute. The only place I can find it is Vitamin Cottage, but it is AMAZING! I cook with it, dip sushi in it, and would probably bathe in it if people bathed in soy sauce... but that would be weird. Tinkyada rice pasta is my fav and I have been using it to add a carb side to my evening meals.
3. Sir-fry dinners are my best friend. As Dan is still healing he is super tired in the evenings which leaves me to all the cooking. A bag of frozen veggies, meat and spices make such a quick and easy dinner. Add rice pasta tossed in olive oil and garlic on the side, and you pretty much have perfection in food form. My 2 favorite spice mixes from the week were: 1. ginger garlic soy sauce and white pepper with a chicken stir-fry, and 2. cumin, lime, soy sauce, cayenne pepper, and ginger on a steak stir-fry. Try them!
The only thing is.... with all this good and healthy eating going on... I have never been gassier. Its gross. Aweful. I don't know if my body is just readjusting or if I am still allowing too much stuff to sneak in (I have not been as good with dairy as I have with gluten and soy)... or if there is something I have not identified as an issue... or if I am just fighting off trace symptoms of the flu... or if it is stress related (it has been a particularly stressful month at work and personally)... but its bad. TMI, I know, but something has got to change.. for Dan's sake.
With that I wish you goodnight.
Jessica
So then January happened. January 2013 marks the start of my 26th year. As I was having a slight personal crisis, listing every possible way I wanted to change myself in 2013, I noticed there was a common factor: self control. I have no self control in my life whatsoever. I start things I never finish, I rarely keep things clean, I eat whatever is in sight, I will sit and play 8 hours of video games or watch a whole season of LOST and then claim I have no time for God, and working out is as much of a far fetched fairy tale as sparkly vampires. As I sat and pondered these things I was really convicted of my lack of self control. I can plan and prepare to do things differently all day, yet if I do not have the will power to follow through with any of my plans, nothing will ever change!
So I started January setting daily goals first: today I am going to read my Bible. Today I am going to do yoga when I get home from work. Then as the day to day stuff worked out I realized that I had been gluten free for a week! What!? I had also worked out 3 times that week, and read my Bible more than I have since school started getting busy. I was really good about being low gluten, dairy and soy for the first 2 weeks of January, then the flu hit. Not me, but Dan. Most of you know Dan was hospitalized for pneumonia and the flu. During this time I ate chicken noodle soup because it was the only thing he could handle the smell of, was too exhausted from working full time and taking care of an out of commission husband to do anything. I don't know how working moms survive. Mad props. OH! But exciting: I didn't get sick!!! My immune system actually did something productive! IMPROVEMENT!!!!!!!
Life has settled down again in the Yoder house and the return of normalcy in our house also has also brought the return of working on my self control. I am no longer buying anything that contains gluten, dairy, or soy, and buying good substitutes for the few items Dan will not go without :-) And... ta-da- I have not had gluten in a whole week! Not even a little!!!! Amazing. Because I am eating what I should, I have energy again!! Our apartment is relatively clean... relatively... and my life doesn't feel like it is slowly unraveling :-) Yay! I find the more I work on self control, the more I have to rely on God to teach me grace. I cant beat myself up every time I mess up, but I also cant take messing up my diet as a reason to binge for the rest of the day.
Okay, enough ramblings from my very tired and head-ached ridden brain, on to food.
I have found a few things really helpful for my food allergies.
1. I am finding comfort food that I can eat. Starving myself of every good food was not working... I know, shocking! I have been eating Udi and Ruby's brand baked goods to help my cravings.
2. Finding good substitutes. If you have a soy allergy you MUST try Coconut Amino soy sauce substitute. The only place I can find it is Vitamin Cottage, but it is AMAZING! I cook with it, dip sushi in it, and would probably bathe in it if people bathed in soy sauce... but that would be weird. Tinkyada rice pasta is my fav and I have been using it to add a carb side to my evening meals.
3. Sir-fry dinners are my best friend. As Dan is still healing he is super tired in the evenings which leaves me to all the cooking. A bag of frozen veggies, meat and spices make such a quick and easy dinner. Add rice pasta tossed in olive oil and garlic on the side, and you pretty much have perfection in food form. My 2 favorite spice mixes from the week were: 1. ginger garlic soy sauce and white pepper with a chicken stir-fry, and 2. cumin, lime, soy sauce, cayenne pepper, and ginger on a steak stir-fry. Try them!
The only thing is.... with all this good and healthy eating going on... I have never been gassier. Its gross. Aweful. I don't know if my body is just readjusting or if I am still allowing too much stuff to sneak in (I have not been as good with dairy as I have with gluten and soy)... or if there is something I have not identified as an issue... or if I am just fighting off trace symptoms of the flu... or if it is stress related (it has been a particularly stressful month at work and personally)... but its bad. TMI, I know, but something has got to change.. for Dan's sake.
With that I wish you goodnight.
Jessica
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