Yep, that’s it. After two days, this is all I have to show you… No time to take photos, no time to charge my camera battery… I tell you, it’s only Tuesday and it’s like I’ve worked a full week!!
I have been negotiating the elimination diet fairly well during the work week, though I did skip a meal on Monday due to extreme busy-ness. Wow, huh, when was the last time I skipped a meal??
I will say that I am eating well, feeling full, and enjoying the relief this diet has brought.
I’m finding that I’m eating more often, though small snacks rather than large meals. This pictured above is actually quite a large snack for me, as I had a smaller lunch today and no 2pm snack. Honestly, I’m tracking what I eat and when, and I’m basically eating a little something every 2-3 hours. It’s fine, I guess, because I’m not feeling overly full or bloated AT ALL, which is pretty much a godsend. Clothes are also starting to loosen their deathgrip around my midsection, so that’s always nice.
Though last night I had my swimming lesson, and I swallowed a lot of chlorine water, which gave me the sharpest pains in my stomach. I had to go to sleep with a hot water bottle. It was bad bad bad.
Okay, I’ll sneak in another picture:
I managed to salvage my “larabars”!! They’re quite tasty now, and stay together a little better without gooping up everything they come in contact with (namely my fingers, hands, face, and clothing). I took a 1/3 cup of almonds and subjected them to my coffee grinder. They turned to almond meal almost instantely, and I then added the powder to the bars, added a bunch of cinnamon, re-mixed the whole thing, and re-flattened them in the pan. Back to the fridge, and the next morning, they came out like this. The texture is good, and they’re not SO sweet anymore. Yum. They don’t look as cute as the Larabars, but they’ll do. Especially with a side of banana and 1 tbsp almond butter.
Tonight I have Roller Derby practice. I haven’t gone for a run since Sunday, but I figure it’s okay because I had swimming on Monday and Derby tonight. I’ll get back on the ball tomorrow. And that means more food photos too!!
One last note: the new dharma arts is out. I think they’re really cool. You should take twenty minutes and go read it right now.