Well, I guess you could say I fell off the blogwagon. I have been sick, AGAIN, for days now and frankly have had little or no desire to cook or eat. I can say with extreme confidence that what you eat definitely has a profound effect on your body. I am not able to eat anything anymore (and hopefully that will change in the future) that is fast food or good old fashioned comfort food without having a severe reaction, a toxin unloading I guess. I have lost 10 pounds in the last 2 weeks (yay for fitting into my old jeans again!), but then again, I like eating as much as my old jeans so it is a slight predictament. Heck, I love eating. My old jeans are old for a reason, thank you Mr. Double Cheeseburger from McDonalds.
What really happened is that I started getting lazy...grabbing chocolates at work at the candy basket and making a sandwich at my moms when I picked up my son after work (after all I was too tired to cook that day) and dinner out with husband dearest. Honestly, when the sickness hit this time I was so sick for so long that even prescriptions could barely help me keep my gatorade down.
I plan on pushing through with the diet though. It will get worse before it gets better is my theme. Jordan Rubin said in his book he actually became sicker for 30 full days before his health completely turned around. Some digestive diseases, especially ones that are more severe, may take some serious time and adjustment if you are really hoping to completely reverse your intestinal ratio of good and bad bacteria. Praise God it is almost the end of month one! I am really hoping the end is in sight.
On a side note, I did not do a budget for week 3 since I barely cooked or ate. When we did run to Trader Joe's, we only spent $57.00 for a basket full of what we estimated we would need for a week. That made my day since I think we are getting pretty close to our budgeted goal of $50 per week. Since I really didn't feel like cooking much, we were able to try some cheaper dinner options instead of cooking lots of organic meats (which can run up your grocery bill) - organic frozen pizza for under $5.00 and VIDA Spelt spaghetti pasta, which was $3 for one box, but made tons of pasta for days and tasted SOOO much better than the typical wheat pastas in the grocery store. The pizza, shockingly, will fill you up on much smaller slices and tastes much better than the usual greasy cardboard crap.
Okay, I am going to finish my organic coffee and enjoy the new Hazelnut creamer from Trader Joes that I have not had much of a chance to appreciate the past week or so. Hope to be back blogging tomorrow about some delicious new recipe from Whole Foods!
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