It still counts as doing too much even when you want to do it

Okay, well...I'm back/still on the SCD pureed food plan. I continued to feel pretty shitty after eating the solid food on Monday night, right up until I went to bed. Still felt uncomfortable when I went to bed, but at least I woke up feeling okay. I started adding a good amount of fat (and salt and pepper) to my purees, though, and noticed a huge improvement in my energy levels and general outlook on life. I even made it to the gym Monday and today (Wednesday)!

So I think I'm gonna stick with it for a while longer. Long-term, I'm going to add in All The Vegetables before I start reintroducing fruit (no semantics about fruit/vegetables--you know what I mean).

As for things I won't re-introduce at all, I've said this before, but I'm gonna try to stick with it this time--at least for the foreseeable future--No Nuts and No Dried Fruit. The only exception is when I'm traveling and don't have access to a kitchen. Nuts and dried fruit (or raw fruit) is pretty tough on my GI tract and I don't need the extra calories--much less the hit of sugar from dried fruit. So, gone.

I was feeling kinda tired this morning but really wanted to lift some weights, so I went to lift weights and then had such a bad post-breakfast swelling reaction that I had to change my outfit before I left for work. *sigh* I know there is some correlation between stress and swelling, but it's not like that's the only time I swell a lot. Just when I am under a lot of stress, I always swell more. It's a squares and rectangles thing. I'm super tired, now, too, and I think I'm gonna lie down for a nap and just stay late to make up the time. ETA: AH HA HA HA HA HA HA NO. That so did not happen. Wow things got busy fast.

Andrew sent me a message yesterday asking how I was doing. Aw. He's such a good trainer.

Your dollar is your vote

This is why I purchase nearly all my spices from Penzey's. Not only are their products higher quality than most spices I can buy in a local store, they are Good People. The owner's letter about using Native names and terms for team names is pretty amazing, too. I'm sure they're going to lose customers because of their stances on these issues. If you're not already a Penzey's customer, please consider starting now, to offset the revenue lost from closed-minded people.