I find my self very overwhelmed by the changes in diet suggested by the ND (Natural Doctor). It is not simple to eat whole foods all the time for every meal. She believes eating a whole foods diet heavy in anti-inflammatory foods will help me. This morning I was supposed to give up egg beaters and just have real egg whites along with an Ezekiel English muffin. Well...there was an incident with the egg separator and the garbage that involved lots of yelling (by me) and just left me angry and frustrated. Honestly, I just don't deal well with change.
It has been a hard week. I started the week out with severe hand and arm pain, which put a real hamper on my Christmas Eve preparations. For Christmas Eve dinner I was very good with my food (eating only things I had eaten before...except for this one tomato sauce and fish dish that looked amazing) but I still had horrible stomach pains. DawnMarie and I went to Manhattan with the kids to see a show at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday, which was exhausting. Then yesterday I spent 3 hours in the car going to see the ND, I need a car pillow because my butt just can't take the drive anymore.
Now I find myself facing this stack of food suggestions that are all anti-inflammatory in nature and I know this change would be good for me but I also realize that if we go down this road there will be no turning back. I don't want to have to eat like a crunchy granola (that's what they call hippies out here on the east coast). Not sure if I can handle the commitment this food change will make and the time it will require. It essentially calls us to make everything from scratch and quadruple our intake of fresh vegetables.
I want to go eat at Five Guy's, Red Robin, and Trattoria Lucia. I want to stop at 7-11 for a slurpee and pick up ice cream at Dairy Queen. I want to just be normal.
It has been a hard week. I started the week out with severe hand and arm pain, which put a real hamper on my Christmas Eve preparations. For Christmas Eve dinner I was very good with my food (eating only things I had eaten before...except for this one tomato sauce and fish dish that looked amazing) but I still had horrible stomach pains. DawnMarie and I went to Manhattan with the kids to see a show at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday, which was exhausting. Then yesterday I spent 3 hours in the car going to see the ND, I need a car pillow because my butt just can't take the drive anymore.
Now I find myself facing this stack of food suggestions that are all anti-inflammatory in nature and I know this change would be good for me but I also realize that if we go down this road there will be no turning back. I don't want to have to eat like a crunchy granola (that's what they call hippies out here on the east coast). Not sure if I can handle the commitment this food change will make and the time it will require. It essentially calls us to make everything from scratch and quadruple our intake of fresh vegetables.
I want to go eat at Five Guy's, Red Robin, and Trattoria Lucia. I want to stop at 7-11 for a slurpee and pick up ice cream at Dairy Queen. I want to just be normal.
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