Chicken Salad

Kickin off week three with my three year-old buddy E and some serious chicken salad stirring. Grilled chicken, mayo, celery and garlic olives from the New Seasons olive bar. Good times.

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Last Night of Week Two

Day Thirteen

Talked to my diabetes nurse today and she's excited about my progress on this. She said I may even need to decrease my medication soon, and I'm already totally off insulin. If I can continue to lose weight, it may not be as difficult to keep my numbers down in the future, and I won't have to eat this strict forever (maybe).

I'm excited for Mother's Day--a walk in Trion Creek park and steak for dinner. I feel super extra thankful for my mom. I talked to her today when I had a meltdown and it was really helpful. She's so supportive. I guess I needed to have a meltdown--this thing is difficult.

Okay

 

 But sometimes you just have to look at a picture like this and know that all will be okay.

Kale of Duty

Why I choose to eat nothing but kale, ever, for the rest of my life.

 By Scott Jacobson|Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2012, at 7:30 AM ET  (Slate Magazine)

Kale chips
Photograph by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images.

I moved to Los Angeles two years ago and learned right away that I was unprepared for West Coast life. Before even buying my plane ticket I should have listened to the old Beach Boys song and cultivated a bushy, bushy blonde hairdo. I thought it was just a surfer thing, but everyone here has one: the mayor, the specialist who came to install the "edible wall garden" on my composting shed, the police officer who ticketed me for my backyard pizza oven (I burn lawn clippings in there), everyone! The other biggie: My diet of grains, meats, vegetables, and homemade fruit leather was far too varied. Apparently all I ever need to eat for the rest of my life is kale. And I swear to you on the tub of Sun-In hair lightener into which I dunk my increasingly bushy head each morning: I will achieve a kale-only diet.

Almost

My sister just had to guide me through flushing a chocolate bar down the toilet. I feel like a freaking addict.

Tired

Another rough day, people. I got enough sleep and yet was exhausted the whole day. In fact, in the afternoon I felt much the same tiredness as I do when I've had caffeine and sugar in the morning. I don't care for that...confusing. Is my body still detoxing? It made me want sugar. I drank a cup of black tea. That helped but then an hour I was ravenous, which is a typical caffeine side effect for me, so that was triggering as well. No tea, no soy lattes. Mehhhhhhhhhh. The end.

End of the First Day Back at Work

Nighttime after work is gonna be soooo difficult. Ugh.

End of Day Nine

Tomorrow I go back to work after 11 days of vacation. I am partly glad, partly anxious. I need the structure back but I don't know if I can hack the commitment. I need to make some stuff tonight that I can eat all week when I get home from work. What I do know is that I will feel better at the end of the day even though I may be starving. Instead of coming home from a day of sugar and caffeine, I will be coming home from a day of nourishment and sustenance.

I Began