Day 19 - Feeling yuk after eating yuk

As I pondered yesterday, I thought about how much cooking I'm doing. I know I'm doing kind of okay because we are eating healthier way more than ever before and way more consistently. But I need to zero in on raw again a bit. And then again, maybe winter should be more eating warmer foods than in the spring and summer. That is the season for fruits and veges. Ah - this might be justification! lol

I decided to try some coconut milk. Cooked a batch of oatmeal cereal for everyone for breakfast. Perfect time to try out that milk. I can do this. It was good and fun.

I put the sugar container on the table, thinking everyone (specifically my partner in all this) would do just a "touch"; but boy, I came to a standstill as I watched. I realized that even here I've progressed in my self control because I did not say a word. But later, when the time was right, I suggested he put a little in his spoon and then sprinkle it on his cereal and told him I didn't think he had any idea just how much he'd put on it and said it was at least one tablespoon and probably more. He just smiled at me in his "I know" look.

When I was doing a presentation on wheat, I made diastatic malt. You sprout the wheat, dry it, grind it and it's diastatic malt and it is EXTREMELY sweet - in fact, almost too sweet. However, it does go to show how much "sweet" is in sprouts. We do not need any added sweetener but some things just need a "touch".

We had sauteed mushrooms for lunch and we were both bloated and upset about an hour later. Funny. So hard to let go of the good memories of what you liked. It was a good lesson.

Pizza was ordered by the others in our house. We had a large glass of green smoothie and were going to have just a skinny slice. Neither one of us could even stand the thought of eating it. We are still very much feeling the results of the lunch. Amazing!!!! Again I'm proud of us for recognizing that and resisting. We very well could have eaten it anyway. We ARE progressing!!!

Update: Later in the evening I was at that point of "what can I eat" -- it's that time of night when before it was eat everything and never finding what you wanted. I realized I hadn't eaten wheat all day. Went and got some sprouts, added some coconut milk and half a banana and what a difference in the munchy cravings. I've always thought this was happening but tonight it is very evident that it does!!