Day Three - Part One

I woke up this morning to a couple of realizations. First, I didn't take any Meclizine or Histame at all yesterday, and only half of my usual dose of HCL. Second, in spite of this, I didn't suffer my usual bout of bedtime itching last night. I did have a really stuffy nose, but I think that is probably just rebound from stopping the antihistamines.

Unfortunately, I had a bit of a setback. I had a class I was going to -- "Raw Food on a Budget" -- and I woke up a little late. I'm not planning to go all raw, but would like to incorporate some raw foods into my diet. The class was taking place at a local health food restaurant and I thought for sure there would be something I could grab to eat there. Nope. They use a ton of nuts, nut milk, avocado, spinach, tomato, strawberry, and banana in everything. Normally I would request something custom made, but the place was PACKED, and I didn't want to be a bother. I ordered a smoothie with green tea, cashew milk, and agave. I did ask that they substitute honey for the agave, but the green tea and cashew milk are both high histamine. I barely drank half of it before my face closed up and my eyes started burning. I immediately took a Histame and half a Meclizine and threw away more than half of a $6 smoothie, but the damage was done. That was three hours ago and I'm still suffering.

One good thing that came from it, as I sat there feeling my stomach bloat up, I realized that the hollow feeling I've had the last couple of days was the complete lack of bloat. It's been so much a part of my 'normal' for so long that when the bloat went away it made me feel hollow.

I came home and made lunch -- a beef patty (cooked from frozen), over a bed of greens. I used the last of my fresh blackberries to make a reduction with coconut oil and rosemary (I've been eating a ton of rosemary -- it's an anti-inflammatory, and has a lot of digestive benefits). I also finished the butternut squash from last night. I probably shouldn't have done the ground beef when I was already in the middle of a reaction -- I don't know if the itching and indigestion I'm feeling is from that or from the smoothie.

Lesson learned: make meal decisions BEFORE I get hungry. I don't make good choices when I'm hungry. Oh well, it's a process, right? I will post more after dinner -- hopefully I'll feel better by then.