Day Twenty-five

I'm more than halfway through the elimination period, and the last couple of days I've been really tempted to just blow it all and eat something -- anything -- that I know I really don't want to eat. Pizza, frozen yogurt, macaroni & cheese, a chocolate chip cookie, it doesn't matter. I just want to go out and have a nice dinner at a restaurant without having to worry about what's in it or how it was made. But I won't. I'm feeling too good.

Which is actually part of the problem, really. 4 weeks ago I felt so terrible that I was looking forward to starting the diet just because I knew I would feel better. But now that I feel really good (I do still have a few aches and pains and occasional flare, but nothing like before) now I miss the food and the freedom to not think about every single bite I take.

HOWEVER, I was at the grocery today and sat down at the blood pressure booth. Before this diet, I was "pre-hypertensive". Now? Wow!

So now, on to dinner tonight:

I sauteed some fresh basil, fresh cilantro, finely chopped zucchini & carrot, my usual grey salt and garlic powder until all was tender and wilted. I mixed it into some ground turkey and made turkey burgers. While they were cooking, I warmed a package of frozen rainbow chard with a drizzle of coconut aminos as well as the prerequisite garlic & salt. I served the burger on a bed of the chard. For the side, I boiled some baby carrots until they were tender, drained them and added pure maple syrup, just enough to glaze them, and heated them through. This was all delicious. My darling bf got jealous as he ate his pizza, and snagged one of the burger to take for his lunch tomorrow.