Day 2, July 2 2023

 Aaaaaand... I made it through Day 1 without cheating or failing! At least I think I did. I'm still not 100 on whether soy sauce is allowed. And I'm not even thinking about looking it up. Or rather, I'm thinking quite seriously about not looking it up.

I ate some surprisingly good food yesterday and learned some things:

1. One cup of uncooked lentils produces a ridiculous amount of cooked lentils (I feel like this is something I already knew?)
2. Zoodles are less than awesome when they are even the tiniest bit overcooked
3. KONJAC! I love you. Where have you been all my life? Are all of your little shapes that good?

Today I need to do a bit of meal prep. I work tomorrow, although only half a day because I have appointments in the afternoon. I will need something lunch-like, preferably something I can eat cold. My heart wants chickpea salad. I wonder if my avocados are ripe enough to mash?

And onto day 2 we go!

Breakfast

I started the day with a foamy nutpods coffee. Breakfast followed:

• Same serving of nutpods, just added more coffee to it
• Steamed baby potatoes, sliced then air fried
• Scramble (used olive oil cooking spray this time) with:
• tofu
• fresh oregano from the tiny garden
• tomatoes
• green onion
• zucchini
• garlic
• sesame seeds because FAT
• salt & pepper

I feel full of good food and like maybe I have the energy to do some things. The more in-depth list of the physical fee-fees:

• Wet nose and a tiny ache at the back of my throat, probably from post nasal drip
• Barely-there headache - forehead and sinuses, mostly. I suspect I can place the blame for this item and the previous one squarely on my allergies.
• The soreness in the left side of my neck is still there but it's much less there than it was yesterday.
• Low-level ache in my left elbow. Again, much better than it was yesterday.
• Tingling from my elbow down to my fingers. All of my fingers.
• Similar low-level ache in my left knee

And the mental/emotional fee-fees:

• I feel well-rested. I'm still yawning a bit but I suspect it's because it feels good, not because I need to
• I don't know how to describe how I feel about Mom. I do know I am not going there if there's any chance I'll run into my sister. I protect my emotions like they are a bazillion dollar crystal egg that I was given to hold and care for and there's no way in hell I can afford to replace it if it's broken. She is an egg hammer.
• One of the tiny potatoes I ate this morning looked like a snowman (WHY didn't I take a picture???) with a wee little smile on his face. I had to take him out to show W. Then cut him up and eat him. I am a monster.

Cliff Diving

I got some pretty stunningly bad news right after breakfast and spent the day drinking beer and eating who knows what (pretty sure there was sushi via GrubHub). It was a not particularly graceful dive off a cliff. And so we begin, again.