It all started with walking into work at 7am to an 81 degree office building! WHOA! Luckily I had eaten my leftover Italian Brunch Bake in the car cause once I walked in that door there would have been NO EATING! The breakfast was great again! I actually LOVE that breakfast so much that everyone may get bored on my behalf....but I'm a weirdo who can eat the same thing over and over if I like it!!! I, of course, also added veggies!
I got nauseous very quickly after entering the sauna that was my office for the day and the headache soon followed (and it has not left)! I did however manage to drink more water then I thought possible from 7 to 9, at which point I had a meeting in a refrigerated building, so refreshing and so short lived. The office just got hotter by the hour. At noon management finally let people with access set up go home to telework. I went home to eat lunch and had leftover tarragon cream chicken with a nice salad and some cherries! Clearly my nausea was gone! It was great! I sure do love food! I miss having a nice hunk of bread on the side of that plate (I will not lie) but I'm enjoying to food I do get to eat!
After an afternoon of working from home I was exhausted and again the damn headache had NOT left so I had a snack of almonds and cherries; I'm trying my best to avoid snacking but today it was a must! The boys (I have always affectionately called Karl and Erik "the boys") are also feeling the pains of changing; Karl is having the hardest time. He seriously can't eat as much meat as other people, and he is craving sugar are cereal. And Erik (by the way you'll hate him after this) is having a hard time eating ENOUGH calories! He needs more fat in the meals. One of the highly recommended fats in the paleo world is beef tallow (rendered beef fat) and another loved fat is coconut oil/milk/butter. Erik likes the butter straight by the spoonful so we took a little shopping trip in search of tallow and affordable coconut butter! We found grass-fed (grain-finished) beef suet at a local butcher shop (Keller's); beef suet is the beef fat that gets rendered into tallow. They also have exclusive grass-fed, but were out today so they are going to call me in a few days to go get more. For this reason, we only got 1 pound today. Tomorrow before I go to work I will start the rendering process and by tomorrow evening I should have some tallow to add to our meals! Look forward to that post...haha...oh the learning!
This is beef suet for all the inquiring minds!
Dinner was more leftovers, this time meatloaf, I added a little oil before reheating cause I got it a tad to dry! I had carrots and roasted asparagus (another item you'll grow tired of hearing about) and it was a great meal! I finished the day off with a juicy nectarine!
I'm having no problem feeling full and satisfied but this headache better go away soon cause I'm not digging it! I'm also not happy about the waking at night to pee; I wouldn't mind that correcting soon!!! Until then I"ll keep trucking! One positive thing happened today; I felt a cyst pop (this is a familiar pain/relief) and causes some familiar symptoms (I'll spare you from reading those). To many this may sound bad, but to me it's great...hormones pop those pesky pains-in-the-ass and mine tend not to so yay for today! Karl is taking this one day at a time, we did get him some sunflower better today so let's hope that helps!!!
There's always something to learn...
L
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