Joy dot: wonderful spicy sweet potato dish at dinner last night.

I have been working on a few things: reducing gluten to see if it helps with digestive issues I've been having, and figuring out how to work out after work without blood sugar crashes. I've realized that this is an excellent opportunity to refine my journalling skills. Journal has always been my weakest step, and I always envy people who love their journal. I am really concentrating on mine right now and trying to give it the chance to be a tool I can love. I had a few pages left in an old journal, but I started with a brand new one to symbolize making a fresh start in journalling.

Since I'm making a variety of changes, I have added a sheet of paper where I record the date I made each change. That way, I can go back and see what happened after each change when I review, and compare before and after. I find this useful because in the past, I got really depressed after cutting down on vitamin B, and I also got whacko after taking soy isoflavones. I was able to figure both those things out, but it would have been easier and quicker if I had had an easy way to find the date that I made those changes. I'll also add a sheet which lists my daily vitamins, and my daily shake ingredients so I can just write shake and vitamins in the journal, and then make note of exceptions.

I think I will bake up some program friendly banana or pumpkin muffins to have on weekends with my omelet (made with oat and brown rice flour), and keep them in the freezer. Or maybe I'll try the baked oatmeal recipe. I used to have toast with the omelet.

I'm looking at this as an adventure and working it out bit by bit instead of getting frantic or thinking I have to have it all worked out right now! the way I would have when I started the program.
Allison