A journey

I think gluten makes me cranky.  Or maybe it's all grains.  Or maybe it's just my personality.

So, I am going to try to keep a daily journal on what I eat and other things going on to see if I can get to the bottom of it.

I've been mostly grain free for about a week.  I've had some teff, and on Christmas, although I was careful, I probably had some grains in there somewhere.  Oh, and I had that beer.  Green's gluten free beer.

What inspired me to start the daily journal was that I had been feeling really great.  Healthy, energetic.  But today, the day after Christmas, I didn't feel well, and have been feeling cranky and acting bitchy.  Those are all the things I'm trying so hard to get away from.

It could just be the day after Christmas blues.  But, it could be some other things.  I haven't been having my daily kefir smoothie (with banana, coconut oil, gelatin, vit. D, magnesium and a raw egg yolk) for a few days, maybe five days.  So that's a lot of things I'm not getting by not drinking that.  We are low on milk, and I also thought it might be good to go dairy free for awhile.  So maybe that's a problem.  I had sugar on Christmas, and I hadn't been eating any candy for a week or two previous.  And there was that beer.  Could be that.

So, we'll see.
Today I had my butter coffee & ham and eggs for breakfast. For dinner, some hamburger, kale, onion and chicken broth.  Two or three pieces of candy throughout the day.  Huh, well, that could be a problem too.  I don't think I ate or drank enough.  One thing about the more meat & fat eating -- I rarely feel like I'm starving.  Still, I'll have some broth with gelatin and coconut milk now, before I go to bed.  I don't like waking up hungry!

One of my big goals is to figure out how to enjoy eating liver.  Or even tolerate it.  I know for now I could just buy the desiccated liver, but eventually I won't be able to and I'll have to know how to eat it.  But, I'll have to get more into the variety of meat next payday.

With $2 in my bank account, this will be a lean week.  I'm not even sure how I'm going to get milk for Emma.  And I was just on her case about eating healthy, but I can't really afford to feed her healthily this week.  Poor girl.  I try to never pressure her about food anyway, it was just part of that bitchy thing I was doing today.  Whenever I'm feeling bitchy or out of sorts, I'm kind of awful to her.  That's actually what helped get me motivated to become healthier.  If I gain nothing except the ability to not be bitchy to my daughter, it's all worth it.  Let the journey begin!