Not feeling so hot! At first I thought I was gluten-ed somehow on Saturday, but if that’s the case I was sicker than I’ve been from that in a long, long time. In fact, I was sick so long (and so very, very sick) that I am wondering if there was something amiss with the tasty raw treats from the farmers’ market. The gluten-ed symptoms (likely caused by the cheater cheater salsa that had malted barley in the flavoring) wore off after a day or so, and I was left with…well, it wasn’t good. I didn’t eat at all yesterday, and I missed three runs and a yoga class. In fact, I had to leave work at lunch and come home to sleep.
On the bright(er) side:
This is what I will be eating today. Udi’s whole grain bread, toasted, with a little bit of earth balance.
Without getting into gross details, I have to say that I don’t know how I used to live with gluten! Before I knew I was allergic, I had zero energy. When I was 25, I had to take a nap at lunch in order to make it through a day at my full-time office job, and I would still sleep 10-11 hours every night. I’ve always needed to own pants in a wide range of sizes, because when I get “hit” my stomach balloons up 3 or 4 sizes in a matter of hours. I’ve really been enjoying not feeling like this!
I did get in a three mile walk last night, though part of it was a trip to the grocery store for some stomach meds. I never take things like that, but desperate times call for desperate measures, right? (Or shallow times…my dress for next weekend’s events arrives today and I can’t wait to try it on…but my stomach needs to cooperate!) And I did some weights this morning – more on that later.
I am off to the office, toast in hand.