In anticipation of the New Year. Tomorrow I get to file for unemployment. Always a thrilling bureaucratic exercise. G is dressing to go into the crawlspace to insert insulation around the perimeter of the house foundation. Our daughter did this on her house and pronounced the whole house warmer. We like warmer over here, also. So we are giving it a try.
I had yogurt and red grapefruit for dinner last night (with Bran Buds to soak up excess liquids) and noticed my hands got a bit swollen and other things happened. I also ate some almonds and started sneezing (it could have been the tangerines?). Noticing what I eat and what happens after I eat is terribly sad. These are things I like. My hands are not swollen this morning. Ring is loose.
I had two hamburger patties (over cooked by accident while reading blogs) with the leftover sautéed sauerkraut and onion. A disgusting breakfast if there ever was one. But that's Atkins. I also prepped my pineapple as I am going to be eating more fruit this week. The pineapple isn't very ripe--so less sugar. I like puckery fruit. I also have red pears. They are very hard. The softer the fruit the more sugar. The more sugar, the more carbs. In case you are wondering why I am doing all this--it seems that an allergic reaction to foods you eat will stop weight loss even if you should be losing weight. Auto immune something or other. This has always been the probable cause of my stall.
Family history of allergies is very much something I am taking into consideration. Eggs, Wheat, Cow's Milk, Beef, Chocolate from my youngest brother as well as drugs and alcohol. Moldy foods from my mother. Aged cheeses, mushrooms etc. but she was addicted to sugar and wheat. My middle brother suffers from a bunch of respiratory and migraine issues. But I am not speaking to him so I can't ask what foods he may have problems with. My dad had problems with alcohol.
I was the "chubby" member of the entire family. Bone thin until I turned 10. Then "chubby". Whatever allergy kicked in at 10 years old-- it stayed. The only way to lose weight was to just eat overcooked ground beef, salads and vegetable soup. Meanwhile my mother was begging me to eat cream puffs and cake. She wanted me to be the "chubby" one.
I'm starting on the soup.
Good luck with this. I have recently started having a reaction to peanuts. I found that peanut butter was not friendly to me about 16 hours after I ate it. Other things I am allergic to: butter fats and soy. Do you realize that soy, in some form, is in just about everything? I do not eat processed or pre-made. I cook from scratch and eat a lot of simple foods.
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