Diets come. Diets go.

In 2017 I did The Whole Thirty and it was a whole lot of feeling crummy the first couple of weeks and then I started feeling good, in fact I never felt better.

I stuck to it for a while and eventually went back to what I had been eating. I mean I’d eat bread, pizza, spaghetti, breaded chicken, flavored drinks, sweet n’ low and different things like that again.

So a couple months ago I started the AIP (autoimmune protocol diet). I had started “playing around” with eliminating things months ago but never honed in and started being very select about not eating the things I shouldn’t on a daily basis and carefully reintroducing stuff until the last two months when I got serious. I have a cheat day every week and it helps. I’m off immunosuppressants (though the way I feel right now I wish I was on them) and I’m off another med.

Something’s gotta give.

So a few days ago, on Sunday evening, I went to a friends house for our small group gathering. That’s where a growth group from church meets and has dinner and fellowship. The friend’s house I went to just happens to be on the same diet for the same reasons and I’ve been getting so much help from her, I’m so thankful that I can eat good when I’m there . . . except I didn’t. I ate junk Sunday night.

That was dumb.

I’d been straight shooting the whole week and didn’t need to jump off but I did and I ate the wrong meat and had chocolate and now my body hates itself. Oh, I had dairy too, so my body is really happy about all of that.

What made it so much worse was the fact that I’m on motrin every day and you’re really not suppose to be taking NSAIDS while on the AIP if you can help it. My hope is that I can get away from taking them once I’m on it a bit longer and not messing up on it like I did on Sunday.

So on Friday I am going to be doing a 3-day cleanse with a friend from my hometown. She’s got an autoimmune disease as well and she’s very well educated about juicing and nutrition b/c her health condition and her sons, so I’m following her lead since I don’t know what to do. We’ll see how it goes. It’s really just to kind of reset everything.

I just taking it easy the rest of the week. I did very little today and after 2 hours of working (maybe three) I was done for the day. I am very slow right now to do anything. I am doing what my doctor told me to and just resting and keeping my phone on silent for the rest of the week so that I don’t have to deal with any unwarranted stress. Hopefully I want deal with any more unnecessary stress from anyone else that’s caused me any stress this week.

If I think about it, I’ll post the drinks here that I do when I have my juice cleanse. =) Pray for me! Prayers to feel better and to benefit from the cleanse!