The Problem With Change

Changes. Some are good, some are bad, some are just darn hard! I watch my husband go through these changes, although healthy and so rewarding, it's still hard to change how you think about food, and drinks. So with these changes, I've decided that I too need to make some personal changes. I thought it might be easier to do this on my own terms instead of waiting for someone to tell me to do it. Yes friends, we are talking about that morning cup of joe. Coffee, latte, caps, whatever you want to call it - it too, will have an end but will be given visitation rights. I plan to kick my morning coffee, and replace it with good tea and lemon. Human's are suppose to drink warm water (preferably with lemon or lime) in the mornings to wake your warm sleeping belly. Warm water wakes all the acids that sit in your intestines over night and restores your body's PH back to neutral. 

So this morning, I sipped on Chamomile tea with lemon and ate a hard boiled egg with the slightest hint of sea salt. I'm sure I'll get a caffeine headache sometime today, and probably tomorrow, and hopefully not the next day. 

So in short, the plan is to cut my coffee out. I hope to be able to enjoy a good latte maybe once a month. But I know that once I get to that point, I probably won't want coffee at all. 

The second part of the plan? Is to not freak out about it. Baby talk will happen, sneaking trips to my favorite barista which whom I have free coffee available to me, will happen. I expect this to take time and, I'm no stranger to afternoon coffee - it's going to happen. I've always gone through coffee phases, and during an off phase I would buy a mocha, savor it, look forward to it and then could be done with it. Let's pull these big girl panties everyone talks about on and get this snowball rolling. 

P.S., the eggs we get from our friends farm, make the best and most creamy hard boiled eggs ever. Yumm!  

I challenged myself last night. I told myself to make a dinner, without going to the store (a huge challenge in these early weeks). As bland and boring as this plate looks, it was really good and satisfying! I made my first batch of buckwheat, cooked only one chicken breast, shredded it, added black beans and the slightest amount of pepper, and then of course some lightly steamed greens. It was so simple, but as I watched myself "get away" with using only one piece of chicken, and only one pepper, and one head of broccoli, I couldn't believe how much I was stuffing my family. Mark and I cleaned out plates, and the girls did pretty darn good at eating and we were all satisfied for the rest of the night. Mark and I topped ours with the ever so slightest amount of bleu cheese and it gave it an awesome little kick here and there. I felt 18 all over again as I was trying so hard to come up with something edible. 

I'm starting to see past the costs of being gluten free, because by not buying nearly as many meats and expensive dairy products, I could see myself lowering my grocery bill. It's going to take a lot of time, and I will make a lot of mistakes. We did become members of the Skagit Valley Food Co-Op, with kickbacks! It's a start!