Anti-Inflammatory . . .

It's been an interesting week, Chez A :-)

I have to tell you that I thought it was going to be a lot harder to avoid sugar and highly processed foods/bread.  Of course it's only been a week, but still - after a thorough cleaning out of the cupboards, and a trip to Whole Foods and the Jewel, things are going pretty well.

The scale is moving (again - it's the first week) and I am engaging in better living through chemistry, but the combination of the anti-inflammatory drug and the absence of sugar, in particular, I think, is really making a difference in how I feel. 

I feel really good, which is a pretty far cry from a week and a half ago. 

That this could make such a difference so quickly, is amazing.  What's even more interesting to me, is that I think that my skin looks better and the bags and circles under my eyes do not seem to me to be as pronounced as they have been.  (Yay!)

It's been challenging to figure out what to eat every morning - oatmeal doesn't really stick with me I've discovered.  I don't want to eat eggs every day, so this morning, I have some pork chops in the oven.  :-D 

I've been relying on Amy's Soups for most lunches - but today, I'm having shrimp sushi  :-)  and tomorrow I'm meeting a friend at a restaurant (which will likely entail a plain burger and whatever the vegetable of the day is).  You have to change it up once in awhile  :-)

Tomorrow I head into week two of this new way of caring for myself.  Yay Me!!!!!
In other news of the day . . .
I took a class taught by Judy Chan.  It was sponsored by the Windy City Knitting Guild on Sunday.  Entrelac in the Round.  The colors are not true on this photos - those orange bits in the middle are actually a soft coral/pink.  I'm stuck at this point - somehow the next row wouldn't start properly and I kept ending up with the wrong number of stitches, so I stopped and will pick it up again at some point this weekend. 

Thanksgiving is upon us . . . It's that time of year . . . (the quality isn't great, sorry.)