Tasting Life Abundant

Dinner- I love making breakfast for dinner when I don't feel like cooking or have to make dinner fast. Scrambled eggs with spinach, kidney bean, bacon, and GF toast with cashew butter, honey and cinnamon. Dinner- steamed broccoli, Alexia's sweet potato fries (love that Costco has a big bag of them right now!), and beef burger patty with avocado and bacon. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner- This is what I ate during my last NAET treatment 25 hour avoidance phase. There is a different list of "safe foods" with every treatment, depending on what you're avoiding, and they recommend that you limit yourself to just two or three foods, as the more variety you consume, the more energy it takes for your body to digest and ideally you just want to let your body's energy be as unhindered as possible so you can achieve optimal results. So this time I ate sweet potato, beef roast, and white rice. Yes, I felt a little guilty for the high amount of starch, but its only ...

Ah! So much inside of me that wants to come out...I feel like I'm full to bursting. So many changes and adjustments and evaluating going on. It's mostly good....definitely feels like I'm making progress. But that doesn't mean it's easy or not painful at times.  I am so thankful that God led me to these NAET treatments and Alicia (my NAET practitioner). I have seen good results already, and have more appointments scheduled for the coming weeks. But NAET isn't just helping me eliminate my food allergies, it goes deeper and is helping me deal with emotions and my subconscious belief systems and work through things that have been holding me back.  Something I have noticed recently is the thought that, as I make progress and heal, I need to adjust my perspective of myself and allow myself to indeed Be Well. For someone who hasn't been living with a long term, chronic type medical/emotional health issue, this might seem a little strange. Yes, of course, I wan...

Grilled brat with brown rice and kale, and a side of sweet potato chips. (Trader Joes has yummy, relatively inexpensive, sweet potato chips) The rest of my family had their brats on Trader Joes GF hot dog buns, which are also a lot cheaper than average. Fried kale, breakfast sausage, fried egg and .....French Toast!!! because eggs are back and I can finally have more than one egg at a time! Definitely a treat though, cause GF bread isn't cheap. This boring looking dish is leftover brown rice mixed with homemade chili verde (pork roast with verde sauce), and avocado, over butter lettuce. So yum. The chili verde had been in my freezer for awhile, but it warmed up perfectly delicious. And I would definitely recommend making your own verde sauce. I decided to give it a try after getting some tomatillos from a neighbor, and it was not too hard and very good. Broiled asparagus with bacon bits and garlic salt, brown rice, and honey mustard chicken. I like to spoon th...

So last night I didn't fall asleep until probably around 12:30, and then woke up again when Brian left for work at 4am and didn't sleep for at least an hour. (My back was/is hurting and I couldn't get comfortable.) This morning I sat and read Bible stories to the kids while sitting on the couch with a heat pad on my back. Decided maybe a hot bath would help.... So turned on the computer and told the kids they could play abcmouse.com while I took a bath. Ran a nice hot bath, added oils and Epsom salt...ahhh! Nice. Only in the bath for about 10 min., and Nathaniel comes charging in, yelling "Pottyyyy!!" Now, he knows he isn't allowed to pee standing up in our house,but pulls his pants down, stands there, and proceeds to pee....not in the toilet, (somehow he misses that), but all over the toilet seat, his pants, underwear, shirt, the floor and his feet. Oy. Vey. I wanted to yell....but I didn't. I wanted to just stay in the bath and say, "Sorry ki...