Day 128: Taking Charge of My Health…Eating Right, Aliens & Impregnation

Seriously, where do I come up with these headlines? Perhaps I really am one Froot Loop short of a bowl. And if you are reading this, I guess you would be too – guilty by association. lol

As you know, this blog started because my health wasn’t all that great, and I decided that enough was enough already, and chose to take charge of it and take it back. And although I have been doing that over the past four months, recently I have been ramping up the efforts a lot more. I think of it this way - I can do it slowly and stretch it out over a long while and be in pain and suffering for longer, or just cut the sh*t and get moving. So I am moving. Not literally moving as in moving cities, I mean taking action.

Since I wrote about the “Eat Right For Your Blood Type” nutrition program (blog Day 74: Eat Right For Your Blood Type – What Type Are You? http://bit.ly/kSagVc) I have been following it pretty closely…mostly. Except for the odd Tim Bits and Marble Slab ice cream I would say I have been a pretty good girl. And it has been helping me. I am type “O”, which means I need meat and I should avoid wheat and dairy; and since I have cut out wheat (for the most part) I have been feeling a LOT better.  No more looking like I am six months pregnant when we all know it is literally impossible at the moment…unless my real name is Mary. Or perhaps I am being mysteriously impregnated and probed by aliens in my sleep. I guess then it would be a possibility. And if option #2 were true, then does that mean I am technically cheating on my no man, no sex diet? I mean…if I am sleeping and unaware does it count? That just opens a whole new can of worms, doesn’t it.

How did I ever get to the topic of aliens and impregnation anyway? Ok, back to health.

I am not sure if you remember me saying that I can’t cook (blog Day 61: Wanted – A Mr. Right That Cooks http://bit.ly/kHRb3q), but I lied. I found out I can! I am still not the greatest, but at least I am doing something about it and experimenting with different things on my blood type safe foods list. So far I can cook steak and veggies really well without overcooking. For someone who couldn’t cook steak or any type of meat before and veggies better suited as baby food mush, I think that’s an improvement.

My modified, non-wheat Korean pancakes substituted with buckwheat are a different story though. If you are on my Twitter-feed, you would know that my once prized pancakes have gone down the crapper. No really, they are THAT bad. Perhaps my cue would have been the fact that the batter looked like mud with a similar consistency. The big surprise happened though when I first flipped the pancake to cook the other side. It smelled like a**. Sorry for the vulgarity, but it nearly made me sick. I literally took a step back and went “Whoaaa!” I didn’t realize that the buckwheat flour would smell so bad. And you know what? I ate them anyway. I tried adding more stuff to hide the taste…leeks and onions to the first batch; feta cheese to the second; LOTS of honey to the third. It was like adding ketchup to cooked liver, still doesn't cut it. Needless to say, I won’t be making those again. But I won’t give up. Not this girl. I am determined to find solutions to my health, and I will try try again until I succeed. Not too sure what to do with the buckwheat flour now, but I am sure I will get creative. More cooking adventures sure to come!

Stay tuned tomorrow to find out what else I was up to today to fully take charge of my health. It will be a specialty blog. I tell you, it was a stacked day, and I am going to be one super human being once this year is over.

BOO YAH!  ;o)

…to infinity and beyond!