hunger has just taken on a whole new meaning

i just laid on my couch for an hour (only 45 minutes after finishing breakfast mind you) wondering if i was coming down with the flu, or my stomach was trying to kill me, or if my breakfast was poisoned, or if the baby hates bananas… nope… none of the above… i was just hungry… ravenous… starving… 45 minutes after breakfast!

little tummy growls? a slight empty feeling in my stomach?

oh no no…

more like: nausea, stomach cramps, feeling of impending doom, and growls that could rival the king of the forest. no joke.

there are two things i need right now.

1. broccoli

2. scrambled eggs.

yessssssssss.

can’t get enough of these two things lately. sooooo delicious. especially with cheeeeesse.

rough week for food

being away from home and eating like i’m supposed to has turned out to be much harder than i thought. for example… wednesday i ate sonic. yep… burger, tator tots and a strawberry limeaid. my goodness it was delicious. and deadly…no big deal. ugh. that’s still the only meat/animal product i’ve had but if i had been home, i woudn’t have even had the option for sonic, thus wouldn’t have let my 4 year craving of it get to me. oh well. example number two… it is 4:01 pm and all i’ve had today is one cup of coffee. example three… if you could see the things in my brother’s fridge and pantry you would say, omg, how are you not eating that stuff?! it all looks so delicious and everyday has been a huge struggle not to gobble all of it down. those are things i don’t keep in my house…for my own sanity. :P

my awesome mom did take me to whole foods for dinner last night and afterwards made a very determined hunt to find me vegan-gluten free meals for the rest of my time here. so tonight’s dinner will not consist of scary fast food but instead it will be a vegan-gluten free spinach and tomato pizza. not exactly healthy, but within the limits of my diet…unlike sonic.

oh and example number four… i think i had mcdonalds for breakfast 3 (or was it 4?) times this week. the only vegan-gluten free thing they have is hashbrowns. bring em on. i probably had 6 in total in since monday. bet my arteries loooooved that! hah.

travel is rough. for food. great otherwise :)

back to work selling all of my parent’s unwanted possessions!

vegan: do-able. gluten-free: also do-able. vegan and gluten free: rough…pretty dang rough. basically only eating fruits and veggies…and brown rice. at least that’s what it feels like. don’t get me wrong, i love fruits and veggies, but dang… i just got home from the grocery and that place was depressing! SO many good things- for my tastebuds… not my heart and thyroid. the good things for my heart and thyroid made it into the good ol’ basket and everything else just got salivated over.

it’s funny… if i were healthy then i could eat all that junk food, but then all that junk food would make me unhealthy, and then i couldn’t eat all that junk food anymore. in physiology we call that a negative feedback loop. mmm-yep.

my poor husband is going to be eating some weeeeiird food. weird to him anyway. he falls into that healthy, eating all the junk food category…but hasn’t quite reached the full circle of the feedback loop, as i have.

vegan/gluten free recipes, anyone?