Snakes

Yesterday's Meals
Breakfast: Bacon, eggs and broccoli
Lunch: Pork steaks slow cooked in the crock pot and spinach, gluten free cake with strawberries and cream
Dinner: Salad with pork leftover from lunch and Braggs Sesame Ginger salad dressing and a yam with coconut oil

So far today
Breakfast: Carne asade steak with scrambled eggs cooked with jalapenos

I am quite uncomfortable today due to whipped cream.  I made a tasty gluten-free yellow cake (King Arthur brand) with strawberries and whipped heavy cream and it was just sooooo good.  I was only going to have a little bit of cream, but then I had a lot.  In fact, I made some cream cheese and whipped cream for frosting and ate that as well.  I am miserable and enjoyed every bite of that misery.  However, it reminded me that I enjoy the absence of stomach pain more than I enjoy dairy products.  I have been trying to eat homemade yogurt and I have been ill and decided to stop eating it and take a pill instead.  At least I tried and I feel a sense of accomplishment for making the yogurt myself and having it turn out as well as it did.

I wish sugar gave me an adverse reaction so that it would be easier to say no to sugar.  The Specific Carbohydrate Diet  is working well, but it is hard to stick with.  It really only works when it is done religiously to starve the bad bacteria and get the intestine back to a natural state of balance.

My sister is doing very well with SCD (she has more self-control than I do) and explained that she has to starve the vicious tiger in her belly and that by eating even a small amount of bad sugar, she is feeding the tiger.  I had to change my evil entity to a snake, because I am terrified of snakes.  I view my intestines as a beautiful garden of eden in which a vicious, evil, destructive snake has grown mad with power because of eating bad sugars.  The only way to remove this evil snake is to starve it and make it die!  The only way to starve the snake and stop it from killing all the other good bacteria is to stop eating bad sugars.  If I take even one bite of sugar, I am feeding the snake and allowing it to continue destroying my intestines.

Whatever it takes.

Speaking of snakes, I saw one yesterday on a hike.  The benefit of living in Utah by the mountains is taking beautiful hikes.  Big Cottonwood and Little Cottonwood are just minutes away and there are so many  hikes to enjoy.  I was at the trail head by the river and a medium size water snake slithered quickly off the trail into the underbrush.  My rational mind knows it is a water snake and that there was no rattle or diamond shapes to cause alarm.  My irrational self screams like a strangled cat and springs through the air10 feet backwards and tries to go get back in the car.  When my heart stopped racing, I was able to go on the hike, but kept careful watch and made a lot of noise to scare away those nasty snakes.