My brother dropped a bomb on us yesterday night...

Shit 

Just

Got

Real.

I walk into my house and there's just an orange and two clementines just nonchalantly chillin on the green ottoman in front of the door. It's like they were waiting for me to come home... Reminded me of Veggie Tales. 

Now if only I had pets that did that.

I want a pet so bad...

My hands smell like Ramen...

I haven't eaten Ramen in like a year.

Lost for words

First of all I thought the expression was "at a loss for words" but anyway, lost for words seems to be acceptable.

Okay so I tried explaining tumblr to someone today and after like ten minutes of run on sentences, they say "so like... Twitter but with pictures"

I walked away.

Regrets...

So, yesterday after work, we decided to go to all-you-can-eat sushi...

We dug into more than half the dishes before I remembered to take pictures... But you all know what sushi looks like right? 

Super salmon roll

Yummy roll

Salmon belly

Shrimp sushi

Sweet potato roll

Crispy salmon roll

Banana tempura

I tried avoiding all the deep fried stuff, but... Well. So, an hour after eating, I felt TERRIBLE. My insides ugh felt so gross. My stomach was not agreeing with the meal I just had. At least I know I never have to crave sushi again. 

It was Justin's "carb day" and he was pleading for sushi, so I caved. (Do you know how hard it is to say no to him?) anyway, back to gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free, soya-free, corn-free. Which is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT because half the things you want to eat that come to mind has at least one of those if not a combination. 

I'm left with slim-to-none choices. Meat, vegetables, fruits. Also because before I started this elimination diet, I have already been avoiding: berries, caffeine, chocolate and seafood. Because those are my migraine triggers, if I eat too much of those or have those on an empty stomach, I get these aggravating migraines and if I can avoid them, I will. I haven't consumed caffeine for quite awhile now, since last year. 

Since fruits is a partial food "group" I can eat, I'm deeply saddened that I have to watch my "berry" consumption. Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries... Ugh! So delicious. Kiwis and pineapples, also delicious, but they give my mouth and throat a "fuzzy" feeling...

To sum up,

Allergies: 

• severe (anaphylactic) to all tree nuts (peanuts) including oils and butters

• to all nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, pistachios, etc. every single kind) including oils and butters

• shellfish (crab, lobster, mussels, oysters, squid, etc)

• ragweed, 

• all pollen (tree, flower, etc)

• animal dander ("hair")

• asthma

• anemia

• eczema

• lactose intolerant 

Intolerances (not anaphylactic, but gives me all the uncomfortable symptoms)

• berries, melons (water, honeydew, cantaloupe), pears

• caffeine 

• chocolate

• chef boyardee

• certain sauces... I haven't figured out what is the common ingredient but I've noticed I react to Alfredo sauce, most sauces in main dishes or ones that come from cans (like chef boyardee)

• chicken eggs (however quail eggs I love)

• breakfast foods (eggs, oatmeal, "mcmuffin" type things, basically anything you see on a "breakfast menu" tends to upset my stomach. it made traveling very hard. I could only stomach the "hashbrown" type parts of breakfast (potatoes)

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There's a lot more, my body is really picky. It doesn't bode well with a lot of foods :( despite how much I love food

So the Elimination Diet is when you cut things out of your diet (or daily food consumption) to see if you improve/feel better (in my case, acne, overall skin "quality", energy, digestive system). You quit certain things for 2-3 months and see if it makes a difference. Then, you can choose to slowly re-introduce them back into your diet (one by one!) and see if it triggers anything or if you can tolerate it. For example if you gave up dairy for 3 months, then had a milkshake and some cheese cake, and you broke out the next day or had a skin flare up? Yep, that was a trigger. Best to keep it out of your system.

Insidious

My brother bought McCain Deep and Delicious cake and I'm crying. Crying tears. Because I can't have any. Oh did I mention I'm on my first week of my elimination diet? No gluten, no dairy, no refined sugars, no processed food, no soy, no corn. No sanity.