It's always that way. The day you decide to go sugar free, you stop at Krispy Kreme after your run to cash in your gift certificate for 12 original glazed doughnuts still warm in the box. My 16 year daughter in the passenger seat, also a runner says, "Let's eat one right now" in the car on the way home. I tell her I am starting my anti inflammatory diet today and I can't eat sugar. It barely took 1-2 sentances to convince me that it would be ok to have a little sugar. After all, everything in moderation right? Ugh.
Breakfast: 1 krispy creme donut in the car, scrounge in the fridge at home for anti inflammtory additions to my 190 calories of pure sugar and came up with 3/4 cup fresh berries and 5 boiled shrimp. Bizzare, insane perhaps but salvaged from the first bite of the first day of the new change.
Lunch: The internet has loads and loads of recipes, thoughts, and lists of what is and isn't anti inflammatory. I'm a perfectionist and this is going to try my patience. I found a recipe for a chick pea budda bowl and went cabinet surfing for something similar. I came up with pinto beans spiced with chili pepper and tumeric, collard greens, diced fresh tomato and garnished with a tablespoon of crushed peanuts. I still feel a little insane, but I am determined and I will eat it, like it or not! It actually was pretty tasty - I'd eat it again. I have a lot of left over beans and greens and could meal prep a few lunchs for work next week. I have read in the past a good way to put together a meal: a green, a bean and a grain. That's actually why I bought that can of collard greens 6 months ago...
I'm going to have to ease my way into a perfect diet. Step 1 - cut sugar (donuts), processed food (chips) and eat more anti inflammatory foods (tomatoes, veggies, dark colored fruits, salmon). I also intend to cut dairy (there goes pizza). As I research more, I will decide on just how strict I need to be with grains, gluten and legumes. For now, it's no brainer baby steps. No more Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
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