Snack & Food Journal

 Afternoon Snack - Dates, Apricots and Raw Almonds without salt

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Today's Food

Naked Pasta: 1/2 whole grain 1/2 semolina pasta, olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes, parsley, lemon zest and grated parmigiana Romano

3 liters of water to keep flushing out my kidneys and watermelon for desert.

Day 2 of Health Challenge

Before I forget, this is the centrifuge juicer I use.  It's from Amazon and cost me $22.15 after my rewards from the Amazon credit card.  No juice for me today but there is a very good reason why, and here it is:

I spent the afternoon in the local ER.  Last night I was not feeling 'great' so I went up to take a nap after work.  This morning I woke up crabby and practically bit my hubby's head off, not feeling good, upset tummy, nausea and an odd pain in my lower back.  I tried to tough it out initially, took a baby aspirin, when that did nothing I called in sick to work and took 2 tylenol PMs but that was even less effective.  I broke down and called my MIL who is a retired nurse and told her my symptoms - she told me to get my a** to the hospital.

Diagnosis - a 2 mm kidney stone!  Lucky me!  How ironic that something so tiny can cause so much pain and trauma when it's where it's not supposed to be!

Today's Food - Banana & Green Juice

Breakfast
A cold banana from the fridge - we got an incredible deal from our produce place for an entire box of bananas (10 lb) for $2.99.  I put all the perfectly ripe ones in the fridge and left the rest on the fruit bowl in the kitchen to ripen up.

Lunch
I made a rookie mistake and left out the 1/2 a green apple so the juice ended up tasting a little too 'grassy'.  I still drank it but did not enjoy it as much as I would have had I followed the recipe.

• Kale - 5-6 large leaves
• Celery - 2 medium stalks
• Carrot - 1/4 of the monster ones I had or 1 med size about 6-7 inches long and 1/2 inch wide
• Cucumber - 1 medium size about 8 inches long and 2 inch diameter, peeled because it was not organic and I could not garantee all that 'shiny' crap was off the skin.  Otherwise, use the skin too.
• Lemon - juice of 1/2 lemon
• Apple - 1/2 a Granny Smith apple - I left this out and paid the price.

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