I Had Good Intentions...

...of keeping up my blog better. For my own sake, you know? I like the journaling aspect of it, and a little writing outlet never hurt me. But I've been struggling just to make it through each day in one piece. That's what it feels like anyway.

See, my adrenal glands took a nosedive after a seemingly mildly stressful happening. Just a life thing you know? But my fragile body couldn't take it apparently. I've spent a good 80% of the last 5.5 weeks on the couch. Lucky me. No bike riding (or racing!), hardly any driving (too dangerous in my extremely mentally fogged state), and a Very disgusting, dirty house!

I've got new marching orders from my doctor that include glandular extracts and an 8:30 bedtime. Yippee. Buut... If it works it's totally worth it, right? And what Mama couldn't use an early bedtime? Problem is, that's earlier than my boys go to sleep, and we're all still in the same room while Nate struggles to get the boys' bedroom finished in between bouts of homework, classes, and work. Not to mention helping his dad around the property and doing odd jobs for the neighbors. So, yeah.

We're still hoping to have it done by the end of summer term (Ha. I'll be glad when our life isn't measured in school terms ;-)  ). In the meantime we're asking the boys to tolerate a little earlier turning in and turning off of audio books. If I can get in bed at 8:30 and read while they finish listening to their story and have them turn it off at 9:00, we'll be doing good I think.

I'm also not supposed to exercise to fatigue, use the computer or do chores after dinner, need to get our house tested for mold, wean off of caffeine and eat Really healthy and mindfully (my eating schedules get whacked along with sleep when I'm having adrenal problems--i either don't eat enough or eat too much and don't eat at regular times etc.)

I had a couple weeks of pretty intense depression before I figured out exactly what was going on. I knew it was circumstantial though and not the old dark pit of "before". So I was able to muscle through it.

God has been so very faithful through it all, providing peace and putting up with my temper tantrums. My friends and family have been lovely and encouraging, providing shoulders to cry on and sound advice on the other end of the phone. I love you guys!!

Have You Ever Noticed How Some Junk Food Tastes Terrible When You Have Not Eaten It In a While and Some Persists In Being Yummy When You Know Better?

This is by no means a complete list, lol! I felt the need to post something semi-silly today, so here goes...

Disgusting!!! Bleeeeaack! I used to like these?!?!?!?!?!?
I'm not picking on Coke here, any soda now tastes like chemical syrup. Yum!

Ranch dressing is one of those that tastes good once in a while. (again not picking on a brand, in fact I've never had this particular one:) I had some on a taco the other night and it was pretty good, tangy and creamy. But I'm guessing that is mostly because it was well disguised under the many other taco flavors and only the good parts came through. That's because if I eat it on a veggie it tastes nasty. Plastic and chemical cocktail, mmmm.

I'm pretty pleased to be losing my taste for these babies. Never thought that would happen! :) Once in a great while I'll get an uncontrollable urge to have a maple bar. The last time I gave in they(uh, i mean it) tasted pretty good. But mostly it sounds like eating glue and sugar mixed together...oh, wait! That's exactly what they are lol... I am rather fond of the gluten-free, sugar-free (well, refined white sugar anyway, they had a little agave nectar in them) donuts I made back in October for our donut party:)

Now, sadly, there are still some things that taste pretty darn good:

In the number one spot... Nuff said.

Sometimes too sweet, but too often Yummy!

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What junk foods have you lost a taste for after abstaining? Which one's still get you?