Day 15



Is it strawberry ice cream?  Bubble gum?  No! 
 It's mechanically-separated chicken!  Photo
borrowed from www.fooducate.com/blog.



Hey, halfway there.  Results?  Well, my sinuses seem clearer and head doesn't ache as much.  I was on break for most of these last two weeks, though.  Thursday I taught all day, and Friday I got back on the road.  I noticed that my neck and shoulders started to hurt again, and that led to a headache.  Maybe dairy isn't my problem...maybe it's my car.  Maybe my Scion is allergic to dairy.

I have lost weight.  I know it's because I've been back on weight watchers, but it's a lot easier to do weight watchers when dairy isn't even an option.  Seriously, I have trouble using all the points.

Today I spent some time in the frozen food aisle, looking for entrees without dairy.  I ended up with a teriyaki chicken something-or-other.  Weird how many processed foods contain some kind of whey or other dairy, even if the food in the box isn't dairy at all.  Turkey with dressing and apples--why does it need dairy? 

I've been eating a ton of chicken lately.  Chicken is one of my least favorite things to think about.  I have thought of giving it up--I would be one of the only people who eats red meat but not chicken, I bet.  I spend a lot of time driving on I-75, and I'm constantly passing chicken trucks.  It's a big thing in Georgia.  Hundreds of chickens squeezed into tiny little cages...ugh.  I try to eat organic and free-range food as much as possible, but it's expensive and I'm not exactly living in a Whole Foods neighborhood.

Dinner was tortillas filled with my bean porridge and spinach.  When I was younger, I thought it was pronounced "spinage."  I still catch myself saying "spinage" sometimes, but I'm self-conscious about saying "spinitch," like that way might be wrong.