"Auntie" goes "Paleo"...

NO!  This is not Paleo!  This is our gorgeous home-from-college Granddaughter, bringing her Grandfather a Rhubarb Pie, which she made for him.  :-)))))))))

"Auntie" goes "bananas"?

No!  "Auntie" goes "Paleo"...

And it ain't easy, figuring out just what 'Paleo Plan' you will follow.  :-)

click-->"Wheat Belly"

OK!  What the heck is "Paleo"?  Well, depends on who you read.  But (click-->) kind of basically...  Followers of this plan believe that our highly processed, carb-obsessed eating pattern is the culprit behind many of our biggest health ills.  So, go back to eating the way we ate when we were hunting and gathering: animal protein and plants.

BUT!!!!!!   If we aren't to eat grains with gluten, how do we have bread?  Using other grains, of course.  (Like Almond Flour...)  You can still have your bread/pizza/rolls/muffins/etc., but not made with gluten-containing stuff.

To me, one of the biggest aspects is...  NOT buying processed foods, in the grocery store.  If it has a label on it, and loads of ingredients listed.....  It's an Unknown.  A Frankenstein-like form of what should be bread, soup, cake, canned fruits, meats, everything. 

(LOOK!!!  Clear-up-front, and fuzzy-in-back!!!)

Everyone who read here knows that I have to eat Gluten Free.  This last 10 days of being sick and having to take Antibiotics and Prednisone, have been an Inflamation Cleansing, for me.  How do I know?  Because that's what Prednisone does.  And because my arthritis-type pain has gone away.  

HOOOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Will I go back to eating foods, which again build up inflammation in me?  Like processed foods?  And sugar?

No, damn it!  I won't!

But!  What can I substitute for the taste of ol' cane sugar and all its copy-cat-ingredients???????  This is the biggest issue for me.  How to deal with necessary sweetening, in the most natural way.

Different folks tell me different things...  One says use this, and another says use that, and on...  Right now, I'm combining.  -grin-  But it keeps me from ingesting sugar!  That's the point. 

Just got one of those funny notices, from Blogger, so...  Think it's time to end this post.  :-)

You just know, that there will be more coming...  On my Quest for the Most Healthy Form Of Sweetening!!!  :-)

Meantime, I only have 1 form of cane sugar, I am still ingesting.  One Babe, One.  :-)  My decaf soy Vanilla flavored creamer.

"Today Class, our lesson will be on Inflammation."

(Planting...)

"Today Class, our lesson will be on Inflammation."

When you and I are *bedeviled* by Allergies, we have Inflammation.  When you and I have Arthritis Pain, we have Inflammation.  When you and I have certain Gut Discomfort, we have Inflammation. 

My cold/allergies were so bad, that my doc gave me both Prednisone, and a diff Antibiotic.  Prednisone... Without going into all the medical reasons, one can simply say that Prendisone gets rid of Inflammation, in the body.

(Getting belt, to fix next door's vacuum cleaner...)

My Allergy/Cold symptoms are gone.

And my ARTHRITIS PAIN, is gone!

I can walk up and down stairs, without pain!  I can get up off the *pottie,* in one move.  Before, I had to rock back and forth, to get up the momentum, to get up.  (Too much info I know but...)  In the morning, I do not get up all stiff.

Magical!!!

 (Madagascar Pink Rice...)

But!!!

We can not continue to take Prednisone for long.  The *magic* will cease.  Our pains will return, if we continue to put food into our bodies, which cause Inflammation.

Why does our body make excess Inflammation?  I go with the theory that the processed, pesticide and anti-biotic ridden food, we consume...  Does.  The body becomes almost overwhelmed with trying to eliminate all this "shit," and we get Inflammation, in the process.

Being able to eat only Juicing, for a period of time, is a Cleanse.  Allowing our bodies to eliminate the "crap."  But Paul (our doc) putting me on this regimen of Prensidone, to clear up my allergy stuff, is almost a Cleanse too.

 (Family over, to open pool...)

So, now....  When I stop the meds, I am back on my own.  Do I NEED sugar, processed foods, cakes, pies, cookies, etc.....  Do I NEED these things MORE, than TRYING to be (mostly) pain free?!?  We shall see...

So far, I use local Honey for my decaf...  We have cut out processed foods.  Are eating Organic, and only Organically grown meats, chicken, etc.  (One does NOT have to eat much meats, btw.  We teach ourselves, that we do need meat, meat, meat.)  ~~~~   But I have a ways to go.  I have to learn to bake, without the use of regular sugar or any of its equivalents. 

(Dust catcher --  Pretty dresser scarf  --  Dust catcher  --  OUT of bedroom)

I could have given click-able links, to information.  But we are all rushed.  If you want more, go to the Mayo Clinic web site and type in Inflammation.

Sorry the Class was so long.

Thank you for your patience.

Class dismissed.

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Day #12~~~New, *magic pills*~~~And *magic elixir*~~~

(Neighborhood Kitty...)

Let's see.  This is Day #12 of the "Cold From Hell."  On Day #5, got "Z-Pack" and took it.  Didn't work.    Day #11, my doc gave me Rx's for 2 different day-time *magic pills*, and 1 night time *magic elixir*. 

(Hopping around yard, trying to pounce on whatever insect, she could see...)

And he said, to come back to see him in a week, and that; I WILL  BE BETTER THEN!  Guess Paul can recognize a kinda' depressed/grumpy little ole lady.  So he added the Personal Order!  :-)))))

(Sick and "stuck" in my recliner, this view looked very pretty, to me.  It's not so grand, later.  But...  :-) )

So far, the *Magic Pills* and the *Magic Elixir* have been working wonderfully. 

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It's common knowledge that it takes more meds, to knock out lots of "bugs" now.  I wonder?  Could this have to do, with all the antibiotics fed to the meat, which we consume???????  Well, we don't eat that kind of meat, any more, here.  But we did, for years and years and years. 

Are you still doing so? 

 

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Sat., Day 5, of The Cold-From-Hell

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Had to go to Urgent Care and have them write for Z-pack.  I really tried, to not have to take the big-meds.

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But by now, it is best.  I'm now fighting it, with all I can.

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I had to post this, after hollering at other bloggers, who just "disappear."  :-)  I'm "disappeared," but not really.

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And I posted, so you can't holler at me!!!  -grin-   

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"Cuteness" ~ Books, a Thriller

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Socks...

Hands...

Soap suds...

"Dino" shirt...

Hand, socks...

Socks, in motion...

Hand on rocking chair...

Feeling better...  Still resting...   Still reading...  :-)
 

"Raven Black"  by Ann Cleeves

#28 in my books read this year.

A thriller!!!!  With a unique setting, and marvelous atmosphere. 

Click here, to go to my review, in my "Auntie's Reads 2013" blog.

And look at that cover art, hu?!?!?!  Who could resist????  :-)

Cuteness... And upset stomach...

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'Gabe' came over to see us, when they got back from vacation.  To Myrtle Beach.  But he will tell you, the ocean was COLD!  -grin-  But, it was a week, without work worries...  Without homework worries...  Without practices to get to...  Without phones ringing...  It was time to spend, as a family.  And that made a real vacation.  :-)
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For some reason, when I type below the picture below, it shows up in tiny print.  Soooo, I'll simply type what I want to be BELOW the following pic...  Right UP here..... 
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His hair seems to be keeping waves!  After every trim, it still is not stick-straight.  "Nana" is happy.  Would be fine too, if it was stick-straight.  It's just fun, that he's keeping some waves, etc.

 

I love that outfit!!!!   Kind of oatmeal color.  :-)

Sunlight, reflected off oven door window, onto island...  Interesting greeeeeeen effect.  :-)

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I'm not feeling very perky.  Naturally, the cold is not all gone yet.  But, the worst part is, that the antibiotics always mess with my stomach.  Yes, I take a Pro-Biotic every day.  But I still  a wee bit sick to my stomach, some of the time.  So, I'm not on the Net.  Mostly reading and napping. 

Therefore I'm not commenting in all your blogs, all the time.  -sigh-  Which usually makes me want to turn Comments Off Here.  I feel, if I'm not commenting in blogs of others, I shouldn't expect comments here.

But then, some people really, really, really love to be able to comment.  So for them, I leave Comments Turned On.  But no one has to feel they HAVE TO make a comment. 

:-)

Doc and meds, finally... And reading... And.......

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I'd had my sore throat for 2 weeks.  Sometimes, it got better...  Then back to being very sore.  Doc said I now have a sinus infection, and gave me an Rx for meds.  When the 10-days-of-meds are up, I hope *Gabe's little cold* will be gone, from inside of 'Nana.'  :-)    ~~~   Since I was *officially* sick, we went and got a Spring Wreath, for the front door.  -grin-

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And I came home and continued reading "The Shallows."  Another one of those "what-is-the-Net-doing-to-us?" books.  Yes, technology has done wonders, and we aren't going back, to before it.  But in this book, Mr. Carr examines the idea of neuroplasticity—the idea that the brain rewires itself, to adapt to the stimuli, it encounters....  Anyone on the Net, knows that info comes at us, at an alarmingly fast rate.  And that we can become addicted, to checking-for-something-new.  

Do we feel as if we have developed ADD?  

Is it hard for us to stick to one project, through completion?  

Can we sit down and read a book thoroughly, for an hour or more?  (Not 'chick lit.'  I mean a rather deep book, of facts.) 

Hmmmmmm....  Is it possible that our brains HAVE been adapting, to the fast-fast-fast stimuli of the Net? 

If this has happened to us....  What the hell, is it doing to our children?  Do you see children sitting down and reading books, for a period of time?  Do you see them starting, and completing tasks?  Without prompting?  

I sat and read that ding-dang-book, full of history of the science of the brain and facts, facts, facts.  TO  PROVE  TO  MYSELF, that my brain hadn't been fried YET, into needing constantly changing bits of information, with graphics, popping at it!!!!!!!!!!!!   ,-)

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I'm not snapping pics of our meals now.  (Do I hear a sigh of relief???  -grin-)  But still "casting-about" for photo ops!!!  -grin-  'Uncle A.' made a new wooden puzzle for Gabe, and was painting it.  This was the a paper he used, to mix acrylic paints.  Saw it there...  Thought  *Modern Art*!!!!!   -click-  A picture!!!  -grin-

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...  Another *Photo Op,* when one is desperate!!!!   I'll tell what it is, at the bottom of this post.  Can you figure it out, before looking???????????????

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Last Photo - Looking into my washing machine...