time to make it work

Make It Work

I quit my job to take better care of myself. And so, to be sure i didn't make a glaring mistake, i kind of have to now.  Starting with an anti-inflammatory diet is my first step: which means cutting down on refined sugars, processed foods, and caffeine; and maybe the hardest step.  That's pretty much everything i abused in attempts to fuel my body to get through work each day.  I'm hoping these simple daily dietary changes will lower the inflammation throughout my body and help eliminate the need for some of the crazy drugs used to stave off the beastly blindness. 

Going on the fourth day without coffee, (read: four daily iced coffees the size of my noggin seasoned with enough half & half and simple syrup to make kidneys ache and diabetics quiver) is easier than it could have been.  My body was craving the much needed break.  Next week it's reintegrating yoga, time at the gym...  and, being grateful for the privilege to get to make it all happen... instead focusing on the tightness of my yoga pants which is obviously because of ill-washing.  Why else could they be so tight?  Certainly not from the elevated half & half, simple syrup, and steroid intake from past nine months?  Also on the agenda: being more honest with myself.

Thanks to my amazing family for helping me Make It Work (although they didn't get much of a choice), Tim Gunn for inspiring me to Make It Work, and to the local Y for being quite lovely for a Y, and making it all so darn accessible.