Day12

Sleep last night was better than usual - in bed by 10:45 and asleep by 11:30 after reading, then up at 3:30 and 5:30 to pee before waking up to start the day at 7:30 (more pee). A four-hour stretch is very good in the history of my sleep! No PPI meds left but took the HCTZ and probiotic at 9:30 with 8oz. water with breakfast. I attempted to make half a batch of mayo, but I found that if you don't make the whole recipe, it comes out extremely oily/runny. It just never thickened up, probably because of lack of egg yolk. Still tastes okay, though.

With the lack of creaminess, I decided to add avocado to some hard-boiled eggs and make an avocado egg salad:

- 2 hard-boiled eggs, diced
- half an avocado, diced
- one scallion, finely sliced (or red onion or chives)
- Tbsp. homemade mayo
- tsp. mustard
- squeeze of lemon juice
- sprinkle of paprika

Mash everything together, except for the lemon and paprika, which you can save for the top. Enjoy! Like I wrote in one of the early posts, egg and avocado go together very nicely. And this is pretty filling, too. I'm going to have 10oz. water with the leftover lemon to finish off the meal, then take a shower, then head off to Collin's very first soccer practice. :)

Lunch at 1:00 - three thin slices of ham with mustard; one can of tuna with homemade mayo and mustard on a bed of lettuce, sprinkled with sunflower seeds. 16oz. water.

Snack at 4:00 - one large cucumber with balsamic vinegar and olive oil; 8oz. water

6:15 - another 8oz. water and about 1oz. chicken breast

Dinner at 7:15 - grilled steak, oven-baked chicken breast, and sauteed vegetable medley with zucchini, squash, mushrooms, broccoli, and red onion in coconut oil; 8oz. water

8:00 - small bowl bone broth (still pretty tasteless...not sure if that's the way it's supposed to be or what...I'll try less water next time, maybe 2.5 cups instead of 3.5); my fam doesn't know, but I made their couscous with bone broth instead of water tonight. :)

Overall, I felt rather good today! One one contraction-like uterine pain during dinner but pain-free otherwise. No ulcer symptoms, and I didn't even take the acid-blocker.