Ode to almond butter

It's been long time since I wrote something in English. Just because I can't think in this foreign language I use every day.

I simple can't formulate my thoughs in foreign language even if I can speak it (depending on a day) pretty fluently. Not without mistakes, with my terrible accent, but pretty fluently. Some days it surprises even  me, when I hear myself explaining how misalignments in soft tissues affect your body's functioning. Or something else as amazing fact about human anatomy or physiology.

But most days I stumble  with the most simple expressions. And then I stumble right here: after the second  paragraph my words just disappear! But this time I have a plan: I'll write about almond butter.

Yes, you read it right. I have learned many american habits, and peanut butter is one of those. Well, not really peanut, but almond butter. Yammy! And even more so if you add some coconut in to it. Delicious! Almost perfect substitute for sugar will be almond-coconut butter and sugar free, homemade apple butter. Next from heaven!

And no, it's not in-my-home-made, but ordered and deliveded by Ups at my door. Convenient, as is Absolute Organics, who delivers delicious, organic fruits and vegetables every other week. I'm addicted! In a couple of years I won't even go into Harris Teeter anymore, but wait in my car when they'll place my order At my trunk. In paper bags. When you go to cashier, they always offer those disgusting plastic ones (I do use my own bags. Every time.).

As a Finnish person, I will tell you the truth: it is easier to live without sugar for 4 days than without a cup of coffee for 8 hours. I have limited my amount of cups of coffee to two per day. And my always-telling-the-truth-chiropractor just laughs at my struggles: she doubts that my two huge mugs per day is any less than previous 5 cups. But if I am (barely) surviving from 1 pm until 6 am without any cafeine, it's huge!

But tell and figure: I have been waking up every morning at 6 am without alarm. Thanks to cafeine(deficiency)!

So far so good

We made a plan with my chiropracter to quit eating sugar. Sounds pretty easy. And it is easy, because I don't need to add any sugar to my coffee. Don't ask me to quit drinking coffee, that just won't happen. Ever. Hopefully.

So, I haven't been eating any sugar say... between Sunday 10 pm and Monday 6 pm, that's a good thing, right? And if I just had one (and a half) scoop of ice cream yesterday after hard day at work, that doesn't count as sugar. I'm struggling here and I think I need SOMETHING sugary to eat. Was it this hard to quit gluten?

They also say that dairy is bad for you. That, my friends, is so easy. I don't need any milk products except cheese. Or cream cheese. Or cottage cheese. Please, I don't like ham, what should I put on my sandwitch then? But hey, sandwitch is also forbidden, so no problem here. Just quit eating rice cakes!

[Sigh!] Why do I (try to) do this? Because sometimes, out of the blue, my stomach gets upset in a quarter of second, and I have this very prolonged rash all over my skin. I want to get rid of that (and 25 pound of visceral fat). There definitely is something that my body can't deal with, hopefully it is sugar and wheat, not coffee or wine. And don't tell me that there's sugar in wine. I just can't take that information in right now. I'll consider thinking about that fact when I'm back from NYC in a week or so.

I'm so exited and I just can't hide it!

This contains no sugar!