The Road to Health is Paved with Good Intentions

On New Year's Eve, my husband and I decided to do a cheat day for obvious reasons.  We had some friends over and we indulged in a variety of foods and it was glorious.  The cheat day continued into New Year's Day basically to finish up the leftover food.  Two days later I noticed that my knees were hurting.  I hadn't changed my exercise routine and yet they were achy.  I noticed that the tissue above my knees was swollen also.  The pain and swelling lasted a few days and then cleared up. My husband had to work on my birthday so we celebrated with a keto cake a few days before.  My husband loved it, but I wasn't a fan.  It was too sweet for my personal preference.  Because of that, on my actual date of birth, I decided I wanted a real cake so I made a Texas sheet cake* in it's original goodness including flour, sugar, and butter.  It was delicious.  The interesting part is that within a day or two I noticed that my knees were hurting again.  At this point I had hur

When I started this blog, my intent was to talk about my journey with diet and exercise.  Although I'm a private person, I don't mind talking about this side of me.  I can talk about what I'm eating, whether I'm losing or gaining weight, how I'm exercising, or any other weird body thing without thinking twice.  Maybe it's because we all have issues with these things, so why not be open about my own experiences?   I was on track to complete my first six week program of diet and exercise and looking forward to the next six week program.  I had formulated a few experiments that I was going to do, but all of that crashed when I hurt my back.  Instead of experimenting, I'm just happy that I can sneeze without having  excruciating  pain.  I went from being able to touch the floor with straight legs to barely being able to touch my knees.  Trying to straighten my legs when I'm sitting with my feet up is ridiculously painful. The interesting thing about hurt