What is the Plan?

For new readers that aren’t familiar with Lyn-Genet’s food plan AKA “the plan,” this is NOT A DIET but a lifestyle of how to choose foods that are “friendly” (non-reactive) and how test to determine which foods are “reactive” (where our body has an inflammatory response).  The metrics you use to determine if a food is friendly vs. reactive are:

• Your weight fluctuations where you weigh yourself each morning
• Your body temperature measured each morning
• How you feel overall after eating and in general

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My journey with flax granola has been in stages in preparation and purchases:

Purchases:

• Gerber flax seed, $11/2 pounds on Amazon.com = $5.50 / pound uncooked
• Columbia County pre-made stuff, $25 / 42 oz on Amazon.com  = $9.53 / pound cooked
• Bulk flax seed at Earth Fare, $2.49 / pound uncooked

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Last day

How can today be the last day when it’s only day 19 out of 20?  Because I said so!  I’m a mums so I can do that.  In our last week, Joe and I move around some of the days on the last week because of Valentine’s Day and possibly eating out on Friday night.  Once the dust settled, we see that both of our last two days are no test.  Good Plan following people would have tested something on 19 and let 20 be a no-test recovery rest day.  Instead, I make the executive decision to end the plan early.  Plus that gives us Saturday to get back to our regular food.  More to come on this post-plan life.

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