Yesterday, my superhero partner and I took his überhero dad to the baseball game at our local ball park. We're in the Tulsa area, so that means we were at ONEOK Field in beautiful downtown Tulsa. The tickets had been purchased in advance, and the planning and anticipation made for a glorious unfolding into the things of which memories are made.
As many know whose eyes beheld the unfolding of my journey, I am a person who is less carbohydrate tolerant than others... I have been vegan and vegetarian, pescatarian, and many other "[__]ans" over the years due to not only my military deployments to the Middle East, but also the spinal injuries at the beginning of my military career. I have actively, and avidly pursued all manner of detoxification and modification to eradicate heavy metals from my blood and heavy impacts of combat on my mind and spirit.
Thus, as I often do, I researched dietary options at the ball park.
It seems imperative to note that I have suffered "debilitating" migraines (my mother's descriptor of the migraines I have fought to suppress since the line-of-duty spinal injuries in 2003) two decades. I've employed all manner of expert, read a stifling amount of studies, taken advice that ranged from mild to wild, and endured extreme measures to gain my life back from these episodes that literally put me in bed for days on end. I have identified triggers and treatments, I've tracked and traced, I've even paid hundreds of dollars on three Botox(R) treatments for migraine-specific areas as referred by my neurologist. Nothing works anymore - nothing my care team nor emergency center can provide, no preventative, nobody.....
I was out of options and almost out of hope...
...but I was always full of Jesus, who is my hope!
He sustained me through it all (home and abroad), and He sustains me now! Jesus is my Home Run Hitter!
During our baseball adventure yesterday, I witnessed the Tulsa Drillers and the Springfield Cardinals play a game that only hoped to tie up in the ninth inning... The Home Team won.
As my partner had purchased the tickets, I pledged to purchase our baseball ⚾️ stadium culinary delights. I mentioned earlier that I had researched what would be available, and I practiced integrity in the moment of choice.
Why was I able to resist the temptation of ball park fare? Because avoiding starches, sugars, and carbs (besides green goodness) has kept me migraine free for more than a year and a half!!!
When one becomes free, when one understands what that freedom really is juxtaposed with the oppression of migraines or other maladies, no tempting "treat" is worth the defeat of going back into the chains.
Much as I enjoy a potato in virtually any form, there is not one worth the freedom I enjoy from the culinary lifestyle I live.
Jotting with Johnna:
- What venue or milieu tempts you toward choices outside of your best culinary paradigm ?
- How might you research and resolve to empower yourself better to cope with such temptations?
- Who will you enlist to keep you accountable before you veer into the oncoming traffic of inflammation, acquiescence of your goals, and defeat?
Remember: wherever your own personal health journey has taken you, you are so very worthy of the effort to request things that help support your healing!
Stay tuned. Stay focused. Keep editing your Wellness Script!
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