Clean Eats: Bacon + Avocado Egg Salad

I've gotten a lot of requests for the following recipe, therefore I felt it necessary to share! This is an easy recipe to prepare ahead of time and all you have to do is reheat the bacon stove top, in a toaster oven or a full oven. Microwaving it will zap the nutrients and you certainly don't wish to do that!

Ingredients

1 Medium Haas Avocado
2 slices of uncured bacon (Cooked however you wish. I cooked my bacon stove top first with just Himalayan Salt and Freshly Ground Pepper then reheated it in the toaster oven. It was perfectly crispy which is definitely KEY here!)
2 hard boiled eggs
Himalayan Salt and Freshly Ground Pepper to taste

Take your lovely, ripe Avocado, cut it up and scrape out all the deliciousness and mash in a bowl. Cut up your hard boiled eggs and mix well with the avocado. Finally, if your bacon isn't already, cut up your 2 slice of bacon into bite size bits and mix with the avocado and egg. I just did a few cracks of Himalayan salt and it was perfect but some people like pepper in theirs as well. Stir and enjoy!

Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS

One of my worst symptoms has always been Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I would be somewhere and out of the blue get sweaty, start to have terrible stomach pains and be forced to run to the bathroom and would be there for a good fifteen minutes. It was always horribly painful and I hardly ever saw a solid bowel movement. It certainly didn't help that some of my teachers in middle school, high school and even college were sometimes jerks about my being gone too long. Sometimes it was brought on by certain foods and other times it was brought on by nothing less than stress. In severe scenarios where I was truly anxious and stressed, I would become nauseous and even get sick. I would have terrible spells of it while on dates, dealing with stressful teachers, classes and employers, etc. My stomach was always bloated and in some cases, if I had been sitting for too long, for instance at school or work, my stomach would almost regurgitate gas back into my stomach. Almost like an interior fart and of course it sounds like a fart even though it never actually smells. All in all, a completely embarrassing symptom to deal with beyond belief. Using the toilet in a public place was always horrible. Nervous that you would stink up the whole place on top of letting out the most embarrassing noises while going. Of course my PCOS 'specialists' recommendation was always more prescriptions or over the counter drugs.  

Then a friend suggested reading the book that has really, truly become my saving grace. No magic pills, no crazy diets, just simple 'Clean' eating (the book is called 'Clean' by Dr. Alejandro Junger). I noticed a difference in a WEEK. I wasn't passing gas all the time because dairy seems to be my trigger for that, I wasn't running to the bathroom all the time because I wasn't eating gluten, fried foods, etc. The bloating and edema slowly dissipated and the terrible run ins with diarrhea were replaced by (I know it sounds crazy) but GLORIOUS bowel movements. In and out of the bathroom in minutes, none of this quarter of an hour or more craziness. Now going to the bathroom isn't something I fear. I don't get sweaty any longer, stress isn't a factor and anxiety is a thing of the past. No waking up in the night with terrible stomach pains or being woken up because I HAVE to go to the bathroom. It really has changed my life. I'm not the sweaty chubby kid with the stomach issues any longer. My confidence is no longer shaken at how I present myself.

Keratosis Pelaris

For as long as I can remember, my skin has always been a problem area for me and a source of embarrassment. I have the worst Keratosis Pelaris I have ever seen on anyone and while I never shied away from wearing short sleeve shirts or skirts, I've always been very aware of its visibility to others. I have been eating Clean for the most part for the last two years now and have noticed a miraculous turn around with my KP. I know it's going to sound weird but I shave and exfoliate as much as possible, that combined with removing dairy from my diet has made a huge difference. 

The image on the left is just one spot on the back of my arms now and that's all that's left of the truly red spots. The two images on the right are of the rest of my arms and how they look now. I have actually started to get baby soft skin at the top of my arms near my shoulders and it's slowly been making its way down my arm. My stomach and sides are almost completely free of it now and my legs are improving greatly as well. I honestly never thought that I would see this day.

In other news, I have been exfoliating my neck where the dark skin spots were visible and have noticed a huge decrease in darkness. After one week of challenging myself to eat Clean, track my calories and exercise for an hour, I have lost 5lbs. My goal is to lose another 9lbs before my birthday and after this week, I know I can do it. Things are looking up for my twenty seventh year on the planet!