I ate an egg! LOL

LJgfg

Yeah, I know compared to the success stories and big changes out there, this doesn't even register a blip - for anyone except me

Backstory - while growing up, my dad had high cholesterol and so eggs were banned. Entirely. No matter what. Mom used Egg Beaters and substituted them for all recipes. They made a big deal about it when we went out how no matter how good they looked, no way we could ever, ever have anything with egg in it.

Then, as I grew older, I did use eggs in recipes but then you had the salmonella issue. (And I became more than a little OCD about a lot of things). This also tied into all the stories about antibiotics/pesticides/etc. on food. Weird way my brain worked was that I came to believe all processed food (and the more processed the better) were safer to eat than foods that you purchased in a natural state.

Many years (and a great deal of education and common sense later), I'm trying to change my diet. But keep running into all those ideas about eggs=very, very bad. Eggs will make you sick unless cooked to exactly (OCD here) the precisely warm enough temperature (and have you ever tried getting a good temperature reading on a single scrambled egg?). Processed food = safe. Natural food = germs/dirt/etc.

But this morning was progress. One egg, scrambled up in a skillert, on toast.

Since I'm still a long way away from being able to eat "new" foods (quinoa, soy, etc.), I am at least taking satisfaction in reclaiming the egg as a more nutritious breakfast for me (esp. since I'm consistently way, way low on protein).

Yeah, it's a teeny-tiny step. Yeah, to the general population, this is a complete non-issue. But for me, it was a step forward - and I took it.

Tubbs216

Yay! Good for you pushing your boundaries.