Day 12--What's a Day or Two Among Friends?

out of growing impatience, i've decided to challenge soy today instead of waiting until Monday. really, i doubt those two days will make much of a difference and this way i'll have plenty of time to react if i'm going. i did not relish the thought of missing any part of Folkfest to ballooning body parts. i suppose i could then sell this as a purely practical decision, but i'd be lying through my teeth.

so, this day, the... um... 29th! of July, i am drinking my first glass of soy milk in 12 days. i plan to stirfry tofu this evening with organic, wheat-free soy sauce (Bragg's--expect a review). tomorrow, i'll make a soy smoothie for breakfast. if this is a soy allergy, i should expect some kind of reaction shortly. if this is an intolerance, then, well, it could take a day or two to manifest.

an interesting side note that could be important--i have a chronically swollen gland under my right ear that has shrunk to a normal size for the first in several years over the course of this elimination.