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Today is a special day.

It used to be that on a "special day", my breakfast would look something like this:



My lunch would look similar to this:



And dinner, needless to say, would look like this:



And guess what? During the course of this "special day", I ended up feeling like this:



After sabotaging every birthday, anniversary, holiday and every other day that I designated "special" -- I have told myself I'm done. Enough.

Now, after 35 years of MUCH trial and error, well, you pretty much can guess what my meals look like on these "special days" (you can find a bucketload of them here).    Clean. Healthy.  It's become my new "special". 

And YES!  I did allow myself to celebrate with a bit of this "special" stuff with some very special friends:

 :)