Comfort Foods

Last weekend after my gut tried (and mostly succeeded) to impose it's will upon me, I had a dilemma. Namely, what to try to eat that would give me the best shot of progress from a gastrowreck to some flavor of normal. This was more complicated since I was on the road in a hotel with no kitchen around.

I called my wife and she recommended chicken soup with perhaps some crackers. I immediately dismissed that and dove right into the comfort food section of choices of my mind. Over the next few days I tried:

• Turkey sandwich (fail)
• Five guys cheeseburger with fries (I had to leave fries behind!)
• Ham sandwich (fail again)
• Wendy's Baconator (needed some sodium in me)
• Copious amounts of gatorade (somewhat of a success)
• A different salad (hair of the dog perhaps?)
• A piece of pound cake (to soak up what ever was rumbling around in my tummy)
• A chocolate chip muffin (there was no more pound cake left)
• Pretzels (generally a win)
• Some nuts (try going paleo for about 10 minutes and failed)

As of yesterday I finally realized the true appreciation of being able to trust a fart again. I'm back to eating my normal food and I also started up the workouts with a gentle stationary cycle in the gym. Today I stepped it up a bit with a more intense workout and a yoga session at night. I think I'm fully recovered but it took a while.

Maybe next time I should try the chicken soup. What comfort food to you eat to calm everything down?