I wanted to add a comment on food and drink. My doc says that for recovery, in addition to protein, make sure you get chromium. There's chromium in Recoverite (which I mentioned I used to drink). But since I can't have it right now, nuts is natural way to get chromium.

I also mentioned chocolate milk as a recovery option (though I don't think that has chromium in it). I can't have cow's milk or sugar, but I can have goat's milk, pure cocoa and xylitol (a natural sweetener). So I have done that a few times and I'm pretty excited about it! I actually get to have chocolate milk now! I used to avoid milk cause it bothered my sinus congestion. Now that I'm eating all "healthy", I figured out a way to have chocolate milk and it's all legal.

Add nuts to that and I have my recovery components.

I just looked up why chocolate milk is good for recovery. Here's a snippet of what I found at this link. http://blogs.webmd.com/healthy-recip...ut-on-top.html

Chocolate milk’s recovery benefits seem to be due to three nutritional attributes:
#1. Its ideal 3 to 1 ratio of carbohydrate grams to protein grams, which appears to enhance glycogen replenishment into the muscles post workout. Regular milk has a carb to protein ratio of about 2 to 1.
#2. It contains whey protein, which is digested and absorbed quickly, getting essential amino acids circulating in the blood stream soon after consumption. Whey protein is thought to enhance the building and repair of muscle. Twenty percent of the protein in milk is whey protein.
#3. It also contains the protein casein, which is digested and absorbed more slowly than whey protein and sustains amino acids in the circulation many hours after consumption. Casein is thought to reduce the amount of muscle breakdown.

One last thought from me. Goat's milk is closer to human milk and much healthier for you than cow's milk. I've known this for years, but avoided trying it cause it just seemed "weird"! And I'd heard it had a weird taste. Well, a friend of mine told me she'd been drinking goat's milk for a while and thought it tasted great, so I took the plunge. When I took my first sip of goat's milk my first thought was that it tasted just like cow's milk. A moment later, I realized there was a slight aftertaste. Maybe aftertaste isn't the word, but there "is" a minor flavor in it that you don't notice right off and is different than cow's milk, but it doesn't bother me at all.

So there. I threw more stuff at you guys to process!