I know that is has been a long time since I have posted anything at all on the musings of my journey.
The journey is slow and tedious. I have to work on addiction issues. The great thing about having these issues to work on is that I have decided to work on other things that I need to work on as well. Kind of a catch 22 if I do say so myself.
I have officially given up all that is GLUTEN. Today I cleaned out the cupboards and threw away anything that had gluten or possibly had gluten in it. And lets just be honest any thing else that had an ingredient that I would need to look up on the internet to figure out what it is.
I have subscribed to a menu board through a groupon that provides gluten free recipes, shopping lists, and menu planning. I think it was a pretty good investment if I do say so myself.
I picked through the menus to find one that was pretty close to what I would normally LOVE to eat and I am going with that.
So for those of you keeping track.
No fast food since the beginning of the year.
No soda for at least the past couple of months. But I do give in to a diet sprite every now and then.
Now I am gluten free.
This was a slow process and let me just tell you I feel so much better because of it. My aches are not as achey any more. My feet do not swell up into ham. And I have actually stopped eating processed foods all together.
The next goal that we will stick to is cooking and menu planning.
I know you are thinking "well if you have given up gluten there has to be some serious cooking and menu planning going." Yeah no. I started with just eating organic lunch meats and yogurt for a meal. There are also two places in town that offer gluten free pasta and pizza. Now those meals have expanded to steel cut oats with banana. And now we start to cook.
So looking forward to it.
I have to give myself props to sticking to my new eating habits when friends go "hey lets go get some pizza" my response is "sorry I do not eat pizza unless we order from this place or that because they have gluten free pizza."
