One of the more pleasant side effects of cutting the ex out of my life was dropping over 30 pounds with absolutely no effort on my part. It isn't a diet I recommend, but since I had to go through the other crap, I'll take the silver lining. As a result of the loss I have a BMI that is, for the first time since I got married (many many moons ago), in the healthy range. Now I am just barely in the healthy range, but I am there. Our Wii Fit isn't happy though. It wants me at a BMI of 22. So that is my long term goal. I live to gain approval from video games.
Anyway, a friend was recently diagnosed with Celiacs disease - actually a couple of friends were. Since I am a nosy busybody, I started researching the gluten free life style. Good stuff there. Seems going off gluten can relieve many of my less enjoyable symptoms of aging. So I thought I'd give it a try. Same friend told me if I went off sugar my "brain fog" would clear. Not sure that was too nice telling me I had/have brain fog, but I will admit that I frequently live down to my hair color. (Ditzy gray ;-D ) Anyhoo - went off most sugar and gluten for two weeks and lost NINE pounds!!! So thrilled I celebrated. With sugar and gluten. Two weeks later I have found each and everyone of those missing pounds. They got uglier.
So I am starting fresh. Tomorrow ( yeah, I know) I will restart. Today I went to a Whole Foods grocery and spent a small fortune on gluten-free products. On the way home I tore into the package of Wasabi Rice Crackers. As soon as the first one hit my tongue - my tongue called me a bitch. But within a minute of swallowing, it apologized and asked for another. I am now officially addicted to these spicy little crunchers. And the great thing is I can have 15 crackers for 120 calories. So happy.
So that BMI calculator is going to stay there until the evil monster that lives in the Wii Fit says YEAH YOU!! My goal is by my next birthday. So ignore it, use it, cuss it out - but it is my constant reminder that I CAN make a machine eat its words (gluten free though they may be.)
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Good luck! And keep us posted on how the gluten free thing is going.
ReplyDeleteI feel so much healthier and happier on a sugar free/gluten free diet. I am going on 90 days soon. YAY ME!
ReplyDeleteLinda - I didn't know you did the gluten-free too. Awesome. Perhaps you can tell me what to do with the Quinoa I have?
ReplyDeleteRenee: I'm not all that talented at using other grains. There are some great cookbooks out there though that you could try. I love anything by Pamela's. They used to sell a fantastic pancake mix at Sprouts but don't anymore, not sure why! Mostly I just avoid gluten and sugar and eat good old fashioned fruits/veggies/meats. I used to try to "replace" sugar/wheat but I have just learned to live without them now.
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