In a Strange Turn of Events #wheatfree #wheatbelly

I've gone from posting recipes to going Wheat Free.  Yep, that's right.  No wheat.  I don't mean just gluten free, I mean the whole kit and kaboodle.

At the beginning of February, I met a girlfriend for lunch at an Indian restaurant I had never eaten at.  It was delicious!  It was so good, in fact, that I ate more than any person should be allowed to eat.  The next day at work I was still sick.  I actually went home early because I felt so horrible.

I looked in the mirror and decided I needed to do better.  Better for my daughter, better for my sons, and better for me.  What was I teaching my children?  Horrible eating habits that could plague them their entire lives.

So I went back to the gym that weekend, innocently enough, starting to count calories again and exercise.  It was the same ol same ol, hungry all the time, no energy.  My gym was offering a two week detox class, and I figured why not.  It wasn't a liquid detox.  This detox was about clean eating.  No toxins.  No food with labels, and if there was a label, the only ingredient should be the food itself.

So I trudged to the local health food store, which I swore I would never go to, and picked up enough food to last me the first week.  Free range chicken, wild caught salmon, grass fed beef, lots of veggies, and raw nuts.

What happened next was so unexpected, I couldn't believe it.  One week into it, and I felt better than I'd felt in over a decade.  And I am not exaggerating.  My ankle pain was gone, my skin wasn't oily, and I had more energy than ever, and it stayed even throughout the entire day.  And on top of it all, I wasn't hungry!  After 2 weeks on the detox, my body had changed, and I could feel it.  I wanted to keep that going, but at that point, I had started to reintroduce wheat to my diet because I didn't realize that was one of the main culprits.

About two weeks later, I read Wheat Belly.  What an amazing eye opener.  Everything in that book made sense!  It was like a light bulb went off.

I've now been wheat free for over a month, and have done my best to remove all wheat from my diet.

I'm losing weight, WITHOUT COUNTING CALORIES, and I'M NOT HUNGRY!  I didn't even know that was possible.  I'm eating healthy, and feeding my kids health foods.

I've got a lot of weight to lose, but my journey has begun.