Everyone says 2 weeks is the "hump point"....if you can get past 2 weeks of a diet, of working out, of waiting to see results that this is when the results start showing up and it becomes easier etc...well i haven't dropped 20 lbs but the other night i was out to eat and it was surprisingly easy to sit next to stephen with his giant calzone and be okay with not having my own....i had a salad. right now i'm craving a large pepparoni pizza and crazy bread but i guess the easiness comes and goes...i wasn't able to find a scale today I did however work out for the first time in probably a year, besides yoga. we did arms and abs and my arms feel like 20lbs of dead weight right now...tomorrow should be interesting.
although apparently if i'm wanting to lose weight i should only lift weights about twice a week and focus mainly on cardio...which is hard to do with asthma and exercise induced allergic reactions...however tomorrow i believe i'll try to run and see how it goes....i don't know if 2 weeks is long enough for all the gluten and built up toxins/remains etc to get out of my system so that i don't have an allergic reaction but i guess we'll find out....i'm sure it will be more like a fat boy jog but hey it's something! so here's to two weeks down and 4 more to go...and here's to eating nothing today but smoothies...didn't plan it like that but i had one for breakfast, one when i got to work, and since i'm broke and have no groceries it looks like i'll be making a protein stocked smoothie for dinner! talk about cutting calories! lol ahhh who am i kidding, i'll probably hit up wendy's for some chili...mmmmm.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
1 week and 4 days = 4 lbs down!
Whoo hoo! Today it has been one week and (techincally) 3 days since my zero gluten decision. I went to the doctor for a checkup yesterday and when I got on the scale it didn't go as high as I was expecting it to! I had to look again because I was waiting on it to get to the dreaded 1-6-0...but it didn't! I couldn't see it very well because it was one of the older ones but it looked like I was down 4 or 6 lbs! I'm hoping that it wasn't broken or too old to function anymore but if it was dead on I've dropped a few l-bs! 4 pounds may not be a lot but it's a start!
The other crazy thing was that today for lunch I had a salad with buffalo chicken on it....it was supposed to be grilled chicken however I think it may have had a little bit of breading on it because about an hour later I realized my lungs felt tighter and my breathing was a little more strained. Not positive that it was the chicken but there wasn't any other reason for my breathing to be affected so I'm thinking it was some unwanted gluten! Crazy!
So my report for 10 days in is 4 lbs down and more to go! 4 and a half weeks left, can't wait to see other results! Now if only I could get my butt in the gym I could turn that 4 into 14! Only I hate working out and don't have an accountability partner. Still working on that part.
The other crazy thing was that today for lunch I had a salad with buffalo chicken on it....it was supposed to be grilled chicken however I think it may have had a little bit of breading on it because about an hour later I realized my lungs felt tighter and my breathing was a little more strained. Not positive that it was the chicken but there wasn't any other reason for my breathing to be affected so I'm thinking it was some unwanted gluten! Crazy!
So my report for 10 days in is 4 lbs down and more to go! 4 and a half weeks left, can't wait to see other results! Now if only I could get my butt in the gym I could turn that 4 into 14! Only I hate working out and don't have an accountability partner. Still working on that part.
Monday, July 12, 2010
One Week Down! 5 to go!
Well, as of today, Monday, it has been one complete week of my gluten-free diet and so far I have a clean slate! In 7 days I haven't had any bread, pasta, breading, crackers, cookies, nada. To be honest I'm quite shocked. It's been hard at times trying to find something that doesn't have any gluten to eat when you're on the go. I haven't been able to go grocery shopping yet so most of my meals have been purchased and not cooked. But hopefully soon I'll get to go buy groceries and have lots of fruits and vegetables and meats at the apartment. So I still have five weeks to go to reach my six weeks no gluten goal, but one week is down and I survived so I'm thinkin I can do it! I haven't noticed any significant changes yet but I hear it takes at least 2 weeks for any results whether it be with a diet or exercise program or whatever. So hopefully when another week is down I'll step on the scale and see a lesser number! Or have more energy or notice less bloating and digestive problems! Forgive me for patting myself on the back but when you've spent your entire life basically being a carbohydrate addict, going 7 days without any is pretty huge. I just wanna keep my clean record for the last 5 weeks! Til August 14th! Bring it on!
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Day 4.....made a baby step!
You (you being the ghost reader of my blog) will never know how hard it was for me today. I went to Zaxby's thinking I would be healthy and order a salad...you can get grilled chicken instead of the fried so it would be without gluten. However I forgot about the two deliciously juicy perfectly cut triangles of warm, buttered garlic bread that come with said salad. So I open up my salad and side of extra chicken (in tongue torch sauce of course) for extra protein and see my nemesis....if I let myself I could probably eat an entire box of texas toast garlic bread. Sad, I know, but true. There is nothing better to me than warm soft garlic bread. And there sat two pieces in front of me.
For some it would be no problem at all to just toss the pieces aside and dig into the salad. But for me, I literally had to talk myself out of eating them. "I'm here all alone....no one would know if I ate them or not...I've been good for 4 days, 2 pieces of bread won't hurt....nobody would know if I cheated and it probably wouldn't even mess up my diet that much...." this is me talking to myself. Granted, at least I wasn't talking to myself OUT LOUD, however I was literally having to convince myself not to let myself eat them. The saddest part is that even when I did finally put them in the bag with the wrappers of the fork and knife and napkins I had to talk myself out of going into that bag after the pieces and eating them anyway. Like I said, self-diagnosed food addict or emotional food addiction.
A lot of people don't understand the fact that I have to talk myself out of eating something even when I've thrown it aside or away. I don't know how to describe it other than the fact that I feel that I "need" to eat that certain thing or that I cannot stop eating until I've completely cleared my plate even if it results in me being so full that it hurts. And that it has been impossible to talk myself out of this way of thinking. These steps that I'm trying to take will hopefully change that mindset and the self-diagnosed emotional food addiction but right now I'm just trying to completely cut out gluten and then hopefully I'll be able to move onto the eating less and eating healthier, exercising, etc.
But to be honest today was a huge step for me. I was surprised at myself for being able to and being able to a little easier than I thought I would. So today is Day 4 of the no gluten plan and so far I have a clean record! 3 more days and it will be one week down, 5 more to go. haha. Here's to surviving and to making more baby steps that will add up to a lifestyle change! Now to figure out what I could have for dinner....does Little Caesars make gluten free crazy bread?? No, eh?
For some it would be no problem at all to just toss the pieces aside and dig into the salad. But for me, I literally had to talk myself out of eating them. "I'm here all alone....no one would know if I ate them or not...I've been good for 4 days, 2 pieces of bread won't hurt....nobody would know if I cheated and it probably wouldn't even mess up my diet that much...." this is me talking to myself. Granted, at least I wasn't talking to myself OUT LOUD, however I was literally having to convince myself not to let myself eat them. The saddest part is that even when I did finally put them in the bag with the wrappers of the fork and knife and napkins I had to talk myself out of going into that bag after the pieces and eating them anyway. Like I said, self-diagnosed food addict or emotional food addiction.
A lot of people don't understand the fact that I have to talk myself out of eating something even when I've thrown it aside or away. I don't know how to describe it other than the fact that I feel that I "need" to eat that certain thing or that I cannot stop eating until I've completely cleared my plate even if it results in me being so full that it hurts. And that it has been impossible to talk myself out of this way of thinking. These steps that I'm trying to take will hopefully change that mindset and the self-diagnosed emotional food addiction but right now I'm just trying to completely cut out gluten and then hopefully I'll be able to move onto the eating less and eating healthier, exercising, etc.
But to be honest today was a huge step for me. I was surprised at myself for being able to and being able to a little easier than I thought I would. So today is Day 4 of the no gluten plan and so far I have a clean record! 3 more days and it will be one week down, 5 more to go. haha. Here's to surviving and to making more baby steps that will add up to a lifestyle change! Now to figure out what I could have for dinner....does Little Caesars make gluten free crazy bread?? No, eh?
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
6 weeks of T.O.R.T.U.R.E.
Well, ladies and gents...all 1 of you that may read this a year from now....I have decided to go on a six week plan of ZERO gluten. No bread, pasta, crackers, chips, tortillas, cookies...you'd be surprised how many canned foods etc have gluten in them also so basically for 6 weeks I'll be eating meat and fruit and veggies. Perhaps it's because I'm Russian and we can live off of bread and vodka, or perhaps it's just my self-diagnosed food addiction that is going to make this very hard for me because I could literally eat pasta, bread and breaded foods all day every day. I HEART gluten. However gluten does not heart me.
This horrible, wretched idea started with a book. The book "Cooking For Your Blood Type"...I need to read the first one, "How to Eat For Your Blood Type" but the second one was all that I had handy. It talks about each blood type and kind of how it originated or when I guess and what foods were readily available during that time and therefore what our specific blood types became accustomed to eating and what foods our systems adapted to being able to digest well. As for me, I am type O+. Which basically means two things. LOTS of meat, mainly steak/beef and chicken, and NO GLUTEN. Apparently type O systems just cannot digest gluten well at all, our systems basically cannot handle it which results in the following things: inflammation of the small intestines (bloating), aggravation of the digestive system (inconsistency, bloating, constipation, etc), **weight gain, exercise induced allergic reactions, yeast throughout the body, fatigue, imbalance of insulin, hormonal imbalance....and those are the ones I can remember. So remember all those symptoms I was having? Bloating, inconsistency, major weight gain, fatigue, allergic reactions when i exercised, etc? Well apparently the fact that mostly everything I ate was gluten or had gluten in it is the main culprit. I'm also not supposed to have a lot of dairy, a couple ounces 0-3 times a week but I can deal with that.
So basically whenever I get to go grocery shopping this week I will be stocking up on meat, veggies (but no corn and only a couple types of beans and nuts-type Os are only supposed to eat pinto beans and one other kind, i forget, and only pumpkin seeds and walnuts) and fruit (but no cantaloupe or honey dew melon because they have the highest mold count, mainly dark red/blue/purple fruits). Who's excited?? Today has been day 1 of the 6 week plan. So far today I have had organic/vegan southwestern black bean soup and a smoothie. I can tell that I need some protein/meat asap, I'm kinda shaky and weak. 2 more hours to go til that can happen. So, day 1 is over. Now just to figure out how I'll survive the other 41 days.....eeeesh. I will be documenting, and by that I mean whining about, my experience in this blog and hopefully the results/changes I begin to feel/see probably around the 2 week mark. I don't know what I'm going to do for dinner because right now I have zero at my apartment, I may have to find a grilled chicken sandwich or burger and just take off the bread...who does that?! On to day 2.
This horrible, wretched idea started with a book. The book "Cooking For Your Blood Type"...I need to read the first one, "How to Eat For Your Blood Type" but the second one was all that I had handy. It talks about each blood type and kind of how it originated or when I guess and what foods were readily available during that time and therefore what our specific blood types became accustomed to eating and what foods our systems adapted to being able to digest well. As for me, I am type O+. Which basically means two things. LOTS of meat, mainly steak/beef and chicken, and NO GLUTEN. Apparently type O systems just cannot digest gluten well at all, our systems basically cannot handle it which results in the following things: inflammation of the small intestines (bloating), aggravation of the digestive system (inconsistency, bloating, constipation, etc), **weight gain, exercise induced allergic reactions, yeast throughout the body, fatigue, imbalance of insulin, hormonal imbalance....and those are the ones I can remember. So remember all those symptoms I was having? Bloating, inconsistency, major weight gain, fatigue, allergic reactions when i exercised, etc? Well apparently the fact that mostly everything I ate was gluten or had gluten in it is the main culprit. I'm also not supposed to have a lot of dairy, a couple ounces 0-3 times a week but I can deal with that.
So basically whenever I get to go grocery shopping this week I will be stocking up on meat, veggies (but no corn and only a couple types of beans and nuts-type Os are only supposed to eat pinto beans and one other kind, i forget, and only pumpkin seeds and walnuts) and fruit (but no cantaloupe or honey dew melon because they have the highest mold count, mainly dark red/blue/purple fruits). Who's excited?? Today has been day 1 of the 6 week plan. So far today I have had organic/vegan southwestern black bean soup and a smoothie. I can tell that I need some protein/meat asap, I'm kinda shaky and weak. 2 more hours to go til that can happen. So, day 1 is over. Now just to figure out how I'll survive the other 41 days.....eeeesh. I will be documenting, and by that I mean whining about, my experience in this blog and hopefully the results/changes I begin to feel/see probably around the 2 week mark. I don't know what I'm going to do for dinner because right now I have zero at my apartment, I may have to find a grilled chicken sandwich or burger and just take off the bread...who does that?! On to day 2.
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