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.