To Wheat or Not To Wheat....

Before I begin driveling on - let me ask you this -

do you think I should start another blog dedicated to the weight loss journey?
I'm really not planning on talking about it constantly, but I do want to motivate you to live your best life - even if you don't have weight to lose.

I sure don't want to bore the dickens out of you readers that don't give a hoot.

Would love your thoughts on that -

Today, just quickly, I wanted to share about my decision to go wheat free.

I hesitated at first - because it just seemed like the 'thing to do' - gluten free, you know?

It's apparently in style.

I use a lot of -, don't I?

I also hesitated, because I'm the Queen of baking!  Remember how I used 10 lbs of butter a month and 40 lbs of flour?

Who was I if I didn't do this anymore?

During working with my Coach, he asked all of us to give up dairy, wheat and soy for one full week.

The first three days of eating wheat free, I was pissed off.

I'm just being honest.

I felt that there was 'nothing' to eat.

Every flipping thing has wheat in it.

I can't get enough of this happy bug!

By day four - yowza - (again with the -) I felt like a new woman.

I wouldn't have believed it if it hadn't happened to me personally.

My energy increased, my body pain decreased.

It hurt to be touched - especially my legs. 
Do not go near my ITB bands, or you might get hurt.  They were THAT tender.

My brain fog lifted - the ADHD symptoms eased.

I felt relaxed.

I went without wheat, or any of it's cousins for four months.

(I didn't use any 'gluten free' products, or noodle substitutes - just not interested in overly processed food).

After Bootcamp (which I'm going into in depth about in the next day or two - hence my wondering if you'd rather me start a new blog about the whole thing), I thought - well - Bootcamp is over - let's have a sandwich.

Then I had another sandwich.

Then I had a wrap.

Then I had muscle pain, joint pain, bloating, gas, and extraordinary fatigue.

I don't know the science behind it all, and honestly I'm not interested.

I'm interested in living my life with my full potential, feeling great.

I'm not going to lie to you and say it's easy - sometimes it's downright hard.

No noodles, bread, cake, etc. etc.

I can hear most of you now saying 'I could never do that'.

I didn't think I could either - but I did.

So now when I look at that sandwich, I have to decide if it's worth about three days of feeling miserable.

It's not.