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Fun 90 days

Today is day 90 and I’ve been thinking about what the last 90 days of a restricted diet did. I’ve come to realize a few key things about my body and food. I’ve realized my body isn’t the same as it was when I was 20, everything I eat matters. Each pork loin, broccoli, sweet potato and ice cream scoop makes an impact on how I feel and even look. Overall I think I’ve lost a little weight, unintentionally though. I haven’t had a sleepy food coma or bloaty days. I have found myself to be hungry a lot since eating a ton of vegetables and fruit requires a large volume of it to continue having ample energy. I eat a billion snacks and meals a day to keep up. I’m having more dark fruits, raw veggies and less processed foods. I do love my chips and crunchy snacks too.

When I first started the reason for this blog and going gluten-free was to try and see if it was causing my eczema flare-ups and see whether it was gluten that was the culprit. The answer is no. Gluten is not my problem. So where does that leave me and the gluten-free 3 months I’ve just had.

I think in the days, months and years ahead I probably will reduce my general gluten intake or really the amount of processed and unnatural ingredients in food. If there is an item that has less additives and more wholesome products I’ll choose that. I got asked, “What’s the first thing you’ll have that has gluten in it?” I’ve thought long and hard and I think it’s going to be pizza. The past several months without a good pizza slice has been driving me crazy. This coming week I will reintroduce certain things slowly back, I can’t go crazy with toast, cereal and a baguette for dinner since my body is completely void of it now. I’ll throw my body into a gluten shock. So little things will come back, but the things I’ll have will be specific, I’ll be picky with it and I’ll still have my gluten free meals often.

As for this blog, I’ll keep it up, post good recipes and articles of things I find that deal with gluten. It’s been fun testing myself and how I can stick to something so rigid and still be happy with it. I think I’ll need gluten-free anonymous after this. See you on the blogs.

Tomorrow is my last official day of this 90 day blog and gluten free. It’s a little strange thinking I can step out of the gluten-free box. Will I even want to and am I going to go bread crazy? It’s kind of feeling like the end of camp and you’re ready to go home but you’re starting to have fun and enjoy being away. Wondering what will become when I return.

P.S. The weather is wet with a chance on thunderstorms. My skin likes this. I’m looking less alligatorish this week and my bright pink zebra monkey look is down to a pale pink.

Organics grow bigger and better.

It’s the beginning of December and the air is cold and chapping now. There hasn’t been any rain in a number of days. I’m still eating a lot of fresh veggies and homegrown fruits. Check out the grapefruit from the backyard of a central valley home. Organic and gigantic. Check out one with the skin on and after with just the grapefruit meat and of course my blackberry to compare for size.

Anyways, every other day is a little different from the next and besides reducing parsley, I have a small idea that having milk might actually be better for me. Strange because this is opposite of what many say and defiant to most allergy books. I’m thinking this because the weeks I was eating the rice pudding and other creamy products I found my skin to be smoother too…. This milk thing will be my next experiment, maybe in another week or two.

Well there are 10 days left to this 90 days. Let’s make the last of this fun.