I recently gave up eating wheat and I can tell you I feel 1000% better. During my recent 3 week bout with sinusitis (which at times felt like I was dying), I gave up Diet Coke. Wait, what? The Queen of Diet Coke gave up Diet Coke? Now this might not sound like much of a feat, but believe me, it's been an all day/all night beverage of choice for 30 years (well, almost 30 years because there was my TAB addiction before that), but I digress.....I'm now Diet Coke free and I don't plan on going back. All of the chemicals, the formaldehyde, the carmel coloring, may take a while to completely cycle thru my system. I've been saying for years now that I'm pretty darn sure that aspartame poisoning will be the next tobacco litigation.
Next on my list of "being Gyneth Paltrow", just kidding, I'll never in a million years be as skinny as that bitch, I'm going to shed dairy products. From the voluminous amount of research available, it seems to be a fact that we pump up those poor cows with ungodly amounts of growth hormones and other crap has swayed me to eventually give up my beloved sour cream, yogurt and cheese. After that, I'm determined to shed all processed foods.
My very intelligent daughter and daughter in law have been proponents of this lifestyle for a long time and I'm only now understanding how very important this is to our overall health. I was raised in the frozen/canned/pre-packaged era of two working parents where easy and fast were staples of our weekday diets. Weekends were much more of the homemade food category because there was time to bake, cook, etc. I'm down lots of pounds so far, with a lot more shredding to come.
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