Gluten Free Buzz- Don't be sad for me! :)

It's ok friends and family I am ok without Pizza and Italian food. (i can still drink the wine) Besides I had enough to last me a lifetime in College- thanks to Gary's.

When I told people I was gluten free, the look of horror on their face said they thought I had some Rare Disease. I want to assure everyone I'm better than ever and it's not a massive adjustment.

When I chose to go gluten free, it was after I had worked with a professional nutritionist Jackie Slavin of Functional Wellness and we had exhausted a whole novel worth of ideas and nothing helped, so I tried to avoid gluten. Sources of gluten?

Pizza tastes delicious but after I ate it I would get bloated- I mean really bloated, my gut hurt, to the point I would prefer to stand then sit and if I was at home I would lie down. Yikes not good.

An hour later I would be hungry!?!

If I ate products with gluten in them, at night I would wake up at 2:00 am on the dot with a stomach ache so bad I wanted to hurl- I didn't but I would chug the pepto. Yikes not good.

The gluten free hubbub was after I stopped eating process food in general. I walk the outside of the grocery store and have been doing that for 9 years. So no partially hydrogenation soybean oil, no high fruitose corn syrup, enriched anything! Gross- look at the packaged food and it makes you sick to think about all the unknown chemicals in the food. No wonder people are sick and fat.

So the Gluten thing. I felt great and lost a little bit of weight. I hate the phrase "Gluten Free" I just choose to eat better non- processed foods.

What I found interesting is that people were very concerned for me? Their concern was not that I have an allergy to gluten, it was that I couldn't eat pizza or Italian food.

It's ok everyone, I'm fine- I really don't miss it. It was really the tomato sauce that I liked, pasta is tasteless. So, I have created my own pasta sauce and I put it on veggies. I never buy the sauce because of the sugar and chemicals in that as well.

The other interesting conversations I noticed about the gluten free idea was the influx of gluten free products. Bless the hearts of all the people who offered suggestions about gluten free foods but the true point was missed. Gluten free foods contain more chemicals just not the gluten. Yuk.

I just eat, veggies, fruit and protein. I'm happy and healthy and shopping is quick.

If it comes in a package- look at the back- you might need to run for the pepto when you read whats in the food you eat.

Hopefully this article does not feel preachy and I hope you do the best for your health- it's up to you.

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Thursday: Law of Intention and Desire

Thursdays are the day where you let known your intentions and desires.

Ok here goes, my intentions and desires. Ok wait I will keep my "desires" to myself but I can share my intentions.

1. I intend to complete an actual novel by Dec 1st. I have several ideas and have decided to focus on 1 of them and participate in the November write a novel in a month program.

2. I intend to continue down the path of believing and feeling that all my goals and dreams can come true and it's up to me to attract what I want in life, not what I don't want.

3. I intend to continue to focus on good health more specifically doing yoga, meditation and enjoy my healthy eating habits

4. I intend to allow life's stress to wash over me and not be absorbed into my mind and body.

Ok that should do it for now. All is well!

If you want more information about Thurs being the Law of Intention and Desire go to the Chopra Website. It's interesting www.chopra.com