Um, Hi.

Avoidance? Who, me?

So...long time, huh? Almost a month. Oops. I think I needed a break. I think I should start blogging again, but I don't think it will be every day. We shall see.

My friend Sarah and I started our gluten-free diet. I started on March 8, and I think she started the next day. It is quite a bit harder than I thought in some ways. I thought I could eat what I normally do, but just change it so that I used stuff without gluten in it, but it doesn't really work that way. Some things you can't get without gluten, or at least I can't get them here (egg noodles, for example). So I'm having a bit of a crisis every night at dinner time. Yesterday we got gluten-free pizza from Coco Brooks. Tonight, I think we'll be having fish and baked potatoes.

I've already noticed a difference in that my stomach feels better. Not totally better, but it is noticeable. I also don't have that desperate craving for sugar and carbs that I normally have, although G thinks that's just the lull before the PMS storm. Maybe he's right; I don't know. I used corn spaghetti instead of regular spaghetti on Tuesday, and I was actually really surprised by the difference in the way I felt afterward. The corn spaghetti smells sweet while it's cooking, but it tastes just like regular (to me, anyway).

I've been snacking more on vegetables (mushroom slices, zucchini sticks, and baby carrots) lately, and I've been having a 3-egg scramble for breakfast with mushrooms, diced onions, a splash of milk, sometimes some Laughing Cow cheese if I think of it, and then after it's cooked I top it off with some salsa. It is SO delicious!!! And I guess 3 eggs is a lot, but seriously, it keeps me going all day. I don't need lunch. I also have a big bowl of fruit with it (strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, raspberries).

I can't say I'm doing well yet, though, but I think some of those things are heading me in the right direction. Mostly I can't say I'm doing well because I don't know what I'm doing with this gluten-free thing, and I haven't been exercising. And my mood's been a little up and down lately, which means feeling overwhelmed so I just want to go to sleep. But I'm working on all of it.