Starting Wheat Free

So I decided to give it a try even though I have some reservations about the writing in this book.  For example of an instance that created doubt in my mind include the fact that he is stating that upto 1970s women did not engage in physical exercise the way they do now but were thinner.  Well based on my limited knowledge, the availability of mechanical devises for regular housework as well as eating out were not as easily available.  There were gardens to maintain, houses to clean, families - large to mid-size ones to feed three times a day plus other activities such as church, school or gathering of friends requiring contribution would have resulted in much larger expansion of energy from all the muscles in the body vs.  than sitting in an office burning engergy in your brain and may be hands.  The fact that the good doctor just omits mention of this makes me think that there were other omision that happened when those facts did not suit his theory.

The reason I thought I would give it a go comes from reading experiences of people that had followed the diet.  This tells me there are some people that can benefit from this irrespective of how the author went about putting his theory to print.

I do have to figure out what to make for my meals from tomorrow. 

Wheat Free?

I started reading the Wheat Belly book.  So far it goes like this - Wheat that we eat now has been radically changed in the interest of low cost high yield production by the industry in the early to mid 80s.  Around the same time, the dietary recommendations by FDA and other similar bodies came out with higher whole grain diet recommendation.  As a result a whole processed food industry explosion of products happened.  Around the same time the obesity levels started escalating in unprecedented numbers.  While sedentary person with bad eating habits becoming obese was the conventional thought there are many very active to athletic individuals also becoming fat to obese.  The culprit seem to be the 'new' wheat or the chemical reactions triggered by the newly created product.  Then the book goes on the examine the negative impact on each of the different areas - the usual suspect insuline resistance and adult onset diabetes, the viseral fat and the increased inflamatory reactions in the body as a result creating artharitis, plaque in artaries etc., the fact that then new wheat can move across the blood-brain barrier influencing  lethargy, foggy-brain to higher negative reactions in those with schizophrenia etc/ 

I would like to test out how my body will react to no wheat intake option but the question is what do you replace it with?

After the changes

I have been away but now I am back.  Looking back at the posts I see my vision board session happened in early March.  Since then a lot has changed in my life.  When I went to that session, I was not sure exactly what I was looking for.  I had heard and read about vision boarding but I had not taken part in it.  So I took a generic approach.

Here's what I did - the previous week I had been to my dentist's.  I asked my dentist if I can take some of the older magazines that she has at the office and she said to help myself.  Being respectful of the offer, I look for mangazines older than 6 months and picked a variety - Good housekeeping, Chaterlain, National Geographic, Time, Economist etc.

During the session, I went through the magazines and picked imagaes that I found most striking.  There was no theme as I didn't have a specific focus.  I just went with what I found most appealing due either to colours, contuors or subject matter.  I cut them out and then took out the large sheets provided and started pasting the cut outs further culling them in the process.

The final result showed some themes emerging.  That was March.  Since then I have a new home that has a lot of positive energy around it.  Through out the day this home is drenched in sunshine.  You enter the house and the heart skips a beat for the energy of the place.  We are still in the process of organizing the furniture etc.  Once everthing is in place it is going to be absolutely great.

The move has also made me de-clutter so that a lot of unnecessary things are being taken out leaving only those that require my attention.  This also creates a lot of positivity.

At work I am more focused in the destination than the pleasures in the journey although this is important.  Earlier there was no destination in mind but just a journey to enjoy. 

I am also much more focused in eating healthy and also interested in cooking.  All things that will lead to more positive things.