Training

I'm glad I was the one who booked the catering for our training today. Although they did give us the incorrect order there was still plenty I could eat and feel satisfied. I've discovered that Sushi is quite tasty.

I have finished my first loaf of gluten free bread, the first taste was best sadly.

I wonder if my skin isn't bad again because I haven't had flax oil for weeks.

I keep reminding myself that I can handle this. This too shall pass.

One Day At A Time

Today is day 3 of my new diet (lifestyle?) and as I told my father at lunch only 87 days to go.

I was given a good tip from a colleague who chooses to not eat wheat or sugar. She said to feel satisfied I need to include protein, such as nuts, with each meal. Having already discovered how much I enjoy peanut butter on gluten free toast breakfast is taken care of but I can't eat almonds all day.

My goal at the moment with both my diet and my skin (which is the cause of all this) is to take each day as it comes. Like the advice given to chronic worries; do one thing at a time. So, borrowing from AA (scary cult that they are) I will deal with one day at a time. Thinking about the pain or the dauntingly boring diet will not help, today is today, I will not think about the future, I need only survive today and hope that tomorrow will be better.

Swimming

I find myself an object of fascination....to myself. I want to view myself from a distance and note as the weeks pass the weight loss caused by the new diet but be ignorant of the cause. I want to be someone on the outside so that when I discover the truth I can say 'I'm so impressed at how well she's coping.' I want the frustration to be someone elses.

It's either sink or swim. My husband tells me there is no sinking. You always swim. Because you have to. So I'll just start paddling.

Allergenics

For $100 and a swatch of hair this company will diagnose all your allergies.
Thankfully I have no allergies but the list of intolerances is long and problematic.
Orange, sugar (white, brown, honey), wheat, all dairy, tomato, kiwifruit, yeast, onion, garlic and sulphites (preservative).

For the next three months (bring on July!) I will abstain from these substances.

For my first day I visited the supermarket:

Thankfully most vegetarian food already don't contain dairy, some are even gluten free but I was only able to locate two which were also without sugar, onion, garlic or preservatives.

Being unable now to eat Marmite I decided to reintroduce Peanut Butter to my diet. I don't care if it's fatty, it's tasty and my diet could easily lack in taste. I was only able to locate one (Sanitarium Classic) without sugar.

I almost cried in the cereal aisle to discover that 'the health food company' Sanitarium's Cornies and Ricies both contained sugar, I didn't read past the second item on each list.

I had thought Oven Fries would be a simple issue. I was wrong. Of the many (many) varieties of Fries I located one solitary style, unique within it's own brand, which did not include sugar in the form of dextrose.