Well I got through my first week. It wasn't so bad. I had very little energy and also took that week off from exercising. I had a lot of mid day cravings for sweets but the dark chocolate bites got me through it. Yay for dark chocolate!! Getting use to reading the labels has been a chore but now that I know what to stay away from, my shopping adventures have been a lot easier. Today is day two of getting back on my exercise routine (with my old friend Jillian Michaels) and I feel great! So the idea is that now that I don't have all that excess fat stored in my cells (from all the extra sugar) my body will be burning the fat from my body, right? Well, that's the idea and I'm interested to see if there's a big difference.
My kids have been pretty darn good about it. They do like their "old french fries" more than the new baked sweet potato ones but they still eat every one on their plate. They DO NOT like the plain yogurt no matter what I add to it (and neither do I) so I've been putting it in smoothies with fruit and a scoop of peanut-butter. It's delicious!! Jaron's lunches take longer to put together because all the packaged stuff is out but so far no complaints. An average lunch has been a chicken salad sandwich with tomato, fruit/veggies with ranch, hard boiled eggs, black olives, cheese, a fruit bar snack and 100% apple and water......give or take a couple items in that list. I've also started sending him with warm lunches (sometimes left overs) of (wheat) spaghetti or (wheat) mac'n'cheese with tuna and peas. He likes getting a warm lunch mixed into the routine. I have kept their Ovaltine which does have sugar. I'm going to try a whey chocolate protein dry mix and see if they mind it. My vanilla protein mix is okay on the ingredients so we'll see how the chocolate one goes. I also let them have bananas. I know they have a high glycemic index but I was reading a lot of a diabetic's diet and I read that bananas are ok in moderation. I actually had my first banana a day ago.
I DID CHEAT!! I have a half of a muffin (for Jaron's Muffins with Mom at his school) and I had a beer....yes I did. And my banana of course. I haven't experienced head-aches or insane cravings just that first week of feeling weak.
Justin and I also watched the movie Food Inc. for the first time and it was so eye opening. If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend it! Here's a little scary statistic for you.......out of the all the children born after the year 2000, one in three will become diabetic.
FYI .....Organic veggies and fruit are pretty easy to find but meat and eggs are harder. Costco has organic beef and eggs and both are delicious and reasonable in price. Fresh and Easy has a lot of organic items as well. I was not sold on organics until after I saw this movie......so watchers BEWARE!
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