Today my jeans are too tight on me. Serves me right. I've been eating like crap for six months now. The first half of 2009, I was doing great. I was on Weight Watchers and training to walk in the 3 Day - 60 miles in 3 days. And then the day before the walk, I received some news -my son's preschool teacher suspected he may be autistic. That began a quick downfall - I wasn't training anymore and eating made me feel better. Especially all those foods I had been depriving myself of for months. I forgot all the rules and just started buying junk for all of us. Not. Good. I said "Well, we'll just get through the holidays" but here it is, February 8th and I am still not even thinking what goes in my mouth. Last night we had bread dipped in olive oil and I found myself sticking my finger in the oil and eating it that way. Gross. I stopped myself and thought - what are you doing?
So in November, L was diagnosed with PDDNOS - and one of the things that other parents say helps is a gluten-free/casein-free diet. It just seems impossible to me. He has such a limited diet as it is - and it consists of nothing but pasta with butter sauce, pancakes, muffins and snacks. Oh and chocolate milk. So how am I going to take away all the food he eats?
I guess I'll use this blog as some inspiration from my fellow bloggers and to chronicle some serious life style changes in our house. I hope I'm ready.
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Sounds tough, Sandy! But you guys can do it. A friend of mine recently switched to a gluten-free diet for health reasons, I'll ask her if she has any good websites or books to recommend.
ReplyDeletei should post some goood gluten free kid friendly recipes... that will be my goal and we can trade. it's tough at first sandy but gets easier.
ReplyDeleteI have a great gluten fee chocolate chip cookie recipe that i make all the time. i will send it!
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