It all started innocently enough, my beautiful wife started seeing a chiropractor back in November. She brought home a book and tried her hand at a few of the recipes. There was a bread/cracker that she had made, but it was largely unimpressive. Before she went to her annual sales meeting in January, she left a flyer about losing weight on the kitchen table. Let's bring this out right now, she is closer to her ideal weight than I. In fact, at this point of my life, I can be clinically diagnosed as morbidly obese.
A few things prompted me to go (she was out of town and I was on my own for a few days): 1) my father had an observation stay at the hospital that he volunteers at. It was for low blood pressure and shortness of breath 2) since a car wreck broke both of my legs and left me unable to walk for a year, my weight has increased by 5-10 pounds a year.
The wreck was back in 1994 (you do the math). And I was not happy with myself.
I read the book and have now been on a sugar-fee plan of eating for a week (OK, a week on Monday). Now, this is no ordinary sugar-fee plan. One would be surprised at what foods have sugar in them as an ingredient. I am eliminating all processed foods, sugars, and hormones as I can. This means not eating meats unless they are organic, range-free(chicken), grass fed (beef) and it has been a good experience.
I don't feel lethargic after being at work for five hours (used to happen every day) because my body is not going through the highs and lows associated with eating sugar that is in so many foods (go ahead, read a label of what you are eating).
There is so much to say, but I will spread this out for a post every few days or so.
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