Regressed - Now Back On It / Dangerous Grains and Why We Get Fat

Let's face it ladies and gentlemen, it's hard to diet. That's why I figure as a mom, I need to make sure I program my son to eat right now.

I am finding that it is in my dna not to eat wheat, that I even should stay away from mass carbs.

Originally, I quit the Duke University Diet plan because I felt worse, but I bought the book "Why We Get Fat" by Gary Taubes and then the "Dangerous Grains" by James Braly, M.D. and Ron Hogan and realized I need to get back on this plan.

As I was reading these books, I began to realize that there is a big chance that I have been overdosing my body with carbs.

My whole life, I have ate cereals, pasta, breads, potatoes, rice in mass quantities. Cereals for breakfast, easy enough, pour Frankenberry (my favorite) in a bowl and add cow milk. Lunch: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich with chocolate milk. Oh yeah, after school snack: More Frankenberry! Maybe 2 bowls! Dinner, what ever my working mother had the energy to make. (Note: This is one of the reasons I decided it is best to be a stay-at-home mom. )

Still boggles my mine that then I was a size 0 before zero was popular. Now, I am between 12 and 10 with all kinds of chronic disease issues.

Enough about me as this is all ready becoming too long of a blog. But, talk a little bit about the diseases these grains are causing.

We all understand the gluten sensitivities, the celiac disease, but did you think of cancer, autoimmune diseases, osteoporosis, brain disorders, intestinal disease, digestive disorders, infertility and problematic diseases.

Go to the library look up those two books. Do some research, do some experimenting with your own bodies.

I am back on that diet since this Saturday and have my energy back and have lost 5lbs.

I did yo-yo since July when I started. 178 to 163, then back to 172 now back down to 168 and losing. I realize it takes great discipline on my part and instead of finding the pleasure in breads and pastas, I need to remember the suffering that comes with eating those foods.


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