Nine months ago yesterday, I embarked on this crazy journey. One that involved no yeast, sugar, honey, artificial sweetener, mushrooms, and a host of other things. Some of the most bizarre include raspberry, basil, pomegranates and pumpkin.
Yes, I said pumpkin. With Halloween bearing down upon us and Thanksgiving right around the corner, no pumpkin. This includes pumpkin pie blizzards (well, there IS sugar in that anyway, so even sans pumpkin, I should stay away), no pumpkin spiced latte-ish drinks (but again with the sugar), and most assuredly NO PUMPKIN PIE.
I'll admit. I'm a bit of a cheater. In all of the 9 months, I've probably spent about 1 month being a cheater, eating things I shouldn't, going on binges. Because my taste buds needed a little somethin' somethin ... ya know?
Raspberry, basil, pomegranates and pumpkin are all things my body really freaks out over, so in the interest of a pleasant holiday season, I'll really have to stand strong.
On the flip side of all of this, there are certainly some positive sides to these last 9 months. I've learned how to make homemade yogurt, been introduced to couscous, began cooking with more beans, actually made a recipe involving lentils and fallen in love with quinoa.
But NINE MONTHS????!?!?!?! Has it really been that long? It seems as if I've been doing this nutty food thing forever and at the same time that I just started.
The bottom line is that when I avoid things my body doesn't process well, I FEEL AMAZING!!!! So yeah, some days it really stinks-o-rama. My taste buds get bored sometimes, but on most of days ... it's pretty darn good.
1 comment:
so how did you figure out what you needed to avoid? i know that i've got some allergies that i've avoided dealing with, but i feel like it might be time.
basil. that is a bummer.
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