Age and weight are a bit like the creeping jesus vine, one minute looking picturesque and lovely, the next climbing in through the window and growing over you whilst you sleep. Surely losing ten pounds in two weeks was going to be easier than trying to lose 10 years.
After we lost the baby, we decided that to improve our chances we would have to become a little more aware of our dietary intake, this began immediately after we recieved the news about the loss. The first step was to rebuild Andi´s immune system with a complement of herbs we found in china town; ginseng root, rosehip tea, royal jelly, omega3 and then increasing the iron and minerals with leafy vegetables and sunflower seeds.
EAT THE DOUGHNUT HOLE, NOT THE WHOLE DOUGHNUT..
Next stop was regulating the weight which was a challenge as neither of us have been focusing on gym life for some time. To go from a mountain running/biking, surfing, half marathon guided high carb food intake to that of a city dwelling dwadler ingesting more empanadas than one could burn in a triathlon was not a smart thing to do, and hence I accompanied Andi on her road to a healthy recovery via the route of following a healthier diet. Enter Isabel De Los Rios. It is nice to have it all laid out simply for you, even a stupid pigeon could do it (if it could read) but the key was to take the simple W free diet and follow it. Simple but not easy. Nothing white or beginning with WH and ending in EAT except cauliflower, garlic, fish and chicken.
Two rubbish sacks of food from the pantry filled with products containing WHEAT, before even the Asian cooking sauces like soy sauce etc, which contain wheat products!!
One and a half weeks later we are still surviving on a selection of nutss, quinoa, brown rice, vegetables, meat, fish, chicken, water, in fact once we worked out what "wheat" was, it became easier and fun. We have not really suffered too much, I admit I slipped once though (don`t tell Andi,) at a work function at the four seasons hotel they rolled out a four tiered chocolate fountain that I could not ignore and covered the fruits lavishly with the yummy stuff!
two days left and we will have made it, we have already decided to curb the amount of wheat related products in our diet and feel like it is going to help us. If you have already tried this and would like to share your experiences, good or bad please do below!
As an aside, dropping potatoes from the diet wasn´t that difficult. Simply replace with sweet potatoes, in fact you can add a decent dollop of butter to a roasted sweet spud and it is still going to be less fat inducing than a regular potatoe with nothing added!
Good luck!
P.S. Consider doing the 7 day free course whilst trying the 2 week wheat free diet join it free and get some free ebooks too!
After we lost the baby, we decided that to improve our chances we would have to become a little more aware of our dietary intake, this began immediately after we recieved the news about the loss. The first step was to rebuild Andi´s immune system with a complement of herbs we found in china town; ginseng root, rosehip tea, royal jelly, omega3 and then increasing the iron and minerals with leafy vegetables and sunflower seeds.
EAT THE DOUGHNUT HOLE, NOT THE WHOLE DOUGHNUT..Two rubbish sacks of food from the pantry filled with products containing WHEAT, before even the Asian cooking sauces like soy sauce etc, which contain wheat products!!
One and a half weeks later we are still surviving on a selection of nutss, quinoa, brown rice, vegetables, meat, fish, chicken, water, in fact once we worked out what "wheat" was, it became easier and fun. We have not really suffered too much, I admit I slipped once though (don`t tell Andi,) at a work function at the four seasons hotel they rolled out a four tiered chocolate fountain that I could not ignore and covered the fruits lavishly with the yummy stuff!
two days left and we will have made it, we have already decided to curb the amount of wheat related products in our diet and feel like it is going to help us. If you have already tried this and would like to share your experiences, good or bad please do below!
As an aside, dropping potatoes from the diet wasn´t that difficult. Simply replace with sweet potatoes, in fact you can add a decent dollop of butter to a roasted sweet spud and it is still going to be less fat inducing than a regular potatoe with nothing added!
Good luck!
P.S. Consider doing the 7 day free course whilst trying the 2 week wheat free diet join it free and get some free ebooks too!
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