It's been almost three weeks since last I had a coffee, and a couple of weeks since I had a decaf so hopefully the liquid gold no longer flows through my veins.
So quit the coffee and what's next? Gluten of course. (Said with full sarcasm...of course...like it's the progression of quitting...the easy next phase...HA!)
After three months of Rebekah's belly pain (yes, I am going for Mother of the Year Award...finally getting to some medical action - I won't even begin to tell the tale of the leaking stool sample....) we decided that for her sake we needed to quit wheat and see if that was the issue. And how fun would it be to be solely a six year old's quest? Nah. We are a family. And in it together. So quit as a family we have.
I told myself, "this CAN'T be this hard"....Ha ha. Mistake number one. (Although sometimes the under-expectation makes things better in the end this is definitely not one of those times.) We can simply replace pasta and bread and all that jazz with gluten-free products. Here's the glitch (or glitches)...
1) Gluten-free products are EXPENSIVE,
2) Gluten-free products are GROSS, and
3) Gluten-free products actually have something even more dangerous than gluten in them: starches. (Read William Davis' "Wheat Belly" and be terrified for life...the starches can, like gluten, and like narcotics, pass the blood brain barrier and attach themselves to our brain cells...creating a "high" that forces us to seek out more and more food (wheat-y "food"s and anything else sugary, etc that gets in our unhealthy pathway) . This is, of course, the simplified version explaining that basically wheat messes us up (in oh so many ways).
So this has been an interesting journey (and we are only a week into it).
Today I actually feel "wide awake" as though I am here and with it in this world...that may sound a bit odd but life covered in fog had become so "normal" that I didn't consider it anything but. According to some others going through this wheat withdrawal (which is NOT a fun process for some of us, let me assure you), this sudden clarity is not unusual.
After the first couple of days of "loser me, feeling like a complete mean nag with a headache and overall icky-ness that made me want to shout at customers AND my boss and simply curl up in my bed with a heating pad" I began reading Davis' books and suddenly understood that I was not alone in my wheat withdrawal symptoms...
We are ADDICTED to this stuff (which is not the same wheat from days gone by)...and some of us suffer just that little bit much more when it's negated from our diet.
I'm sure I could go on forever however I will stop here: I have gluten-free banana bread to retrieve from the oven (and let's hope it's better than the batch of cookies I made on the first day of our journey that tasted like what I imagine crusty cardboard would be to the pallet)...
Happy Gluten-Free Night to You All!
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