3 weeks down!

I did really well last week on the Wheat Belly Diet. The only cheat I had was one small chocolate covered strawberry and some Yogurtland Frozen yogurt (mmm...taro and roasted coconut....). I even worked out the most last week than any other weeks and I didn't lose one pound and I didn't gain one pound...A little discouraging.  But I still feel good so I can't complain. 

One of the things people talk about with the Wheat Belly Diet is how tired they are the first 1-2 weeks after starting the diet.  I haven't noticed any difference in how tired I've been.

I did try making the pumpkin spice muffins (I will post later tonight on the recipe blog) and they didn't turn out completely but they tasted pretty good. 

I'm planning on trying the squash pasta in the next couple of days. Meghan made it and said it was really good. 

Still no cravings for breads and cereal!!! I still find this very shocking knowing how much I love the stuff!

I started tracking calories yesterday using My Fitness Pal app on my phone.  It's a great free tool that you can either do online or on your phone.  Should be interesting to add this to the equation.

2 weeks down!

So far the Wheat Belly Diet isn't killing me...It actually hasn't been too bad. 

My mom called me the other day and she just had her labs done last week and after being vegan for 3 months her Cholesterol dropped in all areas!  She is on cholesterol medicine and before she started the diet they told her if it didn't come down then they would have to increase her dose of medicine.  I guess my body just likes my cholesterol too much to give it up and get it lower :)

Anyone who knows me will know that my favorite food is....CEREAL!  I could eat it three times a day and never get tired of it.  I've never met a cereal I didn't like.  On the Vegan diet I could still have most of my beloved cereals.  Now I can't have them and I was really worried about it.  Miraculously I haven't missed cereal at all. There is a hot flaxseed cereal in the Wheat Belly recipes that I need to try.  Meghan has tried it and said it wasn't too bad if you like slimey hot cereal. My goal this week is to try it.

My other goal is to also try to make the spaghetti squash "pasta."  I've also found some good recipes for zuchinni lasagna where you use zuchinni in place of the noodles. 

What I've had a few times are my egg/banana pancakes which aren't too bad.  I'll post the recipe on the recipe site. 

I lost 2lbs this past week so a grand total of 5.6lbs.  Still feeling good and not missing carbs as much as I thought I would.  I've always loved dark chocolate but usually 60-70%.  the diet lets you have 90% dark chocolate.  It took me a few times to get used to it that dark but now I love having a little square of bitter dark chocolate for a sweet snack.

Until next time....

Week 1 of Wheat Belly

I was pretty intimidated to start this diet.  After one week there is still some intimidation but I'm learning more and more what I can eat so it's making it better.  My Vitamin D level came back still LOW!  Actually 1 point lower than last time, so I've really stepped up the Vit D intake.

Still haven't eaten a lot of meat but I have eaten a lot of cheese.  I am down 3.6lbs from last Monday so that is good.  I was able to get some good bike rides in this past week and they didn't bother my back at all. 

I've been eating some good flaxseed wraps that I make and even made cauliflower crust pizza on Saturday night.  I'll be posting the recipes this evening when I get home from work. I really enjoy the flaxseed wrap and the pizza wasn't terrible either. 

I'm back to taking Fish oil supplement, glucosamine with chondroitin and my tumeric.  All of these I had to stop when I was Vegan. 

I had a cheat meal last night for my aunt's birthday.  My friend and I made chocolate covered cherries and they are amazing! Lets just say Saturday morning I was down 5lbs for the week and after my cheat meal of taco salad (minus the shell), homemade strawberry ice cream, homemade horchata, birthday cake and chocolate covered cherries I gained a little back...

LABS & WHEAT BELLY...ONE DAY DOWN!

The Wheat Belly Diet started yesterday and so far not too bad.  I'll be posting some recipes later tonight when I get home of what I've tried so far.  I'm not as intimidated by the diet as I thought I would be but it's only been one day so far.  I got a call from my friend Meghan yesterday telling me that so far she had probably eaten 20 eggs yesterday! She hadn't planned ahead for the wheat belly so that's about all she had to eat...I'm sure my cholesterol would love that!

I got my labs done and got almost all the results this morning.  Not as good as I was expecting...

BEFORE:                                                 AFTER:
Total Cholesterol 226                              236                    Normal (<199)
Triglycerides 245                                    218                     Normal (40-150)
HDL (good cholesterol) 40                     45                       Normal (40-96)
LDL (bad cholesterol) 136                      147                     Normal (0-130)
Vitamin B12 449                                     893                     Normal (211-911)

Total Weight Loss 6lbs.

So not what I expected.  I have to take into consideration that my family genetics sucks when it comes to cholesterol.  There are very few people in my family (on both sides) who are not on cholesterol medication! But I was expecting better than that, not worse!  I'm still waiting on my Vitamin D levels. 

Supposedly the Wheat Belly Diet is great on cholesterol so we'll see if it can help a broken cholesterol like mine!