weighing the benefits

I can easily say that I have eaten more fresh vegetables and fruit in the past two weeks than I can remember in my recent memory. Eating fresh foods and excluding sugar and flour has been good for me for many reasons some of which I will touch on in this blog post.

To keep me honest I go over to my Mom's on Saturday mornings with my coffee and weigh in. My first week of healthy eating netted me a loss of 6.3 pounds. I'm pretty proud of myself..

no sadly i am not 16o lbs!

I have not skipped any meals, where before I never ate breakfast. I snack on healthy foods such as unsalted/unsweetened almonds and fruit or organic yogurt. I have not eaten any fast food or cheated, in fact Mom and had dinner out the other night and I had  fish and double veggies. I wouldn't even let the server put the bread on the table! Then a few days later when I went to my hairdresser to get my roots done; Bill and I successfully ate lunch out at a restaurant and didn't eat potatoes we substituted veggies with our lunch, again no bread.

I hadn't mentioned this before but I gave up salt last month which just adds to this little health kick I'm on which is all good. The benefits so far keeping in mind that I haven't and excess salt in six weeks other than in the smallest amounts while cooking. I find that the use of fresh herbs from my garden are a great substitute for adding additional flavor.

What amazes me is that in less than two weeks I'm already feeling and seeing many changes in my body besides this first bit of weight loss.

1. I have not had a migraine. {wouldn't that be a kicker if my neurologist decreased my med's in July when I have my check- up?} 
2. I don't have clogged sinus' especially at night when I lay down, it helps with my snoring.    OK be nice with the comments please :) 
3. I'm sleeping better, my guess the phlegm and snoring might have something to do with this.
4. Although my body still aches they body aching is less and I'm hoping it will go away eventually.
5. My fingernails are growing like crazy and are not splitting like they used to.
6. My skin isn't as dry like it used to be either.
7. No bloating and no edema around my ankles {I had a little if I spent long days on my feet} even the right leg below my healed wound site (shocked about that) 
8. No cravings which is really weird for a carb addict. 

Finding and creating recipes or taking the regular recipes I used to cook and making it into acceptable sugar or flour free recipes will be the subject of my next blog post. 

Stay tuned and I'll share a few of our favorites....with pictures.