Diet Change

I've made another adjustment in my ever-evolving search for the perfect diet. I'm going back to the diet I felt best on (the diet outlined in Total Health Makeover by Marilu Henner, which is near-vegetarian, dairy-free, low-sugar basic healthy eating with proper food combining encouraged) but I'll be incorporating some raw foods into it and doing it gluten-free. Reasons for the switch - I'm increasingly always hungry, fruit is expensive, and I'm concerned about my greater risk for diabetes with all the fruit since I had gestational diabetes with my third pregnancy. Without fruit as the foundation of the diet, the tendency is to base the diet on nuts, seeds and avocados - which is too much fat and can make you tired. The other option is to base the diet on vegetables - lettuce, carrots, peppers, cucumbers, etc. And I don't want to live that way.

I'll be starting the day with a piece of fruit, then having a small bowl of gluten-free cereal and soy milk a couple hours later, mega-salad for lunch, and some kind of protein for dinner - either fish or, more often, beans and a gluten-free starch like rice, millet or potatoes. With a side salad.

Oddly enough, the best I ever felt was the last time I was pregnant and the baby was pressing on my stomach so I could hardly eat. Maybe there's a clue there - that it's food itself that disagrees with me. ;)