Coming into the first Month.

I really believe that I have to be the only person in history that has managed to gain weight after starting Wheatbelly, lol. While I know (hope) that's not true, I very well know why. Not eating wheat AND making healthy choices have to go hand in hand, and while I've been successful in one area, I have not been in the other.

With the fourth of July holiday happening, I went ga-ga over smoked ribs, slow-cooked pork, GF/WF potato salad, potato CHIPS, nuts, nuts and more nuts. I even made a GF pizza from the Bob's Red Mill line and tried my HARDEST to eat the whole thing. ::sigh:: It was shameful, but the one thing I'm actually proud of is the fact that I couldn't eat the whole thing and I had to put the rest of it in 3-square slice intervals in the freezer for some other time.

It is, however, getting easier to avoid the obvious wheat items. I was faced with a pound cake this weekend. Didn't touch it. I even made a all-the-way-from-scratch-except-for-the-canned-peaches peach and apple cobbler and didn't even sample a bite. I had my husband and the guests from the party taste it to make sure it had everything that it needed to taste right.

I really wish, though, that my husband would get inspired enough to do WF for a while. There are just so many health issues that he has that I really feel like he may benefit from going WF, but like any diet change, you have to make the decision to do it on your own. Secretly and selfishly, I hope that the benefits of going WF AND making healthy choices will motivate him enough to make a few tweaks here and there on his own.

Well-- here's to happier moods and healthy bellies!