the Zone ...

I have been having great mental days headache free. I am happier and even keel. However, something isn't right. My stomach just doesn't feel right and I am gaining weight there. My food allergies are forcing me to eat extremely well but mentally my brain is saying eat, eat, eat! I have always wanted to eat well and I have read up on Dr. Perricone's Wrinkle Cure. I do believe he is right about inflammatory foods and how they cause disease. I have been gone back to his book to survive cutting out the old food and adding new ones. Something was missing and the research was on.

I found what I was missing. The Zone diet follows the concept of limiting the inflammatory foods or the high GI foods, but I gave me a formula so to speak to balance out my eating correctly. This is the hope I needed.

the basics
*Proteins should be eaten with every meal and snack.
*Protein should be no bigger than the size and thickness of your palm.
*Fiber rich veggies and fruit should be 2x the size of the protein.

I have been researching online, but Dr. Sears website keeps freezing my computer. I haven't gotten the book ... yet. I heard it is a hard read but I might just get it. No matter what I am armed with the right formula now .... and after a small adjustment or maybe the hope made my day feel and go better.

Dearest Husbandman,
I am back in a similiar place. I know this place. I have been here before. When I lost my job, I gave You the credit for taking me out of a place that was sucking my character dry. I couldn't take myself out of it, but You did. Here and now I am back.

I have always wanted to eat well. I have made small steps with the good habits like taking out the cake for breakfast and adding oatmeal. But You had other plans. The 36 food allergies I have has changed my life forever and quite drastically I might add! I have to give You the credit for making this huge change in my life. I know I could never have given up on chocolate all by myself. I know I have a problem of gobbling up a good thing. Now I have to savor more those small bites of pleasure.

Looking into the haze of the future, I think You ... no, I know You saved me from possible diabetes. I have a lot to teach my family ... not sure they will follow. They keep saying 'I couldn't do it'. Great Teacher, I invite Your patient and gentle ways in how I eat around my family that they might want to change too.

Again, Thank You for loving me soooo much to care and intervine in my life.
~always your little girl

mad chow: lemon bread flop