Friday Update

'Kay folks, I'm thinking that unfortunately some gluten weaseled its way into my diet this week. The most likely suspect, since I have not hauled off and devoured any cheeseburgers or birthday cake, is the steel cut oats. I bought foreign grown oats, given that most US oats are those that are more likely to be contaminated. My guts are definitely behaving like I've fed them something I shouldn't have. Gory details include: god awful flatulence and less frequent / lower quality poo's. Darn it. Here is the brand of oats. I have been using Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free oats for the fiber mix that goes in the Perfectly Produce breakfast smoothies, with no problems. I guess everyone is different but at this point I think I will steer clear of McCann's. Bummer.

I also think I discovered a problem with raw spinach this week, which is terribly disappointing. Everytime I eat raw spinach my stomach gets really, really upset about 30 - 90 minutes later. Freakin' A. So if I have a legitimate spinach allergy, it may be that the oats are fine. I'll try them out again once my tum has time to settle down from all the excitement.

I played by the rules again on Thursday and got myself to the gym. Good stuff. No cheating. Although I did try a little experiment with the berries and cream that I recommend you DO NOT TRY AT HOME. I had a bunch of leftover cream, so I whipped it a bit and put some stevia powder in it. BLEH. Stevia powder is not good in cream. I think it needs some kind of acidity to balance it out. I don't even know how to describe the taste - it was like - if you put Equal or some other rat-poison type of fake sweetener on celery? Anyway, not recommended.

So, this week I'm attempting to skip a week of bulk cooking. My fridge and freezer are pretty full of leftovers, so I'm hoping to skate by with some greens, fruit, and vegetables to supplement. Oh, and smoothies of course. :-)


So, I'm going to attempt to tally up all this stuff in my freezer and build my own meal plan according to Perfectly Produce's example. We'll see how that goes, but I really don't think it should be that hard, since I've got both previous weeks to reference with the same foods.

Tonight, however, I am feeling a little "blah" mood wise, and it's really tempting to just order some junk or something under the patented excuse: "it's Friday". But I haven't caved yet. I gave myself a little talking to on the way home, telling myself that I would be a slack-ass loser hipocrite who would never get anywhere in life if I allowed myself to be so easily put off track, and so far that's been sufficient deterrent. The night is young. Wish me luck.