Sometimes you are starving and in need of a snack.  Your hunger gets the best of you and you overlook obvious things.  Tonight I went to the local boat show.  Along with boating stuff, they allow any vendor with a product into the show.  One vendor was selling mixes for dips, and they had fifteen dips made and laid out as samples.  I asked the vendor how you make them and confirmed that there is no gluten in them.  Exciting!  So, I start to sample them… then I suddenly realize I am eating pretzels!  Crap!  Fun over! Don’t let your excitement and hunger get the best of you! Get some...

This morning I weighed myself and I was down 5 lbs in a week!  Talk about motivation!  I really haven’t been concentrating on eating particularly healthy, but just cutting out the gluten.  I have been very hungry and snacking between meals on not so healthy things… leftover dips from a party, corn chips, and sunflower seeds. For Christmas I was given a nice blender.  So, I have been having at least a glass or two of fruit smoothie every day, which I would have guessed all the sugar would have kept me from losing some weight.  I haven’t gotten back into the routine of working out. ...

On my third day of officially being gluten-free!  Doing well… a little hungry, but can usually satisfy that with some corn chips and water.  Yesterday, I had an all day class and was told to bring a lunch.  I ended up just snacking on some sunflower seeds, a banana, and drinking a Monster.  Leftover GF dips from a family get-together were my dinner!  

So far, NOT so good.  I wasn’t prepared for the diet to start and hadn’t done my grocery shopping by late this afternoon.  Therefore, “Its OK…one day won’t hurt…I need a final gluten meal…diet starts tomorrow.”  I’m ashamed to say, we went to a pizza buffet for dinner…  I blame it all on my poor support staff (the girlfriend).  All her fault!  …Spoken like a true overweight diet-aholic.  

Last night, I went to a New Years Eve party and felt like crap.  I knew I was starting this new diet and ate everything I could.  It was one of those after thoughts, just like drinking, where you ask yourself, “why did I do that, knowing how it would make me feel later?” I frequently put myself in that situation, like most overeaters and drinkers.  Frequently, I will go to a pizza or Chinese buffet, eat a good amount, then feel like crap later, not so much with Celiac symptoms, but just overall.  Don’t you wish there was someone at the cash register warning you about how you will feel...