Goal Weight, Fast Track and more

I have been reading Wheat Belly this week, and let me tell you... this book is going to change my life. I am not kidding here. It had been on the library list for it for two months and the day I picked it up I just opened it to a random page and read while waiting in line. IMMEDIATELY I knew I needed my own copy because I wanted to underline and make notes in the margin. I settled for tearing of strips of the library reservation sheet off and making notes on it. I'm on Chapter 4 and have used a nearly a whole sheet for little rip off markers. I find myself quoting whole sections to my husband and reading out loud to people over the phone. This book speaks to me and says things I have been discovering about myself the last two years. If you are at all considering giving up wheat or think it may be effecting your body, pick up this book. If you read my blog regularly you know I see my relationship with food as similar to alcohol addiction. This book backs that up in plain speech and I think this book is going to change my life. Full review when I'm done, promise.

On another note, I made a fun discovery on... you guessed it... Pinterest! I'm obsessed, I know. Did you know that most Mason jars (or just plain left over glass jars) fit your blender? They turn any blender into a Bullet Blender. I have started Month 3 of the Fast Track, where I have removed all grain and legumes from my diet. I've never gone this long on the Fast Track and I am finding my hunger level has greatly decreased recently. Oh, and I got back to my goal weight of 143 last week! Yea! I thought I would go back to the regular Belly Fat Cure then and add back limited grains, but I didn't feel the need to... strangely. So here I am, grain free, at my goal weight and feeling really good (aside from an annoying cold/allergy). So I decided to take my cool Pinterest Blender trick and my use it with Jorge's Bug Juice. I'm skipping a meal here and there when I truly do not feel hungry, but I love the idea of getting my veggies in. Although tonight my youngest son said "Why do you make that when it tastes awful?" What? Did I say that? I must have, because kids just repeat what they hear. It doesn't taste awful, but it doesn't taste like birthday cake either. But I won't be eating any birthday cake, so cheers to Bug Juice.

My current recipe for Bug Juice (it has evolved with time):

• Handful of blueberries
• Large handful of fresh spinach
• 1 Celery stalk, cut in half to fit in the jar
• 1/4 Cucumber (if you have it, I have not lately)
• 1/2 Tbsp chia seeds

Fill the jar half way with water, add chia seeds. Add rest of ingredients and fill the remaining space with water leaving room for the blender blades. Let it set for 5 minutes for the chia seeds to soften and blend until is all liquid. I had to push down on the jar, as it wasn't heavy enough. About half way through this drink, I refill to the top with water. Full story on Jorge's Bug Juice HERE.

If you are new to this drink, you may hate it honestly. But I like it and had it quite often my first 6 months on the BFC. I am trying to have it more often again and repeat the foods that I think helped me be most successful. I swear I get a booth of energy from this drink when I have it in the afternoon, and just plain makes me feel good. Happy Weekend!