How it goes

I've been on hiatus - you would think, it appears...but no not really. I have just been learning how to Eat to Live.

Over at Spark people, someone suggested that I try it out. So, since she herself had great success with it, I decided to at least give it a look.

Being diabetic/pre-diabetic, depending on which doctor you talk to, and having just started medications for it, and really, REALLY not wanting to passively live with this disease, I decided I needed to learn how to deal with it as naturally as possible.

So the premise is simple, eat the highest nutrient foods - and let nature do its thing. Challenge? Rearranging my pantry and learning what is REALLY in some of those foods we eat.

Ultimately, it's a vegan diet, emphasizing on all natural, organic, wholesome foods - basically treating my body with respect and giving it the best foods for optimum health.

The result? After about 6 weeks, which is what is recommended - I lost 22 lbs. Nice! And I felt better! If you had a chance to see Oprah's episode on Food, Inc. and Alicea Silverstone's portion on being kinder to your body. She is dead on.

Now, since the holidays (which I fared through very well), I have continued to give up meat - about 98% of the time. My hubby is a true carnivore, so sometimes I relapse, maybe once every two weeks, by taking a taste of this or that. But overall, don't really care that I gave up meat.

What gets me? Grains! Those carbs and starchy veggies! Ugh, they are my nemesis. And there's always an excuse for sweets. But great improvement there as well. My hubby had a birthday this month and as always he gets a super duper chocolately cake. Yes, I had a piece - but then I made him take the rest to work. No temptations, thank you very much.

And I have come to enjoy green smoothies, veggies, salads and beans like nobody's business. It has been a bit of a journey, and lots of learning about how to cook these items, and so essential that I keep on top of it so that I don't relapse.

But overall it's been great. Looking forward to starting another 6 weeks. Can't wait to see what happens next.