Sunday morning a day early...

Just a quick post which might get to you in time!

Sunday’s are all about good coffee, cartoons and pancakes…oh yeah and early morning runs so that means that this kind of stuff usually happens on a Saturday.

I picked up some Pamela’s Wheat and Gluten Free flour during the week, based on my experience with some GF pasta during the week my expectations were not so high, but I was very pleasantly surprised; in fact the whole house was as we all chowed down on shortstacks of blueberry pancakes.

Anyway just passing on the love…

Sugar sugar!

And so the detox goes on another 1.5lb lost with little or no effort and an overall feeling of betterness!

Latest thing to be culled and I'll spare you the evangelism, but suffice to say if you have a problem with;

or

listen to this and get some:

It could really make a difference! Enjoy...

What's for lunch?

This was never meant to be a food blog but given where I am right now with detoxing and all that please bear with me?

Ahhh, no, bread no bread, no bread!!! Ok now I have got that out of my system thanks again to Christine (holisticguru) for her suggestion of a non bread alternative, lettuce wraps, so easy and so very yummy. Take one (or in my case several) romaine lettuce leafs, wash, dry, sliced avocado sprinkle of kosher salt, dollop of home made hummus and eat! That’s it and so yummy…did I say that already. For a change smear some Tofutti cream cheese on a leaf, dollop some salsa and you're away! To follow sliced apple, I prefer golden delicious, and some natural almond butter…that’s it, so good and so yummy (ok so now I am repeating myself) and not a grain of wheat in sight!

Just before I stuffed my face!

Enie, meenie, miney...yes all mine!

Up close and personal with hummus!

A little late for Cinco de Mayo...but whatev' still tastes good!

Have a great weekend...we're off to the beach!

Gluten Tag...a mid-wheat update!

Excuse my clumsy punning!

So I am just over one week into the detox and it’s been interesting. No major issues so far, I have reduced my caffeine intake to one cup of (English breakfast) tea a day, my dairy is down to a splash of milk in my tea, dairy is out; I am all about the soy milk and yogurt although I do miss my Fage Greek yoghurt, coffee is decaf, no red meat and no chocolate/candy. Eliminating wheat has been a bit tricky; it’s in everything; bread, cereal, energy bars etc.

So I was mooching about Whole Foods and I saw, appropriately enough, Mochi. It’s a gluten free rice based snack that comes in several flavors either savory or sweet. I picked up a packet of “seed” flavor and tried it at the weekend, I over cooked it and it was a bit crunchy, I also think I cut it up too small but even so it was actually pretty good! I ran it by HolisticGuru on Twitter and she gave it the thumbs up and I used it a vehicle for hummus, which I am totally into of late, after listening to Brett (Texafornia) on the ZenTri podcast, to which I am a recent listener but complete addict, extol it’s virtues! Anyway back to the Mochi, basically you cut it up into 1.5” squares and bake it at 450f for 10 minutes…tricky huh! The next time around I picked up some cinnamon flavored (red packet) and it is yummy, The green pack is "seeds" and is savory great with hummus but with a dab of blue agave sweetener it's also yummy! It’s not bad value at $4.00 a packet which gives you about 16 pieces.

So that overcame the bread issue but there was still the question of breakfast. My breakfast diet for years has been oat based and for the last two years or so has been my own “Cereal Killer” anyway in another aisle I found the following, Perkys Nutty Flax and Bakery on Main mixed them together and voila! Not quite as interesting as the home made stuff but really not that bad at all! Mixed together I get about 10 days worth and that costs out at about $1.30 a bowl.

Snackwise in addition to hummus and Moochi, I discovered in Trader Joes, which was a good thing because Whole foods is not the cheapest shop on the planet, two gluten free bars, both are pretty tasty but they are really calorific the Pure bar is 200 calories for 1.7 oz and the Organic bar is a whopping 310 calories for 2.4 oz, that’s over three bananas in a bar! Both are priced around $1.50-2.00. Anyway once in a while they’re fine but not everyday.

So what are the results? Well I have 2.5 pounds with no real effort and this is despite the reduction in the rate of calorie burn from the height of my training; last week I put in 28 miles and this week will be the same. So things are heading in the right direction without any real effort. I managed to put my back out over the weekend; a trip to the Chiropractor put it straight, but this meant the P90X workouts didn’t start till last night proper; Back and Arms, I’ll report on that later…so in summary so far so good!