14 Day Challenge

I have started the Bright Line Eating 14 day challenge. I'm on day 2...

Here's hoping.

Sleeping

Here is my first attempt to send a post via email to this blog.  This is Beau, my grandson.  Isn't he sweet, sleeping on his Momma's chest. I hope to be able to use this feature to post pictures of my meals, and add an explanation of why I chose those foods, and how I prepared them, and generally how I'm feeling.

We'll see...

Disappointed

I really thought I was on to something big.  The China Study.  Turns out it's just another diet plan.  WFPB - whole food plant based.  The research that the author talks about is impressive and compelling. But I feel like saying "This is not my first rodeo." I've read a blog or two and a book or two about various nutritional approaches, and this seems like more of the same...  or am I just being reluctant to give up meat and animal products?

He talks a little about autoimmune diseases in the book, though not specifically about Crohn's.  What he says seems to lead me to believe that it boils down to leaky gut. That seems to be where I started back in 2012, with Taunya Bruton, my nutritional coach.  She started with leaky gut with me, and I headed down the gluten free path, which led to sugar free, to SCD, to Paleo.  And I did pretty well with all that, but that was before...

Before I was diagnosed with breast cancer, before I started to hurt all over from what I've been told is  Crohn's disease related joint and tendon pain.

So, now I'm wondering again if I could eat grains.  Why do grains cause or exacerbate leaky gut? Do they? All grains?  Let's google...