Health-a-licious

It has been 3 1/2 weeks since I have gone gluten-free. I had not missed bread up until this week There is nothing like cornbread and beans with some homegrown tomatoes and onions on top. This week I searched for a great recipe. I believe, I found one. Sent my hubby to the store to get ingredients and found that you really must read the label of each cornmeal product. There is white cornmeal mix, yellow cornmeal mix, yellow cornmeal, white cornmeal. All the cornmeal at our local store, except the yellow cornmeal, contains flour. The mixes contain white flour along with solids that I would not choose not to put in my body. My hubby grabbed a cornmeal mix and since he was getting some brown rice flour he thought brown rice Triscuits would be something great I could eat. Brown rice Triscuits also contain white flour. Yikes. They went back to the grocery store. So I made the cornmeal mix with flour he purchased for hubby. Then we went to the store ...

For 11 years I having knowing struggled with migraine headaches. Today is no different. It goes in waves and cycles with my hormones which are for the most part unpredictable. For me and many people chronic migraines are a progressive problem. For six years, the migraines progressively got stonger and more frequent for me. For 2 years now the migraines have been progressively been less frequent. I have consulted many physicians, natropaths and the like for care over the 11 years. I started this blog purely to find an answer to my health issues and hope that it helps others along the way. What I am hoping I am finding is a food related answer to my daily headache problem. The severe migraines now come only twice a month. Women will understand what times a month. LOL. The headaches are almost daily. Some years the migraines were daily, especially during what I endearingly call "the cancer years". I say endearing because those yea...

Oh my goodness. For years I  sleep exactly 9 hours each night. It is a burden. I have to schedule my life around it and it leaves less hours in the day. For 8 years prior to 2011, I took a two hour nap in the afternoon on top of the 9 hours of sleep each night to be able to make it through the day. In December 2011, my nurse practitioner found the right mix of thyroid medicine that my endocrinologist refused to adjust to for the two years before that. God bless her. Since that time I don't feel the need to take naps in the afternoon, but I do get a tired from the day's activities and need to rest. Up until now, I always blamed it on my thyroid issues that weren't discovered till 2009 and that my body just needed to rest and rejuvenate. I rest at 3 or 4p and usually eat a sandwich or pretzels or Doritos. Like any woman, I like to multi-task and I felt hungry by then anyway. After sitting, it was difficult for me to get off the couch and go on w...

For those of you keeping score...I no longer drink ginger ale. I have not drank ginger ale in a long time. Yesterday I openned a bottle I brought home from the grocery two weeks ago. I poured the refreshing looking ginger ale over ice and drank a cup. An hour later I poured another cup. I swallowed wrong ( or so I thought) and started coughing. I coughed for 5 minutes. My throat hurt and my face got all red. So 3 hours later I was slammed with a headache.  Could  it be that I coughed myself into a headache or because ginger has been an ingredient I have been sensitive too and did not know it? I have always had an aversion to raw ginger smell. Maybe that was my body's way of telling me, "Don't eat it." I had weird throat and chest pain. As the night progressed and my system process the ginger ale, the burning went from my chest to my stomach to my intestines. I don't know if it is because I have gone gluten-free and the ginger ale ...

After a night of my favorite food indulgence: 3 pieces of pizza.  I usually wake up with what I have termed over the years, a "food-hangover". I would wake up tired, headachey, grumpy, my eyes would be puffy and my body could not wake up. Last night was the ultimate test. I ate 3 pieces of gluten-free pizza at 7p and then like I enjoy doing(beacause pizza always tastes sooooo good), I ate three small squares at 10:30 pm before bed. I woke up at 6:40 am still full from the night before, but not groggy or bloated. My eyes aren't swollen and my head isn't throbbing. I am overly excited about this revelation. I know it is not good to eat right before bed, but I am testing my body to see how it reacts. I really had to find out. Because of my food-hangovers, I had a policy for about 4 years that I didn't eat after 8p. Then I lost 30 lbs of weight fast and I did not know why, so trying to gain weight, I changed my "no late night eat...

I have been in a life long search to find healthy delicious foods that work for my health and my body. Always seeking to find the latest and greatest in foods and flavors that work best for me and my health. I am working to keep my body energetic and fit while overcoming health obstacles that I never imagined would be on my journey in this lifetime. I am writing this blog in the hopes to help others who are on the same journey. Busy women who are on a health quest for themselves and their families. Women who need to keep their energy high and their emotions on track daily so they can be a Proverbs 31 woman. (More to come about that later.) I am by no means an expert. Just a layperson who has taken advice from others (professionals, friends and others) and found that I have discovered more along the way than I ever could have imagined and I am sure to learn so much more. My new discovery; A gluten-free diet is amaz-mo. Food tastes better! You have more energy! Y...