Steady As She Goes....

Hi there!

I'm holding steady, no gain or loss and I feel pretty fine about staying here a while. This might be my "ideal weight", but we'll see. At this point, I'm just letting my body do it's thang!

Speaking of which...I've experimented a bit. While deciding to stay on the strictest phase of the Dukan diet through October, I've had a few "slips". I was at a friend's vineyard for a weekend of wine and pork BBQ (we call it Swinestock) and someone, who shall remain nameless, brought the most decadent home made deserts - chocolate "corks", nutter butter and oreo cookies - a very rich, grown up version. I went a little over board and paid for it dearly that night and for the few days following (thanks to the wisdom of layering Chinese food on top of an already "meh" feeling stomach). After not experiencing ANY acid reflux since starting Dukan (which has plagued me almost nightly for 15 years), I woke up one night (after the aforementioned slips) and thought I was going to have to wake Rob to take me to the ER. I thought I was having a heart attack, the pain went all the way around to my back and it felt like I had some iron torture device tightened around my chest.

The thought has occurred to me that I might be making my food sensitivities worse by avoidance, but I don't think "building up a tolerance" is the healthiest idea either. I feel so much better now anyway that I'm going to keep on keeping on! I've at least narrowed it down to a few things that I know make me feel bad:

Baked goods - OUT (This I already knew and don't typically crave this kind of sweet anyway). Chinese food - OUT (The bad, fried, tastes so yummy 'cause it's bad for you kind)
Corn Tortillas - OK.
Wine - OK.  (Whew!)
Dark Chocolate - OK. (Woot!)

I haven't tried bread or pasta yet, but to be honest, I'm having fun making my own non-bread bread (see picture below) and I don't miss pasta. I figure if I need it, my body will crave it, and it doesn't so......

Yummy!!

So there you have it! I am now one of those extremely annoying "food intolerants". You know...the people who expound the virtues of their new diets and will tell you, in great detail, all of the intestinal issues caused by gluten and sugar. Ha!

On the horse front - my new exciting adventure is to teach my horse to be ridden bareback and bridle less! I just use a neck rope, maybe one day I won't have to use anything. So far it's going well. I have dreams of spandex glitter suits and Rodeo arena half time shows! Or whatever they call them....