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Friday 29 August 2014

Wheat free, sugar free breakfasts

I thought I would start with breakfast.  Giving up wheat and sugar can make breakfast quite a challenge.

Here are some things I have

Porridge, made with milk (I use soya milk) a twist of salt and a spoonful of cream
Sometimes I add berries to the above
A form of Bircher muesli, soak oats in milk overnight, or at least for a "while", when ready to eat add berries (I use frozen so give them time to defrost), chopped nuts, maybe chopped apple and a spoonful of cream
Continental  - ham, cheese, melon, tomatoes
Banana or melon chopped up with a couple of spoonfuls of full fat Greek yogurt with some chopped mixed nuts and seeds on top and mayb some dried blueberries or raisins
Bacon and egg
Omelette

Today, however I really fancied something different.  I had an egg in my fridge which had cracked so needed using up, and having got some inspiration from another blog I did the following

Finely chopped half an onion, some pepper and half a courgette, which I fried in a tsp of coconut oil. Then I added a handful of spinach.  Once that was almost ready I added the egg from the freezer and another egg (whose yolk had not broken)


Once the eggs were cooked, I piled them onto a plate and laid the eggs on top.  Absolutely scrummy



It's nice to mix it up once in a while.  This kept me going till lunchtime.  If I had had some bacon in, then I might have added a rasher but it was perfectly fine without.




Thursday 28 August 2014

So I was going to start afresh with a new blog, but couldn't decide what to call it and I rather like the name "Running Green Llama".  So I will stick with this one. So here goes another resolution to keep it rather more updated than i have previously.

I have spent a lot of time thinking about my diet and exercise and have done an amount of research.  As a result I have pretty much quit eating sugar and wheat.  I have also intermittently done intermittent fasting and have switched to clean eating - 95% of the time.  As a result of all that, I have lost 15lb, my inflamed sinuses are so much better that i now don't need to use my steroid spray.  My clothes are a lot looser.  It is great, I can do this forever.

Over the next little while, I will reference some of my research - if anyone is reading this, i should like to hear of more.

My starting point was investigating what i should do now that I have turned 50 - menopause is looming so how can I keep myself as fit and healthy as possible?  I was also suffering pretty bad acid reflux and bloating, sinus issues and weight gain.  I can't remember the exact route but i soon learned that sugar is pretty evil stuff and that it could well be causing a lot of my issues.  There is nothing that added sugar does for us and that I had nothing to lose by giving it up.

One of my first ports of call was "Sugar, the bitter truth" by Robert Lustig - available here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

And I rather like this mantra by Michael Pollan

"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants"  taken from this article in the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Tomorrow i shall be back with a couple of recipes