As I said in my last post, I have been saved years of research by family and friends helping me learn from their lessons.  Hopefully I can pass on some things to help save you time and effort to if you want to learn! I have tweaked the guidelines for my eating since my first post.  Pretty simple: - no gluten - no corn - no sugar...which means no honey, no agave, no splenda...only stevia or xylitol  - no fruit other than berries and green apples - no soy Other important priorities during this time: grass fed beef, high quality eggs, some raw cheese (I also never eat pork.) The key to making this doable is reading labels, eating at home and cooking a lot.  Everything from hot dogs and bacon to worchestire sauce, salad dressing and dijon mustard has sugar in it.  The thing I have enjoyed about this process is learning to reintroduce healthy versions of food that we haven't eaten for a long time.  With my mom's diagnosis, out went things li...

Eight days in the corn/gluten/sugar free eating and we are still here! :) First of all, thank you for the encouragement and support that so many of you have given to us during this time!  Many of you have been asking for recipes that I have been trying this week.  I have been documenting everything I'm making and eating and will definitely post more about recipes later. During this process, there have been a few people that have been INVALUABLE resources to me and have spent vast amount of their time to help me.  The least I can do is pass that information along to you!  A huge thank you to my mom - she listens to me talk about food, cooking, supplements, doctor visit, etc... ALL the time.  She mails me care packages of stuff I need  and encourages me every day.  She has walked this road for over a year.  She was diagnosed with diabetes and she decided to fight and change her lifestyle.  She jumped into a world of "extreme" healthy eating wi...

If you tend to think that people share too much on blogs, then this post is probably not for you.  But hopefully these thoughts will help someone else that may be struggling and give me a chance to let friends and family know of a new normal in our house.   For the past three years I have had some medical issues that have come and gone and been very frustrating to pin down.  My symptoms began during Chad's first deployment.  I was exhausted in a way I never had been before and my blood sugar was a mess - dropping as low as 32.  For the next 9 months I went from doctor to doctor, ruling out Lupus, RA, diabetes, thyroid problems, etc... The day I went to a Neurologist to begin testing for MS I found out I was pregnant with Mya.  Strangely enough, pretty soon all the symptoms went away.  I had no real problems until the beginning of this year.  I first noticed feeling tired and having blood sugar swings again, followed up by some stomach is...