As you may know Andrew and I have been on our journey for a healthy weight and lifestyle for almost 2 years now, our newest adventure is cutting dairy and gluten from our diets. Last year when I broke my thumb we strayed from healthy eating and exercise, something about running with a cast on your hand that just didn't work for me. Needless to say we gained a couple of LB's back and are now back on track, just finding some difficulty in getting it to start coming off again, so we have cut out 2 things from our diets that seem to be in all the reading on health and weightloss, dairy and gluten. I feel better and more satisfied, granted that could be the fact that I am also exercising. This is bound to be an interesting journey, adapting recipes and keeping the lines of communication open with Andrew so that he does not feel deprived.
Speaking of communicating, one thing we have found over the past 2 years is that if food is not a focus, written down and talked about several times a day than food is not a focus and mindless eating and bad choices occur. I used to feel bad making things such a point of focus for Andrew, after all he's only 10 and was just 9 when we started our Compass journey, but I had a child who was average or below in height and 105lbs. The Compass study from Children's Hospital saved his life. They have given us the tools to continue to use with Andrew and God willing when he is grown and a young man on his own these are the choices he will continue to make. God placed this study in our laps and guided us along the way making Andrew's attitude toward food a good one, exercise on the other hand took some time.
My plan is to use this blog for us to write about successes and things that flopped and how we can change them.
Our first task was to make spaghetti from scratch, we used oat flour and it turned out with a good flavor, we liked it better than wheat pasta and Andrew loved making his own pasta.
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