Tera, those were my thoughts as well, seven at one blow is a bit much. I like the book but on some of the seven I already know I'm doing ok. Gluten is a big one, although I seem to be very happy on it. I am not contemplating giving up dairy, my favorite thing in the universe EXCEPT she had me with the mention of coconut milk because I love all things coconut. I definitely know I am have been lactose intolerant since childhood and that dairy also impacts sinus. None of this has been much of a problem to me as I have never considered totally giving up dairy. But in the context of reducing inflammation and feeling better overall and that there is now coconut milk in Arizona, well, maybe.
I did have a lot of stress this week (not over) and yesterday had one of the rare instances of thinking about throwing in the wheat free towel as I wanted BAKED GOODS ... I was sad and wandered around the world yesterday and ended up in a store I used to go to that had a lot of healthy (depending on how you look at it) items. I was literally going to get a cookie but saw some gluten free ones (no wheat in a gluten free cookie) and though I don't want to start eating many of those kinds of products, I sprang for a package of the cookies and ate six in the car with milk. They were good and stopped my cravings but did not have the usual cookie effect of making me want to binge on the rest of the package.
So I think my goal (one of them) in this wheat freedom thing of cutting out diet unfriendly baked goods is pretty well proved to me.
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Marie, the book's plan is to ban the seven foods for 21 days, not forever.
But I'm not advocating for the book or particularly planning on doing it (unless I thought it really COULD take seven pounds off of me and do all the other healthy things for me). I just enjoyed it and thought it was a tidy little plan.
I too enjoy (read that LOVE) eating very much but I also enjoy such books and challenges and tinkering around with my diet and health. It does not connote non living to me. Happily we are all different.
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Of all the PBS "healthy eating" gurus that they constantly have on, I have liked the one best who is a doctor and a Cordon Bleu chef.
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My streakity streak went down in a blaze of stress eating today, though. I am starting Round 3 tomorrow and will update then.