OMG Pinto - fantastic post and SOOOOOOOO timely! Hubby just came in and I read your post to him (except the first para, he doesn't know I've posted question). You sound like him! He's younger, but can get really INTO things, rowing when he was a young man, and was very fit when we met. He likes his meat, takaway choices would be similar and not really big on salads! He said 'that sounds a bit like me' ..... and now here's the thing.... I also have recently given up wheat, sugar and white refined anything. I have always eaten quite well, pretty much how I was brought up meat and two veg and have never had low fat anything in my life as it just seemed 'wrong'!
I got onto HEALTHIER eating after reading Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions - the CookBook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (the non pc aspect appealled) and found it mostly good old fashioned common sense. Nevertheless this book has quite literally opened my eyes and changed how I view modern and traditional foods.
I started drinking raw milk (my raynauds went away) and somewhere along the way I stumbled upon Mark's Daily Apple
www.marksdailyapple.com
I've given up wheat, thrown all the pasta out and have NEVER FELT SO GOOD. I have also started excersising for the first time in twenty years! I am blessed with a good slim figure and so never had the same motivations to excersise as others. But I was weak, couldn't do one push-up, and puffed up the rare set of stairs I encounter in Melbourne.
Now I WANT to get fit and get strong, I have been to BodyPump every week this year, practising press-ups, and the other thing is I am calm and don't shout at the children. Life can get very busy running a family and working full time in quite a stressful job. I too cannot believe the difference! I have been espousing to my husband who is semi on board, and has started running again (bad knees) and eating less rubbish. He's on board academically. I know I will have to set the example though, and I believe this combined with the no wheat gradually becoming the new norm in this house will result in reduced drinking.
Thankyou so much for sharing your experience. Oh, and by the way, he's had a light beer tonight - not a glass of red!!!!!!
