Starting a new fitness regimen.

See this thread

My internet window won't let me copy/paste. But I want lots of info and support, so I'm posting in two forums. Forgive me, please.

Need info on:

wheat-free casein-free recipes for "normal" foods, especially breads

Yoga positions, very basic non-bendy for extremely inactive people just starting

And support.

 

Holly, sorry I don't have any useful resources on this stuff. I've actually been (well, okay, kinda half-assed) looking into very similar diet info myself. I know we have some of the same health issues so that would make sense. Could you possibly share some of what you've found so far? Maybe it'll help get myself thinking more along the lines of diet/fitness, and then we could lend support to each other!

 

Well, I'm working on curbing my food addiction as well. So I'm on a mono-food diet for a week. Basically, I'm fasting but I eat one food (mine being an apple) a few times a day so my colon doesn't shut down. Drink tons and tons of water. (Divide your weight in half, drink that many ounces per day).

Then I'll slowly introduce new foods, keeping out all things wheat and all things containing dairy or casein protein.

I'll also stop drinking anything other than water, except the occasional chamomile tea to relax me before bed. Bedtime will be earlier, so I get more sleep.

Yoga is to help me control my stress level, which can cause weight gain.

And everything from now on will be organic.

We'll see if any of this makes a difference.

My goal is to be able to register my weight on my FIL's home scale within the month.

 

Are you looking to make or buy breads and other foods?

Look for sprouted grains, a good brand is Ezekial 4:9

They have bread, tortillas and cereals. They're cereal is expensive, but they fill it all the way to the top unlike most other cereal brands, so the box is small but it's worth it, I think.

As for yoga... spinal flex is the easiest and most effective yoga pose I think, for relieving stress and building strength. Sit with your legs crossed. Holding the ankles with the hands, begin flexing the lower spine forward and raising shoulders on the inhale. With each exhale flex the lower spine back and relax the shoulders. Repeat 108 times then rest 2 1/2 to 5 minutes. Now don't count, just do it for a minute perhaps 2. Do this daily and you will start to feel some changes in your spine and in your mind, you will perfect it the more you do it.

I will have to find you links. I have a huge binder full of yoga poses. Maybe if I make it up your way we can have a session sometime.

 

I don't want sprouted grain breads. They have wheat too.

But I found a couple easy recipes for wf/cf bread.

And thanks for the yoga info!

 

Do they? I was pretty sure they didn't have wheat.

 

OOH, I wanted to tell you I walked a marathon and a half this summer.... and walking builds your calf muscles and stomach muscles and well a lot of your leg muscles and walking burns a decent amount of calories also it makes you feel better about yourself. adn thats something that you could do with your baby! I'm sure she would love going on walks with you! You can do it!

Just out of curiosity whats wrong with wheat? You can send me a PM if you dont wnat to say! Anyway good luck, Im sure you will do great!

 

I might be allergic to it, and the only way to find out is to eliminate it.

 

OOH i see... I Thought you were thinking that wheat is bad for you... which it is if you are allergic to it... I understand now.

 

you can use riceflour instead of wheatflour for most things, and the conversion is the same however you should be aware that most rice flour goods are extreemely crumbly

 

zanthum gum solves the crumbly problem, I've found

 

So how is the regimen going?

 

hey, PM me about the gluten-free stuff... (I think I posted a really long reply in Parenting forum a few months ago, maybe in a thread about autism?)

there are some bread mixes available, most of them okay, Pamela's is pretty good (edited - sorry, the Pamela's bread mix wasn't so great, it's the Gluten-Free Pantry "favorite bread mix" in the turquoise and white strped package that my family likes best). We have a bakery here that makes gf bread which doesn't cost any more than those mixes. I get lots of ingredients at www.glutenfreemall.com because even with shipping cost, it's still cheaper than our one health food store here that has no competition and extremely high prices. Try asian food stores, too, if you can tolerate rice (my oldest child cannot). Lots of Asian people cannot eat wheat.
It took me a year to feel comfortable substituting other ingredients in my favorite recipes, but some things actually produce superior results. It just takes trial and error to figure it out. Arrowroot flour makes much better gravies and sauces (Southern gal here, can't live without putting gravy on my food!). You just mix it with cold liquid until there's no lumps, then add to boiling sauce base, stir until desired consistency, and remove from heat (if you leave it on the heat too long, it will turn back to runny).

lots of links to check out in your free time (in no particular order):
http://www.allergygrocer.com/id1315.html
http://www.samisbakery.com/
http://www.tufinit.com/
http://users.bigpond.net.au/allergydietitian/fi/foodintolerance.html
http://www.gfcfdiet.com/
http://www.ellenskitchen.com/faqs/glutfree.html
http://www.gicare.com/pated/edtgs06.htm
http://www.chebe.com/index.htm - okay I gotta let you know, we eat lots of Chebe bread!! It makes the best pizza crust, if you add a little cornmeal and some yeast to the dough. This site offers free shipping, so it's not more expensive than getting it anywhere else, really.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~coeliac/det.html
http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/Food/Wheatfree.html
http://www.wheat-free.org/arrowroot_food_fact.html
http://www.generationrescue.org/what_action.html

and always remember.... Outback Steakhouse and Bonefish Grill have GF menus!!!

 

nah, that won't work. you usually gotta mix it with other flours, and you need some sort of starch (most people use potato starch, but my youngest can't tolerate that well) and xanthan gum to make it hold together. And you can't mix gf flours the same way you mix wheat flour. You knead wheat bread dough to start breaking down the gluten to hold everything together. GF bread, if you mix it too long, turns rubbery and gross, and if you use the wrong combination of flours, it sometimes is dry and crumbly. You have to mix the liquid ingredients and dry ingredients separately, then slowly mix them together without overmixing.

gluten free cooking is very different than what I was used to, it took lots of trial and error to figure out what works for each recipe. It's not as easy as simply substituting this for that. Wish it were. Nobody in their right mind would ever stay gluten-free without a really good reason for it!!!


But hey, you do know that if you stop eating gluten cold-turkey, you will have a withdrawal reaction that is worse than what the gluten causes, don't you? That is why most people, even after eliminating gluten, don't realize how much it affects them. Give it at least three months before you decide. We stopped very graduallly, first with the white refined wheat flours, then we cut out the whole grains, then the other gluten containing ingredients, over the course of several months.

 

just one more... you have to be careful about cross-contamination. Just the tiniest bit of wheat on the food-preparation surface causes my oldest child the most incredible gluten reaction! Oats do not contain gluten themselves, but any domestic oats are processed in the same plants with wheat and are not gluten-free. The only gf oats come from the UK and are labeled "Gluten-Free"

the same goes for lots of other things. We had a bad reaction to taco shells, and the only ingredients in them was corn and oil. But we can and do eat lots of Fritos corn chips.

 

okay, my last reply, honest. I'm taking yoga at the Y. I think my thread in the fitness forum has the same title as this one, even.