This is it: Weigh in Day!

"No one knows the trouble I've seen...." Louis Armstrong

:-)

Let me start with the end: I'm headed now to the gym to weigh in after my first week of the RAW diet. SO I DON'T KNOW YET HOW IT'S EFFECTED ME.

But in the middle I can tell you that I feel like a new person. 100%.

Example:

PRE-GLUTEN FREE:

I bought a bike last fall and rode a couple of times - but every time I would ride I would come home & be sick for about 2 days. Exhausted. Even a little achy ( and NOT the good kind that comes after a great workout...just flu-like achy) Ick!

What did I do? I tried riding shorter distances and not pushing myself so hard... maybe going 2 - 4 miles at a speed of 11 mph.

Still SICK! ugh. I was thinking MAN this getting old really stinks! Depressing thoughts huh!

POST GLUTEN FREE / PRE RAW:

This year - when I started riding (after I had gone gluten-free last December (well outside of biking season in Northern Wisconsin):) I started with just a couple of miles.

Much to my amazment - NOTHING. I felt very good. Tired, but a normal tired. Not exhausted and absolutely not achy.

YET: I would go a casual 6 -7 miles, maybe up to 12 on a great day and come home. Feeling like I had a good workout - but nothing amazing.

AFTER RAW:

Yesterday I biked 26 miles at an average pace of 16 mph (even into the wind on Lake Michigan!) and

the coolest thing about it - when we arrived at our half way point in our typical ride - I was the one who asked my husband if we could keep going further!

So I added an additional 14 miles to our trip!

I'm very excited to see how my body is doing as far as burning off some unneeded fat and I can only imagine how great my physiological numbers will look as well.

I'll get back to you soon, after I weigh in and get you another great recipe too!

Much Love,
Jen