My first day of no dairy and no gluten turned out too low cal and too high sodium yesterday. Must do better today! Fingers crossed I have no stomach pain today!

Logging in a salad with all the bazillion things I put in it are a PITA! And it's not like i can weigh/measure anything at the salad bar at work.

Thanks all, I'm getting the hang of the gluten free. I've done dairy free before while nursing my son so I knew that wouldn't be a big deal (well, except for getting in protein) but no wheat/gluten is harder!

So far so good. Yesterday I still felt bloated but no debilitating pain, so I take that as improvement. I think this may have started with some bad food (the first day was nausea more than anything) and I just think that it needs a little help to recover this time. Hopefully If I stay off it a few weeks, then test dairy, and if that goes ok try gluten again, I'll be fine. If I have to stay off one or the other for good, so be it (though I'd miss cheese, there is no good fake cheese!).

If I get better, and then worse again once trailing again, I'll probably see a GI to see if I have an intolerance. I think if it were true celiac I'd be dropping weight like crazy, and that's not been a side effect :laugh:

I did grocery shop last night and was impressed/surprised at the gluten-free options they had for things like crackers and pasta, so all is not lost! Even pizza dough mix

Ellie - that's interesting that your co-worker was getting sick in the afternoons like me.

Emma - we sorely need rain here too. It did rain all day Friday and the lawn is starting to perk up a bit, but we need another day to really get it green again. It was supposed to rain last night but never did :grumble:

Sandra - go you for not falling off the wagon! We need a cheering smiley here.

Toni - I found MFP estimates were spot on for running, but not much else. Enjoy the new HRM, they are fun gadgets!

Hubby asked me to go out to lunch yesterday, and I remembered PF Changs has a gluten free menu, so that made it easy. That meant I had to do my run in the evening, but I wanted until after the kids were in bed and it wasn't too hot by then. I've started phase 3 of the lifting regimen and man are my quads sore, I hope I can manage the workout today!

Sandra - I hope the treadmill works perfectly tonight!

Ellie - rest the legs!

Emma - glad you are liking the fitbit! So far I'm resisting, I don't NEED any more gadgets...

Paul - Men's health is a great mag, another home my husband likes is Men's journal. How are you feeling other than a cold?

Toni- it hasn't been too bad actually, but trying to be dairy free at the SAME TIME has made it hard to get all my protein in, so I'm just ignoring macros for now :laugh: The hardest thing is to go without sandwiches, as that was my usual lunch, ad GF bread seems to be the hardest replacement. But I found GF cookies (not that I really eat cookies, but it's nice to have that option), pasta, crackers, pizza dough mix, cake mixes, pancake mix, etc. The other things in my diet were fairly normally non-gluten anyway - fruits, veggies, meats. You have to be careful with dressings and sauces though, apparently soy sauce (all but 1 brand) have gluten, many marinades use it as a thickener, etc.

My son decided that 4:40am was wake up time today :yawn: WTF? He was all chipper. By 6am I was tired of going to his crib and meeting one demand or the other so I brought him back to our bed where he promptly fell back asleep and slept til 730 (I had to wake him) while I essentially just stared at him :mad: