new blog, old likeness

[allthecolors]

I started a new blog this morning, and decided to use a childhood picture on it. What do you think?

Comments

[heinekinbeer]

Very cute picture. :)

[allthecolors]

thanks :) It's my favorite pic with my sister.

[allthecolors]

I'm the older/taller one on the right eating maple sugar snow

[ftmichael]

Cute! What are you (or what is your companion) eating there?

[allthecolors]

My sister and I poured maple syrup on the freshly fallen snow and my aunt caught that picture of me eating it.

[xxweaponx]

Hey, I have Celiac. It took over 5 years for me to get a diagnosis, and that was several years ago. I had several blood tests come up negative, which is really common, so even if you come up negative, you may not be negative.

I was finally diagnosed after a colonoscopy, where the first food I ate was spelt bread after hrs without food. I got super, super sick, and finally they got me diagnosed. So I just wanted to really support you in this, and tell you that 1) it is not impossible to have a great gluten free life, and 2) the benefits to being GF are myriad and great, even if you do not suffer with Celiac. It is really worth pursuing even if you end up being truly negative, b/c of all of the ways that living GF improves your health.

If you end up going GF, feel free to email me for any assistance you need, and to get hooked up with my little network of GFers. You have my email.

[allthecolors]

The plan is definitely to go gluten-free no matter what the tests say. I know it will improve my life, because when my roommate who was GF lived with us, I felt better when I'd eat her food, and when I had a partner who was a raw foodist I went 80 percent raw and had some definite bennies, only reason I didn't keep doing it was the difficulty to get the protein I needed. A GF dietary plan doesn't limit me as much as vegan. So I hope you will keep up with my food blog as I go, and feel free to include comments, recipes, suggestions or encouragement, I can use all that I can get! I fluctuate back and forth between anger/frustration and hope/certainty that this is the right decision for me. If I wasn't waiting for blood tests I'd start living gluten free today

[pepsquad]

good job on the weight i'm down 10 keep it up brother! i've got 60 pounds to go!

[allthecolors]

hey if you want an ebuddy on losing weight, keep in touch with me! just send me a note through LJ and whenever I log on I'll write back. My plan is to eat healthier (encouraged by weight watchers online) and exercise on the Wii every other day, yoga/deep breathing on the days between. Some days I manage to do this, other days I find the dizzyness and pain from the migraines or fatigue and pain from the fibro preventing me from keeping up with my goals... but over all I'm losing at a healthy weight.

I'm losing so that I can get the surgical results I want and improve my health but my BMI goal is 30 as I don't like myself skinny. If you feel like talking about it, What are your goals and why?

[allthecolors]

*chuckles* your pep squad name is fitting btw, I felt cheered on!