Now completely wheat free!

Okay, I've been wheat free since Friday, when I discovered that my last few slices of light wheat bread had actually gone a little moldy.  The past three days have actually been pretty easy for me so far.  I have a little bit of a headache today, but I don't think that's from the wheat deprivation as much as my allergies acting up again.

I've heard people talk online about getting serious withdrawals from not eating wheat.  At the moment I'm not feeling it when I'm awake, but I think I had it when I slept last night because I had a rather vivid dream about accidentally eating a cracker, then getting my hands on all the crackers I can have.

So far, the past few days I've just been trying to make it so that most of my carbs come from vegetables, with very few starchy exceptions such as rice crackers (no wheat -- checked the ingredients beforehand, and I only eat half the serving size since the crackers are so dense) and sweet peas (again, going by serving size).  For example, my salad this afternoon was made with Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, dill relish (for "bite"), Mexican blend cheese, cooked chicken breast, and sugar-free sesame ginger dressing.  So no really big carb sources in there, which I am going to save for my snack.

I was proud of myself yesterday, because I faced one of my biggest challenges and passed with flying colors.  My cousin's son graduated yesterday, and she had a big party to celebrate.  There was a LOT of tempting food on the table that wasn't very low carb friendly.  So this is what I grabbed:

Chicken with no sauce (I asked my cousin's husband to leave one with no sauce for me, and he obliged)
Salad with full fat Thousand Island dressing
Strawberries and blueberries
Veggies from a veggie platter with dip
Hot dog
Water

That was what I stuck to the entire time I was there, and didn't have anything else.  If I weren't on this diet, I would have grabbed everything else on the tables and overstuffed myself.

Now the next step: getting exercise back into my routine when the school year ends on Wednesday.