Happy Last Friday of January! For anyone participating in a Dry January, or Whole30 or Gluten Free January - you made it!! And yes I am patting myself on the back there, as Phil and JP and I have successfully given up gluten for this last month (minus the eggo waffle I absentmindedly ate one morning when really sick and totally forgot about gluten).
JP has had really good results going GF including less bloating and he's also lost a good chunk of weight between eating better and his job as an ER Tech which gets him lots of steps and then he goes to the gym straight from work. Phil and I have been eating too many chips and chocolate to have lost much weight but I think I feel less bloated overall, like I don't have days when I feel gross/stuffed. I absolutely hate that feeling and try to never overeat so as to avoid it. The real test will come tomorrow when we introduce gluten back in. I'm dreaming of a cheeseburger on a brioche roll. One addition to my diet that I want to keep is eating
Oats Overnight for breakfast. It feels like a luxury to pick a flavor each night, shake it up with unsweetened almond milk, and grab it in the morning. Yum! Plus oatmeal = good for my cholesterol levels.
Are you tired of hearing about gluten? Me too, moving on.
Alexander went ahead and won 3rd place for his 8th grade science fair project which means he is supposed to compete at the regional science fair in a month... which happens to be the same day as their huge end-of-season swim meet. Dude, we said just get an A. Kidding, kidding (kinda) we are very proud of him.
After 14 science fair projects, we finally cracked the code on how to set up a trifold board with ease. The secret is in creating documents with the perfect dimensions and background colors and borders that get printed at Staples, instead of printing a whole bunch of papers and cutting and cropping and placing on construction paper.
Old way of creating the board:
New way of creating the board:
My my how he's grown in a year!