I am probably going to be sorry tonight. We’ll see if the watermelon affects me like the butternut squash and carrots have done. Usually when I have carbohydrates in the evening it causes me to wake up with insomnia around 1:30 in the morning. I just couldn’t help myself. My… Read the rest

Don’t miss Life Before and After the GAPS Diet over at Heart of Cooking. This is the inspirational testimonial from a woman who has been on the GAPS diet for 9 months. Also in January she wrote: A Happiest New Year and My Life Prior to the GAPS Diet. I… Read the rest

When you don’t have much energy, it’s hard to keep a clean house. For years, I thought it must be laziness on my part. I would try my hardest to get the house cleaned up, and then try to stay on top of it. Even when I was a stay… Read the rest

I forgot to mention yesterday that I had a breakfast smoothie, consisting of coconut milk [affiliate link] [affiliate link] (not GAPS legal since it contained guar gum), 1/2 a banana, some very sweet pineapple I’d sliced and frozen a couple of months ago, about 5 pecan halves, one egg yolk and a… Read the rest

I stopped stepping on the scale sometime around 1997 because it would mess with my head so much to know the number. I could not bring myself to look at the number for years, and instead had my son and husband keep track of how much I weighed (just in… Read the rest