I feel amazing. I can honestly say, I can't remember the last time I felt this good.
In May 2009, 4 months before my wedding, I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis. I spent the next year and a half eating what I wanted to because doctors told me that my diet had nothing to do with it. Little did I know, I was slowly getting sicker. I finally got to a point where I thought I would be stuck in a world where feeling awful was just the norm and needing an iron infusion every 3 months would be routine. It wasn't until I found myself lying in a hospital bed in March of this year, that I realized that I needed to make a change. I was not going to let UC control me, I am too young. On March 3rd 2011, I made the decision to change my life with diet. This wasn't a watch what you eat diet, this was a change of life diet.
At this time, I am gluten free, dairy free, corn free and soy free. When I started, I thought this was going to be a difficult transition but in the end, it wasn't. The further I moved away from the gluten, dairy, corn, and soy, the better I felt.
If there is one question I've answered the most over the past few months, it is "Well, what can you eat then?" and the answer to that question is "Plenty."
I feel that food has changed my life in various ways; from making me sick, to healing me. I enjoy finding different ways to eat healthy foods. I love to cook and changing my diet has opened many new avenues for me to explore many different foods and find out that I actually like them. Imagine, this, coming from someone who would never touch a vegetable...hahaha.
My hope for this blog is to share recipes for whole, healthy, and nutritious foods...with a few treats on the side. Please bare with me as I start on this blogging journey...
