One Month In

So I started this venture for two reasons. I thought they were related but time will tell.

1: My Itchy Medical Condition: I've developed a condition called hives with randomly blotched itchy spots all over my body. They seem to come and go at anytime. Some last hours, others last days. I've been to my family doctor and she's sent me to specialists on allergies and skin ailments and no relief has come to my problem. It's been over a year now and still no cure to the problem.It seems the best they can offer is that it is not an allergy and that it is something I'll have to grow out of. So I have been slowly removing things I think would be a problem and see if anything changes. I'm on month 14 with little results and some days I'm so swollen and itchy I can't go to work. NOT GOOD.

2: Reducing my weight. I've been sitting at 232 pounds for the past few years and with all the medications I've been taking to help reduce my hives I've slowly been adding on the pounds. When I topped 245 I said enough is enough and started looking for alternatives.

I've tried many fad diets second hand that worked to a point but always rebounded once you stopped the exact program ( Which usually involved spending money on their time limited products). They all had one thing in common but the results were also the same. I even went to a nutritionist and she said I was eating the right way, except for two things. She suggested I reduce portion sizes and cut down on the junk food.

Until I went to a Health and Wellness Seminar locally did I see something that made things start to click. Insulin Resistance and the low glycemic diet. Insulin resistance was the reason the pounds were starting to slowly pile up in spite of the changes I had made to my diet.

It only took one week on a low glycemic diet and I lost 10 pounds. That was 10 pounds without changing anything but the of timing my of my meals than changing what I ate. So I'm dropping the pounds but I am still itchy.. That trial continues.