It’s been fifteen years since I began to take steps to lose some weight. Thankfully things are still going pretty well on this front, and I hope can continue to do what I can to stay at a healthy weight.

It was certainly interesting coming down with a respiratory illness during the COVID-19 (or coronavirus) outbreak. While at past times I would have just assumed it was a bad cold, this time I wondered if I might have been one… Continue Reading…

Shortly after going gluten-free back in 2012, I found the Glutino gluten-free breakfast bars. I really enjoyed them and thought they were similar to the Nutri-Grain bars I used to eat years ago. I would take them to college to… Continue Reading…

This month, I celebrate ten years since I began my weight-loss journey.  Back in April 2007, I was disappointed in my body and the way I looked, and I resolved to find a way to change it.  I’d been working… Continue Reading…

About six months after I started eating gluten-free, I stopped eating out in an effort to eliminate gluten cross-contamination. I would either take my own food out or just eat at home. My birthday almost two years later was my… Continue Reading…

Christmas this year was a pretty rough one for me. Extreme gluten sensitivity makes it very difficult to stay symptom-free for any length of time. Even the smallest traces cause minor but recognizable symptoms, but you don’t know how much… Continue Reading…