The first step was adopting a gluten free lifestyle. The second step was adopting a baby. And the third and final step was my detox diet (not in the weight loss alone sense, but in the new way of eating for the rest of my life sense) that I started in earnest in January. It would seem our transition to a greener, cleaner kind of life, though not complete, is well underway.
I never meant to 'go' green. And being 'green' is not that much of a consideration in our revolutionary (at least for us) undertaking. I did, however, want the kind of life where toxins and allergens and additives and pesticides had the most minimal impact on our health possible. Where my daughter wouldn't be as big of a victim of her environment - food allergies, reproductive issues, problems with unexplainable physical pain, etc - as I have been. I thought food was the main way, but after only the tiniest bit of research, I found that everything I wanted to avoid was not just in our food, but also in our lotions/shampoos/soaps/makeup/household cleaners, etc, soaking into our body through our skin (and in the case of my child - her mouth since everything goes there first). I'm sure it's elsewhere, too, but those areas are where I'm starting the process of elimination.
So begins our transition to a cleaner, greener way of life. I want to document this journey and have been debating creating a separate blog to explain why and also what I find out so it doesn't get lost in the everyday-ness of this particular blog. So stay tuned - a second new blog is on its way!
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