The Six Big Things I've Learned So Far

1. Drinking lots of water, every day, is hard.
2.  I feel better when I eat lots of vegetables and fruit, and don't eat wheat, dairy (the cow's milk kind), sugar, and lots of carbs (including grains).
3. Never, ever do you lose weight in the way you want, much less where you want.
4. I am allergic to peanuts (not in the anaphylactic shock kinda way, just the itchy-face-throat-and-head way), and I did not know that. (Maybe soy, too. Jeez.)
5.  Beet juice is very, very good. Beet juice stains, not so much.
6. I mourn the loss of some foods, the feelings they gave (or took away). Even the lost   potential solace they might provide, I mourn. A strange and curious sorrow.