So its been almost exactly a year since I first read Potatoes Not Prozac. I wanted to post my progress to the community since I don't have a lot of support or understanding from friends and family...My mom sent me an Easter basket with a large chocolate cross and jelly beans. I ate some of the chocolate cross after dinner, regretted it, and gave the rest of the candy to my roommate who will hopefully hide it away.

A little over a year ago I started doing breakfast. It took me a while to find the right brown, but I am now head over heels in love with whole grain (no sugar all natural) oatmeal with a few apple slices and chia seeds, two scrambled eggs, and (depending on how active I've been) a milk and protein shake.

Journal-ing is good. I'm pretty in touch with my body, so I know when a crash is coming on, why I'm crashing (timing or a poorly planned meal or more sugar with a meal than usual), and can usually get some protein and level out by my next meal.

Three meals a day with protein is going pretty well too. Timing is still sometimes challenging, since my schedule is all over the place. I've got four or five meals that I like, and I tend to just rotate between them: chicken and brown rice, crock pot beef stew, ground beef and cheese quesadilla in a wheat wrap, and salmon or tilapia and brown rice are my top four favorites. Part of finding meals I like actually cut out a lot of whites, so I accidentally skipped ahead a bit with that. I don't deny myself white stuff, and have it every once in a while, but for the most part it was much easier to give up than chocolate and ice cream.

Most recently, in the last two weeks, I've really committed to veggies. I would eat veggies before pretty regularly, but I've really upped the quantity and variety. I really like having a variety of raw veggies, but in the past I've bought them and they end up going bad. I've been committing to having either a salad or finger veggies (usually a plate with cucumber, grape tomatoes, carrots, broccoli) with lunch and dinner. I've noticed that has also helped with sugar cravings.

Despite the fact that I still have some inconsistency with timing in my meals I'm planning to move ahead with night potatoes and vitamins. Are vitamins better at night or in the morning?

I suspect that moving off of sugar will come not to far away. I already am down to sugar with only one meal, and often just a little bit. Most of my meals don't contain hidden sugars. Some days are no sugar at all, although the days when I do have and crave more I definitely react more strongly to it. I can feel my brain go "Weee"! While my mouth goes what are you doing this isn't "good" food And shortly after that my head goes ow! have a headache and my emotions go "boo" I'm grumpy, sad, and/or anti-social. It's like clockwork now because I'm feeling more balanced over all so the incidents really stand out.

Anyway, that's where I'm at with it. Still working, some days are better some are worse. I'm really looking forward to moving forward with the program.
Good luck everyone!