Becoming Coco

I adapted this recipe from a recipe on "How To This and That" Restaurant Style Waffles , check out her blog here: http://howtothisandthat.com/how-to-make-restaurant-style-homemade-belgian-waffles/ I took the original ingridients and substitute healthier options. You can make it as healthy as you want by making additional changes, but the below recipe has already been tested and tried by my non-health concerned husband who loves waffles and only cares about taste. He approves! This will make about 8 waffles so you may want to double it if you want to get some leftovers to freeze and use for the week.  INGREDIENTS A waffle iron hot and ready to go 1 cup whole wheat flour  1 cup all purpose flour  ¾ cup of white sugar, all natural sugar, or sugar alternative  3 teaspoons of baking powder 1 teaspoon of baking soda 2 eggs (or 3 egg whites or 2 egg replacement , I used farm fresh eggs)  1/4 cup melted butter 1/4 cup coconut oil  1 cup almond milk ( add up to ½ cu...

WARNING : it may suppress your appetite too much (This does not count as dinner! Even if it does have healthy nuts on top) This is my second day using my new bottle of GC, so I've been using GC 2 weeks with a 2 week break in between and just started up again. That's not how you are supposed to do it I just lost my previous bottle. Anyway... Yesterday my appetite was suppressed. I'm assuming it was the GC because that was the only different factor in my diet. I woke up Saturday around 11:30am and ate a decent sized brunch till I felt satisfied, not too full and no longer hungry. 3 hours later I had a coffee and a small fiber one bar. 3 hours after that I had a cupcake. 3 hours after that I was still awake and had eaten nothing else but felt fine. Lies. I woke up this morning and my body hated me. It was screaming at me to eat something. I took a shower and had to pause my shower half way to crumple on the floor until the feeling of my stomach eating me alive subsided. SO Whe...

I finally got my new bottle of GC in the mail after leaving it at a friends house. So now we are starting over.  My weight right now is :115.4 My BMI: 19.4 (low-normal range) My Body Fat %: 16.6 %  2 % points lower than before.  Maybe my somewhat healthy eating habits, my 4 days of walking 30 min or more and taking daily vitamins is helping. Or maybe the GC in my system from before is helping. Or both?  (All the supplements I take regularly, some are everyday, some are 1-2x a week) Let's wait and see. Also I'm keeping in touch with my friend to see how the supplement works for them.

So I had to take a break from my GC experiment because I accidentally left the bottle at a friends house who lives 2 hours away. They were curious so I just told them "hey why don't you keep them and see if it works for you?" And that's what they're doing.  As for me I've gained two pounds. It's such a small number that it could be natural fluctuation, or it could be that since I stopped taking the GC I'm gaining it back. Who knows? Anyway I've ordered some more bottles and they should be here soon. So we will find out later if it works completely on me. On the plus side now I can tell you if it works for my friend too!