The dreaded beginning

So about two weeks ago I started a random journey, this was completely random mind you, I had no idea that morning when I woke up that my life would take a sudden change. "Why," might you ask?  Answer: I'll let you know. At this point in my quest I decided that a good way to vent would be to keep a blog, 'cause journals are so 1990's, (*insert eye roll here*), actually I wanted to keep a blog because I know a few other people going through stuff like this, and thought it would be interesting to them if I shared my thoughts and experiences.

Now, this "diet for the dead," as I have come to call it, was suggested to me by my mother, the nurse and self-taught nutritionist, it is known commonly as the "phase one" diet, and was basically invented by a guy named Doug Kaufmann. At first I was a little, well, let's just say hesitant, because of the food restrictions which I will get into a little later. However, after quite a bit of back and forth between two very stubborn people, I graciously accepted this challenge of becoming a dieteer. 

The purpose of this diet is not actually to lose weight, it's to get rid of fungus in your body. Which sounds really nasty, and yeah, it kind of is. Fungus is supposedly a source of much misery for the human body, and the majority of the human population doesn't even know about it. Apparently there are a lot of health benefits for cleaning the fungus out, but the main one I'm going for is to reboot my metabolism, which has pretty much been in ruins since I was 12. Now before you go off thinking that I'm just some crazy middle-aged woman who would buy into anything that promises me that I'll be able to wear that "itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka-dot bikini," I want to tell you a little of my back story. 

My name is Rachel, I'm 22 years old and I stand at a grand five feet tall. I have struggled with a heavy figure for most of my life, and on my wedding day 3 years ago I weighed my heaviest at 230 lbs, (yeah, not a good place to be). After feeling like a worthless failure for not being able to keep myself fit, I tried going to the popular Weight Watchers program for help, I ended up losing almost 40 pounds, but as soon as I moved and went off of it, I gained 20 back. For some reason counting points/calories just isn't my prime ability. So now I decided to put my mother's mind at ease and try her special diet, this is the story of my journey, hopefully someone somewhere gets something out of it.