Day 4 and still gluten free

Well we have made it most of the way through day 4 and have stuck to our guns.  NO GLUTEN!

To be fair, we may have an advantage over most people that try going gluten free.  Mike and I incorporate Isagenix into our diet and all but 2 Isagenix products are gluten free. Most of our days consist of 2 gluten free meal replacements (shakes, bars or soups), several gluten free snacks (Greek yogurt, almonds, etc) and a knife and fork meal. So really all we have to do is pick healthy, gluten free snacks and come up with 1 gluten free meal a day.  Pretty easy so far.  I will continue to post recipes as I develop them and/or find them.

These last 2 days have been even easier since we are doing a 48 hour cleanse.  All of the products that support a nutritional cleanse are gluten free.  So these last 2 days have been absolutely effortless.

Tomorrow we go back to eating meals again, after breaking out cleanse with a shake in the morning.  I am a little apprehensive and almost wish I could keep cleansing.  Cleansing is easy, Fridays are hard.  But I can't keep cleansing because cleansing more than 48 hours is counter-productive.  So eat I must and I will.

Fridays are historically tough for me, mentally.  In the past I have always looked forward to the weekend so that I could cut loose a little bit and enjoy foods I wouldn't have during the week, as well as alcohol, usually in the form of wine. Fridays have been my reward for surviving the week.  And for as long as I can remember our Friday norm has been homemade pizza and a bottle of red wine.  And for even longer, my idea of pizza has always been made with wheat dough.  Um......what to do?

Well the way I see it, I have 3 options.

The first, break the gluten free challenge and make my awesome homemade gluten laden pizza dough is not really an option at all.  I will not give up so easily.

The second option is to not have pizza. This is a viable option.  It would mean having to come up with a different, gluten free, meal that evokes the same feeling of Friday-ness

The third option is to find a delicious substitute for wheat dough so that I can have my pizza and eat it too.

I am leaning towards the third option. So I have been looking online for gluten-free pizza dough recipes and I have been surprised to find so many varieties.  It's really hard to decide what to try.  Here are some of the options I have found.

Cauliflower crust - http://dailydishrecipes.com/cauliflower-pizza-crust-recipe/
King Arthur - http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/gluten-free-pizza-crust-recipe
Sweet potato - http://carrotsncake.com/2013/01/sweet-potato-pizza-crust.html
Various flours - http://mariahealth.blogspot.com/2012/12/amazing-pizza.html
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/gluten-free-pizza-crust-recipe/index.html

If you have tried any of these, please let me know what you thought of them?  If you have tried others that you really liked, please share in the comments.

Oh, and I almost forgot to say, I think going gluten free is making a positive difference in how I feel.  Cravings are definitely less and my normally amazing Isagenix results are even more amazing than usual.