Here are some of the benefits I am enjoying on my new diet:

• I suffer from fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis.  Despite the medications I take daily to help combat my symptoms, I am still very tender and swollen at the end of the day.  However, from the very first day I stopped eating grains, rice, carbohydrates and sugar, I noticed that I am no longer swollen at the end of the day!  My shoes aren't crushing my toes, my ankles aren't oozing out of my shoes and I don't have an urgency to unbutton my pants in the middle of the day!

• I don't have dragon breath all day!  I live in fear that when I am speaking I am offending everyone around me with my dragon breath.  I used to carry mints and chug water all day.  Granted I don't have minty fresh breath from dusk to dawn, but my mouth doesn't taste nasty anymore and I don't feel like I am burning my friend's eyelashes with my dragon breath.

• I am not tired during the day!  I used to yawn constantly and feel like I never got enough sleep.  Now I rarely yawn and feel very rested in the mornings.

Admittedly, I have gone off the wagon more than a few times, and the bloating, swelling in my joints and ache in my belly are enough to make me want to keep changing my eating habits.  Hooray for me!