Book: The Virgin Diet

I just finished reading a really great book, The Virgin Diet. Basically, you eliminate the top 7 foods that cause inflammation...food intolerance. The 7 foods are...gluten, soy, dairy, eggs, corn, sugar/artificial sweeteners, and peanuts. I do not have trouble with soy, corn, peanuts, or artificial sweeteners. Eliminating gluten, sugar, eggs, and dairy completely is a little more difficult. Between now and Christmas I plan to loosely eliminate them, but after Christmas, I plan to eliminate completely. It has been proven that if you have inflammation in your body, it is really difficult to lose weight. I plan to do some deep cleansing/detoxing and then try to keep these foods out of my diet. I really hope that I can stick with it. It is so hard when I am constantly making food for 3 big boys in our family.