My reasons, and the first three days

Nigel suggested we each start with our reasons for doing this.
If I'm being totally honest, probably my number one reason is that I'd like to lose some weight. The last time I successfully lost a chunk of weight was on a diet similar to this - the elimination diet. Like that diet, there is no sugar and no simple carbs allowed, and for my body, this seems to help me lose weight.
But there are easier ways to lose weight, so why choose this?
Simply put, I'm pretty sure I've been fighting an overgrowth of Candida my entire adult life. In fact, when I look at the symptoms of Candidiasis, and I think back to when I first started to notice them, I'd have to say probably around 10 years old. That's when my tummy started to get sensitive - one of the symptoms of Candidiasis.
Over the years, I've experienced many of the symptoms, including:
digestive issues
recurrent yeast infection (also urinary tract infection, bladder infection)
low energy
soreness
headache
So, I am hoping that clearing out the overgrowth will help me with all those things. Although the Candida Diet isn't meant to be a permanent way to eat, it is a very clean diet, and I am hoping that consisently doing it for two months will help me to form good habits - usually cooking my own food, planning my meals in advance, and eating mostly fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts, meat and fish. I expect that filling my diet with fresh, whole foods for two months will make processed food really unpalatable - that's the hope anyway.

The first day, Sept. 1, was awful. I didn't get sick but I was lethargic, had no energy, and never felt even close to full. The next day was a definite improvement, although I still collapsed into bed pretty early.
Today, Day 3, I am definitely noticing an improvement in my energy. Nigel and I got together this afternoon and went to the Farmer's Market, and his energy was starting to flag while mine was great. I suspect this is because his metabolism is three times as fast as mine so he was already starving - I noticed on my way home that my own energy was getting low, and realized I should probably eat something. The thing with not eating sugar or simple carbohydrates that I've discovered is that it's a good idea to eat BEFORE you get really hungry, because it takes longer to digest and use the food you eat.

So I came home and had some yogurt with amaranth and ground flax (rapidly becoming my favourite snack) and started making tomato sauce from scratch from the stuff I got in the Farmer's Market.

I have done this before, once or twice, but never with awesome results. The sauces usually wind up being too thin and watery. I realized as I was making it, that I kept thinking that they were waterier than "real" tomato sauce. And I realized that somewhere in my Canadian upbringing, I have begun to think that "real" tomato sauce comes out of a tin, and that the kind made from real tomatoes is not the "real" kind.

I will leave you on that thought - but just add that I googled it to see how to make it thicker - the trick is to remove the seeds.