Early New Years Resolution

Now that I'm in school and learning all about nutrition, health benefits to eating well, and the not so good attributes of things like aspartame (turns into formaldehyde in your body and doesn't go away!) and yes the body does need to eat animal protein for optimal overall health.  I must admit  - there are a few hard core things that I need to change about my diet.  I love pop (or for anyone in the US - Soda) - specifically Diet pop - which is loaded with sodium phosphates (no good) and aspartame (really no good).  I have also discovered that I LOVE LOVE LOVE carbs.  This shouldn't be new news to me but as of late, I've been looking at what i crave - it's not the sweets anymore like it used to be in my early-mid twenties - I want bread, and crackers, and more crackers.  Crackers specifically are my weakness.  Wheat crackers, Melba Toast, Ritz, Rice crackers - they're all yummy. 
I did a cleanse in September - my first cleanse of any sort ever - for 3 weeks and I couldn't believe how great I felt.  The cleanse was a pretty basic one - lots of water, no dairy, no gluten, no sugar, no yeast (and the obvious to that no alcohol) and limit fruit to only 2 servings a day.  I did this very successfully as we have alot of items in our house that allowed me to eat quite well every day without bumping into things like bread or cheese.  I have to admit - I still desperately wanted bread/crackers.  Everything else meh - I was able to leave alone.
So, now that the scale has been creeping back up (and it's not even really Christmas season yet) - I am feeling the need to empower my body into kicking things into a higher gear.  While school has been extremely educational I'm also not keeping ahead of the cooking and baking, and eating when I get home late from school and grabbing things as I run out the door to various activities - all which usually consist of bread or crackers and something.  See the trend here!

So, here we go with the resolution

1. For 30 days starting November 22nd, I will eat Gluten Free, Dairy Free and a really small amount of sugar :)   (going to keep the yeast in for now).
2. I will get back to running 3 times a week (this has suffered with trying to balance work, school, ballet lessons, swimming lessons and Brad working late)
3. I will go to the gym once or twice a week - I've had a membership for almost a year and haven't set foot in the gym - how embarrassing!
4. Will do more meal prepping - planning weekly menus and will bring out the bread maker again to make our own Gluten Free bread (I'm even going to try to make GF Pizza dough!).  GF baking will need to include some holiday treats - Blueberry muffins, chocolate chip cookies and maybe even a cake (that would be for Brad's bday coming up)
5. Continue to refine our food selections to include nitrate free meats, organic or at a minimum antibiotic free/grain fed meats and work in more vegetables into the menu
6. If after 30 days I'm still craving crackers/bread - I will do another 30 days and hopefully will hit a turning point with nutrition and all things beneficial for the family.

BTW - Brad this means that you're going GF too!