Inaguaral Blog Post

Well, I had the best of intentions of starting this blog right with the new year but I figure that since I was already late to the blog party, cyberspace would forgive me and I can just start fresh now. I don’t consider myself a writer; however, I do intend to use this blog to share my new adventure in life; namely, eating food allergy free and learning to love it.

It’s a long story how I got here so I’ll be sharing more of the why I’m doing this in posts to come. Where I am today is that I need to, for at least the next 3 months, eliminate from my diet: wheat, oats, dairy, yeast (baker’s and brewers), tomatoes, mushrooms, chicken, port, almonds, cashews, peanuts canteloupe (not hard to do for me), kidney and pinto beans (and probably others), amaranth (who knew), goat’s milk and probably one or two other things that I am missing. This is because when I went to my naturopath to do some food allergy testing, I was diagnosed with leaky gut syndrome and need to repair my insides. I do thank the Lord that I am fearfully and wonderfully made and not eating these things-some of them mabye even for the rest of my life, will help my body here on earth perform to the best of its ability.

To kick start the new year, my friend Jessica suggested that we do a ‘biggest loser’ competition, weighing and measuring ourselves. Our husbands, by virtue that they probably aren’t going to cook for themselves, are in on this too. My husband and I started on January 5th with our new eating lifestyle, and kicking it off with a detox diet where I have eliminated all of the items above, as well as am significantly reducing soy intake (no more Starbucks soy lattes for me for a while) and staying away from red meat. My friend Jess doesn’t have to eliminate as many items but is not having any coffee or corn. I figure since I’m not allergic to those things and I have way more things to stay away from—I’ll try only having corn in moderation. I’m already a decaf coffee drinker exclusively so I’ll keep that in my diet unless something changes. The other big thing I am staying away from is all refined sugar, and most other kinds of sugar as well. The only thing I have allowed is a couple of tablespoons of organic evaporated cane juice sugar or agave in gluten-free baking, or in a recipe such as the sunflower butter sauce over noodles I attempted to make the other night. (Yes, I’ll be sharing those recipes).

So far it’s worth it….I’m happy to say that I’m done almost 4 pounds in six days and definitely feeling a difference. It has already been an adventure though I will say and I’m looking forward to sharing more soon.