You might be asking, “So, how’s that Paleo/GAPS diet thing workin for ya’?” Especially through Christmas.
GREAT! No sign of bread here or any other grains or legumes or sugar. Well, at least not in my mouth. The Hired Hand believes that flour and sugar especially if when combined together are a major food group!
My asthma has remarkably gotten better. I’m down to using less than 1 vile a day in the nebulizer (that’s 2 puffs of an inhaler). I only need a few drags in the morning and evening and I “have” to before I do critter duty. I can actually take DEEP breaths now and I don’t have a smokers cough! That was something I just hated since I’ve never smoked a day in my life…I’d hack like I was a smoking dragon. It’s gone!
If you’re wondering what the heck I eat if I don’t eat flour and sugar, well…..simple I eat stuff like in the pic above and the one below! YUM! And when I get bored, I have a fruit shake with coconut milk, coconut flakes, some chia seeds, raspberries, nectarines and pineapple….YUMMY! But that’s not often since fruit contains a good bit of fructose and I’m intolerant to most berries right now.
Bread is pretty boring if you really think about it. I realize there are many shapes, sizes, textures and grains, but look at the variety of veggies! Boundless!
My day usually goes something like this; bone broth for breakfast, lunch around 10 with a serving bowl full of veggies consisting of kale, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, garlic, tomatoes and some meat. Dinner is usually ditto of lunch! My meat variety is only beef and goat right now due to my food allergies. But hopefully with my gut healing more every day, my food tolerances will be greater too.
I’ve lost 2# since the week after Thanksgiving. I’m not doing any caveman workouts yet. My back went out Tuesday after Christmas from all the Christmas Cheer going on here! But with my increased capacity to breathe and my fear diminishing about getting up the street and not being able to get back, well, you never know, I might even start running again!!! Now that would be a very happy New Year!
Here I am in 2001 (minus the tomato splashes from it being on the fridge for 10 yrs) at the finish of my first and only 5K (#10121). I was asthma free (had it since I was 2) and also dairy and gluten free! Do ya think there’s a connection???? I am convinced now that there is. Ten years ago I was also training to run my first marathon….I got up to 7 miles before Lyme and Company took over my body and ravaged my health.
I LOVED running! It took me years during my battle with Lyme to come to grips with the fact that I might not ever run again. But I have new hopes now that I’ve beat the stuffin out of Lyme and I’m on my way back from this stint with chronic asthma and life threatening food allergies.
This was my song last year when I nearly died from anaphylactic shock….I think I need it again this year!!!
Here’s to a brighter day! Happy New Year!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkwJ-g0iJ6w
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Amber, I’d say do not eat grains! The Maker’s Diet nearly killed me when I did it over 7 yrs ago! The idea that I could eat wheat sprouted or not in the fragile state I was in was horrible advice. I’m sick of all of these WAPF people giving “medical” advice when they are only repeating a mantra of bad advice! If you will research it enough you will find that grains are dangerous for our health. Dr Peter Osborne of The Gluten Free Society has enough evidence that NO one should eat grains. Plus the advice that Jordan Rubin gives is not accurate with dietary advice concerning food intolerance’s and allergies. Believing that one could be 34 days on a diet and then reintroduce a food that has caused severe problems is just wrong! It takes a very long time for the gut to heal and it sounds to me as if you had begun the process and just as your poor gut began to trust you you assaulted it. Wheat Belly is also a very good book written by a doctor with great research!
I’d listen to your body! It usually knows what’s best. If my daughter or myself had a breakout reaction to a food….I’d stay very clear of it…forever! IF you continue to feed her an offensive food her body will eventually collapse like mine did. I would never want anyone especially a child to go into anaphylactic shock like I did. Your body will tolerate the assault until it reaches a tipping point. Then it will release it’s built up wrath!
I understand that we are so “in love” (addicted…truly addicted) with grains that we really want to believe that we can eat them again. I know I did. I found whatever good intentional advice that I could just so I could have that sourdough. But the pain that felt like a hole in my gut and a monster reaching in and wringing my insides is NOT worth it….I don’t care what Sally Fallon or Jordan Rubin says. They are very mistaken. The wheat of today is NOT the wheat of our ancestors. It has been genetically altered to make it resistant to disease and predators….and it thinks we are one of those predators and attacks us so that it can survive. Please think for yourself and do your research!
We are on day 34 of the Maker’s Diet, which begins like Paleo, but ends with sprouted and sourdough breads. We are on the final phase and we have added the grains back for 5 days. My daughter broke out with an itchy rash within 10 minutes of eating homemade sourdough pizza. And she broke out again the next morning with the sourdough English muffins. Now she doesn’t break out but she went to bed with a stomach ache. I have had a bloated stomach twice after eating the grains and some acid reflux. The boys have had no symptoms. Does this mean we are intollerant or just that our bodies are re-adjusting to the grains.
WOW, this is awesome! Blessings to you!
Renee, yes rice has gluten in it and it’s those little things like that and corn that can keep your healing at bay! Dr Osborne at Gluten Free Society has some of the newest research and can be trusted.
Hi Diane
So, even rice is bad for us??? I eat a lot of rice products…rice cooked cereal in the am..rice bread made with almond flour too….fried rice,,,all brown of course but still…a grain. I can have eggs but not dairy of any kind. Have been gluten free for a long time but are you saying that there is gluten in rice too?
The bone broth seems like it would upset my tummy but I hear you saying it would help it. Hmmmmmm I need to research this I think….Listen to my body…all that good stuff.
Thanks for all the info!
I’m sharing this with a friend who has allergies! Please keep us all posted with your progress. Blessings upon you for 2012!
Good for you! It is hard to giv eup wheat, at first. I had to give up wheat and sugar up about 10 years ago. I lost weight but I also had more enrgy than I knew what to do with, finally, after being so sick for such a long time! As that year went by, without wheat and with very little sugar, I returned to a normal person and went back to work.
It’s amazing what a diet change can do for you if you are eating food that’s killing you! Stick with it, it gets easier!
Folks always looked stunned when I said, “No thanks, I don’t eat wheat.” and they began to think about what that meant. Many asked me how I could eat like that and what did I eat. There is so much more out there to eat. For awhile my diet consisted mainly of eggs and chicken. I would keep cooked chicken pieces in the fridge all the time and just eat salad and chicken, all the time.
Yes, Miss Cyn! I probably wouldn’t of done it if I couldn’t breathe. But since breathing is somewhat important and nothing else has worked…well. I do know what you mean. I had to live with my in-laws for 15 months when we built our house over 25 yrs ago. Not good! You are in my prayers! <3
The best thing about you going all paleo on us is you can breathe again! For that reason alone it would be worth it!!!
I am still not all together certain I could do this, or would even want to! I love my grains…and homemade sourdough bread….whoa. BUT….I have been cutting way back on all of them the past week. Makes it hard when you are in the living conditions we are in,….it is not my own kitchen, with my own stuff…know what I mean?
I am glad for you! Starting the new year on the right foot, for sure….
Oh Renee, I’m so glad you asked!!!!
I’ll have to do a post on ALL the things I’ve been learning about grains. First and I won’t go into much detail in the comment, but wheat today is not the wheat that God created. It’s been adulterated and we don’t have the enzymes to break it down. Further it is altered and has a tiny little molecule called Wheat Germ Agglutinin that is so tiny it penetrates the intestines and goes systemic. It causes inflammation because that is what’s genetically built into the wheat berry to cause destruction to the creature that consumes it….and that means us too! The WGA is so good at it’s job that wheat crops today don’t have to be sprayed!!! It’s like the GMO plants. And this is one VERY interesting fact that I came up with. There’s a substance in vaccines that mimics gliadin and upregulates in the intestines and creates leaky gut. So that’s just ONE little fact about wheat. There are so many more. Also grains/legumes/nightshades are endocrine disrupters!
The Gluten Free Society is a good place to start. Gluten is in sosooooo many grains, not just wheat. So a true gluten free diet is free from rice and corn also. Grain is extremely acidic. And we are always saying, “have a piece of toast!” When it should just be the egg yolk.
The GAPS diet relies heavily on bone broth, egg yolks and fermented foods to heal. But since I’m allergic right now to 2 out of 3 well, I don’t have many options. GAPS is good and works, but I think it should go further like Paleo. Grains at NO time are ever good for you.
It’s worth a try. Heavens knows you’ve been suffering a long time. Happy New Year my friend!
Okay, I am very curious about this idea that you are healing your gut by stopping all grains and eating basically only meats, veggies, and a few fruits…right?
The bone broth in the morning….is that what heals the gut and then eliminating grains? I still have such a bloated tummy and spent most of Christmas weekend eating eggs anad a bit of toast as acid reflux was back after months. Hmmmmm
I am thinking of doing this like I said. I can eat chicken, eggs, tolerate turkey some and beef once in aawhile but isn’t beef hard to digest? Meats in general?
I need to go read up on that site.
It is so great you asthma is way way down WOW…Yahoo and praise God.
Glad you had a nice Christmas.