Wednesday, September 18, 2013

I'm Free!

That's gluten-, dairy-, soy-, sugar-, caffeine-, alcohol-, starch-(rice and potatoes), any-fruit-but-berries-, and all-beans-but-lentils-FREE!

Yep, elimination diet.  My PT and I had been talking about inflammation, which I have a lot of between my dermatagraphism and chronic back issues; she noticed that I'm generally puffy--not in a fat way, but in a water retention/inflammation way.

So I'm doing a cleanse, ostensibly for 3 weeks, but really as long as I can manage, which will probably be shorter than that.  And then I'll reintroduce everything, concentrating on the wheat and dairy, which are common troublemakers.  I didn't react to either on an allergy skin test, so who knows.  But from all my reading, I'm guessing all the anti-inflammatories I took four years ago have unbalanced everything.  We'll see.

And at the very least, it'll be a week or two of really healthy eating.

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