Elimination challenge update!

[kitchen_kink]

Eggs seem to have gone by without incident. (Yay!)

Corn, however, seems to give me mild nausea, hot flushes and tiredness. (Boo!)

That is all for now...

Comments

[exoterica.livejournal.com]

can you send a link for the elimination diet again?

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

I haven't got one; I got this from my nutritionist.

But here's the text of the email I send ladytabitha about it:

For 1 to 3 weeks, don't eat ANYTHING with the following ingredients:

Wheat or other gluten grains (oats, barley, rye, amaranth, spelt, etc.)
Soy
Corn
Dairy
Citrus (small amounts of lemon juice are fine for flavoring)
Eggs
Yeast (including mushrooms, grapes, peanuts, and all alcohol)
Refined sugar (the nutritionist recommended cutting out all concentrated sugar including fruit juice and honey but said I could have one tsp. a day)
Fermented foods, like vinegar and miso
Coffee and black tea
Chocolate

Once your symptoms have improved and don't seem to be getting any better for a few days, begin testing the foods one by one, every two days. Eat an average serving of each food with breakfast, mid-morning snack, and lunch. See what happens and record it. If you react to a food, wait until your symptoms clear to test the next one.

As you introduce each new food, do it in isolation - once you've challenged a food, do not add it back to your diet until you've challenged them all.

[exoterica.livejournal.com]

Thank you!
I'm off almost everything on the list right now except occasional soy, corn and citrus. When I head off to the grocery store I'll need to find a few good substitutes for the next few weeks. I suspect wheat and yeast are my primary evils.....

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

Your corn reaction is a milder version of my corn reaction. No, seriously - take all those symptoms and ratchet them up to the most intense point possible, and you've got me.