For the past three months I have been trying to sort out what's gone wrong in my diet.
Symptoms:
-bloating
-fatigue
-acid stomach
Old symptoms popping back up, and I have yet to lay a finger on just why that may be. I've consulted an expert (Dr. Vikki Petersen), been charting through my book about acupuncture (r/e symptoms and related foods) and now perusing back through old posts on this here blog to determine how my diet's changed, and what are my possible offenders.
Now, I may be completely off, but here are some possibilities, far as I can tell:
-eggs
-bell peppers
-onions
-garlic
-rice
-potatoes
I figure the offender(s) must be something(s) that I have virtually every day, so those are the most likely, but a bit of research has rendered most of these foods relative. To a lecithin intolerance that is.
Foods containing lecithin include:
- Tomatoes
- Potatoes (not yams or sweet potatoes)
- Eggplant
- Bell peppers
- Tobacco
- Soy
- Peanuts
- I stopped eating potato chips about a week and a half ago since I was having Kettle chips daily and suspected that those were part of the problem.
- We eat bell pepper strips nearly every single night.
- I've not been much of a soy person since going gluten & casein free, but lately have been having it more often.
- Peanuts give me a sore throat.
- Too many tomato products leaves my tongue pale.
I figured all of this out yesterday evening after a meditation on the subject and then began my modified elimination diet, using prior food journals and the above research to create a menu for myself.
Here are today's stats:
@ waist 29"
2" below belly button 31.6"
(yesterday was 30 and 32" respectively)
Breakfast:
-TJ's Chicken Apple Sausage (1 piece, microwaved, since Tay made eggs on the Le Creuset)
-1 of the Awful Almond/Coconut Cookies I made last night
Snack:
-1/2 Inspired Cookie, Choco./Jasmine
-1 of the Awful Cookies