Post by Jen on Apr 13, 2014 1:43:27 GMT -5
I feel like I have just started, so I may as well write things here so that I won't forget what I've gone through, reactions I've had, etc.
I started trying AIP the first week in March 2014. Did okay till halfway through our family vacation a few weeks later, when I could not maintain sole control of my food choices. Had a really hard time getting back in the swing of things post-vacation. I do really well for a while and then a crazy hormone/mood swing will beat me up pretty badly. It's at those times I tend to eat something like chocolate or some kind of baked good (still GF/DF but not AIP).
In general I find that regardless of how much sleep I get or how well I'm eating, I've been feeling very tired. I think that my adrenals have been shot for a minimum of 10 years, and possibly much longer. It doesn't take much to really deplete my energy.
In the realm of supposed safe foods that I appear to have reacted to recently, I got an incredibly itchy scalp on two separate occasions after eating some homemade sweet potato fries that I cooked in Palm shortening. I ate them with a beet- and peach-juice-based sauce that I made. I need to independently try out some of these supposedly-safe foods to narrow down the culprit.
Other observations and notes from recent experience:
- I tried head cheese and I like it
- I tried a new form of magnesium to help with digestion (Doctor's Best) - may be helping
- I seriously upped the HCL and digestive enzymes I was taking to 4 caps each per meal. This may be helping digestion also.
- I don't miss coffee as much as I thought I would. Only when I need a binkie. Black and green teas are helping.
I guess that's it for now. My plan is to add observations and milestones here as I go along.
I started trying AIP the first week in March 2014. Did okay till halfway through our family vacation a few weeks later, when I could not maintain sole control of my food choices. Had a really hard time getting back in the swing of things post-vacation. I do really well for a while and then a crazy hormone/mood swing will beat me up pretty badly. It's at those times I tend to eat something like chocolate or some kind of baked good (still GF/DF but not AIP).
In general I find that regardless of how much sleep I get or how well I'm eating, I've been feeling very tired. I think that my adrenals have been shot for a minimum of 10 years, and possibly much longer. It doesn't take much to really deplete my energy.
In the realm of supposed safe foods that I appear to have reacted to recently, I got an incredibly itchy scalp on two separate occasions after eating some homemade sweet potato fries that I cooked in Palm shortening. I ate them with a beet- and peach-juice-based sauce that I made. I need to independently try out some of these supposedly-safe foods to narrow down the culprit.
Other observations and notes from recent experience:
- I tried head cheese and I like it
- I tried a new form of magnesium to help with digestion (Doctor's Best) - may be helping
- I seriously upped the HCL and digestive enzymes I was taking to 4 caps each per meal. This may be helping digestion also.
- I don't miss coffee as much as I thought I would. Only when I need a binkie. Black and green teas are helping.
I guess that's it for now. My plan is to add observations and milestones here as I go along.