Month: April 2020

Day 7 of Elimination Diet check in

            Well, I made it through 7 days of my elimination diet. So that is a week without (listed in descending order of difficulty): caffeine, alcohol, dairy, corn and corn-based things, gluten, and soy. And it really wasn’t too bad I must say. We had some really delicious meals, so I never went hungry or felt like I was missing out or suffering. The only two exceptions were that I went for a hard bike ride and didn’t ride as well as I would have liked, and one long day at work the only thing that I could find to eat was chicken breasts, literally everything else they had had at least one if not more things I was eliminating. But those were delicious chicken breasts and help me until I got home.                Overall, I feel pretty good though, and I really don’t miss a lot of those things (alcohol and caffeine excepted, of course,  since these have been a mainstay in my life since all this COVID stuff started. See cartoon below). I am working a lot this weekend, so that will have its own challenges, but I am looking forward to another week of healthy, yummy eating! I’ll check in again next week, until then be safe and healthy everyone!

Hello everyone, hope that you are all safe and healthy in these crazy times.   As I’m sure is the case with many of you, these times of social distancing and quarantine have led to some poor choices in my life.  Too much stress eating, too many “happy hour” cocktails, and way too little exercise have definitely taken its toll, and it’s time for a change.  It just so happens that my very talented wife just finished nutrition school and she has a few tricks up her sleeve to help turn things around.  Starting this weekend, we are going to do an elimination and cleanse diet.  This is where you cut out all the most inflammatory and unhealthy foods (alcohol, dairy, wheat, soy, etc..) from your diet and let your gut heal for a period of time;  3 weeks in our case.  Then you slowly add those items back in one at a time and see how you feel.  This allows you to determine which foods might be causing issues, in a very scientific way.  This kind of elimination diet is something that I have been interested in doing, and wanting to do, for a long time.   And that time is finally here.  I would hate to finish this pandemic worse than I started, my goal is going to be to finish strong and go back to work healthier than I was before all this craziness.  I expect that there will be some processed carb cravings, some sweet tooth longing, and maybe the thought that a cocktail sounds really good every day at 5 PM, and those are things that I am hoping this elimination diet will help fix for me. I will do my best to check in during the course of this diet and describe what it is like and then check in at the end, hopefully feeling better than I have in a while.  Stay safe and healthy everyone!