What can you eat? | Elimination Diet Update |

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So, if you listened to the interview I did with Sarah Clark from the Get Pregnant Naturally Podcastwho challenged me to try an Elimination Diet where I gave up the top 5 allergens for 10 days. And I did it. And I wanted to share my results.

It's Easy

I mention theJill Angie Not Your Average Runner podcast too who talks about a mindset shift from "I Can Do Hard Things" to "It's Easy". Kate Erikson has a great saying

"Gratitude is the First Seed of Abundance"

And I tried it, I thought what am I going to eat if I can't eat:

• soy
• corn
• gluten
• dairy
• eggs
• peanuts

So I thought what could I eat? I can eat salad, fish, garbanzo beans (hummus)!

I was like I can do that. I love salad! I love fish! I love garbanzo beans!

And so it turned out it was easy!

It was a little weird, I searched some vegan sites for recipes. I didn't really make any, other then the lentil burgers, which asked for eggs but I din't seem to have a problem. They also asked for bread crumbs, I was gonna make from some gluten free bread I did buy some gluten free bread boy was that expensive!

I looked at gluten free brownie recipes but they called for eggs, again. I bought some gluten free flour which was super expensive! I made a gluten free vegan pizza, it was not very good, I had a problem getting the bread to rise because I think my yeast wasn't any good. It really made some good habits.

I also put some ketchup in some lentil burgers from Making Thyme For Health that called for tomato paste. And it had cornstarch or corn syrup or something in it. So there's that I did on like day 4. And lentils were a great thing I ate.

I don't think I have food allergies. I didn't really seem to feel any different. I am an Italian and I feel like my stomach can handle just about anything. I thought it would get rid of the sniffling sound in my nose but it didn't seem to do anything about that.

I could eat chocolate, there are gluten free vegan chocolate bars from Endangered Species and they taste delicious and are frequently on sale! Just be advised they recently changed their labels, I stood staring at the chocolate display before I found them!

I'm used to eating ice cream every night. I bought some almond milk, after I found out I could eat nuts just not peanuts, but I never had it. I drank rice milk, with granola a lot.

So if you want to try the elimination diet think about what can you eat?

It was definitely fun to say hey this is easy! and Hey I'm doing this!

On day 6 I was ready to quit, on day 8 I really wanted to quit. Especially I mistakenly ate some edamame at school...