Hello,
I went to a new allergist the other day, and he is very holistic in his approach. He suggested that I try an elimination diet. I know that many of you have done this, and I was trying my best to avoid it. I did avoid it successfully for the past 8 years, but alas, now I must buckle down and behave or be miserable!
So, I was told to try this for a month: eliminate wheat gluten, dairy, all things fermented, chocolate, no more than 10 oz per day of tea or coffee, and no cheese. I am allowed to eat fruit, and I can eat vegetable, as long as it has been cooked to help break down the allergens. I was also told to include probiotics.
Now this is quite a change for me, so I am struggling with the whole NO GLUTEN concept, because the gluten-free bread I brought from the store tastes like cardboard that has laid in a storage shed for a 1000 years. I would rather not eat it ever again.
I was hoping that this diet would make no difference and that I could go back to eating whatever I wanted. However, much to my disgruntled attitude, I am actually feeling better darn it!!!
So this means I have to eat healthy and careful and all of that STUFF!!!
Has anyone else done something like this? What was your experience? And, it you do happen to have a recipe for a fake flour mixture that will make things that DO taste like bread, PLEASE, oh please.... send it to me. I am dying here without my cookies, muffins, homemade bread and scones.
Geez. I don't drink or smoke or gamble, or anything else. PLEASE let me have my cookie vices!!!