Here we go...again

I am officially 4 weeks into my initial elimination. That's crazy! I thought I'd be feeling awesome and ready to reintroduce foods. Instead I'm not, so I cheated and ate a lot of crap this weekend. Oi. But oh did it ever feel good to eat food I love eating. I love eating. I love food. Had I felt better I would've loved that more. But I haven't yet. So I ate. And now tomorrow is a new week, a refreshed budget and a new plan.

This past Wednesday I met with my nutritionist again and we decided to scrap the old elimination. I was so relieved. Not only to be done with the restrictive eating but that she was willing to explore more options. Sometimes I find people can come from one school of thought and then you're hooped. So now I will still eliminate gluten, dairy, soy and refined sugars. That list at one point would've done me in, but now it's like freedom! I will also focus on getting lots of greens into my diet-to combat the fatigue i've been feeling. I realize I have two young children and that in itself is cause to be tired, but this is different. This is a more constant exhaustion. So I will eat a more alkalizing diet (again really focus on the greens) and I need to sweat more. Not just the nervous sweaty betty sweating I tend to do but real working my butt sweat. I work out at an amazing fitness place twice a week which has been awesome for myself on so many levels (but it's only twice/week). It has taken the mental pressure off working out for me which was and continues to be my biggest obstacle when left to my own devices. I am the strongest I have been ever in my life and that feels so good! But I'm still fighting fatigue and just feeling like my body hasn't been getting the nutrients I've been putting into it.

So I need to sweat for 30 minutes every 48 hours. I need to move. To tell my body that it needs to produce more mitochondria's (??I think??). This will help with my energy connectors. When my body is tired and I'm not moving as much those mitochondria's die off, I'm telling my body they are not needed. When I'm moving, and these babies are being produced then my body is producing more, energy is increased-connecting my systems better in my body. When my body is functioning on a basic energy level it can then do what it needs to do. That was the detailed, scientific description. If you need me to dumb it down for you I simply can not, it would beneath me to do so.

Moving, sweating and eating an alkalizing diet, with a big focus on greens is the next step. I feel a lot more motivated to try this route. Especially with it being spring, farmers markets are around the corner, juices and smoothies are easy to make as well as refreshing and energizing. I'm really hoping that this will address the root issue (fatigue) and that my body will respond positively. I'm still going to try and maintain a low FODMAP diet. I really don't want those to be trigger foods for me, but it is definitely still on my radar that they may be. So I'm putting my weekend waywardness behind me and starting afresh tomorrow.