I have hesitated to post this week because I have changed up my elimination and I wanted to give it a few days to see if i'm on the right track. Remember a few posts back (i.e. the beginning of this blog) and I was on this crazy elimination diet where I could hardly eat anything? It turns out I was wrong...I could eat tons! Because now I can hardly eat anything! I'll explain that in more detail later.
Let's journey back together...two weeks in and I was seeing no digestive changes. I was actually having more digestive symptoms. Aside from feeling more stable (thank you sugar for making me a crazy lady...before! I'm totally fine now) nothing was different. I have been eating SO good, yet my body was like 'you are?'. So I started to do some research. This is an exhausting feat when you feel blah, and you have two kids. Life doesn't allot me the time to think a full thought these days, let alone research anything. So this did feel a bit tiring and time consuming. Anyways, my nutritionist had mentioned the word 'fodmap' in my meeting with her and something about not needing to eliminate those (whatever they were anyways), so I paid it no attention at the time. But since I wasn't feeling great and seeing no changes I looked into it. Well, it appears to be the closest thing to pinpointing what could be going on with me. I will post a link at the end of the article that will describe in greater detail what exactly FODMAPs are.
Anyways, long story short they are not a specific food group. It is essentially your bodies inability to absorb fructose in certain foods. Your small intestine doesn't really know what to do with said food and passes it along to the large intestine where the food ferments, causing gas etc. The foods have also leached water from the small intestine on their journey down causing (here we go...) watery, gross pooh's. So now you know too much about me. Which reminds me I should write an 'about me' bio so you know that there's more to me than just that.
There is a list in this article of foods that are safe, foods to be careful with and foods to avoid. I was eating so many foods on the avoid list. Plus, having cleaned up all my other eating it made sense that I was feeling the way I was feeling. I started this past Tuesday. These past few days I have not had the same symptoms as before. However, I have been super tired this week (a new level of detox perhaps?), and I did treat myself to a little glass of wine last night. Which was amazing! Except for today when my body said 'no it wasn't'.
I'm hoping I'm on the right track. I have found myself more discouraged this week, even with this new found knowledge. There are a lot of safe foods that were on my original elimination (like nightshades) etc., so there are a lot of gray areas right now as to what I should and shouldn't be eating. I go back to see my nutritionist this week and I'm hoping for more clarity.
I struggle with the idea of doing this for a long time. I really hope to gain habits and skills that I will WANT to take with me beyond this. I trust that I will, it's just a matter of remaining committed to this journey and knowing that it is only for a time.
And I am eating eggs again...and potatoes. Holla! Breakfast is back on!
As promised, here is the article on FODMAPs
http://www.thepaleomom.com/2012/08/modifying-paleo-for-fodmap-intolerance.html
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