Sunday, September 28, 2008

Food Allergies


I have not written in awhile because 1. I seem to forget my camera each place we have gone and 2. I have been very sick. This past summer has been a tough one for me. With loosing loved ones and the baby. I have also been very sick. I recently had some testing on my stomach and bowels. My Dr could not find anything wrong with me. I was still getting sick after I ate dinner each day. This was tough on me because I love food. I also was unable to be a mom and wife to my family. Finally with no answers I called my natural path Dr Ranheim. I was going to have to wait 3 months before I could see if. The Lord helped me on that. They had an opening right away so I took it. I had to do more stool and blood testing. These were not fun times for me. All my food was just going right through me. I had no nourishment in me and no energy to do any thing. Well this past week I got my results. They found two different bacteria in my stool and a lot of food allergies. I am glad we found the results but now I have to clean my system out by not eating any of the foods I am highly allergic to for 7 days and then slowly 1 by one bring them back into my life and see what happens to my body. Here are my results
High- gluten, grapes,cottage cheese, Milk,Rye,Tomato's,Watermelon, egg white and yolk, garlic and Wheat. My medium results are almonds, barley, cabbage, cantaloupe, cauliflower,coffee,cucumber, grapefruit, lettuce, green pepper, chili pepper, soybean, strawberry, walnuts, yeast(brewers and bakers).
With this new information I have to hope for the best. This will be a new way of living for me and I believe its going to be tough at first but I am determined to change my eating to feel better. The great thing is I did find out the restaurants have gluten-free menus. This helps me a lot since I will have to go gluten free for awhile.
I am worn down by all this but hope full my body will adjust back to where it should be. I am learning a lot about ready labels and figuring out that we have a lot of crap in our food. I want to be healthy and I want my family to be healthy. I think I am going to have to go back to home cooking from scrap. Come now Jesus so I can enjoy food again. :)

1 comment:

lizzyashby davidaaron said...

YUCK! I went vegan about 9 months ago and I have never felt better. No dairy, no meat, nothing. I eat way more veggies, and as frustrating as it can be the benefits way outweight the difficulty.

Miss you! Hope you feel 110% soon