Boy did things get a little crazy last night. We had Kennedy Family Christmas on the agenda and by the time I got home with cousin Elizabeth and we had the air mattresses propped up in front of the tv watching White Christmas it was 10:30pm and way too late to be writing blog posts.
I had to drive out to North Salinas for a Christmas Bag big enough to fit my gift and this is what stood in my way!
Merry Christmas to you too, 8 billion people deciding to drive and clog up my roads when I need to get places pronto!
This might have been the perfect ingredients for a little Christmas road rage and I might have rolled down my window, quickly thrown a fist full of tinsel at the stopped car next to me and rolled back up my window while turning up the volume of All I Want For Christmas is You, by Mariah Carey.
Christmas Road Rage is not a pretty picture……………….
Christmas Road Rage really works up an appetite so I snacked on a few chips and salsa while wrapping all my gifts.
At grandma’s house we had dinner catered from a local Italian Restaurant. I had 2 slices of garlic bread
Then we opened presents and ate way too much homemade toffee that Max brought. He made special dairy free for me!!
Food Sensitivities: Where are we now?
I’ve had a few questions about my diet and how this whole process has been going so I thought I’d do a little recap/update. To read up on my entire food sensitivity journey click through these links.
- Tummy Troubles
- I can’t figure out what’s wrong
- I try gluten free and no running
- What are food sensitivities and my diagnosis
So I’ve pretty much nailed down that my true sensitivities are to dairy (whey and casein). I know this because in 9 weeks I’ve cheated twice, once was for some bread on a sandwich and a glass of beer. The second was on Thanksgiving. When I cheated with gluten I didn’t feel bad at all and I couldn’t tell a difference. But, when I cheated on Thanksgiving I had a lot of cheese, milk, and butter and I felt awful!! It took me three days to get back to normal.
When I was first told about my new diet to help heal my intestines I was told to go gluten and dairy free, and to avoid a lot of other random foods like potatoes and apricots. I followed all my 110 foods to avoid list as best I could but I know I slipped up here and there. I only feel bad when I get any kind of dairy in my system.
So I’m still dairy free and mostly gluten free. I don’t want to eat a lot of gluten anymore. But I also don’t like causing people to miss out on eating foods they really like. For instance, at work we can’t go to pizza for lunch anymore because I can’t eat dairy or gluten, certain restaurants are off the list because the only thing I can eat is a small side salad of iceberg lettuce. I don’t want to be a high maintenance eater and I can eat a little without having any tummy troubles after.
I feel great and I do think this was the problem and the cause of all my tummy troubles.
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You can see all the Christmas pictures from last night on my Didn’t Make It page.
Tell me about you! I want to know………
what is your go-to smoothie recipe?
peaches, almond milk, spinach, flax oil, banana
Do you wear socks to bed?
no
