Wednesday, April 13, 2016

I'm about to commence week 8 of this elimination diet with the RPA Food Allergy Unit.


Hopefully only 4 more to go!


It's been a hard task... cooking for my family, being around beautiful food at work, socialising with friends, Easter, watching MKR, going out to restaurants... just being around food has proven to be a lot harder than I thought.


I've been tempted to cheat! Who would know? However, within that first 10 seconds of thinking I could just take a bite, my conscious kicks in and reminds me of how far I've come and it would all be a waste of time for that one bite.


The interesting discovery through this program is my increased sense of smell. Particularly at work, where I am working off my sense of smell to replace my taste. Although, the wonderful team at Madame Foodie Headquarters are loving all the tasting :)


I can smell food from kilometres away. It kills me. My stomach grumbles. My mouth salivates. I just want to eat it all!!


As for the blind testing with the capsules, it is amazing how the systems works. I've taken 3 lot of capsules and reacted to two of them.




I also took part in the dairy test, which I actually ate real food (not capsules) and thankfully I had no reactions. This now allows me to introduce basic dairy back into my diet. Sour cream never tasted so good!!


My diet day to day consists of cashews, chicken, rice, quinoa, gluten free weetbix, rice milk, greek yoghurt, eggs, gluten free bread, cabbage and celery. Not much for a foodie!


Capsule 4 starts tomorrow - just keeping my eye on the finish line which has a delicious cheese platter, a bottle of delicious merlot and roasted salmon with pumpkin.


Stay tuned!!