What I am doing differently this time

Submitted on Tue, Jun. 12th at 7:53 pm by wolfsuit

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This is my second time through UltraMetabolism, and I just came off two months with the Detox Box program.
This time I will not make any assumptions about what I know my body can tolerate.  The first time through I "knew" I could eat eggs, but doing the detox box program rigorously taught me that I was wrong.

This time I will not rush food reintroductions, but wait till I see clearly how I'm reacting.

When I did the food reintroductions with the detox box, I separated gluten from wheat by several days.  I ate some lovely 8-grain cereal with barley in it, but no wheat, and had no reaction.  Same breakfast for 3 days, no problem.  Yay, gluten works for me!  But then sprouted whole grain wheat toast created havoc.  So I'm now a proponent of breaking the food types down.  Maybe yogurt will be okay, but cheese and milk not.  I will give them each their own trial period.

This time I will not consider the exercise component to be optional, for days when I feel like it.

I will not try to find "products" which meet the criteria, but stick to real whole foods.  (Except for Larabars.  I love Larabars, with ingredient lists like: "dates, apples, pecans."  That's it, for the whole bar!  Nothing unpronounceable! And they are good.)

That's about it.  I did a pretty good job, otherwise.

‹ Wish I would have read the book first!!

Larabars?

Submitted on Tue, Jun. 12th at 11:25 pm by peekollenamor

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Never heard of Larabars - where do you buy them? 

I read your message in the nick of time, because I was thinking of adding some stuff that I "know" I'm not allergic to.  And I'm only on Day Three of USD!!   I had a clue earlier tonight, though, when I added soy milk and frozen blueberries to the mixed berry Ultrashake and had post nasal drip and throat clearing...  first time all week. Hmmm.

good point!  I have known I

Submitted on Sat, Jun. 16th at 7:59 am by UltraKitty

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good point!  I have known I an eat red meat...in fact did atkins diet a few years ago and lost 26 punds..but guess what? when i added organic sirloin only 4 oz..i got nasty post nasal!

 

stopped it right away and have been fine ever since

Larabars

Submitted on Sun, Jun. 17th at 4:20 pm by Stephanie

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I find Larabars at the local health food store, and also in the health food section at Kroger, if you have Kroger grocery stores. I also get them through a food co-op (which also has rice protein powder, supplements, lots of gluten- and dairy-free foods, lots of organic stuff, all at a discount!). You could probably get Larabars online.

I will say this about Larabars -- I didn't like them until after I went off sugar for a couple of weeks. Now they seem sweet, but they didn't before. So your tastes change. In fact, I had some rice ice cream the other day, and it just didn't taste that great. I think I'm losing my taste for sugar. (Or for a lot of it; I love the fresh fruits, which have sugar.)

My friends, who eat horribly and feed their kids horribly -- just like I did before I started reading Dr. H's books -- think I'm terrible to restrict their foods, no HFCS, no trans fats, no dyes or preservatives, none of the things I know they're allergic to. But you know, they've gotten used to the new stuff, and it's not even been a year yet. So no one's suffering here.