Another AIP Blog.

I contacted a nutritionist who does mediator response testing and Leap protocol diet.  Apparently it works like this, you give a blood sample and you get back a list of foods that are safe for you to eat and a list of foods that may be safe and a list of foods that you should not eat based on how your immune system responds to these foods.  Then the nutritionist designs a diet for you with only safe foods and then you do an add in protocol until you find how you react to most foods and get a diet that is designed specifically for you.  It's going to cost around 750 dollars total and take about 6-8 weeks for the initial part.  I'm sure I'll be working on this for the rest of my life, but I think that this will give me a good starting point.  After 6 months off my trigger foods, I may be able to add them back in.  We'll see. 

I've limped around all day, my side is hurting, I have palpitations and feel dizzy and shaky every time I stand up and try to do something and I can't deal with it anymore.  I was trying to get ready for our houseguest and I ended up lying on my bed crying with 2 of the dogs licking my face.  That's when I made the decision.  I'm done. When I get under the care of a nutritionist, I will have someone to call and see if the symptoms I am having are a cause for concern.  Now, I don't.  This is just something I decided to do on my own, medically unsupervised and woefully uninformed.   I'll see the nutritionist and then I will ask her to help me design a program to get healthy slowly and carefully, not overwhelming my body with withdrawal or whatever the heck this is.  Sigh.

Still feeling bad.  My joints are, if anything, worse than yesterday.  A bit constipated.  Dry eyes and dry mouth not improved at all.  Feeling weak and shaky, don't really feel like I can do anything.  When I went gluten free 8 years ago it was all good, good, good.  I felt better with every passing day.  This is not the same.  This sucks.  We're having a guest this weekend, someone I've met only once, and we have to clean and get ready for her and play hosts and I just don't know if I can handle it.   I may break down and eat something off the diet in the middle of the day.  Still don't know.  I am going to try for 21 days.  That's 10 days from now.    I guess maybe I'll be able to tell if some of my symptoms are worse?  I don't know. I wish I'd never heard of this diet. 

I feel like crap.  My knees and feet hurt very bad, I'm stiff and sore, I feel like I can't handle anything, like I can't do anything.  I can't focus.   I feel like the only thing I am doing is this diet.  Everything else is falling by the wayside.  I also don't know if I should quit or not.  I feel like I should give it a good try, but is 10 days a good try?  I may quit and just go see the nutritionist and do whatever she says to do after my food sensitivity testing is done.  I haven't decided. The scale says that I have lost 15 pounds in 10 days but that doesn't seem right.  I wonder if it is a scale malfunction.