Help: Elimination diet

[mzrowan]

One of the pieces of advice I got was to do an elimination diet to help ward off morning sickness*. I've been a slacker about this with the excuse that I was waiting for the farmer's markets to get going. Couple that with the fact that I'll have little choice in what I get for food over the May long weekend and I've got about three weeks to do

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[dancingwolfgrrl]

My experience was that it took me (this is anal-retentive-about-food and super-sensitive-to-her-digestive-system me) about a week to get the hang of managing my body and blood sugar and whatnot on the total elimination diet; I probably could've done with ten days but stand with moominmolly in suggesting you not go too much shorter than that. There's probably no point in starting before Rites; eating at random will totally de-detox you. Also, you really want to have a good solid baseline of what (hopefully) symptomless is like in order to be able to detect really subtle reactions, which is the whole point. (If you're not particularly worried about this, you can just cut suspicious foods one at a time while going about your business and see if you notice anything.)

I found I could save some time by moving on after one day if I had absolutely no reaction to a food, although I only did this a couple of times. But still, it took me five weeks to do my list, which was the same size as yours, and there was at least one thing I might not have caught without the two-day test.

So, uh, you should've started earlier :) But I hope you're able to work out something that works for you.