Vit D and Gerd

[MBombardier]

Very interesting, Gabes! I just returned from a 3-week trip to the very, very hot, humid, and very sunny Midwest and Southeast US. I drove many miles, and spent a lot of time in the sun dashing from here to there. My GERD almost disappeared. I thought it was because I was eating very little. With my grain, legume, nightshade, and fiber intolerances, I preferred not to eat rather than take a chance.

My GERD started back up when we came home to the cool, mostly cloudy Pacific Northwest where I have spent much of the time indoors. Frankly, I thought it was getting back into some stressful issues here, but you have made me think that it could be instead that my body was reveling in the extra Vitamin D on our trip. Hmm...

FWIW, to whoever else may be reading this, Healthy Origins has 5000IU capsules of D3 with no soy, etc. The carrier oil is olive oil.

[Gloria]

With my grain, legume, nightshade, and fiber intolerances, I preferred not to eat rather than take a chance.

That's a pretty restrictive list of intolerances. May I ask what you are eating these days?

Gloria

[MBombardier]

I don't eat as well as I should. My life has been chaotic, but I want to make eating well a priority, so I want to carve out time to spend working on that in the next few weeks before school starts. I'd like to do a rotation diet like you do, Gloria. That makes a lot of sense to me.

Mainly what I eat now is meat, eggs, lactose-free dairy like some hard cheeses and butter, nuts like almonds and pistachios, coconut milk, and fruits like grapes, melons, berries, and avocados. sometimes I have to have some fiber, so I will eat an apple or a raw carrot.

I am doing pretty well, although I am beginning to suspect that eggs are not my friend.

[sarkin]

Marliss,

Fingers crossed for you about eggs. I'm past the "shock and awe" of that dietary subtraction but it took a little accelerated maturity (that came after the whiny phase, of course). I am just gobsmacked that you can have cheese and butter - cheese was a good mindless snack for me, for years. I need something like that now, that I can pull out of the fridge to stabilize my brain while I figure out what I'm going to prepare for a real meal. (Pickled herring? Baby-food beets???)

I am also thinking I need to rotate more foods (within a focused list), rather than sticking to a small menu that I believe is safe. I am looking forward to the new version of MRT to help me organize that, but in the meantime have started making lists from a different perspective. I feel grateful for the "pretty good" way things are going, and lucky that my weight is stable and healthy. (I realize you and Gloria are looking at that particular measure from opposite points at the moment... but for all of us, it's one useful indicator of how things are going, taken in context.)

Tonight I had a corn tortilla with sunflower butter and a peach. That's the most un-Paleo meal I've had in many weeks, but I think all the foods in it are safe. I am actually willing to devote a chunk of time to testing foods in an extremely limited, one-at-a-time way. BUT - truly cannot devote the attention that would need at this time of year. I hope your plan to give this some attention before school starts up is rewarding and helpful.

Love,
Sara

[Gloria]

Marliss,

I'm surprised that you are able to eat nuts and fruits, but not fiber. Our food quirks aren't always easily explained.

I'm still rotating my meats and vegetables, which is possible because I have three different acceptable varieties of each. I'm no longer able to rotate my flours now that rice is off-limits.

I echo Sara's sentiments about the eggs and the cheese. It's surprising how much of a component eggs are in our diets. You don't realize it until you have to give them up. I suppose that's true about a lot of foods. I hope that you don't have to forsake them.

It's unfortunate that your Enterolab test results didn't reveal anything. You're left with wondering about the foods that were tested.

Gloria