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My experience with an elimination diet

Post-flu: food is confusing

July 30, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

My body is a bit of a mess lately. Ever since that flu hit a week ago, I’ve been feeling awful. I’m exhausted all the time. I keep trying to do a few minutes of exercise, to get that effect where doing a little exercise gives you energy, but I can barely keep going longer [...]

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Let’s get physical! PHYSICAL! I wanna get physical!

July 21, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

I just amused myself and Meg, made some of you want to hurl, and probably confused the younger generations.
YOUR WELCOME.
I went to the doctor this morning, for my yearly physical. I told him about the elimination diet, and how I’m still having problems with being stiff and sore at night and in the mornings, and [...]

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The perks of being married to a programmer

July 16, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

One of the annoying things about doing an elimination diet, or trying to find out any useful information from your day to day routines, is that to do so you have to be fairly religious about writing everything down. EVERYTHING. This can get really old after awhile, yet it’s so important, especially when you’re trying [...]

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Staying Heart-Healthy Part 1 – The Diet Wars

July 13, 2009 by hollie My experience with an elimination diet

As long-time readers of this blog know, I’m fascinated by different diets. For a long time I believed that a totally plant-based vegan diet was the way to be truly healthy and long-lived, but I struggled desperately with getting enough vegetables. Recently I’d decided to add meat back in for awhile to replace what seemed [...]

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Elimination Diet Update!

July 6, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

It’s been barely two weeks (15 days!), and while I’ve screwed up and added things back in too early and accidentally eaten things I didn’t mean to, I feel like I’ve already learned so much!
The biggest thing I’ve learned so far is that I’m not anxious all the time. I was beginning to think that [...]

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Klicker strawberries, and some amazing brownies

July 4, 2009 by hollie Food and Recipe Reviews

Here in Ellensburg, we have a local ice cream shop called Winegars, and every year they sell buckets of these amazingly delicious Klicker strawberries, which are grown in Walla Walla Washington. I bought a 20 pound bucket, which takes up a not-trivial amount of space in the fridge, but they’re so delicious none of us [...]

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Elimination Diet | Day #9

June 30, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

It’s been a few days since my last update, and I’m sure everyone is wanting to know how much money to hand to their buddy, right? HOW BAD DID SHE GO OFF? Because I’ve got bets ridin’!
In fact I have gone off the diet in the last few days, but it’s actually been okay. I [...]

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Elimination Diet | Day 4 | I’m kicking butt!

June 25, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

Ahhhhh, Day 4, lovely Day 4. Look at me smile! That’s a real smile! I’m feeling much happier today! I woke up with some anxiety symptoms, but I took a dose of my anxiety medication before I even got up, and within a short while I was feeling much better. I’m definitely convinced at this [...]

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Beans. Bah.

June 24, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

After I wrote my last post, I began considering the idea that I might want to add back in one major group, just so that I’d have something else to eat. Right now it’s pretty lean times over here, made much worse by the fact that I just don’t like a lot of vegetables.
So I [...]

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Why am I eliminating everything?

June 24, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful Commentary

Megan asked these questions in a comment, and they went along with some questions that one of my Megs asked, and I figure I ought to answer it in a post in case a few people are wondering.
Megan’s questions are in bold:
I have some technical questions:
1. Why eliminate everything at once? Why not eliminate one [...]

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