B3achy, I have been thinking the same. I do want to see if I can eliminate some issues and will see if it helps. I imagine I will only do one round and not more. I will see if any food is irritating me. If one is I will adapt to that, if not I will revert to what has worked in the past and hope for the best. Thanks for your viewpoint.

BBee, I thought it would be hard. I am glad you and your husband had success with it. Will PM you for more details. Thanks!

BBee5064 wrote: »

I was due to start on the it's Feb. Sadly due to flu I'm postponing until Mon 6th

Then we will be starting the same day! I hope you are feeling better...

BBee, I am almost done, thank Christ. I am feeling slightly more energetic, but that could be because the sun came out. My guess, and I won't know for sure til I do reentry is that dairy and sugar are my bugaboo. I guess I will end up cutting way back on dairy, sugar and crabs but I really don't believe in eliminating whole food groups. I have been irritable, hungry and am sick of cooking and shopping trips that take forever lest something escape notice and kill me. Did you go back on? How is it going?

Montepulciano wrote: »

Crabs is a whole food group? I had no idea...*running off for being a smartass*

Will be interesting to see how reintroducing various things goes, please let us know!

LOL. Well, I have BEEN a crab throughout most of this so.... Yes, I will let you know. But my best guess is it will turn out dairy makes me gassy and carbohydrates (especially the delicious ones) gum me up a bit. So both will have to be limited. Will let you know, though, if I am right. My 'predictive spelling' will not recognize the shortened version of carbohydrate and insists on plugging in 'crab' no matter how many times I type it in. It used to give up after a couple of times.

Well we have finished and done the reintroduction phase. The final results were that each of us feel less letharigic (which is awesome), general sleep quality has improved (although the nephew has always slept like a coma patient so his is negligible) and we discovered that dairy bothers us all (more in straight milk form than say in cheese) and while I would not say we are wheat sensitive we are sharply cutting our refined carbs as we resume real life. I think we just like it a bit too much and the calories are deadly for my sister and me. We are not great at portion controlling pasta but do fine with everything else. (We are both suffering "the change" and it has killed our metabolism). Sugar cravings have been abolished for the most part. The nephew (age 14) had the best weight loss result at 16 pounds. And the thing is he looks 100% different. I have to lose at least 20 to see anything change. My sister lost 10. I lost 3 or 5 depending on the scale I use. And my brother in law said he didn't lose anything. Going forward we are going to stick to a more paleo plan. During the week we will eat protein, fruits, and veg. But we are going to add whole grains like quinoa, etc and on weekends we will have a plate of pasta or rice. Overall, from a weight loss standpoint, for me, it was hardly worth it. There's a lot of cooking and all that label reading and extra expense gets a bit much at times. However, killing the sugar dragon and feeling more energetic is great. I will say it is a lot easier if everyone in the household does it. And my nephew is a real rule watcher and will catch you out. Every other sentence with him was "Is it compliant?" He caught a cold and his mother went to make him tea. He said no. He doesn't like it without sugar and a bit of honey and neither were compliant. So I would say it was a success but I won't do it again. It's just too much work.