Detox Diet/elimination?

[holdthegluten]

Does anyone know of a really good detox diet..........to start fresh and see what foods might be bothering me after i detox. I have been really bloated and feeling awful lately and im trying to figure out what's bothering me. Can you help me start an elimination diet basically?

[Mbelle]

Does anyone know of a really good detox diet..........to start fresh and see what foods might be bothering me after i detox. I have been really bloated and feeling awful lately and im trying to figure out what's bothering me. Can you help me start an elimination diet basically?

[Mbelle]

Does anyone know of a really good detox diet..........to start fresh and see what foods might be bothering me after i detox. I have been really bloated and feeling awful lately and im trying to figure out what's bothering me. Can you help me start an elimination diet basically?

I am just beginning a food insensitivity rotation program after getting tested (blood samples) for a lot of foods and chemicals. The company my dietician used is on www.nowleap.com. Seems to make a lot of sense. Besides gluten, I know I am sensitive to lots of other foods.

[marciab]

Here's what I did that helped. Stop eating any foods that you know bother you. For me that left plain baked chicken or turkey, peas, asparagus, organic plain applesauce, pears and white rice.

Eliminate all common allergens. These are gluten, soy, dairy, corn, eggs ... Included in this list, but not as common are peanuts, shellfish, sugar and chemicals. You don't have to do this all at once, but I did. My digestive tract was hurting too badly to eat any of these things ...

At the same time, add digestive enzymes or foods that contain natural digestive enzymes like mangos, papaya and pineapple. I found the papaya to be the easiest to digest. I ate a lot of this everyday in the beginning. You can make your own digestive enzymes by slowly baking the papaya seeds in a 250 degree oven for 1 - 1 1/2 hours, cooling and then grinding in a pepper grinder. They should be hard to the touch.

Also, add in a probiotic. I used kefir, but if you are casien free this may not work for you. There is some discrepancy over whether or not this contains casein. From what I heard the ones that are kept cold are best.

Then add in a few bites of any new food every 3 - 7 days, depending on how you react.

As far as detoxing goes, you can add raw garlic in right away too. Just a tiny piece for the first week then a little more, so on and so forth. I use about a clove a day now. Green tea, raw lemons, cilantro, raw fruits and veggies, etc etc ... but add to your diet in moderation so you don't shock your system.

It's important to go back to your safe foods everytime something goes wrong. This allows your digestive tract to heal up ...

That's all I can remember. Hope it helps ... Marcia

[ravenwoodglass]

Marci gave you a good response on starting the elimination diet. The only different thing I am going to say is that when my allegist guided me through mine he told me to eat the new food at least three times a day for week in as pure a form as possible, for example when I challenged wheat it was with triscuits or cream of wheat, when I challenged eggs it was with a scrambled egg for breakfast lunch and dinner, etc. You have to eat enough of the suspect food to cause a definate reaction to be sure. Most times a delayed or intolerance reaction will show up within 3 to 5 days, sometimes faster. When a reaction occurs you drop that food, then wait till the reaction subsides before adding the next.

As for the detox, while you are clearing your system to prepare for the elimination, in other words eating your nonreactive foods for a week or two, drink lots of fluids that will help to speed along the detox that your body will do naturally during the elimination. I personally would not advise any of the over the counter detox preperations that are so popular nowadays, they could be dangerous if GI system is impaired or leaky. Also many contain gluten in one form or another, even if just wheat or barley grass, after all these substances do result in a 'clearing' of the GI tract for many (read an abundance of undiagnosed celiacs here). That alone will cause a resolution of symptoms for a few days until enough gluten gets back into the system to cause a reaction again. Some of us have even had this effect prediagnosis when taking the prep for a colonoscopy, I went so far as to ask my GI doctor if I could do Golightly once a month or so, he thought I was crazy but those three days after the prep were the best I had felt in years. To bad he was so clueless, it was another 3 years before I was finally correctly diagnosed celiac.

[Ken70]

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This is how I discovered that I had food allergies to begin with. The guy is a bit whacked and he believes he can cure cancer etc.. I actually think his program does but not for the reasons he thinks. He accidentally gets you to remove all known allergens from your diet. I had never felt better after doing this and I wanted to know the real reason why. 9 months later I know more than I ever wanted to.

Be careful of the Super Foods though because it lists Barley as an ingredient. It doesn't seem to bother me and he says it is made from the grass not the grain.

Good Luck

[Mrs.Doyle]

When I started the adventure of figuring out what foods are making me sick earlier this year, I kicked it off with the Master Cleanse (lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper concoction) for about a week, then added in foods that I figured would not cause problems, like rice and chicken. The only problem with this is knowing if you have any reaction to citrus foods, which many people do. Also, if you have any blood sugar related issues, be cautious with your approach.

I created a spreadsheet that had the name of the food, time I ate it, and then a big list of symptoms for me to check off. I checked off the symptoms at 5 minutes, 20 minutes, 40 minutes, an hour, 2 hours, 3 hours and the next morning. I ate only the new food all day long (boy was I glad when onion day was done, hehe). I'm getting back to this process now and I think I will look for a couple of days after eating something new, instead of just stopping at the next morning.

It was/is a tedious process and required a lot of dedication and patience. I would recommend starting out with items that you use to flavor other foods (onion, garlic, herbs, etc.) so that your diet isn't boring, because you are going to be eating your bland, safe foods a lot. I am such a foodie that this was almost like torture until I got some good flavors to work with and then it was tolerable.