#1 Allergy Elimination Diet

To those who know me and my health issues, this one is pretty obvious. I've always had a sensitive stomach. When I was little I was allergic to milk, eggs, and wheat. Eventually I grew out of the full blown allergies (THANK GOODNESS), but my stomach is still pretty sensitive.

I am prone to gastro intestinal issues, and while I have guesses as to what makes my stomach angry (too much dairy + too much wheat), I would love to know for sure.

Enter the Allergy Elimination Diet.

4-6 weeks of hardcore food eliminating. You start with the basics for at least 1 week and until you have no symptoms. Allowed:

• Grain: Rice (no wild rice), quinoa
• Fruit: All except citrus
• Veggies: All except tomato, peppers, corn, potato, eggplant
• Protein: Lamb and wild game, all nuts, beans and legumes except soy and peanuts
• Sweetners: pure maple syrup and brown rice syrup
• Oil: all except peanut, corn and soybean
• beverage: water (carbonated included, yes!), pure juice (no citrus), rice milk, herbal tea

Then you add one food at a time, and you add a lot of it, for three days (or until symptoms appear).

My add in groups

• citrus fruit
• peppers/tomato/eggplant
• potatoes
• corn/corn oil
• peanuts/peanut oil
• turkey
• chicken
• beef
• pork
• egg
• tea
• cream of wheat
• cheese
• bread (with yeast)
• milk
• sugar
• pop
• fried food

It will be interesting to see what comes of it. Although I am REALLY hoping wheat doesn't affect me . . . cause I am a bread addict :)

Laura

30 Before 30: The List

Well I've jumped on the bandwagon, but I think it's a good one to jump on. I've made a list of 30 things I would like to do before I turn 30. And now, on my 26th birthday, I am declaring my list to the blogging world.

The purpose of this blog is for me to have a chance to journal about the journeys that the list takes me and my family on. I don't plan on posting regularly. Only when something interesting to the list happens. At the end of the journey (1/30/2016) I plan on printing the blog out into a book, so I can always remember the last four years of my twenties.

So without further ado . . .

30 before 30

1. Do the allergy elimination diet
2. Run a 5k with Jill
3. Get in shape (noticeable ab muscles) and stay that way for one month
4. Become (basically) fluent in Spanish
5. Volunteer with at-risk kids again
6. Read 30 New Books
7. Move to Texas
8. Pass the Texas Bar
9. Have my first post-graduate, degree required, job
10. Take a European/Cross-Conteniental cruise with Chris
11. Visit the town my grandma is from in Mexico
12. Visit Washington D.C., tour the Supreme Court
13. Visit 2 national parks
14. Go to Harry Potter world in Florida
15. Visit old friends (Kentucky or Oklahoma)
16. Take a trip with my dad
17. Conquer a mountain
18. Try stand up paddle boarding
19. Canoe 2 new rivers/creeks with Chris and the puppies
20. Go surfing again
21. See a play at a small community theater
22. Spend a day without doing anything productive
23. Go without technology for a week (computer, phone, television, etc . . .)
24. Play halo with Chris, and try to enjoy it
25. Find 10 delicious freezer meals
26. Complete 5 pinterest DIY projects
27. Buy a DSLR camera, and learn how to use it
28. Digital scrapbook every year and print out the pages into books
29. Digitally scan Chris and I's childhood photos, print a book
30. Find a new favorite disc golf course in Texas

So there it is. Posts on each item and why I chose it to follow.

Laura

Note: I wrote this post and those that follow in Nov./Dec. of 2011 and Jan. 2012 because as you read this I am studying so that #8 can happen after only one test.