So I am still hanging out to eggs in our diet, and Ben is hanging out for some variety as well. So we gave them another go today in Omelete form. Well so far so good for me, Ben however is feeling a little heavy in the stomach after having them, so we will wait and see how things go tomorrow, as to whether I can have them or not.
Ben REALLY MISSES SNACKING. I have to laugh at him so much because today he was sulking over a packed of chips. He was very very sad because of them. It is actually hysterical watching a grown man writhe around because he can't have them. In actual fact he is really grieving the fact that he is not a 'normal' person, in his own mind. He is really frustrated that he can't be like all these other (seemingly normal) people that can eat apparently whatever they like and there is no consequences. However he isn't actually seeing that they are not healthy. Yes, they may be normal and eating normal food, from the point of view of statistic norms. However that same 'norm' spend a lot time dealing with headaches,prescription drugs, chronic illness, colds, immune issues, needing pills to live normal lives, and needing care.
The more I think about it the more I actually don't want to eat like the norm, because I don't want to have to deal with the health issues that face the norm. I want to eat like a nourished person, because someone that is nourished in every way in their life, don't face these issues. That is the life that I want for me and my family.
On another interesting note, on Friday my children consumed some unhealthy food, I am allowing them to choose for themselves, so that they can learn the lessons of greater health. They were given lollies, which they happily consumed. We my eldest daughter had been having a few bed wetting issues. Well most of the week they eat Gaps food. During the week she had no issues with wetting the bed, and she even commented to me that her stoles were really good. However Friday night she wet the bed, and my second eldest daughter had a sniffy nose that evening and night as well, and my last daughter broke out in eczema. Well two days back on GAPS foods, and they are getting back to being well. I'm hoping that this lessons is not a long one for them to learn.
Food
mineral water
Chicken stock
Stir fry veggies, in a mix of ghee and broth.
Roast Lamb with roasted veggies
Omelet with stir fried veggies.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Day 19 Gaps - getting some control back.
Well today was a busy day in our household, we have lots of things to catch up on. Thankfully we were able to organise some of those things. I'm feeling in a bright mood, like things are starting to fall into place, emotional, diet wise, and our choas which has been our life of late. With Ben having these issues over the last several years, each year getting a little worst, we haven't been able to be the most consistant of people. We could plan some, but we really didn't know what to expect of the next day until we saw how he had slept that night, or not slept, on many occasions.
Now we are SLOWLY falling into routines, of detox baths, and getting in to bed at a reasonable time, while he is no way he is not there yet, he is sleeping a bit more, the pain has reduced to mainly a 3 and he is having more energy and needing a day sleep less. So things are looking up. For me I have seen several signs that my body is starting to heal. One of which is a clogged pore that I have had for years. It actually looks like I have drawn a dot on my face with black pen. Well a few days ago that cleaned out! and now is starting to close.
If you ever plan on doing this diet I highly recommend making daily or weekly notes on your symptoms. We have been doing this and it is great to see one of those symptoms fall off your chart. Ben hadn't noticed, but in the first few weeks of starting this, he had an aching back, I asked him today if he had it still, and he looked at me as if to say what back ache? but then he remembered and realised he hadn't noticed it was gone.
I'm looking forward to being able to share more of those stories with you.
Now we are SLOWLY falling into routines, of detox baths, and getting in to bed at a reasonable time, while he is no way he is not there yet, he is sleeping a bit more, the pain has reduced to mainly a 3 and he is having more energy and needing a day sleep less. So things are looking up. For me I have seen several signs that my body is starting to heal. One of which is a clogged pore that I have had for years. It actually looks like I have drawn a dot on my face with black pen. Well a few days ago that cleaned out! and now is starting to close.
If you ever plan on doing this diet I highly recommend making daily or weekly notes on your symptoms. We have been doing this and it is great to see one of those symptoms fall off your chart. Ben hadn't noticed, but in the first few weeks of starting this, he had an aching back, I asked him today if he had it still, and he looked at me as if to say what back ache? but then he remembered and realised he hadn't noticed it was gone.
I'm looking forward to being able to share more of those stories with you.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Gaps day 18
Well we are through another Friday. 18 days with out sugar, dairy and grains, and 18 days of Blogging, wow looks like I'm committing to things. They say it takes 21 days to change a habit, well we are getting close to that , and it's looking like our life is changing. Ben is not healed yet but feeling much better. I have noticed changes in myself as well, and we are both around 10kgs lighter.
I think I need to find my camera and start taking pictures of some of our food. For me once I was able to see what our meals would look like I had a far better idea of how to prepare and make those meals. I am also learning to love food again, in a good way. Loving the taste of real food. I must admit today I was really tempted. Xavier was given a chocolate frog, which I haven't yet given to him, but just holding it and could remember to taste, and comfort it brings for that short time. However I have overcome it. One win for me and health.
Food today
Mineral water
breakfast sausages, with pasta carrots
2x biokult
Pumpkin Soup, and chicken thighs cooked in onions and tomatoes
Dinner was chicken, carrots and Gravy.
We all had eaten lots today, so I didn't really serve dinner, those that were hungry had some those that weren't didn't. Also on Fridays we go out to my mothers house, were the children have lunch, and I bring food for Ben and I so I tend to pack extra food, because I don't want us to get hungry out there with not many options of food to eat. So we will probably eat lighter tomorrow.
Thanks for reading
Christina
I think I need to find my camera and start taking pictures of some of our food. For me once I was able to see what our meals would look like I had a far better idea of how to prepare and make those meals. I am also learning to love food again, in a good way. Loving the taste of real food. I must admit today I was really tempted. Xavier was given a chocolate frog, which I haven't yet given to him, but just holding it and could remember to taste, and comfort it brings for that short time. However I have overcome it. One win for me and health.
Food today
Mineral water
breakfast sausages, with pasta carrots
2x biokult
Pumpkin Soup, and chicken thighs cooked in onions and tomatoes
Dinner was chicken, carrots and Gravy.
We all had eaten lots today, so I didn't really serve dinner, those that were hungry had some those that weren't didn't. Also on Fridays we go out to my mothers house, were the children have lunch, and I bring food for Ben and I so I tend to pack extra food, because I don't want us to get hungry out there with not many options of food to eat. So we will probably eat lighter tomorrow.
Thanks for reading
Christina
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Day 17, GAPS Intro
Well I'm feeling a bit low at the moment. I didn't have a very good night's sleep last night, Xavier was fussy and so was Isaac, so there was two little boys in our bed, and I was having re flux, So I ended up getting up with them, at around 4ish. Isaac was happy to watch veggie tales, and Xavier went back to sleep around 7am, so I grabbed a blanket and sleep on the couch for an hour or so.
Also we were both excited to move on to stage 3, trying scrambled eggs and pancakes, well at the moment it looks like we both have a slight aversion to eggs. So that was disappointing. So we will leave them out for a couple of weeks and try again. I think the hardest thing about doing this diet is that we can't leave the house without knowing what we are doing for our next meal or two, and not just thinking about it but actually getting what you need to ready. We can no longer just jump in the car and if we aren't home in time, just swing by and pick up something. At the moment too everything is still slow cooked, so it all takes a while. However not to be discouraged. I am learning new skills in food preparation, and learning on the go to plan our week food wise. If you are a really organised, tidy person, I'm sure you wouldn't find this as much a challenge as I do.
Food today
mineral water
steak with boiled veggies, and gravy for our broth.
Lunch was left over steak warmed, with sauteed onions and tomatoes.
Dinner was Almond Pancakes. Not nearly as much fun when you can't add jam to them.
Also we were both excited to move on to stage 3, trying scrambled eggs and pancakes, well at the moment it looks like we both have a slight aversion to eggs. So that was disappointing. So we will leave them out for a couple of weeks and try again. I think the hardest thing about doing this diet is that we can't leave the house without knowing what we are doing for our next meal or two, and not just thinking about it but actually getting what you need to ready. We can no longer just jump in the car and if we aren't home in time, just swing by and pick up something. At the moment too everything is still slow cooked, so it all takes a while. However not to be discouraged. I am learning new skills in food preparation, and learning on the go to plan our week food wise. If you are a really organised, tidy person, I'm sure you wouldn't find this as much a challenge as I do.
Food today
mineral water
steak with boiled veggies, and gravy for our broth.
Lunch was left over steak warmed, with sauteed onions and tomatoes.
Dinner was Almond Pancakes. Not nearly as much fun when you can't add jam to them.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Day 16 on Intro
So last night Ben tried the Oxy-powder and this morning it worked! I think we were both relieved when he went to the toilet. Then went to the toilet again. Then went to the toilet again. Afterwards his stomach pain was dramatically reduced! What a relief that it, Physically and Emotionally. LOL
We are also moving on to stage three, which is Great news for Ben as he has so been looking forward to pancakes, and for me I have been looking forward to scrambled eggs. We were on stage 2 for 11 days, and I guess we could take it slower but we are both feeling pretty good, if we had more issues then we would stay back. We are currently on 1 bio Kult daily, and 2 heaped TB spoons of cultured veggies with dinner. Our goal is the get up to six bio - kults, and a serving of cultured veggies with each meal. We also looking forward to introducing cultured dairy.
Yesterday I made 3kgs of Ghee. Ben is totally in love, and I'm sure it makes everything taste better!
The weather here at the moment is wet and miserable, perfect for staying inside, not as much fun for the children, but great of warm comforting food and soups. While Ben has reduced pain and more comfortable, however he is very tired. He hasn't slept real well over the last few nights, so is also on the grumpy side. I'm hoping that with less pain and having relieved himself today that tonight will be much better. Fingers crossed, Prayers said.
Food for today
Mineral water
Lamb Broth
Scrambled eggs with sauteed onions in Ghee and Avocardo
Pumpkin soup with added ghee, oh sooooo tasty! you really much try it sometime.
Boiled veggies with lamb casserole. Yum still licking my lips from that one.
Next thing on our to do list at the moment is fill our vegges gardens with food we can eat. I think at this point we don't have the energy to start from seeds, so we are going to buy a heap of seedlings and fill it up. We will save seeds til next season.
Bye for now. Please feel free to ask any questions that you would like me to talk about on here.
Christina
We are also moving on to stage three, which is Great news for Ben as he has so been looking forward to pancakes, and for me I have been looking forward to scrambled eggs. We were on stage 2 for 11 days, and I guess we could take it slower but we are both feeling pretty good, if we had more issues then we would stay back. We are currently on 1 bio Kult daily, and 2 heaped TB spoons of cultured veggies with dinner. Our goal is the get up to six bio - kults, and a serving of cultured veggies with each meal. We also looking forward to introducing cultured dairy.
Yesterday I made 3kgs of Ghee. Ben is totally in love, and I'm sure it makes everything taste better!
The weather here at the moment is wet and miserable, perfect for staying inside, not as much fun for the children, but great of warm comforting food and soups. While Ben has reduced pain and more comfortable, however he is very tired. He hasn't slept real well over the last few nights, so is also on the grumpy side. I'm hoping that with less pain and having relieved himself today that tonight will be much better. Fingers crossed, Prayers said.
Food for today
Mineral water
Lamb Broth
Scrambled eggs with sauteed onions in Ghee and Avocardo
Pumpkin soup with added ghee, oh sooooo tasty! you really much try it sometime.
Boiled veggies with lamb casserole. Yum still licking my lips from that one.
Next thing on our to do list at the moment is fill our vegges gardens with food we can eat. I think at this point we don't have the energy to start from seeds, so we are going to buy a heap of seedlings and fill it up. We will save seeds til next season.
Bye for now. Please feel free to ask any questions that you would like me to talk about on here.
Christina
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Day 15 on Intro
Day 15, Well I'm pretty sure that the runny nose has more to do with not having a detox bath than anything else. Then last few days I avoided peas as I thought that was the culprit, and it went away. However I was also having detox baths. Well yesterday I missed my detox bath and again this morning I had a runny nose. SO DON'T MISS THE DETOX BATH CHRISTINA!
I was so excited to open the do to the postman today! Yay our package arrived and we have our Bio Kult, Oxy -Powder, Drive, Fermented Cod liver oil, and our Veggie Twister. We were all excited about the veggie twister, and I totally thought I would make veggie pasta today but I forgot that I salmon that needed to used. So maybe tomorrow.
Ok so the Bio Kult is DR Campbell McBrides recommended brand, and the idea is that you increase the dose over a period of time until you get to the therapeutic level, during the healing process, then you can reduce them once you are healed.
Oxy- Powder is to help Ben constipation problem and get things going more naturally.
Drive is to help Ben with emotion stability, but more importantly to give him energy. They are full of B Vitamins, so we will see how that goes.
So this week's aim is now to introduce them in a see how things go. I'm hoping well. We would also like to introduce yoghurt and nuts as well. The family are pretty keen to get into having pancakes. I think we are doing really well at the moment, progress for Ben is slow, but it is happening. Something that I love about this diet, is that it's like a course in the basics of cooking traditional foods. It's a great lead up for Nourishing Traditions. I also think to that if you commit to a year or more on the diet you have worked really hard to clean out your body and only put good stuff in, when you are finished you wouldn't want to then go and stuff it full of crap after that. Hence the good lead up to traditional cooking, which is mostly prepared at home and takes time, with soaking, fermenting and so on. I Highly recommend this diet to anyone, whether you think you are ill or not.
Food for today
Mineral Water
Breakfast Balls with pouched eggs
We had a late breakfast we missed lunch and had an early dinner
Pouched Salmon with boiled veggies, carrots, zucchini, broccoli, Brussels sprouts. Served with Fermented Veggies.
I would love to hear about your journey on GAPS so please feel free to share.
Christina
I was so excited to open the do to the postman today! Yay our package arrived and we have our Bio Kult, Oxy -Powder, Drive, Fermented Cod liver oil, and our Veggie Twister. We were all excited about the veggie twister, and I totally thought I would make veggie pasta today but I forgot that I salmon that needed to used. So maybe tomorrow.
Ok so the Bio Kult is DR Campbell McBrides recommended brand, and the idea is that you increase the dose over a period of time until you get to the therapeutic level, during the healing process, then you can reduce them once you are healed.
Oxy- Powder is to help Ben constipation problem and get things going more naturally.
Drive is to help Ben with emotion stability, but more importantly to give him energy. They are full of B Vitamins, so we will see how that goes.
So this week's aim is now to introduce them in a see how things go. I'm hoping well. We would also like to introduce yoghurt and nuts as well. The family are pretty keen to get into having pancakes. I think we are doing really well at the moment, progress for Ben is slow, but it is happening. Something that I love about this diet, is that it's like a course in the basics of cooking traditional foods. It's a great lead up for Nourishing Traditions. I also think to that if you commit to a year or more on the diet you have worked really hard to clean out your body and only put good stuff in, when you are finished you wouldn't want to then go and stuff it full of crap after that. Hence the good lead up to traditional cooking, which is mostly prepared at home and takes time, with soaking, fermenting and so on. I Highly recommend this diet to anyone, whether you think you are ill or not.
Food for today
Mineral Water
Breakfast Balls with pouched eggs
We had a late breakfast we missed lunch and had an early dinner
Pouched Salmon with boiled veggies, carrots, zucchini, broccoli, Brussels sprouts. Served with Fermented Veggies.
I would love to hear about your journey on GAPS so please feel free to share.
Christina
Gaps Intro Day 14
I talked yesterday about how my nose was running again. Well I avoided peas yesterday and had a detox bath, and this morning no runny nose. Yay! so pleased. However I did forget to make one of our meals yesterday soup. So I did have reflux last night, as we has three meat meals. Oh well lesson learnt. I have also noticed that my eye sight has been improving. For time to time I have gone through stages where need to wear my glasses all day to avoid headaches and to just be able to see properly. Well have notice since starting the GAPS diet that I haven't need them, past the first few days.
Today I made stuffed Capsiums (pepper for American readers). Everyone seemed to love them. I'm very excited about the mail coming tomorrow and trying out our new veggie twister. Both Ben and the children are looking forward to trying out veggie pasta. So I guess that will be on the menu for tomorrow.
For the first time since starting GAPS Ben didn't complain about food. Yay! Also He is in a brighter mood. :0)
So today our two week Gapversary! I can't believe that we have been without sugar, dairy, grains for two weeks. Wow, when we first begun I wasn't sure we would make it this far. Actually I tried not the think about how far we would get. I mean I have done fasts before, 8 day food fast, 40 day meat fast, 40 day chocolate fast. But this is different, we are looking at two years. That's a big commitment. However we are already starting to seeing results, which helps spur us on. Also the promise of being healthy and being able to enjoy our children, and our lives. I look forward to the day when we go for walks together, exploring our country side. But more than that being free to do what God is calling up to do without hindrance.
Food Today
Mineral Water
Chicken stock
Stuffed caps.
Beef Casserole.
Another week down, as Ben tells me 102 more weeks to go. LOL!
Today I made stuffed Capsiums (pepper for American readers). Everyone seemed to love them. I'm very excited about the mail coming tomorrow and trying out our new veggie twister. Both Ben and the children are looking forward to trying out veggie pasta. So I guess that will be on the menu for tomorrow.
For the first time since starting GAPS Ben didn't complain about food. Yay! Also He is in a brighter mood. :0)
So today our two week Gapversary! I can't believe that we have been without sugar, dairy, grains for two weeks. Wow, when we first begun I wasn't sure we would make it this far. Actually I tried not the think about how far we would get. I mean I have done fasts before, 8 day food fast, 40 day meat fast, 40 day chocolate fast. But this is different, we are looking at two years. That's a big commitment. However we are already starting to seeing results, which helps spur us on. Also the promise of being healthy and being able to enjoy our children, and our lives. I look forward to the day when we go for walks together, exploring our country side. But more than that being free to do what God is calling up to do without hindrance.
Food Today
Mineral Water
Chicken stock
Stuffed caps.
Beef Casserole.
Another week down, as Ben tells me 102 more weeks to go. LOL!
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