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[savingdogs]

What is GAPS?

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

http://www.gapsdiet.com/

 

[savingdogs]

It looks similar....but includes fermented foods, eggs and disallow lactose, which I can actually have. But there are some aspects of that which are exactly right.

I'm going to have to have a serious talk with my doctor about this. I think I need to have help specializing a diet just for me, similar to the one you pointed out bubblinB, just a little more specialized.

I just won't think about cheese. Onward and upward. Funny I'm no longer busting at the seams to make any though.

We are having rain now after all that heavy snow. There is like a foot and a half of frozen snow and now hard, warm rain. There will be flooding somewhere tonight I'm sure. I hope we keep power.

I feel worn out from the thread about Blackbird. I think I need to go to bed and hope tomorrow is a better day!

 

[big brown horse]

OMG giving up cheese was really hard at first. (I'm a true cheesehead from WI.) After two weeks I stopped missing it totally. Actually after two weeks I stopped missing many things that I didn't think I could live or cook without. (Tomatoes, bell peppers, dairy, coffee...)

eta: had to add coffee to my 'no' list...that was hard too, but I don't even crave it anymore.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

It looks similar....but includes fermented foods, eggs and disallow lactose, which I can actually have. But there are some aspects of that which are exactly right.

I'm going to have to have a serious talk with my doctor about this. I think I need to have help specializing a diet just for me, similar to the one you pointed out bubblinB, just a little more specialized.

I just won't think about cheese. Onward and upward. Funny I'm no longer busting at the seams to make any though.

We are having rain now after all that heavy snow. There is like a foot and a half of frozen snow and now hard, warm rain. There will be flooding somewhere tonight I'm sure. I hope we keep power.

I feel worn out from the thread about Blackbird. I think I need to go to bed and hope tomorrow is a better day!

The dairy is out at the beginning, as the whole point of the diet is to heal the gut.
All foods are added back in, and I think you can figure out at way to do probiotics but not ferments. I say this, cause I am assuming the ferments are out due to the salt content.
Cheese, you could soft fresh cheese most likely

 

[savingdogs]

Thanks....I've just had so much taken lately. Not ready for more. If I could trade being able to hear Carrie Underwood for eating that cheese I'd have an easier time of it.
At least I learned at that forum for my disease how normal I am. Every single one of them describes exactly how I feel 100 percent and even the same personality changes that I'm going through. It is both depressing and heartening. Denim Deb, it would be depressing for you, because most of the people are the bad cases like mine. May you be one of the ones never reaching this stage. I'll send you a link if you like though, they have lots of new interesting ideas about Meniere's, some are simple things like taking certain vitamins, etc. But it is a depressing illness and it is normal that I'm depressed. Nothing is wrong with me. Everyone with this at this stage is depressed. Isn't that great? People with just ONE of my two illnesses are depressed. I'm actually doing WELL.

Sorry I'm having a pity party I guess but that list of foods just really blew me away.....I cannot possibly avoid them all and my other list too. I will obviously have to stay sick to some extent and be an ever weirder and pickier eater than I have been for so long.

I'm getting less and less self sufficient, that is for sure. I'm thinking I should be spending more time at that forum where my illness is the norm instead of here with all you. I prefer you guys though. You have all really "been there" for me.

I'll try to talk about my illness there instead of here, so I don't wear you all out about it. How about that? After all, I still have that barnyard out there to take care of even if it is just the rest of the piggie around here eating all the good food.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Thanks....I've just had so much taken lately. Not ready for more. If I could trade being able to hear Carrie Underwood for eating that cheese I'd have an easier time of it.
At least I learned at that forum for my disease how normal I am. Every single one of them describes exactly how I feel 100 percent and even the same personality changes that I'm going through. It is both depressing and heartening. Denim Deb, it would be depressing for you, because most of the people are the bad cases like mine. May you be one of the ones never reaching this stage. I'll send you a link if you like though, they have lots of new interesting ideas about Meniere's, some are simple things like taking certain vitamins, etc. But it is a depressing illness and it is normal that I'm depressed. Nothing is wrong with me. Everyone with this at this stage is depressed. Isn't that great? People with just ONE of my two illnesses are depressed. I'm actually doing WELL.

Sorry I'm having a pity party I guess but that list of foods just really blew me away.....I cannot possibly avoid them all and my other list too. I will obviously have to stay sick to some extent and be an ever weirder and pickier eater than I have been for so long.

I'm getting less and less self sufficient, that is for sure. I'm thinking I should be spending more time at that forum where my illness is the norm instead of here with all you. I prefer you guys though. You have all really "been there" for me.

I'll try to talk about my illness there instead of here, so I don't wear you all out about it. How about that? After all, I still have that barnyard out there to take care of even if it is just the rest of the piggie around here eating all the good food.

I have been down a similar path with my adrenal fatigue. Its enraging and exciting at the same time, learning all about it, figuring out how its started, and how to work on healing.

Think about it this way. In order to be SS, you need to heal first.
Its very hard to do it all, when health is in the way.

 

[savingdogs]

I love it when someone points out a better way of looking at things! Thanks!

 

[Denim Deb]

SD, I was on a MD support website, but left. I didn't feel very supported, and most people on there seemed only interested in gripping and complaining about their life. I'm wondering if it's the same group. Please, PM me the link, and I'll let you know if it is.

 

[TanksHill]