Elimination Diet Day 24
16.10.08I am now over 3 weeks in to the Elimination Diet, and what have I learned?
Coffee: having been a coffee junkie for years, going without for over 3 weeks has at times been tough. BUT after the initial withdrawal headaches and generally feeling rubbish, I am now finding it easier to go without. I am also finding my sleep patterns have improved massively, and I feel more lively during the afternoon (a typical sluggish time for me). Now this may be due to an increase in water intake too, I don’t really know. The big thing here and I don’t want to understate it, really is the improved sleep quality!
Breads and Pasta: Not really missed the pasta’s, never really ate too much of the stuff anyway! But the bread was like the coffee, one of my major weaknesses. I think this part has contributed mostly to the visable results that i have obtained, no more bloating, no more over-full feeling. We simply do not have the stuff in our house any more, and going out for lunch or dinner simply means ignoring the bread that appears on the table!
Over high energy dense foods: Heavily processed foods such as sweets, pizza, burgers and such like didn’t really exist in my diet anyway, but I was certainly prone to the more than occassional treat… which it seems added up. Cutting those out at times was difficult, regularly eating our normal dinner and then wanting something sweet after was just a habit. A habit that is now broken.
Yes this is a bit of a sales pitch, BUT only because I could not have done the last few weeks without it. The Elimination Diet Cookbook has been a indispensible companion on this journey so far. So if you are starting your Elimination Diet program today, then I would thoroughly recommend the Cookbook too.
The Results: well in 3 weeks, ie. 21 days, i have lost 4.5kg and now dropped to my lowest body fat percentage measurement I have ever recorded on myself.
Don’t wait till monday to start this! Start NOW!
It is day 15 of the Elimination diet for me. So how has it been going.
The biggest thing for me is cutting out the coffee. I am finding it less of a problem day by day avoiding the coffee, but at times it really has been difficult.
The bread part has not been so difficult, and I have really managed to work around not being able to make a sandwich.
The Elimination Diet Cookbook has been a lifesaver to be honest, breaking my wife and I away from the tedious meat and vegetables meals, and we have tried a couple of different dishes including a slightly different style of omlete for breakfast.
Snacks have fairly consistently been fruit based and also natural yoghurt for the protein element.
So what has been the results: so far I have lost about 2.5kg not a huge amount, but significant in just over 2 weeks. The big difference is in the body fat percentage now down to its lowest in 18 months.
Dax is just finishing off the new Elimination Diet site, but if you want to get hold of it simply pop over to:
http://www.eliminationdietblueprint.com/
Oh yes and I would strongly recommend the cookbook if you plan on starting which you can get here
