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AIP Day 32
8/22/2016
Woke feeling great, had a cup of tea and an avocado – and my tummy bloated up. Ugh, that hasn’t happened in several days – so maybe I got gluten zapped – had dastardly “d” yesterday – a sure sign.
On the good side, weight is down more. I’ll start again tomorrow on the FMD.
Food: tea, avocado, burger, catsup, onion, banana chips, melon, coffee, popcorn
20 oz H2O
Stats for the day
Sleep: 9:00-6:30 woke rested.
All joints behaving.
Weight: 177.4 – 4.6 pounds lost (Starting weight at beginning of AIP 182)
Edema Treatment: R2D2 – 1 hour left leg; 1 hour right arm
Exercise: 3 hours in the garden
Meds & Supplements:
LDN
Levothyroxine
Oral Sinus Probiotic
1 prescript-assist probiotic
5,000 D3
Foods eliminated to date:
Dairy, legumes, seeds, chocolate, seed based spices, rice and other grains, oils (except avocado, coconut and EVOO), nuts, sugar, some nightshades and gums (guar, carrageenan, etc.).
For now, I’m keeping tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, since I have tons of them in my garden.
AIP day 31
8/21/2016
Avocados are almost ripe… Fast Mimicking Diet Tuesday.
Food: black & raspberries, coffee, chicken, tea, pork, potatoes, cauliflower
20 oz H2O
Stats for the day
Sleep: 9:00-6:30 woke rested.
All joints behaving.
Weight: 178.2 – 3.8 pounds lost (Starting weight at beginning of AIP 182)
Edema Treatment: R2D2 – 1 hour left leg; 1 hour right arm
Exercise: 3 hours in the garden
Meds & Supplements:
LDN
Levothyroxine
Oral Sinus Probiotic
1 prescript-assist probiotic
5,000 D3
Foods eliminated to date:
Dairy, legumes, seeds, chocolate, seed based spices, rice, corn and other grains, oils (except avocado, coconut and EVOO), nuts, sugar, some nightshades and gums (guar, carrageenan, etc.).
For now, I’m keeping tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, since I have tons of them in my garden.
AIP day 30
8/20/2016
All joints behaving, the avocados are getting ripe for the FMD – I think I’ll start on Monday.
Food: melon, coffee, chicken, onions, potatoes, burger, tea
20 oz H2O
Stats for the day
Sleep: 11:00-2:30 + 5:30-6:30 full moon? approaching storm? just normal can’t sleep????
All joints behaving. Edema is decreasing. I’ve lost 15 inches across the 25 places I measure in the past 30 days!
Weight: 179.4 – 2.6 pounds lost (Starting weight at beginning of AIP 182)
Edema Treatment: R2D2 – 1 hour left leg; 1 hour right arm
Exercise: zip – too hot
Meds & Supplements:
LDN
Levothyroxine
Oral Sinus Probiotic
1 prescript-assist probiotic
5,000 D3
Foods eliminated to date:
Dairy, legumes, seeds, chocolate, seed based spices, rice and other grains, oils (except avocado, coconut and EVOO), nuts, sugar, some nightshades and gums (guar, carrageenan, etc.).
For now, I’m keeping tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, since I have tons of them in my garden, and corn.
Regroup – AIP day 29 & FMD
8/19/2016
Saw the chiropractor for the second time for my neck. He did acupuncture and then an adjustment. My should and neck spasm were gone and all was well… until morning… when I woke up with such bad vertigo I had to have help getting into the bathroom and back to bed. Spent most of the day Friday in bed, and then it was a slow recovery for the next two weeks. All is well now, but I’ll never let a chiropractor touch my neck again. I think there is just too much RA in those vertebrae to mess around.
Stayed true to the AIP, except for adding back coffee – only one cup, but now have to do the gradual withdrawal again. It is my comfort food, and I was definitely needing something during the vertigo adventure.
Once the coffee is gone – which usually takes me 4 days, I’ll ditch the nightshades, too and then do an entire month of AIP and decide if I want to keep going, or start some introductions of new foods. I have an adventure planned for October 11-18, so whatever I do food wise, I need to make sure that I give myself time to recover before then, if I have any adverse reactions to introduction. Would love to add eggs back. I don’t think they bother me, and they are easy when away from home.
I’ve been reading about the Fast Mimicking Diet (Dr. Valter Longo), and am going to give that a try. The original diet cost $150 for the 5 days, and you have to get your physician to order it. I’m going to emulate it with avocados and Amazing Greens for 5 days https://thequantifiedbody.net/fast-mimicking-diet/
I did a 3 day water only fast when the RA was first diagnosed, and that seemed to be a factor in turning off the original flare. The FMD is supposed to give you all the benefits of the water only fast, but with more comfort, because you get to eat 1000 calories the first day and 750 a day for the next 4 days. Not exactly a feast, but should make it much easier. There is some clinical evidence that doing a 5 day fast once a month can turn off the white cells that are programmed to attack “me” – seems the white cells die and are replaced by new naive white cells that haven’t yet learned to attack. Anyway, the research is interesting and I love a good experiment, so here I go.
Just need to wait for the avocados to get ripe.
Food: coffee, steak, chicken, burger, lettuce, carrot, pepper
16 oz H2O
Stats for the day
Sleep: 12:00-6:00 Slept straight through! Seems like I’m getting back to sleep pattern of 6 hours a night. That was most of my life from my teens to my mid 40’s when the autoimmune stuff started happening. So, maybe this diet is helping.
All joints behaving, even with the storm front approaching.
Weight: 179.4 Hooray! Finally under 180. (Starting weight at beginning of AIP 182)
Edema Treatment: R2D2 – 1 hour left leg; 1 hour right arm
Exercise: zip – too hot
Meds & Supplements:
LDN
Levothyroxine
Oral Sinus Probiotic
Foods eliminated to date:
Dairy, legumes, seeds, chocolate, seed based spices, rice, corn and other grains, oils (except avocado, coconut and EVOO), nuts, sugar, some nightshades and gums (guar, carrageenan, etc.).
For now, I’m keeping tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, since I have a plethora in my garden.
Day 14
8/4/2016
Neck is better. See the Chiropractor/acupuncturist for my neck again this afternoon.
Joints seem ok, except some finger joints seem unstable today. That hasn’t happened in a long time. Picking up a dish puts too much pressure on them and causes a little “oh” of surprise.
Family made pizza last night and I wasn’t even tempted! But the Bagel, oh my!
Food: melon, chicken, bagel, butter, blackberries, cherry juice, cherries, pepper, carrot, cucumber
20 oz H2O
Stats for the day
Sleep: 11:00-5:30 Slep straight through!
All joints behaving except RT pointer is still feeling jammed.
Weight: 180.4 Lost 1.6 pounds. Haven’t seen that number since the last prednisone in December. (Starting weight at beginning of AIP 182)
Edema Treatment: R2D2 – 1 hour left leg; 1 hour right arm
Exercise: zip – too hot
Meds & Supplements:
LDN
Levothyroxine
Oral Sinus Probiotic
1 prescript-assist probiotic
5,000 D3
L Glutamine 5gm
Foods eliminated to date:
Dairy, coffee, legumes, seeds, chocolate, seed based spices, rice and other grains, oils (except avocado, coconut and EVOO), nuts, sugar, some nightshades and gums (guar, carrageenan, etc.).
For now, I’m keeping tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, since I have tons of them in my garden, and corn.
Day 13
Almost made it two weeks.
DS returned from visiting DD2 last night and brought GF Bagels! This Jewish girl who grew up on NY city bagels imported to Illinois, and the occasional St. Louis bagel brought in on Saturday’s – but only if you got up early and stood in line at the deli – found it hard to resist. We ate them for 9 days straight when we were in Portland this spring, and I was fine. So, I had a little lapse and ate a bagel with butter for breakfast. One more with cream cheese tomorrow and then I’ll start all over on the AIP. No one should be coming here from Portland until the holiday, so I shan’t be tempted again!
8/3/2016
Saw the Chiropractor/acupuncturist for my neck this morning. It continues to be stiff and in spasm. Ice 3 times a day and see him again tomorrow.
Food: potatoes, onion, celery, melon, chicken, bagel, butter, blackberries, cherry juice
20 oz H2O
Stats for the day
Sleep: 11:00-5:30 Slep straight through!
All joints behaving except RT pointer is still feeling jammed.
Weight: 180.4 Lost 1.6 pounds. Haven’t seen that number since the last prednisone in December. (Starting weight at beginning of AIP 182)
Edema Treatment: R2D2 – 1 hour left leg; 1 hour right arm
Exercise: zip – too hot
Meds & Supplements:
LDN
Levothyroxine
Oral Sinus Probiotic
1 prescript-assist probiotic
5,000 D3
L Glutamine 5gm
Foods eliminated to date:
Dairy, coffee, legumes, seeds, chocolate, seed based spices, rice and other grains, oils (except avocado, coconut and EVOO), nuts, sugar, some nightshades and gums (guar, carrageenan, etc.).
For now, I’m keeping tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, since I have tons of them in my garden, and corn.
Day 12
8/2/2016
Had a lovely massage yesterday. Today my neck is still stiff. Think I’ve been leaning my head on my left hand when using the computer. Caught myself doing it several times this morning, so now to change my posture.
Woke with dry eyes and flashes, and had a big new floater, which resolved after a few hours. Disturbing, but all seems good now.
Food: potatoes, onion, celery, melon, chicken, tuna – not very hungry today
20 oz H2O
Stats for the day
Sleep: 9:30-6:30 (up to pee)
All joints behaving except RT pointer finger is jammed again.
Diarrhea around noon – drat.
Weight: 180.4 Lost 1.6 pounds. Haven’t seen that number since the last prednisone in December. (Starting weight at beginning of AIP 182)
Edema Treatment: R2D2 – 1 hour left leg; 1 hour right arm
Exercise: zip – too hot
Meds & Supplements:
LDN
Levothyroxine
Oral Sinus Probiotic
1 prescript-assist probiotic
5,000 D3
L Glutamine 5gm
Foods eliminated to date:
Dairy, coffee, legumes, seeds, chocolate, seed based spices, rice and other grains, oils (except avocado, coconut and EVOO), nuts, sugar, some nightshades and gums (guar, carrageenan, etc.).
For now, I’m keeping tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, since I have tons of them in my garden, and corn.
Day 11
8/1/2016
Life got complicated, my computer froze, and I didn’t record anything for the past three days. I did stick with the diet, so that’s a good thing.
I had a horrendous tummy ache Saturday – bloating and tiny men with pitchforks jumping up and down, lots of gas, burps, farts. Some better on Sunday, and feel back to normal today. Can’t figure out what caused it.
Food: pork, potatoes, onion, celery, egg, melon, popcorn, coconut oil, salt
12 oz ginger tea
20 oz H2O
Stats for the day
Sleep: 9:00-4:00 (up to pee)
Hand and feet -1 all other joints behaving
Weight: 182 Lost .8 pounds. Back to starting weight! (Starting weight at beginning of AIP 182)
Edema Treatment: R2D2 – 1 hour left leg; 1 hour right arm
Exercise: zip – too hot
Meds & Supplements:
LDN
Levothyroxine
Oral Sinus Probiotic
1 prescript-assist probiotic
5,000 D3
Foods eliminated to date:
Dairy, coffee, legumes, seeds, chocolate, seed based spices, rice and other grains, oils (except avocado, coconut and EVOO), nuts, sugar, some nightshades and gums (guar, carrageenan, etc.).
For now, I’m keeping tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, since I have tons of them in my garden, and corn.
Day 7
7/28/2016
Feel better today, slept better last night. Left ear canal swollen and left sinuses stuffy this morning. Hopefully, that is one of the mysteries that this diet will solve.
Food: chicken, red pepper, cucumber, hot dogs (nitrate/nitrite free), cherries, black cherry jello, chips, popcorn, coconut oil, nutritional yeast.
12 oz ginger tea
50 oz H2O
6 oz black cherry juice
Stats for the day
Sleep: 8:30-4:00 (up to pee twice)
Hand and feet -1 all other joints behaving
Weight: 182 Lost .8 pounds. Back to starting weight! (Starting weight at beginning of AIP 182)
Edema Treatment: R2D2 – 1 hour left leg; 1 hour right arm
Exercise: zip – too hot
Meds & Supplements:
LDN
Levothyroxine
Oral Sinus Probiotic
1 prescript-assist probiotic
5,000 D3
Foods eliminated to date:
Dairy, coffee, legumes, seeds, chocolate, seed based spices, rice and other grains, oils (except avocado, coconut and EVOO), nuts, sugar, eggs, some nightshades and gums (guar, carrageenan, etc.).
For now, I’m keeping tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, since I have tons of them in my garden, and fresh corn.
Day 6
7/27/2016
Feel better today, although my sleep was restless. Up in the middle of the night to read for an hour. The rock is gone from my tummy at last and the groggy brain.
Today I finish eliminating all the foods recommended for the AIP except tomatoes, potatoes and nightshades, which are prolific in my garden right now, and corn ( my favorite and the season is almost over). Next I’ll begin paying attention to adding the good things I’m supposed to be eating – broth, ferments, offal, fish.
Food: Cherries, beef, corn. Rice pasta & sauce – the last rice dish. Salsa & corn chips, chicken. Popcorn, coconut oil, nutritional yeast – need to see if that’s allowed.
Liquid:
12 oz ginger tea
20 oz H2O
6 oz black cherry juice
Stats for the day
Sleep: 9-6:15 (pee at some point) woke to the sun. Awake and read for about an hour.
Hand and feet -1 all other joints behaving
Weight: 182.8 Lost 1.2 pounds. (Starting weight at beginning of AIP 182)
Edema Treatment: R2D2 – 1 hour left leg; 1 hour right arm, 1/2 hour trunk
Exercise: zip – too hot
Meds & Supplements:
LDN
Levothyroxine
Oral Sinus Probiotic
1 prescript-assist probiotic
5,000 D3
Foods eliminated to date:
Dairy, coffee, legumes, seeds, chocolate, seed based spices, rice and other grains (I’m keeping corn for now, since it is in season), oils (except avocado and EVOO), nuts, sugar, eggs, some nightshades and gums (guar, carrageenan, etc.).
For now, I’m keeping tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, since I have tons of them in my garden.
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