the anti-inflammatory diet chronicles
it was a long time coming but it's finally here. this summer... Kristin will be taking on... the infamous, daunting, and insane... anti-inflammatory diet.
lord knows it wasn't by choice.
this really sucks so bad. but... why? I've been having a now-year-long flare-up of my HS autoimmune disease and my dermatologist asked me,
Do you know your triggers? and I, of course, responded Nope and so now, after dealing with this disease for the past 8 years, I'm figuring it out.
To put everything together in one place, here's what the anti-inflammatory diet consists of. You must cut out:
- red meat
- processed meats
- commercial baked goods
- bread and pasta made with white flour
- deep-fried foods
- foods that are high in added sugar
- sugar-sweetened beverages
- trans fats
- saturated fats From my time browsing HS forums over the years I've also found that you should cut out:
- dairy
- nightshade vegetables (tomatoes, eggplants, potatoes, and peppers)
- legumes (beans, lentils, peas)
- lemons
- sodium
- garlic
- spicy foods
- gluten
- seeds and seed oils so I should kill myself, right? jkjk, but you can clearly see why I've been putting this off for so long. I'd say I'm going to be eating like a bird, but even birds can eat more than this! so this is going to be me documenting the process. I'm not starting it for another few weeks but wow the hell I'm going to be put through... lord give me strength.
Anyhow, the diet begins with you taking all these things completely out of your diet for 3 weeks, and then week by week reincorporating each thing to see what could be causing your flare-ups. So, for example, I'm reincorporating garlic. I put garlic in my food for 2-3 days, then stop for the rest of the week to see how my body reacts. I do this with everything on the exclusion list. If I react badly, it's a trigger, and I have to cut it out. If I have no reaction, I can go back to eating it regularly. Fun times.
I'll be back to document every week about how things are going, recipes I'm trying, what I'm eating to substitute for all that I can't eat, etc. etc. Excited? Me neither.
may 12-18: the preliminaries
- on Sunday we discussed what this diet is going to look like for the foreseeable future. I can do basically everything here with ease but that no garlic is crazy. my parents agreed. the reason we're in the preliminaries is because I have plans to go to Disneyland on Saturday and my mom has plans to go on Tuesday. no way you think I'm not gonna be fucking up a turkey leg while I'm down there. so we're cool on that. so instead of starting this week we're gonna try and get through all the stuff we've got in the fridge and then start on Sunday.
- it's Monday and my dad ordered a pepperoni pizza. I'm in pain from the current flare-up I'm having from my autoimmune disease and he offers to give me money to go buy something for myself, but I'm in so much pain I can hardly walk, let alone drive, so I'm eating that.
- had a truly sleepless night so this Tuesday was spent sleeping all morning after getting some relief from my pilonidal cyst finally fucking draining. had to get up because my sprouts pickup order was ready, so I got that, had a berry smoothie and a plain bagel with vegan cream cheese, and passed out. woke up later and had a banana vanilla smoothie. then my mom made dinner: chicken breast, cous cous, and roasted zucchini.
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