• How To: Elimination Diet

    Three months now since the start of the most dramatic experience of my own nutrition journey, I can honestly say I would do it again!


  • The Final Week – How Do You Spell Positivity?: My Elimination Experience

    It’s been a while, and this post will be short. This weekend was not easy. We’re so close yet feel so far away. There was a lot of irritability floating around between myself and Brenen, and try as I might to maintain a healthy enough level of positivity for the both of us, I have…


  • The Second Weekend: My Elimination Experience

    This weekend was so easy! Even with mom and Taylor visiting, I was able to make it work and never felt pressured to lose control or sway off course. Okay, so the trip to Dō was a little unsettling – the new cookie dough dessert store between West Village and SoHo is what I imagine…


  • Day 9 – Bye, Bye, Bananas: My Elimination Experience

    The theme of the diet has been making it my own, and listening to MY body.  Unfortunately, even on Day 9 the headaches are still persisting. What I originally thought was solely due to cutting out caffeine cold turkey, I’ve now considered may be (also in part) to too much chocolate/sugar or not enough water.…


  • Week 2 – Listen To Your Body: My Elimination Experience

    I haven’t been sleeping poorly, but the sleep hasn’t been as good as it was the first few nights. Perhaps I’m eating too much sugar too late in the day. I know sugar is typically eliminated from the common elimination diet, but this is MY elimination diet, and so while I’ve never really been much…


  • The First Weekend: My Elimination Experience

    It’s crazy to me that it’s almost 7:30PM (dinner time now), and I’ve only eaten…well…breakfast and lunch. But I’m not starving. The headaches are still sneaking in – never for long anymore though, and barely noticeable. This weekend was great! I expected it to be hard, hell to be honest, I expected it to be…