• 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!


  • Why I Hate Tuesdays

    Anger and sadness are not the same feeling, of this I am sure…but at some point I decided it’s okay to handle all negative emotions such as these in the exact same way: to breathe through them. As cliché as it sounds, I’ve found moving my body without much focus on anything other than just…


  • Re-Freakin-Introduction!: My Elimination Experience

    Finally! The day(s) have come to reintroduce all those beloved favorites I’ve/we’ve missed so much…you know what I’m talking about: chocolate and bananas, of course – the straggler triggers we eliminated mid-process, plus all those other goodies: corn, ice cream, and least we neverrrrr forget GLUTEN! I am so. freaking. pumped! I’ll add a brief,…


  • 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.…