Day 2 and 3

For dinner last night

Chicken with salt and pepper

Brown rice 

Brocali

Carrots

Celery

Cantaloupe 

Breakfast

Cantaloupe

Lunch

Hamburger patty

Banana

Carrots

Celery

Dinner

Chicken with salt and pepper

Brown rice

Cantaloupe

Strawberries

Apple

Carrots 

Celery

Day 2 Breakfast and Lunch

Breakfast was a smoothie again.  Banana, strawberries, and apple juice

Lunch was hamburger patties with salt and pepper and Montreal steak seasoning

Steamed brocali

Fresh strawberries

Drank one water bottle in the morning.  

Scott is tired and nauseas and has a headache

I am cooking the meat in the George Forman grill and it is so nice to do it that way.  We have had it for years and I have not used it enough.  This is also making me better at doing the dishes regularly at least for now.

Day 1 Lunch and Dinner

Lunch

Hamburger patty with salt and pepper and an apple

Snacks grapes, 

Dinner

Pork Chops

Asperagus with little olive oil and salt and pepper

Brocali with salt and pepper

Apple

Strawberry

Carrots

Cantaloupe

Day 1 Breakfast

This morning I started our family with a smoothie.  In it we put a frozen banana, frozen strawberries, and 100% pure apple juice.  There was also a bowl of cantaloupe. 

I weigh 150 right now.  Scott is at 237.  Scott is having a rough morning, sad and depressed and not wanting to talk.  He wants to do this diet but he also doesn't.  We have never been on a diet before and have always just had whatever we feel like.  We have been eating out a lot the past few days and he called it his Marti Gras  to eat everything he enjoys before going without.  Well at least we are starting out.

Preperation

I tried to do some research about what we can and can't eat and there are many different elimination diets out there with different can and cannot eats.  So I am doing the best I can.  I have no training on this and don't claim to know anything special this is just a record of what we did.

I started by going to Costco and getting lots of fresh stuff.  The main things we plan to eat are fresh fruits and veggies and meat.  So I have pork chops, hamburger, chicken, and steak for meat as of right now.  For fruits we have strawberries, grapes, apples, cantaloupe, and bananas.  For veggies we have carrots, celery, brocali, lettuce, asperagus.  We may have more but that is what I remember right now.  

This morning I cut up a bunch of these things and put them in snack bags so that they are an easy thing to grap as a quick snack.  I'm sure I have a lot more to learn and that we will soon be pulling our hair out, but at least we are trying.

Fibromyalgia

Recently my husband was diagnosed with fibromyalgia.  We had been experiencing all the systems for about 4 years and so it was nice to finally put them all together under one category and have an idea of how to get better.  This disease for us has these symptoms:  anxiety, depression, IBS ( irratiable bowel syndrome), muscle and body aches, insomnia....I'm sure there are more but those are the ones that I can remember off the top of my head.  In doing some basic research and trying to figure out how I could help my husband feel better I have latched on to the elimination diet.  The thing is many people with fibromyalgia are sensitive to food, but it is to all different kinds.  There isn't just a certain food that we can avoid and make things go away....we have to experiment and find which foods those are for Scott.

So today we are starting the elimination diet.  The idea is to stop eating many of the major foods that can cause allergies and then slowly reintroduce them into your body.  The main groups include gluten, dairy, sugar, corn, citrus.  From what I've read it takes 1 to 4 weeks to start feeling better and getting these foods out if your body.  If things improve during that time than you can assume that a food that you are eating is causing the problem.  Our family is going to go on most of this journey together but I probably won't be as strict as my husband and out son won't be taking out dairy.

Now this blog gets to be my diary for the next few weeks....at least I hope I can keep up with it.  I will record what we are eating and how we are feeling... At times you may want to skip over stuff, especially how we are feeling,  bit I need to keep a record and this seems like the place to do it.

Honey Wheat Bread

I decided I wanted to make my own bread, but my husband doesn't like it too try. We tried a few recipes and this is the one we like that best. It came from allrecipes.com

2 Cups Warm Water
2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour
1 Tablespoon Dry Yeast
1 teaspoon Salt
1/3 cup honey
1/3 cup vegetable oil
5 cups All-Purpose Flour

Dissolve yeast in warm water. Add honey and stir well. Mix in wheat flour, salt, and oil. Work in flour gradually.

Put on floured surface and kneed 10 to 15 minutes until dough in smooth and elastic. I try to keep my dough in my mixer for some of the kneeding but my mixer is really old and doesn't kneed very well so I always kneed by hand as well.

Place dough in well oiled bowl turning to coat the surface of the dough. Cover and let rise 45 minutes.

Punch dough down - shape 2 loaves and place in well greased 9x15 loaf pans. I cover them with a towel and let then raise until they are 1 to 1 1/2 inch above the pans.
Bake at 375 for 25 to 30 minutes... I even usually do a little longer because some of my bread has come out not quite cooked all the way through in the center.

To get a shiny crust brush top with butter or margarine once it comes out of the oven and then remove from pan to cool.