Gluten-Free for a Month…or Two?

This not correct. Gluten was my bitch for about four months…and then my dad made prime rib with garlic bread. So I went for a piece of garlic bread…and then another, and then 4, and suddenly there were 10+ pieces of garlic bread inside of me…THIS IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION. Then I had 6 chocolate chip cookies.

That was 2 months ago. Since then I have been bloated, fatigued, itchy, congested, and overall miserable. SO…today is the second straight day of making gluten my bitch again, before it makes me its bitch and sucks days/weeks/months of my life away rendering me completely miserable. 

Another food item that needs to be added to my "bitch list" is dairy. Man-oh-man, I loooove me some mucous-inducing dairy. There are just SO many wonderfully delicious things that are made with dairy. Mmmm. I've tried using the excuse that raw, organic, grass-fed dairy is fine. It probably is, but I've only had that kind of dairy once in my life when I went to this amazing grocery store in California called Berkeley Bowl. That place is my food heaven on earth. Anything you can imagine is sold there, and it's overrun with the quintessential hippy-dippy food that I love so much. Anyway, even when I had that dairy, I know I had a distinct mucous-y/gassy/crampy bodily response, but I continued to have dairy off and on. 

I continued to eat dairy even when it wasn't falling into all three categories (raw, organic, grass-fed) and have pretended that I am one of the lucky ones that can digest dairy without ANY problems. Yeah, wrong, wrong, wrong.

Now that it's day two of my gluten-free journey and my left nostril is completely blocked up, I've decided it is the perfect time to at least test out how being dairy-free will affect me. Let's see how this goes…