A little background | Uncontrollable weight gain, hypoglycemia, anxiety….what is happening to me?
I think it would make the most sense to start off with a little background on how this all came about for us.
Years ago when we were younger, we would eat pretty much anything we felt like, and didn’t have any noticeable ‘reaction’ to anything—at least nothing we were aware of. As the years increased, so did the pounds, so Kim made a decision to eat healthier.
Just by cutting out many of the ‘junk food’ items, she managed to loose some weight. But this was short lived. After a while, no matter what she did to loose weight, nothing worked. She also was very irritable and felt anxious most of the time. She struggled with hypoglycemia. So much so that she would almost faint if she didn’t eat food on a very strict schedule. Her energy levels were always very up and down.
Eventually she went to visit with a doctor of Naturopathy. This doctor, after carefully evaluating Kim’s history and symptoms, suggested that she might have an intolerance to Gluten.
Skeptical of the doctor’s suggestion, Kim reluctantly decided to eliminate all gluten products from her diet to see how her body would react. After just a few short weeks, she noticed a significant improvement in how she felt, and also started to shed the pounds that she had put on.
Being very excited with the results, she decided to get a complete food intolerance test to see if there were any other foods that might be causing problems. The test results not only confirmed that she was in fact Gluten intolerant, but that she also had intolerances to corn, soy, and a few other items as well. The lab results suggested that she try a complete ‘elimination diet’ for six weeks to make sure her body was completely free from these foods, then gradually introduce these foods back into her system in a controlled manner and note how her body reacted (we will cover this elimination in much more detail in an upcoming post).
The results were very interesting to say they least. During the elimination period, she continued to loose weight and felt better than she had in years. The irritability and anxiousness seemed to melt away. When she added some of the foods back in for the testing period, the reaction was very familiar and obvious that there significant reactions that these foods were causing in her body. So many of the issues that she had struggled with for a large part of her adult life had all but disappeared.
The results were so significant, that Kim vowed to never return to the foods that were poisoning her. It was a complete life transformation for her.
Food Allergy Alternatives is a blog dedicated to food allergies and intolerances. We will discuss various allergies, both common and uncommon, and do our best to suggest alternatives to the foods that are making your life difficult.
Food allergies are much more common than most realize. Many ailments are being misdiagnosed by doctors as something that needs to be treated with medication, when in fact these problems could be properly dealt with (or completely cured in many cases) by simply eliminating certain foods that are in our diets.
Together we will evaluate these issues and find more effective ways of dealing with these problems.