Oooohhh, coffee! Â Coffee I miss you! Â Ohhhh, your sweet, sweet caffeine-y goodness!
Well, I have to share, I’m not off to the most perfect of beginnings. Â Let’s just start with coffee.
I’ve spent the last ten days in Hawaii, where I went a little overboard (okay – a LOT) with the kona deliciousness.  Oh, delicious kona coffee!  How yummy you are!  I wasn’t going to eliminate coffee completely from my diet right off the bat, but I showed up at the office and we’d run out.  Darn it!  I had some black tea, but friends, it is not the same.  Just.  Not.  The.  Same.  So I’ve spent the last 48 hours sleepy and with a headache (not helped by the red eye flight and jetlag, I’m sure).  Rather stubbornly, I haven’t taken any Advil.  Although I wasn’t really planning on eliminating caffeine right away, I don’t want to let all this headachey detox go to waste.  I’m going to stick to decaf coffee and teas.  I may get away from coffee and caffeinated tea entirely…but let’s not be too hasty.  This is admittedly a place where I’m a little fuzzy in the elimination diet.
Another hiccup to my start: I did my requisite Whole Foods trip (that’s one of the perks of healthy diet change – a gleeful trip to fill a shopping cart with all sort of permitted goodies), but I had forgotten that on my list is no citrus, corn, and potatoes. Â Hmmmm, whoops. Â They just seemed so healthy when I put them in my cart. Â My tactic is to eat them all immediately and consider these first couple days a “ramping up” into the true elimination. Â Also, I just realized I can’t eat mustard. Â I love mustard. Â Or popcorn. Â I love popcorn. Â Rats.
Other news?
Well, let’s just put it this way. Â My guy decided to stay in Hawaii and extra week and I’m darn glad that he did, lest my veggie inspired emissions mar his image of me as a ladylike creature. Â It’s been an exciting two days.
To recap: Â what is currently out of my diet:
- gluten, flour
- soy (and soy sauce, oh, sad!)
- dairy
- nuts/seeds
- legumes
- alcohol
- caffeinated coffee
- eggs
I’m also going meatless here, but we’ll see how this goes. Â Without nuts, seeds, or soy, I’ll have to stay aware of how I feel.
Onwards!