Pining for the Fjords

Past blog posts about the Everlywell project:   Part One ,  Part Two ,  Part Three , Part Four As I mentioned in the most recent blog, I've now completed my 30-day elimination diet for cow's milk (including yogurt), coffee, and lamb.  According to the fine folks at Everlywell, the next step was to add back in one of your triggers for just one day to see how things went. My precious!  How I have missed you! Per their instructions, on Friday, May 13th, I reintroduced cow's milk to my diet for just one day (of course I tried it out on Friday the 13th - what could possibly go wrong?!?!?!?).  As it turned out, this day would be a busy one for us; several months back, we'd planned a trip to Flagstaff for this particular weekend, full of fun activities like hiking, eating, drinking, and not sweating to death (it was 104 at home while we were enjoying the 65 degree temps just a few hours north).   Not only would we be leaving to head up the hill after work (and using our lunch

Past blog posts about the Everlywell project:   Part One ,  Part Two , Part Three In the last blog entry, I updated everyone on how the first two weeks of my 30-day elimination diet of cow's milk, coffee, and lamb went, initiated by my Everlywell food sensitivity results. It totally cracked me up that when I searched Google Images for a "Week 3" header, this picture popped up, featuring two of my "adopted" home teams. I don't remember the score of this game, but I'm sure the Cards destroyed the Jags. Poor Jacksonville. Week 3:  Monday, 4/25 - Sunday, 5/1 After a few days of playing around with the MUD/WTR, it became my primary morning source of caffeine.  I'd been experimenting with different ratios of almond milk to water, and I think I finally hit on the best option for me (2/3 cup almond milk with 1/3 cup hot water plus one Tablespoon of the mix and a half teaspoon of raw sugar, in case you're wondering).  By doing this, I'm getting aroun

Past blog posts about the Everlywell project:  Part One , Part Two As I've covered in the past few weeks of blogs, in late March, I purchased the Everlywell Food Sensitivity Test, and in early April, I received my results and started a 30 day elimination diet, focusing on cow's milk (and all of the delicious things that come from it - cakes, cookies, pancakes, cheese, butter - you know, many of the things that make life worth living), coffee, lamb, and yogurt. Here's how it's been going: Week 1: Monday, 4/11 - Sunday, 4/17 I'm not gonna lie to you guys - Week 1 was ROUGH, mostly due to caffeine withdrawal.  While I don't drink a lot of caffeine compared to some folks, I was starting each morning with 3/4 of a cup of coffee mixed with one scoop of my Trader Joe's chai mix, and 1/2 cup of hot water.  That's apparently enough to make a significant difference to my body, which I noticed when I abruptly stopped ingesting it.  My morning chai/coffee mix was a