My LEAP Journey, Phase One

April 23, 2013

If you’re just now joining, you may want to catch up by reading My LEAP Journey, Post #1 and My LEAP Journey, Post #2.

Phase 1 of my LEAP ImmunoCalm Diet is completed! It took a lot of planning, reading food labels, and eating a lot of the same foods… but well worth it… zero GI symptoms! 🙂

Here is a refresher of the foods included in my Phase 1 diet (days 1-7); I’ve also added the foods I’m adding in Phase 2 (days 8-12). In Phase 2, we add one new food daily… so if I have an immune response it’s easy to see which food may have caused it.

The elimination diet is difficult, I’m not going to sugar-coat it. Eating out is definitely the toughest. On Saturday we went out to eat with the family; I was one of those annoying patrons asking for a bunch of substitutions (and everything to be cooked in olive oil with no seasonings!) but they created a perfect meal for me… just takes effort.

Below, you’ll see a photo food diary of my food intake for the last seven days. Keep in mind, this is not how I usually eat, nor how I would recommend my clients eat… unless they’re doing an elimination diet.

I want to help my clients succeed and that’s why I’m sharing my journey. 🙂 No judging please!

Tuesday, April 16th

Breakfast: Rice cake(whole grain brown rice, sea salt) x2, honey, almond maple butter (almonds, maple syrup, sea salt)
AM Snack: Cinnamon Sugar Almonds (almonds, sugar, cinnamon)
Lunch: Corn tortilla (stone ground corn, water), refried beans (pinto beans, water, salt) , roasted corn; boiled egg
PM Snack: Popcorn with olive oil, sea salt; Clementine x2; Pita chips (wheat flour, yeast, sugar, salt, water, sunflower oil)
Dinner: Zucchini with olive oil; Pork chops with honey
PM Snack #2: n/a

Wednesday, April 17th

Breakfast: Rice cake(whole grain brown rice, sea salt), honey, almond maple butter (almonds, maple syrup, sea salt)
AM Snack: Almonds (dry roasted)
Lunch: Clementine x2; Pita chips (wheat flour, yeast, sugar, salt, water, sunflower oil)
PM Snack: Frozen strawberries and mango; boiled egg
Dinner: Corn tortilla chips (white corn flour, sunflower oil, salt); tuna packed in olive oil, green olives, cucumber, sunflower seeds, and lettuce with drizzled olive oil
PM Snack #2: Rice cake (whole grain brown rice, sea salt), honey, almond maple butter (almonds, maple syrup, sea salt)

Thursday, April 18th

Breakfast: Frozen mango and strawberries
AM Snack: Cinnamon Sugar Almonds (almonds, sugar, cinnamon)
Lunch: Clementine x2; Corn tortilla chips (white corn flour, sunflower oil, salt) with refried beans (pinto beans, water, salt)
PM Snack: Boiled egg; prosciutto (pork, salt); spoon-full of sunflower seed butter (sunflower seeds, evaporated cane syrup, salt)
Dinner: Tilapia cooked in olive oil, with lemon; mashed sweet potato with honey
PM Snack #2: n/a

Friday, April 19th

Breakfast: Rice cake x2 (whole grain brown rice, sea salt), honey, sunflower butter (sunflower seeds, evaporated cane syrup, salt)
AM Snack: Almonds (dry roasted)
Lunch: Corn chips (white corn flour, sunflower oil, salt) with refried beans (pinto beans, water, salt)
PM Snack: Pita chips (whole wheat flour, yeast, sugar, salt, water, sunflower oil, sea salt); Clementine x2
Dinner: Sweet potato x2 with honey (yes… I love sweet potatoes)
PM Snack #2: n/a

Saturday, April 20th

Breakfast: Rice cake (whole grain brown rice, sea salt), sunflower butter (sunflower seeds, evaporated cane syrup, salt); fresh strawberries
AM Snack: Almonds (dry roasted)
Lunch: Clementine x2
PM Snack: Corn tortilla chips (white corn flour, sunflower oil, salt)
Dinner: Tilapia with lemon, pepper; sweet corn; lettuce with cucumber and olive oil
PM Snack #2: Popcorn with olive oil, sea salt

Sunday, April 21st

Breakfast: n/a
AM Snack: n/a
Lunch: Sweet potato with brown cane sugar, sea salt
PM Snack: Corn tortilla chips (white corn flour, sunflower oil, salt); frozen mango
Dinner: Pork chop with pure maple syrup, sea salt; zucchini with olive oil, sea salt
PM Snack #2: n/a

Monday, April 22nd

Breakfast: Frozen strawberries and mango
AM Snack: Almonds (dry roasted)
Lunch: Pork chop with pure maple syrup, sea salt; zucchini with olive oil, sea salt (forgot to take a picture before I scarfed it down)
PM Snack: Cinnamon Sugar Almonds (almonds, sugar, cinnamon); Clementine x2
Dinner: Tilapia with lemon, pepper; asparagus (I’m adding asparagus in Phase 2 so I figured one meal early wasn’t going to kill me) with sea salt, steamed sweet potatoes with brown sugar, olive oil
PM Snack #2: Fresh strawberries