My Elimination Diet: Update & surprising “diet” results

Dinneen — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:07:50 +0000

Back at the end of November (November 30, to be exact), I decided to eliminate wheat from my diet. Not to lose weight. Not to fit into my skinny jeans. And not as a “quick fix” to shed pounds before the Holidays. Instead, it was to see if wheat was causing, or at least contributing to, the eczema that had been on my face for quite some time. And after one week of being on the “diet” (no, not THAT kind of diet) I blogged about it. (To read more about my Elimination Diet and why “going on one” can be helpful at times, read my original blog post about it here.) So though I LOVE wheat (you could say it’s ‘my crack’ as I could easily get addicted to it) I decided to eliminate it from my diet for at least a period of four weeks (but ended up… Read more

My Elimination Diet

Dinneen — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:42:52 +0000

Anyone who knows me well knows that I love pasta. I LOVE it. And bread. And crackers. And cereal. And cookies. And muffins. And couscous. And pizza. Did I mention bread? And pasta? Basically, anything made from wheat. In a sense, you could say wheat is my ‘crack.’ I love it, love it, love it and can’t imagine my life without it. That is, until last week… For the past year and a half I’ve had eczema on my face. I’m not new to eczema. I’ve had it at different times during my life since I was a child, and each time I get it in different areas: my feet, my hands, my legs, my butt (yup!), and most recently my face. I would get it, visit the dermatologist, get a cream to put on it, and within a couple of months or weeks it would be gone. But it… Read more

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My Elimination Diet: Update & surprising “diet” results

My Elimination Diet