Week 1 Wrap Up

I've been on GAPS now for 1 week...during the holiday season.  Yikes.  I have been tempted with candy canes, chocolate truffles, hot cocoa, pies, sugar plums...  all my weaknesses.  And casseroles.  And rice dishes.
I keep looking to the future and a healthy me and politely decline, or not lick my fingers as I'm creating these dishes for my family.
I have been consuming lots of bone broth.  Chicken and beef.  I am not a fan of fish, so there will be no fish broth.  I've been taking vitamin D supplements, fermented cod liver/butter oil capsules and a good probiotic.  I've been drinking ginger tea and chamomile tea, with a little local raw honey.  I've been making soups with broth, carrots, onions, cauliflower, broccoli, parsnips and turnips.  I've been adding Bubbies Pickle juice to my soups. I do have kimchi, but I feel that might be too spicy for now.  I've started stage 2 and adding garlic and an egg yolk.  This began yesterday.  So far, so good.  I do have to say that I am constipated.  Not painfully, but I just don't have bowel movements the way I used to.  You're welcome for sharing.
I anticipate being on soups for another week, maybe two.  I want to see improvement in my skin before I move on.  But I don't know if it'll take time or should happen soon.  I have noticed that my tongue is less white.  Good sign.

My favorite soup so far:
1 lb grass fed ground beef
1 head cauliflower
2 onions
beef bone broth to cover
bring to a boil.
simmer 30 minutes.
Add 1 crushed clove of garlic, 3 TBS Bubbies Pickle juice, one egg yolk.

It kind of tastes like a cheeseburger.

Almost 2 years later... Reboot

I haven't been posting because all has been quiet.  The psoriasis is pretty much at bay.  I still get a dry patch on my ankle, but nothing red and painful and scaly.  The skin on my hands is a little dry as well.  I'll have small bouts of fingertip peeling if I eat too much gluten.  It's almost nonexistent in the summer.  However, my feet got really dry and peely during the summer.  I can't make sense of that.

Now...

My cholesterol level is 317.  My vitamin D is 16.  I still have psoriasis.  I still have carpal tunnel.  I am sensitive to caffeine and sugar (I'm talking raging bitch kind of sensitive - the kind that makes me say, "Why are the kids acting so crazy?! And it's really just me being overly sensitive to their normal behavior).  My asthma came back where I needed to use an inhaler every day for the month of September/October.  I hadn't used it like that ever.  I'm under a ton of stress from work and personal stuff.  My body is out. of. whack.

I feel like I need to start the intro again...  While I did a pretty great job last time.  I'd like to start over again and lengthen each stage.  There was one month where I ate a few donuts every day.  Ouch.

Today was Day 1...again.

I drank a TON of broth.  Took some fermented cod liver oil, probiotics and vitamin D.  I had chicken, onion and zucchini soup for lunch and dinner.  Perpetual broth in the crock now.  Chamomile tea and a mug of broth waiting on the counter for me...