How a Complicated Diet Simplified My Life

by relativelyunscathed | Jul 15, 2018

Why It Took Me 2 1/2 Years to Start AIP This is why the AIP diet was not at first appealing to me.  Food is not all that interesting to me.  In fact, I find every aspect of food as little more than a chore.  I don’t like thinking about what to eat, shopping for...

AIP Weeks Five and Six

by relativelyunscathed | Apr 25, 2017

Testing the Boundaries In the beginning of going AIP, I debated over and over in my mind as to which food I would introduce first.  Some days I’d think chocolate would have to be it and others, I would feel less cravings and more practical and pick eggs.  As the...

Week Two – Paleo Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) Diet Update

by relativelyunscathed | Apr 13, 2017

Positive changes produced by the Paleo AIP diet Week two of the AIP diet started off strong. I have more energy, less fatigue, less joint pain. The weather has been unrelenting.  So far, I don’t feel a difference in my breathing or in my muscle weaknesses. It could be...

AIP Elimination Week 1

by Sandra | Feb 3, 2017

Well, this is certainly the strictest diet I’ve ever been on, but thanks to my food angel…not yet the most painful one.  The week got off to a rocky start due to a stomach bug I caught the night before I was to begin.  Thankfully the worst was only one...

The Time to Shine

by Sandra | Sep 29, 2016

I sometimes have ideas for a blog post long before I am ready to write the whole thing. In that case, I may save a draft with just a meme, or just a title, or in this case, both. I thought about this topic somewhere around the end of last year. What’s interesting...

Always.Wanting.More.

by Sandra | Sep 12, 2016

Some may look at that title and think that wanting more than what you have is a bad thing…but not me. It is the thing that keeps me going. It is the thing that has provided me with drive and determination. It is what made me travel the world. It is what made me come...