Back to GAPS Soon

The Gut and Psychology Syndrome Diet (GAPS) has dramatically improved my family’s health. I gush about our gains throughout my blog, and here is a post that summarizes much of them: Memory Victories – A Huge Reason to Celebrate! It is amazing how our bodies thrive and decline around food. There are a few entries in my blog about health declines when we stray too far from GAPS, and today is another one of those days.

This summer we were turned on to a fantastic fermented sourdough bread by our doc. It is the best bread we have eaten. We went from eating a few slices of bread each week to THREE LOAVES OF SOURDOUGH! Lots of bread in our diet coincided with corn season. I decided that we were healthy enough that we weren’t going to miss corn season again, so we are eating corn (that comes with worms) a couple times a week. Throw in the maple syrup we are using on our sourdough French toast, the rice we are eating and the non-GAPS friendly beans, and now we are achy, foggy, stuffy messes. Actually, only Ryan and I are achy and foggy and I gained five pounds and have regained my body odor. Colson is just stuffy.

Note: you know your body is out of balance when you have body odor that is not stress related. I have been body odor free for eight months or more until this summer.

I knew we needed to go to GAPS again to reduce our inflammation and get rid of our achy joints, but listening to Colson struggle to breathe through his nose while he was sleeping motivated me. At least he is still breathing through his nose. It is amazing to me that a super healthy diet can still promote discomfort, but fortunately our bodies are clean enough that we can hear them talking. In the next week or two, after we enjoy the last of the corn, we will transition back to GAPS. Last time we went back we rebounded quickly and shed our annoying ailments. I expect the same this time because we have no food cravings. No cravings mean that our gut flora are not too out of whack, which means that our bodies should recover quickly.

Comments

[Melissa]

We stayed with my brother and sister-in-law for a couple weeks while we were looking for a house in PSL. While there we totally cheated on our usual diet. Eating lots of rice and bread (even non-wheat bread) just made me feel so bloated and YUCKY! As soon as we got home I soaked some lentils, and cooked them with bone broth. I've been eating them all week, along with veggies and meats and I'm feeling SOOO much better now! Enjoy the rest of your corn and best wishes on another GAPS adventure :)