GFCF diet

This “diet” is a pain in the ***. Having done it in the past, I knew that. Doing it now, I was taking food away from my daughter who loves food. This is the 6 year old child who when asked what we should have for dinner says, “Hmm, how about some chicken with mashed potatoes, corns and a salad. That sounds good.” It was May and I was going to take away Mac –n-Cheese, ice cream, pizza, bread, and cheerios.

I did my research. Bought a Ton of GFCF food and did the best sales job I know how on the kids. I told them we had to try this and it would at least be for the whole summer. We talked about all the foods they would not be allowed to have. They were allowed one more day to eat everything they wanted and then the diet started.

First, my kids are obedient. They knew I meant business. Only once to this day has my daughter cheated on the diet. That is huge. I will be blogging great tips on this diet so stay tuned!

Day one: I had tons of food ideas that were safe and I rattled the list off. The kids did their best not to complain and we ate well. I don’t know what I expected from the diet. I was so used to taking the next step to help my kids I lost sight of what I might want to see.

You see I had thought in the past – this school, this therapy, this medicine – will make our problem go away and we can have a “normal” life again. I feel guilty saying it. I wish I could embrace the chaos and rejoice. But I don’t. I was created to analyze, tweak and fix. It’s not a mistake these are my kids and this is my nature. It’s not a mistake my husband is 100% supportive in all these wacky adventures. It’s God’s design.

I guess I was trying the diet because I thought our daughter had autism. And if she did, I believed that was caused by vaccines and curable. If she was bipolar or ADHD, I thought that was a lifelong problem. I also couldn’t believe that the huge rise in all these kids being diagnosed with ADHD, autism, bipolar, asthma was just a genetic problem. As a teacher I saw the epidemic.

Trying the diet was my way of me taking the reins back from the medical community into my hands. I was starting to see schools, doctors and pharmacies as my tools, not my salvation. What would happen?