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Thanks for posting. I’ve had digestive problems for decades and my daughter finally got me on an “elimination diet” on Dec 27 last year. Zero dairy and zero wheat foods together with very low carbs (which my doc has been recommending for years together with fermented vegetables - he walks the talk). Eggs and bacon for breakfast 2-3 days per week. Lots
of fresh fruit and vegetables. I have some rice and a slice of gluten free bread each day. Zero processed foods. Hardly any potatoes. A little white wine. It is close ketagenic.

As a lifelong lover of milk, cakes, pancakes, wonderful breads, sweet rolls and milk chocolate, this has been surprisingly easy to do. The benefits have been great so far. Pounds are coming off, stomach upset is gone, and sense of well-being improved with reduced anxiety, blood sugar is down and BP is down. Of course, retiring seven months ago helped a lot as does getting outdoors a LOT more and doing more things I enjoy. I’m headed home right now from four days wildlife watching in Northern California Wildlife Refuges (the 19th Snowgoose Festival in Chico, CA).

I’m very interested personally as to where I go with this. Would like to hear from others trying similar changes.

“Thanks for posting. I’ve had digestive problems for decades and my daughter finally got me on an “elimination diet” on Dec 27 last year.”

Did you mean 2016 or 2017?

(Not being nitpicky,just curious.)

Bread and just about anything with wheat in it does a number on me and I try to avoid it altogether, even though pizza was my favorite food!

I missed bread too, especially English muffins, which is so good with eggs and real butter. I'm not talking McDonalds Egg McMuffins but sandwiches made at home with fresh eggs. However, I recently discovered Ezeikel bread which is made from sprouted wheat and no flour at all. And guess what, they make English muffins as well! I do not get the same bloated feeling that I used to get from regular bread and my digestive system flows a lot better.

I would recommend giving this bread a try. You will likely find it in the frozen food section of the supermarket as it contains no preservatives and only has a short shelf life out of the freezer. What I do is take a couple slices (or muffins) out the night before.

Your diet sounds great. Have no fear of potatoes and other tubers, cooked regularly (not always fried). And definitely keep adding your fermented veggies. Your gut bugs NEED starchy carbs, fiber. And we need the gut bugs for digestion, and for mental health. Carbs are not the enemy. -Processed, useless carbs, sugary carbs, they are. Stiff veggies with good fiber and tubers like potatoes etc are important to our diet.