In figuring out what restrictive diet I am going to go on I looked at Whole 30 and what people had to say about it. After your body goes through the shock of not having sugar, grains, or dairy it seems a lot of people feel better.
They may not have any kind of official disease that makes them feel that way. It’s interesting. Perhaps some people could get by with just doing no high fructose corn syrup and feel better.
Certainly, if I thought I had long haul Covid I might try a restrictive diet to see if it helped.
I am going to ease into the restrictive diet so as not to put my body into shock. Plus my Diet Coke is the last thing I want to give up for 30 days..even though I know it is bad for you.
It’s interesting to see what happens on certain diets. I’ve never paid much attention in my life — just ate what I wanted and was comfortable being consistently about 25 pounds more than I should be.
When a blood test showed my blood sugar was a little high I paid more attention to what I was eating.
No bananas (lotsa sugar) at all instead of one a day. One diet Coke a week instead of one a day (the body “reads” artificial sweetener as sugar).
Bread, pasta, potatoes, rice were cut by about 75—80%. I love carbs, so that hurt at first. I never was one for actual sweets.
My next blood test 6 months later showed a lower number, although I expected much lower. But I had lost 15 pounds. I knew my clothes fit better but never weighed myself at home. Haven’t stood on a bathroom scale in decades — LOL!
I guess I’ll stick with this, but maybe not as drastic, for a while longer. Overall, I feel pretty darn good and am lucky, I guess. I realize chronic pain can rear its head at any time.
One thing that was noticed early on was that people with auto immune diseases had histamine problems that looked exactly like the issues faced by people with long covid —who also had auto immune diseases.
Therefor one recommendation was to zero out histamines in the diet and take an anti histamine.