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Making progress. Kind of.

     I’ve been super busy with projects at home and with my kids, but I’ve been slowly incorporating Wahl’s principles into our diet. I’m hoping to be full-Wahl’s (sort of) sometime in May. I’m tweaking a few things I don’t like because—well—I can’t ever just do what someone tells me to. 😂 I have concerns about the amount of greens for my low-thyroid kid, because greens and cruciferous veggies can make low thyroid worse. I’ve read a lot about it, and I’m planning on talking to a nutritionist who can advise on this issue. I will be doing a full elimination diet, but if no one reacts upon reintroducing dairy and eggs, I will re-add those to our diet. Eggs are kind of an option on Wahl’s, but dairy is not. If I do re-add dairy it will be grass-fed only and small amounts, because—butter and cheese, y’all. Dairy is permitted on most other Paleo plans.      A big hurdle I’ve been dealing with is the kids’ reaction to the diet. I get it. I have feelings about it...

Diet Culture is Gross and Other Concerns I Have

     Can you imagine our grandmothers or mothers stressing about food the way we do? It’s crazy. When I was a kid, salad meant iceburg lettuce and a tomato, and there was only one kind of tomato. Listen. They were just happy there was food on the table. If you didn’t eat it, fine. Be hungry.  We have so many choices now, so many decisions to make about food. I’d really like to trash the whole idea of health being intricately woven into what we eat. I want to believe it doesn’t matter so much. I want to say, “Life is short. Eat what makes you happy.” That’s been my food philosophy most of my life: All things in moderation.      But my kids keep getting sicker. They have allergies, eczema, asthma, thyroid problems. I’ve been medicating their symptoms their whole lives, and their problems are only kind of under control, part of the time. So I guess I’m jumping on the Paleo bandwagon, even though I feel a little dirty about it. I don’t want to indoctrinat...