Start over?

This diet is very confusing. After reading Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, I was even more confused on how to actually start the diet so I turned to PecanBread and used their "stages". I have since learned that there is a GAPS intro. I've been toying with the idea of going back and redoing the intro. What's stopping me? The kids! It's hard enough trying to come up with food that replaces what the typical American kid eats. If I redo the intro with them, there will be no more almond flour pancakes, no more brownies, no more cookies, no more uncured beef hot dogs (at least for a while). I'm just having a hard time thinking about taking it all a way.

I've come to the conclusion that I will redo the intro myself. I don't feel like I've progressed in the diet like I should. Sure, I know that I've detoxed some (black specks) but I've introduced foods to close together. Sometimes, I introduced more than one food at a time. I'm paying for it now. I have an unhappy tummy! I've been bloated with gas pains for the last few days and I'm not sure what is causing it. I have my suspicions but I can't really say for sure. When I stopped taking the EFA and CLO, I started to feel much better but it only lasted about a week. My suspicion is butter. I always had trouble with dairy before starting the diet so it would seem likely that's the culprit. Butter is supposed to be one of the firsts things to reintroduce too. I guess that means I need more healing so I'm definitely going to do the intro. I'll need a week or so to get prepared. Wish me luck!

more improvements

We're still seeing a slow but steady progress in Shawn's eating habits. Last night I made some steak (the kind used for stir fry) only I don't have a wok so it was cooked in a pan. Don made him take a bite of it and he didn't gag or throw up. Victory!!! He said he didn't like it but he was able to eat it without chewing for 20 minutes on 1 bite. In light of this new discovery, I made him eat a little steak for dinner (along with other food that he likes). He was not happy about it but he ate it.

Tonight, I made Shawn eat some broccoli. Again, no gagging! He said he didn't like this either but I was able to get him to eat it. I'm starting to see a trend here. I feel as long as he's not gagging on the food or taking a really long time to chew something, he should be able to eat it. I'm going to start making him eat more "normal" food.

My bloating update...I think it was either the EFA or the Cod Liver Oil because I didn't take either of those last night and today I feel better. I'm still a little bloated but I'm not in so much pain as I was. I'm going to wait a few days to make sure and if everything is still good, I will take the EFA only to see if I have some sort of reaction. If I don't react to the EFA, then I'll reintroduce the Fermented CLO. I'm concerned about the EFA because the information on the website says that it may contain traces of soy or derivatives. Soy is not legal on this diet. I'm not sure why they are selling this product on the gapsdiet.com website. I would think this would be an illegal supplement. I've been giving it to Shawn and he hasn't been complaining about not feeling well. Well, we'll see.