Week 4- adding foods back in!

This week we got to add in grapefruit and kiwi, and I've got to say, it's amazing to be able to have fruit again!

I think we're mostly through with the detox-part of the diet, and the rest of the time will be concentrated on slowly adding in foods and seeing how well my stomach tolerates them. I've got 2 or 3 new foods planned for each week to slowly reintroduce. I keep hearing more and more about celiac, everyone tells me I need to go get tested for it, but I really don't want to be told I can never have normal bread or beer again, my stomach isn't THAT unbearable. Most of the time, at least. Plus I went to an expensive specialist a few years back, and she didn't deem it worthy to get me checked for it, so I don't know.

I tried pumpkin cookies today, grinding up coconut in the coffee grinder and using that as part of the flour (they came out really, really dry, which I now know is problematic with coconut flour), and made pumpkin muffins with quinoa flour and using "flax gel" which I made by soaking flax seeds overnight in hot water and then drinking the water. They were just ok, so far the carrot/zucchini/apple/nut/coconut muffins are by far the best!

I've realized that this restrictive diet has made me obsessed with sweets, I have a huge stockpile of crazy recipes I fully intend to make in the far-off distant future (assuming I can eat flour & sugar & cream and things again), and when I do make sweets like the lime bars or cookies, I want to inhale them ALL just to have sweet things to munch. That was never a problem before....