… And it turns out that I have a lot of food sensitivities.

I mean, I eat and then either get itchy or sick or flush hot red on my face and chest, so I figured that would probably be the case. Well, my naturopath finally got the results back.

I have sensitivities to gluten, dairy, eggs, corn, and a few other things. I thought this testing would show a few other things that surprisingly didn’t flag.

Bell peppers, hot peppers, tomatoes, citrus outside of oranges.. and I wonder if I have been looking at this wrong, maybe.

I think I was expecting that this list would be a comprehensive list of foods that make me itch. And some of them do. Some don’t. I have to be better about recording responses. Or recognizing then. I get red, hot patches on my hands. That’s a clear sign. But so is the fact that milk makes me super phlegmy and also makes my stomach very upset. Wheat doesn’t make me itch, really, but I have noticed that I get a stuffy nose. Eggs make me gassy.

These reactions, with exception of the gastric issues, are not really a big deal. Kind of annoying but, not life destroying.

Compounding all of it together, it’s putting stress on my body which I should be unstressing.

I am going to try to do an elimination diet. I’m cutting all this stuff out for 3 weeks, then will take stock of how I feel. Then I will try to add some of the stuff back in slowly. See if I can reclaim some things on the list. I will keep you all posted.. and by you all I mean the random people that wanna read my very stream of consciousness rambling.

Also, just as a stupid sidenote, I’ve been using Aveeno for my face wash and body wash. I’ve been slathering myself in the ENEMY.