The Detox Diet.

I am one of many, many people in the world who are unlucky enough to have a food intolerance and mine is dairy. Recently, no matter how much I try to cut out dairy products from my diet, I've been still finding myself feeling unwell and bloated and it's very uncomfortable. So, in a bid to make myself a bit healthier and to give myself a bit of a challenge, I've created a diet for myself to detox my system and so far, after a couple initial slip ups, it's going quite well!

The diet was firstly based on the Paleolithic Diet, which follows the idea of eating similar to that of a caveman (or woman!) and only eating meats, fruits, vegetables, berries and nuts and not eating anything "man-made" such as pasta, pastry, bread or dairy products. Potatoes are not allowed either as they didn't exist in Britain back in the cavemen days. However, to fit my lifestyle, I'm allowing bread into my diet but on a limited basis  and only wholegrain or seeded. As I can't drink milk I need to be sure I'm getting calcium from somewhere so I'm also allowing soya milk, soya yoghurts and have made the switch to soya spread to go on my bread as well.  There is some flexibility allowed which I will decide as I go along because life is unpredictable and I don't know what situations or restaurants I'm going to find myself in in the coming weeks. 

I plan on doing this for at least four weeks to see if there's any improvement in my health. I'm currently on day five and so far, it's been successful! I've been keeping a food diary which I'll start uploading every day on here. I have a few days to catch up on, so watch this space!

added note: I should also mention that coffee is not being cut out as I am a demon in the morning if I don't have my cuppa! But I am trying to limit it to just one a day and replace it with more nutritional things such as water and green tea.