Day Twenty Two

First thing this morning, I reached over to take my levothyroxine, when I realized, I don't remember taking my thyroid meds at all this week. I've been stressing because after more than two weeks of feeling so great, I was suddenly having a lot of gall bladder symptoms and craving chocolate like crazy this week (no, I didn't eat chocolate, but I reeeeeeaaaaalllly wanted to!) It's possible I was feeling so good that I forgot to take my meds. Or it's possible that some of the things I was eating was contributing as well.

On Wednesday, I had some sharp pains in the area of my gall bladder, then yesterday I developed a dull ache on the opposite side of my stomach, and today I've just been achy all across the top of my abdomen along with some heartburn. I started looking more closely at my diet and realized that I had those yam noodles on Monday, then even though it tasted good, my body absolutely did not want them again. So instead I ate white potato fries on Tuesday. Then I had yam pureed with carrots on Wednesday evening and then again for lunch on Thursday. I just learned yesterday afternoon that yam is actually fairly closely related to white potatoes, while sweet potatoes aren't. So I'm thinking it's possible it was a yam/white potato overload this week. Whatever it was, I will leave the yam out of the rest of the elimination period and just stick with sweet potato instead.

It's kind of funny in a way. I felt so good after the first couple of weeks that I started thinking I might shorten the elimination period to thirty days and begin reintroductions early. Then this week happened. I guess I need the additional time for tweaking this thing so when I begin to reintroduce, I'll know for sure what I'm reacting to if I have a reaction. Now I'm just hoping that six weeks is enough and that I have it all straightened out by then.

Tonight we had some errands to run and I knew I wouldn't have time to come home and cook dinner unless I wanted to just starve until 10 or 11. So I met my boyfriend at one of his favorite hangouts, The Relish Bar in El Dorado Hills. They serve grass fed beef burgers there, so I just had a burger patty wrapped in lettuce and garnished with cucumber slices and chopped olives with a side of mixed greens dressed with olive oil. I apologize for the picture, I forgot to take a shot before I started eating, so it's not nearly as pretty as it was before I started gnawing on it.