Reassesment - Day Fifty

So it's been fifty days, and I wanted to take a moment to reassess where I'm at. The basic diet in the beginning was this:

• Meats: Any unprocessed, unaged, 100% grassfed, pastured, organic.
• Seafood: Only fish that has been frozen at sea, unless you're at the coast and can buy directly from the boat. Avoid shellfish
• Veggies: Squash (any), Leafy greens (excluding spinach), Root veggies (excluding onions, garlic, and white potatoes), Bok choy, Cucumber. Rhubarb, Sprouts, Watercress. Avoid all nightshades, allium, brassicas, and cruciferous veggies, beans & legumes.
• Fruit: Berries (excluding strawberries), Melon (excluding watermelon), grapes, starfruit, pomegrante, quince.
• Fats: Olives (including olive oil), coconut (including coconut oil and coconut butter). Avoid all nuts (including nut oils and nut butters), seeds (including seed oils), and avocado (including avocado oil).
• Seasonings: Green herbs, Ginger, Tumeric, Sea salt. Lavender. Avoid spices from seeds, nuts, and nightshades.
• Sweeteners: Pure maple syrup, Pure honey, Juice from any approved fruits.

I stuck to the above diet strictly for the first five weeks, leaving out things I didn't do well with (like fish and coconut). Since then, I've made some adjustments, and I've reintroduced a few items that I was pretty sure I was fine with. The items that I have reintroduced, I've eaten sparingly and for the most part, haven't made them a part of my daily diet at this point, but I seem to be tolerating most of them well. So what I'm actually eating at this point is this:

• Meats: Any unprocessed, unaged, 100% grassfed, pastured, organic.
• Seafood: None. I reacted to it really badly, so it's off the menu at this point.
• Veggies: Squash (any), Leafy greens (excluding spinach), Root veggies (excluding onions and white potatoes) Bok choy, Cucumber -- I eat a LOT of white skinned sweet potatoes, but not yams. I have reintroduced granulated garlic, artichoke, and broccoli. I am doing well with them -- I didn't do well with daikon radish or kohlrabi. I also didn't do well with yam noodles. 
• Fruit: Mostly blueberries (lots and lots of blueberries) Mixed Berries (excluding strawberries), Melon (excluding watermelon), pomegrante. I have used an occasional squeeze of lemon here and there.
• Fats: Olives (including olive oil), Avoid nuts (including nut oils and nut butters) - except brazil nuts -- I have been eating 2 -3 brazil nuts a day as a selenium supplement and seem to be doing fine with them., avoid seeds (including seed oils), and avocado (including avocado oil). While coconut and coconut oil was on the original safe list, I reacted to it so I have taken it off the safe list. 
• Seasonings: Green herbs, Ginger, Granulated Garlic, Sea salt. Lavender. Coconut Aminos. I tried onion powder, but didn't do well with it. 
• Sweeteners: Pure maple syrup,
• Grains: I've reintroduced rice in small amounts (maybe 1/2 cup cooked every other week) -- but only in natural form, no rice flour or rice products (like pasta or bread)

I will continue to update as I introduce more items. A lot of the veggies I will continue to reintroduce as I've been doing -- one every three or four days -- until I get through all the ones that I think I tolerate well. Then I'll do the fruits. Once I get down to the nitty gritty  -- the things that I really want to test carefully, like nightshades, nuts, grains, and spices, I will introduce them a bit more carefully and go more slowly. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to test dairy. I'm definitely not going to reintroduce sugar. Nor will I bring back all the chemicals and preservatives in packaged food. I think that is a slippery slope that I do not want to go down. So as far as I'm concerned, prepackaged processed crap is gone for good. As frustrating and tempting as it is sometimes, it's just not worth what it costs. I want to be healthy more than I want the convenience of eating that suff.