Feeling much better, but with one or two lingering symptoms It looks as if you have cut out your main offending foods, but are still eating something that is a problem. If the lingering symptoms are fairly minor, then you can proceed to the reintroduction phase. Test the major foods: milk, eggs, wheat, rice etc, and continue eating those diat cause no problems. This will help to broaden your diet. Having done this, look through the food diary you kept before the diet and try to identify possible causes for your lingering symptoms – is there anything you used to eat quite frequently and have continued eating throughout the diet? Potatoes, onions, tomatoes, shellfish and fish are likely suspects. Cut all these out and then test them.
If your lingering symptoms are fairly troublesome, or very variable from day to day, then it will not be possible to get clear results from the reintroduction phase. In this case, look back through the food diary you kept before the diet for potential culprits. Cut these out immediately. Should your symptoms clear, then go on to the reintroduction phase immediately. If they don’t, then go on to the Stage 3 diet, preferably a rare-food diet.
Before deciding which course of action to take, consider the possibility that
it might be something other than food causing the residual symptoms. If you have candidiasis, for example, the sugar-free, yeast-free diet could have helped considerably but not removed all your symptoms. Or it could be that food was your main problem, but something else is causing the residual symptoms – an airborne allergen or environmental chemical perhaps. If you have not checked out these possibilities, then think about them now.
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