Good Afternoon!!
As we fumble along on this RepairVite/AIP/donteatanythingitwillkillyou diet, we have learned so much! So here are a few things I have learned.
1) ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS read the label. Do not just assume its fine, check every time you go to the grocery store. Companies are always changing their formulas and ingredients and you never know when that will be.
2) PLAN AHEAD. Plan out your weeks meals. Prep and Prepare too! We try to have a smoothie or two in the freezer, some soup in the fridge and the stuff for wraps in there too!
3) EDUCATE. Inform those around you, friends who want to have you over for dinner, taking care of your kids be it day care or church nursery with enough information for them to safely do so. Be careful though not to overwhelm them. Its A LOT to take in. We want them on our side, not running from the lady spewing all her food facts, dram and stress on them.
4) RELAX and TRUST GOD. This is the hardest one for me, but He says
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Mathew 6:25-34
5) BRING YOUR OWN. Always bring your own food, If it somehow works out that there is something you can eat awesome! but more often than not you will need to bring your own food. Plan ahead and bring a treat that will make it seem less hard to be eating something different than everyone else.
6) READ THE LABEL. Worth repeating always read the label. Always.
7) ASK QUESTIONS. Do NOT be afraid to call the company, or ask the cook/chef to speak with you about how they prepare food. You are not being a hassle or annoying if they take it that way that is what THEY will need to deal with. You are in charge of you so stand up for yourself and ask what's in the food! Be courteous and kind always. Patient when they have no idea what gluten is, or if there is soy in the soy sauce.
8) GRIEVE. I watched a wonderful series on forgiveness called "Have the Funeral" https://store.jamesmacdonald.com/p-2200-have-the-funeral-gods-plan-for-your-past.aspx . The reason I mention this is that well sometimes when faced with something hard, scary and new we pretend everything is fine and that its better this way. It may be better this way but it is still hard, still scary and still new. We miss the food we can no longer eat and while some get many foods back for many its going to be years and possibly lifetimes of certain foods be off limits. So I say grieve, let your self cry for all the traditional forms of ice cream, pizza, cookies, cakes, soups, chili, bread, pasta that you will not get to eat. Let yourself feel that loss. THEN give it to Jesus. Walk away from the sadness and loss to the joy of HEALTH AND HEALING! Let yourself then embrace this journey with all that you are. Know that God has a plan for this that He sees you in the midst of this and will not leave you. He wants to give you good things and will. He wants you healthy and will SUSTAIN you on this journey.
So ladies hold you head up high, stand up straight, dry your tears and close that complaining mouth. (don't we love to whine sometimes?) Walk on to the healing that awaits knowing God will give you new favorite foods, and new memories and new traditions for the holidays!
Drenched In His Love;
Maddie Grace
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