AIP Paleo - Day 5

Brittany Bowman
Aug 14, 2016
4 min read

Aloha!

Today started off on the right foot but quickly became something of irritation. I woke up feeling great, energized & ready to tackle the day. I had my ShakeO just the way I like it. I have to say, despite the items on the "no-go" list, I feel amazing from it. I will continue to use it in my healing. I woke up with enough time to get ready for church & also look for some new christian rock music. Any suggestions? Jason & I went to church, enjoyed an amazing service & were uplifted walking out the doors.

Here is where the source of irritation comes in. We were getting hungry, what do we eat? I am finding this to be a constant problem in transitioning to such a limited diet. Before we had the freedom to eat anything, anywhere. I suppose we still do if we wanted to. It is a choice after all. (This was actually the topic in today's lesson.) But I want to choose to follow a path of healing & discipline. So when Jason says, "I'm getting hungry. What do you want to eat?" and I look at him with a blank stare, it is hard not to think...let's just cave. I have been craving pizza and even found a few recipes to try but I did not shop for any of the ingredients. This just led to a spiral of negativity. "Well...I guess the pizza wouldn't be that good because there is no cheese." "I don't know how I would like the AIP Cherry BBQ Sauce." "What other ideas are there?" I think you get the picture. I might as well come clean. Today's lunch was Poke with salmon. And I had rice. (face palm). I know I shouldn't have because it isn't following my diet but it really got to a point where we were starting to get really hungry and irritated. To be honest, I was happy I did. I was able to get all of the great nutrients from the salmon. I chose white rice over brown because the bran in the brown rice has been known to be difficult to digest & has known to cause inflammation flare ups.

I felt great. I thought maybe I would feel heavy or feel like I did on day 1. Nope. I did read an interesting article about white rice (specifically jasmine or bhasati) being better for you then brown rice which goes against conventional belief. I will not go into details about it but will link the article here so you can read it for yourself and come to your own conclusions. After reading this article, it makes sense to me because I have never felt any adverse reactions to eating white rice. I've been eating it my whole life. For the sake of the elimination period of the AIP, I will be working ever more diligently to keep it out of my diet until the reintroduction phase. This is solely based on the idea of eliminating certain foods to heal my gut to normal levels. Armed with this knowledge, it does make me feel better about moving forward with this lifestyle. I just cannot imagine a life without rice! It's a love connection. It runs in my Japanese blood. It is what I was raised on when I went to my grandma Miyako's house. What can I say?

For dinner, my family made tri-tip & steamed broccoli & cauliflower. They also had bread, butter & melted cheese but I was surprised I didn't even bat an eye towards them. There were no cravings to go after them. Dinner was fantastic. It was clean & light. There are a few recipes I have found on Pinterest where I can make "Naan" bread & AIP friendly biscuits. I am excited to try those recipes in the near future. Hopefully they will be enough to curb any carb/bread craving I know I will have. I also found a recipe using a malanga root as a rice substitute rather than cauliflower rice. Supposedly, it has a similar profile to sticky white rice in both taste & texture. I will try it out and share it all here on this blog.

I'd have to say for day 5, despite my slip up, it was a pretty good day. I do know that preparation is going to be my ally when it comes to diminishing my irritation with such limited choices. I have to remind myself it is only for a short while - whether a few months or a year. It will not last forever. I will be putting together my meal plan for the week & a shopping list. I tried following the Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook's weekly shopping list but I am finding too many great recipes on Pinterest. I keep getting distracted. So what I am going to do moving forward is use the book as my guideline but will be trying other recipes not included in this book.

Mahalo!