tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024653589532438286.post607343974593445758..comments2024-01-13T03:54:12.044-06:00Comments on the mullies: it's a beautiful day for sending a letterlindseyshifleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03728211326457189876noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024653589532438286.post-90473419768045151972013-11-21T12:21:58.206-06:002013-11-21T12:21:58.206-06:00You are my hero!!!!!!!!!You are my hero!!!!!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024653589532438286.post-21999380899149311992013-11-21T08:41:51.784-06:002013-11-21T08:41:51.784-06:00Hi Meghan! First let me just say THANK YOU for co...Hi Meghan! First let me just say THANK YOU for commenting today. I love hearing from my readers especially from Mom's who are trying to "figure it all out". I'm so excited that you are meeting with a dietician and please let me know how what he/she has to say. I don't know what I would have done without the support of my Nutritionist who built her practice on dealing with food allergies and ADHD (among other things). Early on my journey, I found another blog that found through her elimination diet with her son, that SOY had a big effect on his symptoms. I about fell out of my chair on that one cuz it was the first time I heard that one! For Abbie, I have found that salicylates (which are found in varying levels in fruits and vegetables) have an effect on her, but not enough for me to have done a trial/step re-introduction of them. Strawberries are high in salicylates and when I started giving them to her in lunch everyday, her teacher really started to notice a difference. I want to tear my hair out sometimes because she'll have off days and I'll go, "OMG, what did I GIVE HER!? and REALLY, REALLY!?!?... I need to look at fruits and veggies, *#&$^#&$(#*$#^#!!!!" So, there is no doubt there are additional foods out there that set her off, and the artificial color/preservatives/refined sugar/gluten are the biggest triggers for her. The more I find out there in the "wilderness", the more I realize each person has there own unique mix of "triggers... and for some, food just isn't enough. I did a Food Rev google chat last year on New Years Resolutions with Dr Walter Willet from Harvard and he said the same thing:) I want you to know that you are so BRAVE for trying to figure it out. The ups and downs and mixed results you are experiencing must be emotionally exhausting. The one thing I do know 100%, is that we'll never have any regrets for trying to figure it all out. If I got to the end of my list of eliminations and did not get the results Abbie needed, I would be telling a different story! So, be gentle with yourself!! For you are giving it your ALL and you are writing your OWN MAP for your son and family. Super crazy high fives that this journey made us both get our families to eat better. I am so happy not to be alone in this experience and thank you THANK YOU for reaching out! Keep me posted, I'll be thinking of you:) xoxolindseyshifleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03728211326457189876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1024653589532438286.post-30031127514508801402013-11-21T07:32:58.851-06:002013-11-21T07:32:58.851-06:00I have been following the blog for several months ...I have been following the blog for several months and commented several times. I am not in the same boat as you and wish I was. I have a 10 yr old ADHD/ODD dysthmic child. I saw the success you had with your daughter and we decided to take him off his meds. The meds were hurting him more then helping at this point and I knew and have known we had to do something. I decided to first remove the gluten/ dyes from his diet. My son is an awesome eater and really had no problem with any of the foods I gave him. After a month I saw some improvement with his behavior ( very few meltdowns yes meltdowns at 10, and much more agreeable plus he was sleeping really great). Although, in the month he has not bee on meds his work had taken a huge nosedive. His homework wasn't getting turned in, he wasn't' finishing assignments, loosing assignments, talking out, talking over everyone etc. So we thought okay lets remove the casein and hope for the best. We have been off of casein entirely for 10 days and still no success. I keep reading your blog and other people's blogs who had success to see when did they have success. I keep looking for articles about how long to try the diet for. How long could it take to see results and I definitely find mixed results. We have an appt. with a dietician to see what she has to say about it all. Plus to make sure he is meeting all of his nutritional needs. It's so sad because in the meantime I had another appt. with his doctor because he is doing so horribly at school. He's such a bright, bright kid and he couldn't pull it together to do well. So now we are on another med. He had one good day and then a horrible day today. The anxiety and irrational behavior that the meds cause is un-real. I keep hoping though that we can just find the right mix of foods to help him. I do agree that food really can help someone with behavior/mood etc. We ate healthy as a family before the diet change, but now we are eating even better. I thank you though for giving me a glimmer of hope that changing his diet would work. I'm optimistic that maybe we need to try it for a few more weeks and we will see better results. <br />Thanks <br />MeghanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com