HOW THE ELIMINATION DIET WORKS

Stage I -- Two  to three-week preparation period:

Only the following are eaten for two weeks, preferably cooked 
(to help the breakdown of the lectins which also can cause a bad reaction to the gut): 

Fruit (other than citrus)
Berries (other than strawberries), 

(Beware of bananas, watermelon, melons... from personal experience I would recommend it as introduction foods to be safe. Depending on the damage to your villi)

Vegetables (other than nightshade), 
Cooked green, yellow, and orange vegetables (artichokes, asparagus, broccoli, chard, collards, lettuce, spinach, string beans, summer or winter squash,carrots etc.
  
Lamb (reportedly the safest meat).

Sweet potato is just fine. Butter and cream may be used. Butter has no protein in and cream has the minimum protein in but if you choose not to include this, then its your choice.


Some elimination diet resources name brown rice as a safe food. For me it reacted the same as gluten. Although white rices' effect was kidney pain and blood sugar symptoms.
(Every person can have a different effect; therefore listen to your own body.)


No foods on the avoid list:
http://myceliacexperience.blogspot.com/2015/04/foods-to-avoid-on-elimination-diet.html


From day 2-7you may notice your symptoms may get worse for a day or two.

From day 8-14 symptoms should go away if the right foods have been removed


Stage II -- Finding additional foods that can be tolerated:


After the 2 to 3 week anti-allergen diet (elimination diet)

Day 1:  Re-introduce food #1 (for example, dairy)
Day 2+ 3:  Stop food #1 and watch for symptoms and keep detailed notes of these symptoms. (mine was a immediate mucus attack from the milk)



Day 4:  Re-introduce food #2 (for example, wheat)
Day 5 and 6:  Stop food #2 again and watch for symptoms 

Day 7:  Re-introduce food #3

YOU GET THE PICTURE?

Do this with each new food introduced to get a thorough list of foods your body can tolerate or can not tolerate.



REMEMBER YOUR DIET DIARY!!!!This is very important!!





Information gathered from 

Zand, Janet, L.A.c. OMD. Smart Medicine for Healthier Living.
Avery. 1999.

Adam Rindfleisch MD, MPhil and David Rakel, MD, 
Integrative Medicine Program, Dept. of Family Medicine,
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Date created: July 2008




And also my own experience with food intolerance and the elimination diet. ( the best way to determine food allergies or intolerances in my opinion.)