Adding foods back into diet...

[CathyMe.]

Hi All,
A quick update...I am continuing to have normans on a daily basis after doing intermittent fasting for 3 weeks. I had eliminated sweet potatoes after figuring out they were a problem for me and of course they showed up yellow for me on my MRT testing. I figured I would try a small portion yesterday and holy crap, literally! It was not 30 minutes before I was running to the bathroom. My question, will I ever be able to eat sweet potatoes? How about the other foods that showed up high yellow or red on my MRT test? Anyone have success with adding foods back into their diets? If so, how long did you wait to try the foods? Thanks for any help. I can do butternut squash and will try white potatoes to see if I can tolerate them but for now, SP are OUT

[tex]

Hi Cathy,

This is strictly my opinion, based on my own experience and the experience of others here (rather than based on any official medical claims):

We only develop autoimmune-like reactions (that is, self-perpetuating reactions) to certain proteins (peptides) that generally have a great deal in common either with the primary alpla gliadin peptide, or one of the other strong gluten-based antigens. Therefore, after our gut has had sufficient time to heal, and our anti-gliadin antibody production level has diminished to a much lower level, we should be able to slowly add most foods that we were avoiding due to fiber or sugar content (IOW, most foods that were irritants, rather than antigens), back into our diet. Note that this may require at least a year or more of intestinal healing, prior to the reintroduction of those foods.

As always, YMMV.

Tex

[CathyMe.]

Thanks Tex. That makes a lot of sense to me and I clearly am not healed sufficiently to introduce my trigger food back in yet. It did reconfirm to me that my MRT results are accurate.