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Food Allergies - Our Experiences
I'm establishing two areas about food allergies for now, this one and "Food Allergy Cooking - Recipes" (so please deposit recipes in THAT area). This is intended as a place for those of us who have found our way to learning about food allergies to talk about it. How did we figure it out? How do we deal with it? And then if we have a recipe, say 'I'll put that recipe for air cake over there in the "Food Allergy Cooking - Recipes" section here at Lumigrate.com. (Grins).
There are TWO videos I wanted to produce for the launch of Lumigrate.com and this is why.
One is Dr. Christopher Lepisto (naturopath)'s "Food Allergies and Sensitivities" because you can, for $20 anywhere in the world get a video AND handouts emailed to you that you can watch the full hour long video seminar and be as close to being lucky enough to be his patient as I am.... with diligence you can actually identify your allergies for $0 in testing, it's just easier if you have access to the testing (and the $400 for the testing). (And to be honest, I think it's more accurate to do elimination, it just is time consuming and takes a lot of effort and ... diligence, which is hard to do realistically).
AND for those of us who then know what we need to do with eating differently (or exercising, or stopping or starting any new 'habit') Dr. Paula King (psychologist) was kind enough to contribute her time to record 'Strategies for Lasting Change' which has a cool handwriting exercise that shows why it's so HARD to take on a new habit, and then gives us a full on 'guided imagery' exercise! Again, for $20, anyone in the world can download a video and powerpoint of what she says in the seminar. All videos are set up to not have any time limit or 'watch limit' on them... you can watch them a million times for 100 years! Show others! Maybe charge $1 admission for everyone and recoup your $20! My concept with Lumigrate.com is different: we don't have advertisers. It's like milk: you want a bottle, it's a charge for the production, and we're charging a low price ... the cost of going to a movie! And it's your HEALTH. We also hope that the public will call up, write, or email their health care providers and say 'please look at this website and download this video, as I think it describes what I might want YOUR help with.'
For your ease, here are the links to the recommended video AND if you think you don't know how to find them on the website and do the download thing (and if I/Mardy can do it, anybody can -- I am NOT known for my abilities with a computer) -- please refer to this blog:
http://www.lumigrate.com/blog/who-are-you-and-what-lumigrate...
Dr. Lepisto's Food Allergies Video:
http://www.lumigrate.com/product/food-allergies-dr-christoph...
Dr. King's Strategies for Lasting Change Video:
http://www.lumigrate.com/product/strategies-lasting-change-d...
.... and as ALWAYS ... please gain your trust with how a download works with the
FREE (and only 20 minute) "Chronic Illness: Full Barrel Syndrome" by Dr. Leptiso:
http://www.lumigrate.com/product/chronic-illness-full-barrel...
THANKS for learning with us! I established Lumigrate.com for "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" because I felt SO fortunate to have found out in the year past about food allergies ... hypothyroidism ... detox and cleansing .... supplements ..... mindfulness .... And I found out the HARD WAY and was VERY sick for a long time and was SO impressed with these progressive providers I was 'lucky' enough to land in the middle of here in little ol' Grand Junction, Colorado that I thought 'why NOT make a website and put their seminars on it?' So please, take advantage! The light is here for you to grab and start shining on YOUR path! ~~Mardy
Mardy Ross, OTR Founder, Lumigrate "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate facebook: My personal page: Mardy Ross Fan Pages: Lumigrate, Lumigrate: Fibromyalgia, Lumigrate: Fibromyalgia Health Education and Counseling (Lumigrate Webucation is a 'personal page' replaced by fan pages but used for 'fun' still).
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I've started writing a blog about my FMS and new adventure of going gluten free. I don't have celiac (thank goodness) but breads and pastas do make me not feel so good. I get bloated and constipated and my stomach will growl for hours. Since cutting out most gluten I have already noticed an increase in energy, my stomach has deflated and I am loosing weight and have noticed a bit less pain. I am allowing myself some gluten because I haven't figured out a way around it yet and I am the type that needs baby steps. I am allowing myself to eat unleavened breads i.e tortillas and wraps, and gravies and ice cream! That's about it though. Hamburger/hot dog buns are gone, regular bread gone, regular pasta including ramon (and you all know I love ramon) all gone.
Anyways, I've started a blog to keep track of my day to day feelings and I'm also posting recipes that I am inventing to fit my new diet. Have fun reading it, and any suggestions to make it better would be appreciated!!!
The Biggest Nut
It's really wonderful to see that Jen's gotten a concept from Lumigrate (after ALL her hard work giving us WONDERFUL recipies in this section), tried it on, seen what is going on and made changes and then written about it.. AND THEN brought the loop full circle here to include the LumuHood, so that others can learn. I hope this inspires many others... I'm sure it will. ~~ Mardy
Mardy Ross, OTR Founder, Lumigrate "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate facebook: My personal page: Mardy Ross Fan Pages: Lumigrate, Lumigrate: Fibromyalgia, Lumigrate: Fibromyalgia Health Education and Counseling (Lumigrate Webucation is a 'personal page' replaced by fan pages but used for 'fun' still).