Okay, this will be a quickie since we're off to run a gazillion errands as soon as the littlest guy wakes up from his nap.
Right before we started the dietary protocol, we were given an assessment from L & N's neurofeedback counselor for L to be assessed for A.D.D. The counselor and I agreed that L is a textbook case: spacey, hard time focusing, slow at getting everything done (including going on a walk!), indecisive, etc. The assessment was more of a formality to confirm my concerns so that the counselor could see if there were different areas she should focus on for brain training. Well, the other day, as I was thinking again upon L and the healing of her nervous tick, I suddenly realized that all of her ADD symptoms were gone! Vanished! She is now an assertive, confident, focused, and diligent child! She is still sweet and compassionate, but other than that, she has a totally different persona! I was so focused on L's tick that I completely missed noting the other equally exciting healing! Thank you Lord!
Okay, now on a totally different tangent, we tried reintroducing corn a few weeks ago since it's in practically everything processed. That would have opened up the worlds of tortillas and chips, cereal, limited candy, and pasta. Hooray! However, after a week or two of bringing it back in, we noticed lack of body control again (not so much in spatial planning, but in being overly rowdy) and wide emotional mood swings (elated to weepy). Plus, Brent and I agreed we just didn't feel good. We felt bloated and heavy again. That's interesting since that was such a normal feeling before that we didn't notice it. Now we see a BIG difference! So, corn was moved out of the cupboards again, with the hope of having occasional quinoa pasta (made with cornstartch) since it's a minor ingredient and it is highly processed corn which shouldn't be too inflammatory in small amounts. We have given it a couple of weeks since then, and now we see him being back to how he was before. He's much more emotionally stable and more in control of body function. So, even though he tested negative for a corn allergy in his bloodwork, there's obviously something going on there!
Now that it's been a couple of weeks of a stable diet, we are attempting to reintroduce citrus. We are taking it very slowly, and starting with the clementine oranges that are in season (and on sale!) here. We'll see how it goes on this next step of our eating adventure! :-)
Merry Christmastime!
Hill and The Gang
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