Cara from Health Home and Happiness here today and
today we're talking about what your
least restrictive diet is and we're
going to talk about I'm going to talk
about how I use this in my own life and
my daughter's life and even my other two
typically developing children life and
then I'm going to talk about how you can
kind of quantify it and decide what when
a healing diet makes sense for you to
try and when it is actually too
restrictive and it's causing more harm
than it's worth so the first thing that
I do to try to quantify this so I can
kind of make an educated guess I'm a
pretty analytical person so if you're
more into like the feelings and getting
the vibes and all of that this video
probably isn't for you but if you're the
kind of person that likes checklists you
like charts you would like to put your
whole life on an Excel spreadsheet then
we're gonna talk about how even though
healing diets aren't an exact science
you can kind of quantify them by
tracking your symptoms and seeing what
is worth it for you to continue and what
is really more trouble than it's worth
so the first thing that I do and I'm
going to link to it below is you're
welcome to sign up for my email list
right now and I will send you with an
exact symptom tracker that I use and
I've been using since I started my
daughter on the gaps diet when she was
three years old and so on that symptom
checker this is specifically for both
adults and children there's ways that
you can fill in your own things we track
whatever we're trying to fix and so for
my daughter I started an autism healing
protocol because she wasn't sleeping and
you expect that from a newborn but by
the time your child is two-and-a-half
and they're still up every two hours at
night we can probably all agree that is
an incredibly restrictive way to be not
only for her that she wasn't getting the
rest she needed but also for me and
everyone else in our family because she
was just screaming not making eye
contact was not social it could not be
around Pierce and just autism was a very
isolating and restrictive thing that we
were dealing with as a family and so on
that symptom checker tracker what I did
for her and wet parents with autism are
probably going to do is track number of
tantrums track eye contact like if we
got 10 15 minutes of engaged behavior a
day I would definitely write that on
that day's symptom tracker is that
something that we wanted and I wanted to
see those patterns where
you're still like sleep-deprived you're
still exhausted raising a toddler with
autism seeing those patterns emerge lets
you know either what you're doing is
working or it's kind of maybe it's time
for to change things up because you've
been seeing the same staff for seven
days with no improvement
so people with autism often will track
meltdowns sleeping hours Tantrums
eye contact social behavior I was
tracking words because she was nearly
nonverbal she had like five words so
that's all when I tracked as an autism
parent if you're doing a specific
healing protocol for food allergies
that's obviously you're gonna try you
might track different symptoms once you
try it so I would like introduce Terry
and I'm gonna go in another video and
tell you how I reversed my dairy allergy
and six weeks like I went from breaking
out in hives and getting a sinus
infection every time I ain't dairy to
being completely able I can go eat like
slices of cheese now and I do great with
it so I'm gonna tell you about that in
another video so that's another way you
can track symptoms is you can pull all
dairy and my symptom tracker will work
even if you're just eliminating one food
or you're doing something as specific as
keto or the gaps diet so once you
introduce the food then go ahead and
track those symptoms because it wasn't
until I completely pulled dairy from my
diet the the recurrent sinus infections
completely went away and I and then I
introduced it and suddenly they came
right back and so then I had to do a
specific protocol to get rid of my dairy
allergy and I knew it was gone because
when I did this introduction I could see
like oh I'd introduced it this time and
this time and this time and all of these
things came back and then I knew my gut
was healed because when I introduced it
again those things didn't come back
again so a symptom tracker is a really
good way to see if what you're doing is
working for you if you're seeing
improvement in whatever you're trying to
track a lot of people are tracking sleep
a lot of people are tracking like
anxiety is really common as something
that affects about 10% of our population
in the United States and so if you can't
sleep because of anxiety that's a good
thing to put on your
don't tracker if you like you can kind
of read it on a 1 to 10 the 1 to 10
scale can really help and while that's
not completely scientific obviously they
use the 1 to 10 pain scale in hospitals
it's something that you can see like my
anxiety was a 10 today but you can also
note like my kids started a new
preschool so that's gonna be noted as
well in your symptom tracker but then on
another day you might say oh I like
barely I felt a twinge of anxiety maybe
in the morning but I went all day
without feeling it so just forcing
yourself to check in at the end of the
day or a few times during the day is a
great way to see if your healing
protocol is working for you