hey everyone and welcome back to my channel one of my pictures that is right
up there literally fell off my bed in the middle of the night the other night
and like slid down my wall it sounded like a literal home intruder was
punching the wall above my bed I freaked out a little bit anyway sorry for the
awkward background welcome back to an updated what I eat in a day as someone
who has a wheat intolerance dairy intolerance egg intolerance yeah you're
probably watching this video for one of two reasons number one you have food
intolerances or you think you may have food intolerances and you aren't sure
how to navigate that light or even how to find out if you do I get questions
all the time from people with digestive issues basically asking how I found out
that I had these food intolerances and how I live my life with them so I am
gonna address that for a minute in this video or number two you clicked on this
because you want to lose weight or more importantly you want to eat healthier
live a healthier lifestyle and as someone who's constantly on the go it
can be really hard to not only like fit the time into my day to cook and eat
healthy but also to just figure out how to cook and what to cook and what to buy
especially because I honestly don't love cooking I love food I don't love the
process of cooking food at however I finally feel like I figured out a really
good system for all of this how to make my life completely easy and not even
think about the food part of it so I'm gonna share my tips with you guys here
and hopefully it helps this video is actually sponsored by hellofresh
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like I guess I shouldn't be that shocked because when I cook I cook pretty basic
things that don't have like a ton of flavor but usually when something tastes
literally so good I associate it with being unhealthy like buttery fried oil
like all these things that would make a super unhealthy meal but be delicious
this I was like so shocked because the sauces taste so flavorful and so good
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moving on to some things that I would typically eat in a day or a week and
also some tips for just how to navigate cooking eating healthier being on the go
being an entrepreneur or someone who's busy or someone who has a tough schedule
to fit in hours of cooking tip number one is when it comes to grocery shopping
I highly recommend picking a day to do this and sticking to that same day every
now I personally think grocery shopping is a ginormous waste of time so if
you're someone who wants to do grocery delivery by all means do it the stores
that I like to shop out the most don't do delivery except hellofresh of course
but for all my other basic ingredients they don't do delivery so I have set
aside a specific day I go on Mondays and it's mostly because I don't enjoy it
it's like I feel like it's a waste of time but on Mondays I'm like fresh ready
to go I have more energy and I just want to get it done so that my meals for the
week are like ready to go and by the way I'm not like a meal prepper at all I buy
ingredients that I know will work for certain meals and then I tend to find
more frozen ingredients than fresh which I'll talk about in one second so number
two as I just said I recommend buying a lot of frozen food more so than fresh
food now I even mean like produce like mushrooms and vegetables this will vary
if you're someone who has a family or you live with your boyfriend or
roommates and you guys all cook together this is different but I have again run
into so many problems with food waste whenever I buy produce I'm not someone
who knows how to just like throw things together that are in my fridge and make
a bomb meal out of it like I don't have that gift so I end up throwing away a
lot of stuff which is not only a waste of food a waste of time and money this
makes my life so much easier because if I'm ever out of town I know it's not
gonna go bad even if I'm in town I know it's not gonna go bad and the frozen
food tastes just as good number three is that I don't let myself sacrifice taste
because of my allergies now a lot of people have the misconception that
gluten-free bread is like nasty now listen it used to be pretty nasty but
nowadays these types of intolerances are so much more common and I feel like the
types of gluten-free bread and dairy-free butter and dairy-free creamer
and milk all taste so much better now and now I do recognize that I live in
Los Angeles where we have a ton of options for people with food
intolerances or preferences but I highly recommend just looking around the
grocery stores in your city and trying out different products at first it might
seem like okay I'm buying all these different things but once you find
something that you like that really works for you stick to that and part of
having a food intolerance is it is a learning process like you just do have
to try as many things as you can you may cook something with almond milk one day
and realize that literally didn't taste good and you can make me find a
dairy-free like creamer or something else to use instead so just experiment
around that has helped me so much I've tried so many different types of thing
that are dairy-free and gluten-free and I finally found the ones that I really
love so I'd know on that if you're someone who loves treats I highly
recommend google searching for like good gluten-free or vegan bakery again with
la there are way more of these but I guarantee there may be a diamond in the
rough in your city and once you find one that's like your go-to and it's worth it
so just look around be resourceful so I'm just gonna list some of the things
that I like to eat for different meals because I think that anyone with a food
intolerance is probably wondering how the heck I even survived when I have
this many allergies and good question but here are some of the things that I
eat for breakfast I like to either do like gluten-free waffles
smoothies or like potato scramble without eggs I'm allergic to egg I do
eat me I just don't eat dairy or wheat for lunch I'll do my hello fresh meals
or sometimes like a salad or anything that was left over from dinner I tend to
have some leftovers when I cook dinners both the hello fresh meals and my own
meals and then for dinners I love to pretty much stick anything frozen into a
gluten-free pasta or a rice - I'll do like a shrimp pasta I'll do turkey
polonaise I'll put a bunch of vegetables and just put like dairy-free butter and
garlic I will also tell you guys literally put onions and garlic and
everything if you like onions and garlic put it in everything it makes everything
just so much more flavorful there are also some really dope seasonings you can
get from like Trader Joe's or other stores that really make things taste
amazing that's another thing I really like about the hello fresh meals they
come with like chicken stock concentrate and other types of seasonings that taste
so good and sometimes all like keep a little bit extra of the seasoning and
just save it and put it on another stuff and tip number five you guys this is
huge and I only just started doing this take multivitamins like take daily
vitamins I know it's bad that I only just started doing this but something
that people always ask is like are you ever missing certain nutrients from your
food allergies and I feel like the answers honestly no because I'm pretty
much getting my veggies my fruits my carbs still but what I do notice
especially with the lifestyle I live now I workout and exercise
very frequently and sometimes I don't replenish the vitamins in my body the
way that I need to I've actually developed some symptoms from that like
some hair thinning and other things so I just recently started taking a
multivitamin this is just a foolproof way to make sure that you guys are
getting the nutrients that you need cuz I feel like obviously that's important
so I recommend taking one every single day okay
so in an effort to not make this video go a thousand years long because it's
already long I'm actually gonna talk fully in depth about
how I found out about my food intolerances in another video on my blog
channel so go subscribe to that so that you can stay tuned it's gonna be long
and in depth because there were so many different steps I took and I can
recommend what types of doctors not to see you what types of doctors to see but
I'll give you the brief like one second rundown basically I had stomach problems
for a long time I was nauseous very often I had pain I did not know what was
going on turned out well I went to a GI doctor they told me I had acid reflux
which was true so I went on medication for acid reflux but the medication ended
up wiping out all the good bacteria in my system which caused even more
problems it caused my intestines to be super sensitive so then every time I
need anything it felt nauseous it felt painful so I was basically back at
square one then I went to a naturopathic homeopathic doctor who really took a
look at like what I'm putting into my body
it turned out that my thought was extremely damaged from eating foods that
I was intolerant to without knowing I was intolerant if you think that you may
have a food intolerance the number one mistake that people make is that they
just eliminate that food and if they still feel crappy then they say okay
it's not that but what happens is when you eat foods that you're intolerant to
your gut becomes completely inflamed and it gets bothered by everything so you
actually have to heal your gut first then stop eating the foods that you
think you're intolerant to because if not you're still gonna hurt so you're
not gonna be able to tell which thing you actually have an allergy to I
recommend doing a blood test doing a stool test going to a naturopathic
doctor was the thing that honestly saved me I actually had an intestinal
infection on top of all that because I had been eating these foods for so long
and didn't know that I was intolerant so again I'm gonna go way more in depth on
this in another video so subscribe to my other channel too what the Finch
that's my blog channel and I'll talk about it more there but leave any
questions that you have below so that I can answer those in that video are you
guys that is all for this video thank you so much for watching let me know
again if you have any questions and remember if you guys want to check out
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