Clement

I am a 13-year-old girl. I stand 5'7" and weigh 125 pounds, but 3 months ago, I weighed 145. Now that I'm not eating reactive foods, I have a lot more energy. I have fewer headaches. My asthma has improved a little bit.

When my family started this way of eating, a few things made me happy. We started eating red meat and eggs again. I realized that I could still eat potato chips. It was nice when my mom took me to the grocery with her and I could buy lox and raspberries.

My friends say they can't believe that I have so much self-control. It's not really that I have such great self-control, I just know that if I eat sugars, flours, or wheat, I will get sick. At school, when I eat little of something "illegal", I get a headache or hyperactive. I'm in a cloud. At camp last summer, I ate candy. I felt drowsy. I was much more moody. I got cranky. I gained weight, even though I was doing tons of activities

.After the first week, if I ate something reactive, I only got a little sick. But after a month, if I ate something, I got really sick. After about two or three weeks, eating reactive foods got much less tempting. But if my family were not eating this way, I wouldn't be able to either.

I thought it was cool that my mom didn't force me to stay off reactive foods for my birthday. If a friend asked me about eliminating reactive foods, I would tell her to throw away all the sugars, flours, and wheat in her house. I would tell her to learn to read labels. I would especially tell her not to give up on it in a week or two. It's worth it.