Does this stuff really work? :-)

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I think I just need some reassurance that all this hard work WILL pay off,

so…I'm asking for your stories! How did you work through the challenges of

switching to a real foods diet? What did you notice was different after a while?

How did you work through people looking at you like you have a third head? Did

you work through any illnesses?

Currently I am trying to switch my family and I to gluten-free, dairy-free,

grain-free. My husband is ok with eating that way at dinner and breakfast but

wants his usual stuff for lunches; my 4-year-old HATES it (doesn't like meat or

eggs; has tantrums when she wants bread; won't eat and then is very crabby and

won't sleep because she's hungry); and I have to cook separate meals for my baby

because he's sensitive to egg whites. My preschooler is miserable; I am

constantly either cooking or thinking about cooking (only to have my preschooler

not like the food). I am going about this change very slowly, but even at this

snail's pace I'm wondering how I could possibly take it a step further!

I am doing this primarily because my preschooler has severe asthma, nut/peanut

allergies, chronic ear infections, etc. I want so badly to try SOMETHING other

than medications to help her little body. I am of course, getting feedback (Hi

Mom!) about how terrible it is that I'm doing this to her, so this of course is

not helpful...

It WOULD be helpful to get some reinforcement that eating this way does in fact

has the possibility of helping her...no guarantees of course, but I just want to

know that if I'm making her (and by default, the rest of us!) miserable that

it's for a worthy cause!

(I realize there are many other benefits to eating this way other than just

possible affects on asthma, etc. so sharing ANY ways your health--physical or

mental--has improved will be great.)

Thanks so much, and sorry for the rant!