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- Eating to Live -

Introduction

So, you have your LEAP ImmunoCalm Diet Program. After reading it all, you may be thinking “What do I eat? I’ve never eaten this way before. I’ll starve!”

Well trust us, nobody has starved on the LEAP Program! It’s just that many times people with Food Sensitivities tend to regularly eat the foods that are causing them to be sick. That’s the main reason they frequently feel sick in the first place! So, after finding out what foods and chemicals you’re reactive to, you’ll have to adjust your diet to avoid the things that are making you ill, while focusing on the foods that don’t cause any problems.

Doing this requires patience and commitment, and a sound strategy to build a healthy diet. It’s your job to provide the patience and commitment and it’s our job to provide the most strategic method of building a healthy diet available anywhere. LEAP is a very practical program that usually boils down to knowing what to eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and beverages.

“What do I eat? I’ve never eaten this way before. I’ll starve!”

Eventually your eating will normalize and you may even be able to re-introduce some of your reactive foods back into your diet. In the meantime, this program will teach you many things about your body’s response to food and will lay the foundation for helping you eat as healthfully as possible.

Eating and cooking for the first few weeks of your LEAP diet means trying new things, experimenting, expecting some serious flops, and deciding that some of your less serious flops are actually edible, and maybe not even too bad. Early stages of LEAP is: “Eating to live ... NOT living to eat.”

Remember, if a food or ingredient ISN’T listed on your test results you cannot eat it. ONLY eat foods listed in your current Phase or previously tested foods from earlier phases.

It is likely that you’ll be eating very differently from what you did in the past. You may not be eating typical breakfast foods at breakfast time, or dinner foods for dinner.

Goal #1 – Improve Your Health!

The first thing we want to accomplish with the LEAP ImmunoCalm Dietary Program is to decrease or eliminate all symptoms related to food sensitivities. This is accomplished by carefully and completely following your individualized Program as laid out in your LEAP Report and by your LEAP healthcare provider.

It is likely that you’ll be eating very differently from what you did in the past. You may not be eating typical breakfast foods at breakfast time, or dinner foods for dinner. But, who said we couldn’t eat a baked sweet potato or baked chicken for breakfast? Or hot cereal for dinner? This author thinks coke before noon is strange! And, in Japan, miso soup is a common breakfast food. We don’t put sugar on pizza or toast, so why do we think breakfast cereal has to be sweet? Remember to “think outside the box.”

You should strive to eat a diet that is as balanced as possible. Eat as wide a variety of foods as you’re eating list allows and be sure to select foods from EACH Food Category. Choose something from the protein, starch, vegetable, fruits, misc. and nut/seed/oil categories every day, and even at every meal, when possible.

INTRODUCTION·BUILDING A MENU·MEAL PATTERNS·EATING NEW FOODS·BASIC RECIPES·SPICING UP YOUR MEALS·SHOPPING TIPS