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Reflections After 15 Months on GAPS: Part 3 – My GAPS Healing So Far

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Meghan Slocum • 10 Comments

In part 1 and part 2 I discussed how trying to fix my acne led me to GAPS. In part 3 I’ll share the progress that I’ve experienced on GAPS so far. I’ve seen a lot of healing but I’m hoping for even more.

Acne:

I am so happy to say that GAPS has made a huge difference in my acne. Before GAPS I literally had dozens of breakouts on my face all the time. These days I rarely have more than four or five “active” blemishes. Some days I have none. Now honestly four breakouts is four more than I want, but I think that healing my skin (and gut) is just a really slow process.…

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Reflections After 15 Months on GAPS: Part 2 – From Real Foods to GAPS

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Meghan Slocum • 4 Comments

In part 1 I shared how trying to cure my acne led me to real foods. In part 2 I’ll describe how I made the leap from real foods to GAPS.

After I’d mostly transitioned our diet from healthy-ish SAD to traditional, real foods, Jesse started to notice some changes in himself. At the same time that we were switching to real foods, we’d also dramatically reduced our sugar consumption, both by cutting out most sugary treats and using stevia in our own recipes. The combination of both changes precipitated a noticeable change in Jesse’s well-being. He had significantly more energy while exercising and felt a lot better the rest of the time, too.…

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Reflections After 15 Months on GAPS: Part 1 – My Journey to Real Food

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Meghan Slocum • 6 Comments

Saturday marked the end of my fifteenth month on GAPS. I thought this would be an excellent time to reflect back on my GAPS experience so far. Part 1 will detail how I found real foods, since finding real foods is really what led me to GAPS. (Originally finding real foods and finding GAPS was all one post, but it got so long that I split it into two parts.) In subsequent posts I will discuss the progress I’ve seen on GAPS and the lessons that I’ve learned along the way.

In the summer of 2009 I got a blood test to determine if I had any food sensitivities.…

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