I had a meeting yesterday with Amy and the purpose of the meeting was to discuss how we were going to reintroduce foods next week. We have been up and down this last week with behavior and her school work. Our plan was to take garlic and hazelnut out to see if that would help. We didn't see much change with that. With talking to Amy and Brianna at Brain Balance we decided there could be different reasons for this change in Kalie.
1. She might not be getting enough to eat and is hungry. (She has complained about being hungry right after eating)
2. She could also be tired. Kalie has really long days. Mondays she is up at 6:30, gets out of school at 2:11, goes straight to Brain Balance until 3:30, comes home and does homework and BB exercises, then has a baseball game at either 5:15 or 6:30 for an hour. Now I see HALT coming into play. Remember HALT? Hungry, angry, lonely, tired.
3. Yesterday we decided that I haven't been doing her diet 100% like I thought. The sugar intake was higher than it should be, and it could be affecting her.
4. Brianna said that sometimes the left brain gets hyper-stimulated and they have to balance it more with the right brain by doing right brain exercises.
There are several different possible culprits. For now, we decided that we are going to keep a food log for 2 more weeks to make sure that I am keeping her mild food to twice a day. I am also going to give her a lot more with her meals. As in, giving her more quantity. I gave her ALOT with her meals today and she was so good! I don't know if that is what it is yet, we will have to see after I make it a habit. We had a complete 360 today though. She was so pleasant this morning, she was happy after school, after Brain Balance, all night. She even did ALL of her exercises. She told me she loves me. It was just like a few weeks ago and I hope that we can keep it up.
So I know you're all wondering, what's next? So far, this is what we know is next. For the two weeks we will keep the food log. We will make sure to keep to the two days a week for the mild list. We're going to try to avoid untested foods as well. That one is pretty hard and I'm not super worried about that one. After the two weeks, if we've noticed a change in Kalie, we will start introducing foods starting with her moderate list. She has 13 foods to reintroduce. Normally, we have been told, they like to do one food a week. For Kalie, we are going to introduce two a week. One every 4 days really. So we'll introduce almonds then she won't have them again for the 3 days in between. If she is good, with no reaction, we will introduce another food.
The thought of reintroducing foods is so exciting for me! Yes, this hasn't been super hard but it will be nice to have more options. (Please let corn and vanilla be ok!!) Charlie was just saying how much he misses red meat. It's been a minute since we had a good steak. I think a trip to Texas de Brazil is in the works for Charlie and me. ;)
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