Autoimmune Protocol diet

Alright so I decided to just go forward with an elimination diet to figure out what kind of eating works best for me. I've been doing OMAD (One Meal A Day) for like 3 weeks now and I LOVE it. It's so much easier to plan, shop, cook and clean after only one meal. I can eat a nice large meal with easily staying within my TDEE. I eat it at night so I can just eat and relax after work. Now I'm making that meal an Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) guidelines to see if I have reactions to stuff.

The idea is that once I figure out what I'm allergic to (allergist appointment on Tuesday) and anything I have a reaction to via AIP, I can configure my ideal custom food plan. And that may change once I start training for races, depending on my needs.

For Monday-Thursday dinners, I bought sweet potatoes, chicken, asparagus and frozen cherries.

The first night, I just threw everything in the rice cooker and steamed/ boiled everything/

The chicken was good and the cherries were good but the sweet potatoes and asparagus tasted like crap. Watery garbage! I didn't finish it.

Tuesday I decided to try something different and cook the chicken the same way but pan fry the sweet potatoes and then make the asparagus into a salad with parsley and orange. This time around I used 2 tbs of olive oil for the potatoes and then another 2 tbs of oil for the salad so it was an extra FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY calories!!!! So I had to cut the cherries out this time.

It was good! The sweet potatoes were MUCH better and the salad was AMAZING. The only downside is that shaving asparagus is time consuming and you end up wasting a lot of asparagus in the process. Next time I'd just use zoodles instead of shaved asparagus and see how that is. Also I set my fire alarm off for a long time, pan frying those sweet potatoes. They were good but some of them were pretty burnt. (I am not a cook)

Tonight I'm going to roast sweet potato rounds and the asparagus spears in the toaster oven. My oven is broken and I've been putting off doing anything about it for like 7 months. So toaster oven it is!