Well, I almost don’t believe it myself, but we’ve been grain and potato free for 8 weeks!  I doubted that we could even do it as my daughter and I were definitely carb-a-holics. If this was a weight loss diet, I would have quit!  But, I am committed to the healing that I know this diet will bring.  The last 8 weeks around here has been slow and quiet. This diet is a lot of work, and I have been absorbed in it. I have felt some changes occur and I am looking forward to more in the months ahead. I experienced some major die-off and detoxification during the first week of intro and intermittently through the first 4 weeks. For those that don’t know, the GAPS diet is composed of 3 stages. The first stage is the intro diet, second stage is the full GAPS diet, and the third and final stage is coming off the GAPS diet.

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Bones.  I love them.  Years ago, I used to throw them out.  For shame!  I didn’t know any better. But now I save every last one. I even buy them on their own, big bags of them.  Soup bones, oxtail, and marrow bones.  So full of goodness. Before I adopted a real foods diet, I used powdered broth and those MSG-laden boullion cubes. I cringe just thinking about it.  It was the easy and naive way out. I thought, who has time to make broth from scratch?  Little did I know the immense health benefits, the flavour difference (there is simply NO comparison) and just how little work making bone broth from scratch really was.