Harry's Elimination Diet - Day 3

So far, so good. I was a bit worried today: Harry had a track meet after school. I had packed even more food than usual for him to take for the day because of this, but he came home for lunch and returned to school without the extras, telling me he wouldn't need it. As I knew he wouldn't return for another 7 or 8 hours, I was concerned that he'd get hungry and the lure of concession food, or food offered by teammates would be too much. There are benefits to being broke, however - as it turned out, Harry had no money, so even if tempted to buy food at the meet, he couldn't. Good kid that he is, he turned down the candy he was offered.

Harry says he's feeling good. He was back to sounding like Felix Unger from "The Odd Couple" at lunch - doing his throat clearing thing. He's pretty sure there's something at school that's affecting him (chalk, dust, chemicals?). His throat was clear when he got home after the meet but his nose was runny. His energy level was good even though he'd been on-the-go for over 12 hours, including participating in two distance races.

The day's food was:

Breakfast: same as yesterday, smoothie and hot cereal (check yesterday's post for details)

Lunch: chicken breast sandwich on Glutino Flax Seed bread (I realized afterward that this bread has yeast, egg white, and evaporated cane juice - all ingredients I meant to keep out of Harry's diet so he won't be eating it again this week), almond butter sandwich on Little Stream Bakery buckwheat loaf bread, carrots, pumpkin seeds, seltzer

Dinner: Soup (tomato, chick pea, coconut soup), walnuts, apple, seltzer

Harry has realized that should this diet clear up his symptoms (congestion, spacey-ness, fatique) he's not really on a test-diet at all but a diet he'll have to continue to stay well. Of course, I'm hoping that he's not sensitive to all these foods but we have no way of knowing until we take all the foods out for a while and see if he's better. After the elimination phase, we'll add the foods back, one at a time and see if his symptoms return.

Today's challenge: Track dinner. My plan is to cook his meal, drive to school and leave it in his car so he can bring it with him to the dinner. Fortunately, there's an event at school tonight which the guys are planning on attending which means they'll run and then eat and run. I'm glad they won't be lingering over dinner as I'm sure that would make it harder for Harry to resist all his favorite foods.