Food allergies, yoga places and other updates.

What a week.  Seriously.  This is a quick post as I don't have much time before our Gymboree class, which we missed last week due to a pushed-out nap time (boy, hopefully this trend doesn't work it's way into Austin's elementary school career).

I took a food allergy test at the naturopathic clinic.  I'm allergic to eggs.  As in - in the red!  As in, I shouldn't be eating anything with eggs in it.  Not only allergic to the egg whites but also the egg yolks.  Um, everything has eggs in it.  Now, I recently suspected I was allergic to some type of food only because I was getting sinus headaches all year (which sucks so bad) and feeling lethargic when getting plenty of sleep.  Do you know how many things have eggs in them?  Lots.  Even the spinach pancakes that I love have egg whites in them. 

The good news:  Not allergic to gluten.  Was heavily suspecting I was since it seems everyone else is allergic to that little devil. 

I was also in the red for oysters (hate oysters) and in the elevated area for corn.  CORN?!  Who is allergic to corn??  Apparently, many people, but it still hasn't seemed to make the top of the food allergy list which now includes:  Wheat, shellfish, peanuts, soy, dairy, etc. 

So, for the next month I'm to cut out eggs (anything with eggs), corn and dairy (I was slightly elevated for the whey protein in dairy), then reintroduce one at a time and if I have an immediate reaction (headache, nausea, lethargy) then it needs to be completely cut from my diet.  Forever. 

The food allergy test is not a perfect science and my ND mentioned this...but, she said, it's a good baseline to see what foods I'm sensitive to.  I think it's important to have this test done as it highly effects the immune system and how it functions. 

Austin is walking!  He's been walking for the past week or so.  Am so proud of him and he's ecstatic everytime he pushes himself up to stand, then walk. 

Also, I need to go to yoga.  Desperately.  Am thinking of going back to the yoga place I went to many moons ago since it's near me, but, anyone else in the Seattle area have any feedback on a yoga studio? 

Ok, off to pack the diaper bag and then to Gymboree!  It's amazing how fast I can pack a diaper bag now...