{How This Blog Became Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free and Mostly Vegan} Week 9 or Foods I Miss

Week 9 is when I had my worst “I miss so many foods” episodes since Week 1. I am not sure what triggered in week 9 in particular. I discovered the previous week that I had lost 7 pounds since starting the detox diet, which somehow did not cheer me up in any way. If anything Week 9 was one of the hardest weeks.

I also found that I missed certain foods for different reasons and with different frequency. Like I missed skim greek yogurt almost every day for the first 3 weeks, because it was such a staple in my diet, but by Week 9, when I missed it, I missed the taste more than the fact I used to eat it every day. And, I did not miss it as often either.

Anyways, to give you some insight, here is my list of top 10 foods I missed a lot during Week 9, but it is actually pretty reflective of foods I miss in general (I am now on Week 13, and nothing much has changed}:

1. Spicy tuna sushi {I miss most sushi on account of not eating white rice, but I found Tono Sushi in Washington, DC , which serves brown rice sushi. That said, spicy tuna is still off-limits because it contains mayo and/or msg and/or other preservatives from the spicy sauces}

2. Indian food {I was hoping to find some vegan options, but most Indian restaurants use a lot of butter even in vegetarian dishes. I do make some at home, but I miss eating out}

3. Crusty baguette and cheese {once every couple of months, husband and I would do a bread and cheese and salad evening. They were one of our favorite things to do – we did them on Valentine’s Day and New Year’s and just because}

4. Hot chocolate from ACKC

5. My favorite dark chocolate from 3400 Phinney.

6. Gelato {though I could do without plain ice cream forever but, then again, I rarely ate it. Gelato has always been my ice cream preference}

7. Prosciutto

8. Some pizzas {I am pretty picky about pizza – I only will eat it if it’s homemade or the thin crust artisanal fire-oven types}

9. Macarons

10. Smoked salmon

There were other things that narrowly missed the list, like shrimp, scallops, certain cupcakes, Vosges chocolate, decaf lattes, green tea {I can have decaf green tea though, I just have not yet found one}. Oddly, I would not put french fries anywhere near the top of the list of foods I miss. Or anything fried except maybe something like softshell crab rolls or shrimp tempura rolls or falafel. But I do not miss having chicken tenders or fried chicken or donuts but, then again, I rarely ate them.

More than anything, though, I miss the freedom of trying new foods and new restaurants and not worry about ingredients and labels.
Disclaimer: I am just a regular person posting about my experience doing a detox diet for health reasons and, ultimately, to isolate food allergies that may be the underlying cause of said health problems. I am not a medical professional or nutritionist. Please do not use information from these posts to do your own detox diet. Rather, seek advice from a doctor, naturopath or nutritionist to determine what the correct course of action for your health is.