FOOD SENSIVITY: A LONGER ROTATION
A longer rotation, however, suits some people better, not just for reasons of practicality. They find they cannot tolerate foods on a four-day rotation, but are able to do so on a longer rotation, say once a week, or even once a month. A compromise solution that often works well is to keep a basic four-day rotation as the core of the diet, and to include other foods occasionally, as often as you find you are able to tolerate them.
If you tolerate foods reasonably well after a while, you can move to a two-day diet, eating foods in rotation every other day. This is pretty close to normality and easier to live with.
If you are extremely sensitive and have very few foods, you may have to reduce your rotation to less than four days, although this has the risk that you build up sensitivity again and find that you start to react to the foods that previously were fine. If this happens, lengthen out the rotation as far as you can, eating foods that you have not eaten for a while, and give the foods you have been eating intensively a rest for a short time.
It is best to start strictly with a rotation diet and then, once you feel well enough, experiment with what you can tolerate, and work out your own compromise. If you feel worse, you can always go back to the strict rotation, get things straight and then try again. It takes time but, provided you are not eating things that upset you badly, you can generally work out something acceptable.
Remember that everyone is different. What suits you may not suit someone else with food sensitivity. Work out your rotation for yourself and do not worry if it is not the same as anybody else’s.
People often get worried about their nutritional balance when on a rotation diet. The individual days of a rotation often look to be lacking in important nutrients. A doctor or dietitian will have taken this into account, however, and what they look for is an adequate supply of nutrients over several days of the diet, rather than on specific days, or at individual meals. If there is inadequate supply of an important nutrient, they will propose a supplement. They will advise you if there are specific foods that you should always eat on the allocated day. A well-constructed rotation diet will also give you a good balance of protein, carbohydrate and fat, so that you feel nourished and full.
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