Welcome to Acronymlandia

Welcome to Acronymlandia! That's what I call the place I've been living for the last several decades, give or take. I've suffered from various ailments at least since my early twenties (probably earlier if you include the sudden ballooning of both my weight and my appetite around the time I was in my tweens).

It's taken me a long time but I realized that I have PCOS, GERD, and SIBO, along with other random skin and digestive disorders. I'm now trying out the AIP protocol after a stint doing GAPS/SCD. (So many acronyms! But that's why this place is called Acronymlandia.) This is after trying Paleo, Sugar Detox, Carb Cycling, raw veganism, as well as a variety of other diets from your traditional low fat/calorie restriction to the cabbage diet.

In my youth I was more interested in getting my weight down, as a consequence there was a lot of yo-yo dieting and self-hatred. In my late 20's I decided I'd had enough of all that garbage and tried to just love myself. It took a long time but after about 10 years I'd say I had that down. But then I tried various diets, this time with the goal of feeling better (it would be awesome to get back to a  normal weight but it isn't my priority). During this period I experimented with raw veganism, Paleo, and the Sugar Detox. Go to these first posts to see my story: my health history and why I'm doing this crazy thing called GAPS.

My life in Acronymlandia to now
Wandering around Acronymlandia


Many of these dietary interventions helped me feel better... as long as I  could keep them up. But they never lasted more than a few months (Paleo lasted the longest at around a year.) Now I'm in a desperate situation, wandering around Acronymlandia. I'm looking down the barrel of 50 and I don't want to spend my golden years stuck in a wheelchair, being dependent on others to take care of me. At the same time, after a lifetime of diet failures, I don't want to get my hopes up either, just to fail again.

I'm hoping that AIP will lead to some lasting changes that will permanently heal my gut, thereby allowing me to be a healthy, normal person. I know that this will take enormous commitment. It's going to be hard, and often lonely; our society doesn't really eat this way. I am committed to this, though, because I feel like it's my last chance to live a full and happy life in the next and last few decades of my life. I'm dedicated to making my life end as well as it began, before everything unraveled.

Here's to us, the hope seekers and problem solvers. Here's to our health.