A New Start Again/Food Intake

I have decided to once again, start trying to get rid of my rosacea or at least improve my skin. I started reading posts on the Rosacea Forum and they had started talking about the co-relation between what you eat and how it affects your skin and most have agreed that a low carb gluten free/wheat free and low sugar/low refined white flour diet really improves the skin! So today is the first day that I am going to try the gluten free (and wheat free, if possible) and low sugar diet. So I went out and bought some gluten free wheat free bread.

Tomorrow I plan to go to Trader Joes and buy a lot more gluten free products.

Yesterday I noticed how red my skin became after eating strawberries so I won't be eating those again. And I decided to not drink any hot beverages as well. I will drink hot coffee but plan to let it cool down.

So I want to use this blog as a food journal and see whether my skin improves. I stopped going to the dermatologist because I felt like it was a waste of time as I was not going to do the things she wanted me to do, like moisturize my feet at night.

She did recommend washing my hair with head and shoulders and that seems fine for me. I also use it as a cleanser -not sure whether it helps or not. I need to clear up my skin first and then use it to see what happens.

I did read over what I had eaten when I started the food journal and I really didn't changed the way I ate which is probably why my skin stayed the same! I was still eating the same of old refined flour/refined sugar crap!

My main concern is that I don't want to be feeling hungry all the time and my first step is stop eating sugary snacks at night. I can snack but they have to be gluten free/wheat free snacks.

For breakfast:

Gluten free gorilla munchies with flaxseed, chia powder, blueberries, apples, activia yoghurt (which had mixed berries -note -need to buy Greek yoghurt), and a little 2 % percent milk.

Cappuccino with a little milk -cooled down.

For lunch:

Gluten free/wheat free toast with scrambled eggs (cooked with olive oil) and bacon.

Bosc pear and fuji apples

Leftover coffee from breakfast

Snack:

Gluten free corn snack called poppers
cheese on gluten free poppers

Dinner:

bbq sausages, sauerkraut, grilled onions, zucchini, mushrooms, peppers and eggplant.
rice
chimichurri sauce over flank steak (marinaded in soy sauce, olive oil and red vinegar, garlic, salt and pepper)

mini chocolate cupcake

I believe my face is less pimply but still red.