One Week In

Today marks one week on the Failsafe diet.
Last night Thali woke at 11pm and.... SELF SETTLED!!!  She also woke at 4am, I fed her and she went straight back to sleep. This is the first good night in months. However, we're still too exhausted to care. We still just want to go back to bed. We're also not taking it to mean anything, a couple of weeks ago she slept for 6 hours in one go, but the next night was back to craziness, so who knows what tonight will bring.

Most nights still go something like like this. Down at 7.30pm, awake at 9pm (20mins to resettle), up at 11.30pm (2hours to resettle), up at 3.30am (2hours to resettle), up for the day at 6.30am.
So there's not a whole lot of sleep going on there.

Her day sleeps have also improved and 1 hour naps are becoming 'normal' which is quiet incredible. Again, we're not taking this to mean anything as she could just be worn out from the lack of sleep overnight.

How are we going with the diet? Well, OK. It's certainly not fun, but it is not horrendous either. Rhys is finding it much more difficult than I am. He would kill for a beer and some bacon. Surprisingly I really want, of all things - some carrot! Weird, I know. We went to visit a friend yesterday who offered Rhys a beer, and then a huge bag of avocados for us to take home. We nearly cried.
There are a couple of meals we have made that will survive 'post diet' like chicken and fried rice, and a golden syrup pudding. Others like risotto and stir fry are a bit bland when you can only add leek and beans.

Tonight we are off to a birthday party with Rhys' family. It will be interesting. Usually parties with them involve delicious food, great wine and plenty of beer. Having to sit back and say 'no thanks' could prove difficult. We are taking along some meat, coleslaw and potato salad, as well as some snacks and gin. Hopefully it won't be too torturous for us.

Next week we are booked in to see a 'failsafe friendly' dietician, not all dieticians know of or are supportive of the diet. We will take in our food diary and discuss behavioural changes with them. They may want to tweak some of our allowed foods, and then if we continue to see results they will guide us on how to reintroduce foods through challenges. I think we'd like to reintroduce "Amines" first, if we can - cheese, chocolate, avocado.... Yum!

One thing we haven't done strictly is change our skincare and cleaning products. I have looked in a few different places for recommended toothpaste but can't find it. We don't use many cleaning products so I haven't changed them yet. Shampoo, conditioner, moisturiser is something I should change, but I'll wait to see what the dietician says.

On Monday Rhys will be back at work, neither of us are looking forward to it.