Everyone has their own primary symptoms that they would like to resolve. It does not matter if these symptoms are gut-based or body-based, The Repair Diet is vital to:
Focus your body’s energy and resources on healing your gut
Avoiding nutrient-poor, inflammatory foods is a good strategy even if you are not trying to resolve your symptoms. But sometimes you just need a change. Switch from the Repair Diet to the Relaxed Diet if you:
Need a break from the Repair Diet
If you start feeling frustrated with eating
Have been following the Repair Diet for a month+ and would like a short break to maintain motivation
Feel that you have made remarkable shifts
If it has been at least a month and you want to try reintroducing foods you miss and want back in your diet
80/20 Rule
Ideally you would continue to purchase nutrient-dense, anti-inflammatory ingredients for your cooking at home while relaxing your diet for a bit, especially since eating out often means eating conventionally raised, non-organic ingredients cooked in inflammatory seed oils.
Food Reintroduction
If you decide there are foods that you really want back into your diet, I encourage you to reintroduce them in a methodical way:
Track your symptoms
Reintroduce only one food every three days
Stay within a category before moving on to another category
Start with the ones that are most often tolerated more (listed first in each category)
Dairy Products
Ghee
No detectable casein or lactose; almost everyone can tolerate
Ghee is permitted during the Reset, but if you removed it you can try adding it back here
Butter
Very little casein and <1% lactose; usually well-tolerated
