You just as bad as he is . He made the promise to her , you know about the promise . So you don ' t get any outs . <| sep |> Man you know if Herman is off the table we ' re gonna go through that again . <| sep |> Thoughts shared round the world read country . <| sep |> If you don ' t start out by going on a strict elimination diet , you have no idea what you are actually eating . Any tiny ingredient could be causing confounding responses in your body . You can ' t get an even remotely solid response check if you have layer upon layer of confounding responses . So you remove everything at once to get all of the confounding information out . This sets you body as your ' control ' experiment since you can ' t create a second you . Then you test one tiny step at a time , through the entire food world . So two weeks eating lamb and pear only or whatever your control diet is , then you start introducing assumed ' safe ' foods . Within 6 weeks you have tested 46 foods and you are at a functional diet again . And it is more emotionally manageable .