You've been told “maybe.” Or “it's IBS.” Or “it's stress.”
But a trigger food isn't a disease, so a scan has nothing to look for. It shows up on a Tuesday, four hours after lunch, and only if somebody wrote lunch down.
The Trigger Food Method helps you find the exact foods behind your stomach pain, one at a time, in 8 weeks.
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One honest question: would writing down every meal for three weeks be realistic for you right now? If yes, this was built for you. If not, start with the free list.
If your tests came back normal, some of them more than once, this is for you. One doctor said “maybe.” Another said it's IBS. Somebody said it's stress, or that it's in your head. And you're still in pain.
Two things up front. I am not a doctor. I can't tell you what's wrong with you, and I won't pretend I can.
See somebody today: Blood, a fever, weight falling off you, pain that keeps climbing. This can wait.
Tested normal and told maybe? Find what your gut can take, in what form, and leave with a tested safe list, a cut list and a Doctor Report by the 90-day recheck.
Two points lower in sixty days by your own log, or your money back.
Most gut advice says eat more fiber, more plants, more raw vegetables. As a general direction, for most people, that may help.
That advice works for a lot of people. It nearly killed me.
Here is what happened to me. Rough fiber meant the hospital. A small bowel obstruction. So the rough stuff came out, underneath everything.
This is what my gut needed. Guts differ.Find what your gut can take. If you've ever had a blockage or bowel surgery, ask your doctor first.
What your gut can take moves. It drops with stress, bad sleep, antibiotics, a flare. A food that wrecked you in March can be fine in September. You're not imagining that.
The method pauses. It never overrides your doctor.
Only what was measured: my pain then and now, what I cut and what I kept, with the form, and the one page I take to my doctor. Not a customer result. Your lists won't look like mine.
Pain, 0 to 10, most days.
Answers “I've lost half my foods.”
Answers “My doctor won't take this seriously.”
Find, Log, Remove, Re-test, Keep. Five words. It's boring. Boring is the point.
For “I've lost half my foods to guessing,” or still eating everything and still hurting
Foods you already avoid go straight to re-tests after one week of logging, about one a week. Still eating everything? A short suspect list, then one food out at a time. If both sound like you, the re-tests go first.
For “Isn't this just another elimination diet?”
It's the old, boring thing, done carefully. The form gets its own line: how it's made and how you eat it, such as skin on or peeled, raw or cooked, the portion, or what it came with. One form per test. When single foods stall, a short category comes out together, then each one comes back alone.
For “It's too slow”
You get your pace before you start, and a written plan with your own date on it. Foods you already avoid, about one a week. Still eating everything, about one suspect every two to three weeks.
For “My doctor won't take this seriously”
Your log prints as one page: how often, how bad, when, what the re-tests proved, and what you take. The page you hand to your family or your doctor, with one tap to share. It's for your doctor, not instead of one.
For “Told it's stress”
Sleep, stress, steps, and any new medicine, one tap each. At the end of week two you look at whether the bad days follow meals or something else. If it isn't food, you know early.
For “What do I do on a bad day?”
A flare plan you write on a calm day, so the first minute of a flare is never a decision. And an ER card with three stops on it.
For “I've lost half my foods”
Every food ends up on one list or the other, whatever it turns out to be (dairy, wheat, onion and garlic, beans, coffee, spicy or fried food), each place earned by a re-test, with the form on the line. Every ninety days, your cut list gets a second look, starting with the safest form.
For eating out
Your cut list and safe list, with the form, as one card to show the server. The card above is mine. Yours will show your own foods, whatever they are.
For measured, not promised
A pain chart that tracks your number against the one you started with. The guarantee is measured on it, by your own log.
For “what order do I do this in?”
What it buys you is the two years I wasted working out what order to do things in. Lessons 1.1 and 4.1 are free to read or hear now.
If your tests came back normal and you got told maybe, or it's stress, this finds what your gut can take and gets foods back on your plate.
Two points lower in sixty days by your own log, or your money back.
The worst of my three or four ICU stays was five days. One night in that bed, I screamed for forty-five minutes, waiting on a pain shot. I about died in that bed.
Long-term steroids helped the pain more than anything had. Then my left eye went dark. Blind, for three months.
I tell you this so you know I've stared at the same ceiling you have. I'm well past it now.
Here's what it was like for me. At five, half a bowl of cherries put me on the floor. We'd picked them that morning. My mom blamed the pesticides. At thirteen, out scouting deer with my dad, I ate several golden apples straight off the ground. Hours later, cramps so bad I thought I was going to die. Two flares, eight years apart, and nobody in either room to connect them.
From my early twenties, a flare every six months, hours after eating. Twenty years of maybe. Five maybes, five different names. Two surgeries came out of them, and both made it worse. I agreed to the second one because I was tired. Nobody was sure.
The last real doctor I saw sent a hundred-page report on me to the University of Michigan. It was my last real shot at an answer. He wanted me ready. “If they can't find it, you're going to live with this.” He wasn't being unkind. He said it like a weather report. It came back empty.
So here's what got missed. A trigger food. It isn't a disease, so a scan has nothing to look for. Doctors test for diseases, and they tested me for every one with a name. The symptoms got managed, and surgery came before anyone isolated a cause. Those were good doctors holding the wrong tool. A trigger food shows up on a Tuesday, four hours after lunch, and only if somebody wrote down what lunch was.
The slow part was mine. For about fifteen of those twenty years, I did nothing about it. I waited for somebody to hand me the answer. It cost me most of my thirties.
When that report came back empty, I stopped waiting. I decided to test food myself. One food out, everything else the same. Written down. Then back in, alone, and I watched.
That was the piece missing for me. The cherries at five were the skins. So were the golden apples at thirteen. My mom had the right bowl. She blamed the wrong half. For nineteen years I chased single foods. Most of my flares were one category in a different costume.
My own cut list has the form on it. Skins, seeds, nuts, rough fiber. Raw vegetables, except a salad about once a week. Whole grains and corn. Alcohol.
And my safe list. Meat and eggs. Rice, potatoes, white carbs. All dairy, which is just me. Fruit and vegetables without skin or seeds, cooked soft. Bananas. Peaches in yogurt. One case. Mine.
I could not tell you the day it dropped. It came in stages, over months.
It was never the notebook alone. A new doctor who listened was part of it. So were supplements, and ten thousand steps a day. Your lists won't look like mine. Yours might hold coffee, fried food, sugar alcohols or a fruit nobody warned you about.
I stopped guessing by symptom and found what my gut could take.
Six or seven out of ten most days, down to zero to three. No true flare since 2020. Not once back in the ICU for my stomach since. I work ten-hour shifts now.
If I'd been told for years that everything came back normal, I'd half believe it was in my head too. I don't blame you one bit for wondering. So one claim before I've earned it. I believe you. I don't know what's wrong with you. I believe something is.
Tested normal and told maybe? Find what your gut can take, in what form, and leave with a tested safe list, a cut list and a Doctor Report by the 90-day recheck.
Start with the starter: modules 3 to 6, find the food that sets you off. You build your suspect list, log your meals, take one food out, and bring it back.
The full course adds the Safe List and Cut List, eating out, the emergency plan and the long-term modules.
Start with the starter: $27Everything above: the two ways in, the form and the stall step, your written plan, the Doctor Report, the four marks and the week-two check, the flare plan and the ER card, your two lists, the restaurant card and your pain chart. Every lesson, in order.
Log your first 7 days and the course unlocks my quick-results cut list and fast food card.
What it buys you is the two years I wasted working out what order to do things in.
My deal is measured, not promised. Day one, your pain number goes in your profile, zero to ten. Do the course and log your meals. If after sixty days it is not at least two points lower by your own log, email me inside ninety days and you get all of it back. And inside the first fourteen days, once your first seven days are logged, you can have your money back, no questions asked.
The whole course, plus three hours of coaching with me, one to one. I read your food log and your lists with you and say what I would cut next and what I would put back.
Book each hour when you want it.
The guarantee covers the course. Coaching hours you have not used are refundable; hours already delivered are not.
An hour with me, one to one. I read your food log and your lists with you and say what I would cut next and what I would put back. The hour is for a log that has stopped making sense to the person keeping it.
Buy one hour or a few, and book each one when you want it.
Coaching hours you have not used are refundable; hours already delivered are not.
By buying you agree to the service agreement. I'm not a doctor. This is what worked for me, taught step by step. It is not medical advice. Stripe handles the payment.
Not sure? Don't buy anything. Get the free list: foods to test first instead. It opens right on the page.
I thought this was just another elimination diet too. It's the old, boring thing, done carefully, with two parts I skipped for years. One is the form: skin on or peeled, raw or cooked, the portion, one form per test. The other is for when single foods stall. A short category comes out together for fourteen days. Then each one comes back alone, because two triggers can hide each other.
This is the honest pace. Foods you already avoid, about one a week. Still eating everything, about one suspect every two to three weeks. Eight weeks covers about two or three removals. Slower than anybody wants.
You get your pace before you start, and a written plan with your own date on it: your 90-day recheck. Week one usually shows you a pattern in the log, not a lower pain number.
No. I am not a doctor. I can't tell you what's wrong with you, and I won't pretend I can. I worked for a nutritionist, and I've built private software for several doctors and a chiropractor. That is the extent of it.
And it's not instead of your doctor. Go back. Keep going.
Almost certainly not. Mine were skins, seeds, nuts and rough fiber. That is my list, and it is one case. Yours might be dairy, wheat, onion and garlic, beans, coffee, alcohol, spicy or fried food, sugar alcohols, or high-fructose foods. Someone I talked to cut dairy and was fine. Someone else did better on almost nothing but meat. One person couldn't touch raw food, and another could only handle raw food. For another, the whole problem was carbonation. So I won't hand you my list. I'll show you how I found it.
Where this breaks. I won't promise it fixes everything. It didn't fix everything for me. If your pain has nothing to do with food, I'd rather you knew now, and the week-two check is there to show you early.
For the first two to three weeks, yes, every one. After every meal, five questions: what, when, how much, what happened in the next twenty-four hours, and how bad, zero to ten. About twenty seconds.
And if you know you won't write anything down for three weeks, keep your money. I mean that.
The course is the whole method, and you run it yourself. Coaching is an hour with me, booked whenever you want one, where I read your log and your lists and tell you what I would cut next. The work is the same either way. The hour is for a log that has stopped making sense to the person keeping it.
Coaching is $197 an hour. The course with three hours of coaching is $497.
The starter is $27. It is modules 3 to 6, the part where you find the food that sets you off: build your suspect list, log your meals, take one food out, bring it back. If you want that and nothing else yet, start there. The full course is $47 and adds the Safe List and Cut List, eating out, the emergency plan and the long-term modules.
My deal is measured, not promised. Day one, your pain number goes in your profile, zero to ten. Do the course and log your meals. If after sixty days it is not at least two points lower by your own log, email me inside ninety days and you get all of it back. And inside the first fourteen days, once your first seven days are logged, you can have your money back, no questions asked.
Coaching hours you have not used are refundable; hours already delivered are not.
Blood, a fever, weight falling off you, pain that keeps climbing: see somebody today. This can wait.
I never did get a name for what I have. I didn't need one. I needed a notebook, and I needed to know how to read it.
Not ready? Get the free list: foods to test first. I'm not a doctor. This is what worked for me, taught step by step. It is not medical advice.
An AI helper. Not a doctor, and not medical advice. A person: gabe@triggerfoodmethod.com
