I’m about to eat oreos dunked in milk – REAL cow’s milk – for the first time in over eight months!
I’m so excited I wanna dance all around my room!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ooooh, I missed you wheat! Please oh please, never leave me again! I’ll love you forever and ever and ever and be the best girlfriend you ever, ever had! Just don’t ever leave me again!
Gee, that doesn’t sound too desperate, does it? Teehee.
Yup, that means I’m finally weaning off my no-wheat diet. And let me tell you, I couldn’t be more thrilled about it. It started after a really bad day dealing with health crap, feeling like the wheat diet was totally pointless, since more and more I’m doubting the interpretation that led to me starting this awfully restrictive diet in the first place. On top of that, I had been craving a real soft-serve ice cream cone for weeks and it was driving me mad. So I was bad in two ways – apart from trying to make a bad day better through food, I was gonna eat that real-dairy ice cream on that real wheat cone, and I didn’t even care.
At first my Mom complained, but eventually I convinced her through my magical powers of persuasion to slowly drop the diet and see what happens.
I just ate my oreos. 😀 I’m a happy, happy girl! 😀 😀
Anyway. 🙂 So I convinced my Mom to drop the diet and see if it has any effect on the swelling. Cause at first, when we drastically changed my diet – removing wheat, dairy, eggs, spelt, rye, etc – I did drop about 30 pounds quite quickly. But then it just got stuck again; didn’t lose any more, didn’t gain anymore. You’d think that if I really had such a drastic reaction to all those things which was causing the swelling, it would have kept on dropping. Instead, I’m wondering if perhaps it’s just the typical drastic sudden weight drop that occurs when you change your normally steady diet so drastically that your body’s kind of caught by surprise. I’ve heard of that happening to friends who have suddenly changed diets in the hope of losing weight. They drop a lot of weight in the beginning, but then it gets harder and harder to drop the pounds. Now, I’m not hoping to lose fat in this case, but I wonder if maybe it was just the same sort of reaction happening with the fluid.
Lately the drastically restricted diet – wherein basically all I ever ate was chicken, chicken, and more chicken – was literally driving me bonkers. I just couldn’t take it anymore, and since it’d been seven months or so without a single pound of fluid lost, I was starting to question if it was even worth it. Plus, I’ve heard from various other doctors that perhaps the original interpretation of a specific blood test that led to this drastic diet may have been incorrect. That was really the final nail in the diet’s coffin. So out it’s gone and baby, it’s time for some wheat!
We’re starting off introducing dairy first, and now wheat, to see what happens. Then slowly, if there’s no reaction, I’ll start adding the other stuff. Also, I’m being followed by an actual Allergist this time who will know precisely how to interpret the blood tests that are being done to determine if I really do have a legitimate allergy. But so far, so good. I didn’t gain anything with the introduction of the dairy, and after a few days of slowly eating a little bit of wheat, so far, so good.
A couple days ago, I had pizza for the first time in over 8 months. Oooooooh, let me tell you, it was HEAVEN!!! Mom took me to Don Corleone’s, my favorite pizza place outside of Italy. They have a real wood-burning brick oven and they import most of their ingredients from Italy! I think I even read once that the owner shipped the main pizza chefs to Italy to go through pizza school. The pizza certainly tastes authentic enough! Holy crap, is it good! We went earlier in the week and it was so good, in fact, that I went back again yesterday. 😀
Ahhh, wheat, what did I ever do without you? Oh wheat, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways…
They’ve had me on every kind of restricted diet I can think of over the years. I’ve spent months without beef; weeks without gluten; a year without sugar or white flour (the No Whites). There was the time I had to stay away from tomatoes and cheese. Then the time they said no chocolate. No dairy. No spice. No fresh fruit and veg. Only fresh fruit and veg. It’ll make your head spin.
Then there’s the Food Tolerance thing where they cut out all foods and then slowly add back in, one at at time to see what you’re sensitive to.
A couple of years ago I announced that I had enough going on. It’s restrictive enough to live with chronic illness, and while I’m sure those around me just want me better I can no longer further restrict my already painfully-reduced lifestyle any further. I know enough to know which foods cause me what problems at which times of month, time of day, etc. I’ll avoid caffeine and carbs at night, dairy right before my period and beef in the morning. Beyond that I’m going to live what life I’ve got without having diet so restricted, because from what I can tell it doesn’t make a long term difference.
It just gives you more stuff to worry about and fuss over. Granted I’m not dealing with Decrum’s and you are probably a bit different, but still. (I’m trying to justify my willfullness…;-p)