Breakfast
Porridge and raisins
Blackcurrant Tea
Banana
Dried fig, dried apricot, and a few mixed unsalted nuts
Decaffeinated Coffee, with one fruit sugar
Lunch
Cottage cheese, Flax oil, chives, garlic, chopped ham, chopped red pepper, 3 Ryvita
Green tea, with a bit of honey
Dinner
Fish Pie, again - still glorious!
The first improvement I noticed was that my food cravings had completely disppeared after only one day! That’s pretty fantastic.
I always used to have a bowl of cornflakes in the evening or something else to eat. Now I’m eating less but I don’t feel hungry at all. Today I had the banana and dried fruit and nuts at about 12, so I didn’t need lunch until 2.30pm.
Even then, my lunch was about a third of what I used to eat at lunch.
Monday, March 19, 2007
13. Wheat Intolerances
I’m quite lucky in that I’m only intolerant to wheat, so if I were to eat it in small quantities, I probably wouldn’t notice. I am also not intolerant or allergic to gluten, so I have a lot more choice than some of you.
A wheat allergy is more serious than just an intolerance, but it is different from Celiac Disease, which is an aversion to gluten, and requires a complete gluten ban for life.
If you do have celiac disease you cannot eat wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
Most children who are allergic to wheat will grow out of the allergy.
Most people claiming that they have a food allergy may at worst have a food intolerance. Often a person has decided to eliminate a food from their diet based on one bad experience.
In other cases people eliminate foods from their diets because another family member suspects that he or she has a food allergy, or because they have read a magazine article and decided that the symptoms described relate to their own.
As a result they cut out and eliminate foods which in fact may be an essential part of a healthy balanced diet. Such self-medication can be dangerous as it can obscure the real health problem.
I had a food tolerance test by a qualified nutritionalist. Ask your health food shop where to find one. But if you cannot find one, your family doctor can perform the test.
If you find you do have a wheat intolerance or wheat allergy, you need to read food labels very carefully. I’m too lazy to do that, so I just buy fresh, non processed food.
When I go to a restaurant or a friends house, I am less pedantic about my diet. As it is an intolerance, and not an allergy, I can break the rules once in a while. I hate to be a burden to others, although all my friends are very understanding.
Still, I have fruit, nuts and herbal tea bags with me all the time, just incase what’s on offer is so unappealing.
A wheat allergy is more serious than just an intolerance, but it is different from Celiac Disease, which is an aversion to gluten, and requires a complete gluten ban for life.
If you do have celiac disease you cannot eat wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
Most children who are allergic to wheat will grow out of the allergy.
Most people claiming that they have a food allergy may at worst have a food intolerance. Often a person has decided to eliminate a food from their diet based on one bad experience.
In other cases people eliminate foods from their diets because another family member suspects that he or she has a food allergy, or because they have read a magazine article and decided that the symptoms described relate to their own.
As a result they cut out and eliminate foods which in fact may be an essential part of a healthy balanced diet. Such self-medication can be dangerous as it can obscure the real health problem.
I had a food tolerance test by a qualified nutritionalist. Ask your health food shop where to find one. But if you cannot find one, your family doctor can perform the test.
If you find you do have a wheat intolerance or wheat allergy, you need to read food labels very carefully. I’m too lazy to do that, so I just buy fresh, non processed food.
When I go to a restaurant or a friends house, I am less pedantic about my diet. As it is an intolerance, and not an allergy, I can break the rules once in a while. I hate to be a burden to others, although all my friends are very understanding.
Still, I have fruit, nuts and herbal tea bags with me all the time, just incase what’s on offer is so unappealing.
12. Accountability Day 2
Was adding to this all day yesterday, then forgot to post it last night.
Breakfast
Porridge and raisins
Ham and Pickle
That’s right, no bread or butter – just thinly sliced ham with pickle spread on it. Pickle’s a treat too – it’s full of sugar.
Decaffeinated coffee, dash of goats’ milk and 1 flat tsp fruit sugar.
Several dried apricots. I bought these from the health food shop – sadly they contain preservative E220. So don’t assume that everything from health food shops is pure!
Half a fruit smoothie, as yesterday
Lunch
Small baked potato, with three thin slices of ham, a bit of cheese and pickle.
Snack
I cold boiled egg. I thought I’d hard boiled it yesterday, but the yolk was still soft – never had cold soft boiled egg before – it was yummy! And there’s another 2 in the fridge that I did at the same time.
I dried fig.
Dinner
Glorious Fish Pie!
Camomile Tea
Breakfast
Porridge and raisins
Ham and Pickle
That’s right, no bread or butter – just thinly sliced ham with pickle spread on it. Pickle’s a treat too – it’s full of sugar.
Decaffeinated coffee, dash of goats’ milk and 1 flat tsp fruit sugar.
Several dried apricots. I bought these from the health food shop – sadly they contain preservative E220. So don’t assume that everything from health food shops is pure!
Half a fruit smoothie, as yesterday
Lunch
Small baked potato, with three thin slices of ham, a bit of cheese and pickle.
Snack
I cold boiled egg. I thought I’d hard boiled it yesterday, but the yolk was still soft – never had cold soft boiled egg before – it was yummy! And there’s another 2 in the fridge that I did at the same time.
I dried fig.
Dinner
Glorious Fish Pie!
Camomile Tea
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