Literally Out of Ideas of What I CAN Eat! :(
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I would suggest getting to see a registered dietitian (not a nutritionist as unlike nutritionist registered dietitians have a required extensive education and examinations to get their certification.0
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Okay, first - hugs. I'm in a similar boat. Not quite the same list, but an insanely restrictive set of dietary restrictions anyway, including the grains like rice, so seriously, sympathy hug, hon! (and actually, the disorder I having causing it might be worth exploring, as it's something that can trigger - often from other serious health issues - and involves making the body react to more and more foods, among other things. And it's rare, so most doctors have never even heard of it, let alone know how to test for it - a mast cell activation disorder. Most recent diagnostic criteria can be found here:http://www.wjgnet.com/2218-6204/pdf/v3/i1/1.pdf)
RE: the dietician. First...bahahahaha. Oh man, yeah, that would pretty much be utterly useless. Dieticians are NOT trained for diets as restrictive as this. They get very little training in specialized diets in the first place, and most of what they do have is limited. Often something for diabetes, maybe helping deal with one or two food restrictions at a time, and sometimes even gluten - but not always. I kid you not, the head Dietician at our local hospital was substituting whole wheat foods for potato dishes in the hospital meal plans for gluten free folks, because she thought gluten was something in potatoes. Dieticians know far, far less about specialized diets than most people think they do, sadly.
When a diet gets this complicated, they are rarely of use in helping you know what TO eat, although they CAN be helpful in telling you what nutrients you need to get more of, and then you get to figure your actual diet plan out on your own, in my experience.
But, for food ideas:
Chickpeas - can you eat these? I know only some legumes are off the FODMAP diet, but wasn't sure how sensitive you were to them. Would be a nice protein source. And you can actually make a flatbread out of it! Socca, a traditional French flatbread, just has chickpea flour, water, salt, and olive oil. That's it. I've made some instead by soaking chickpeas and then blending them up with a little water, salt, and olive oil and making a batter that way, instead. It takes a bit longer to cook, and the pan can't be too big in the oven, but it's actually quite nice. I put veggies on top and use it as a pizza base. If you can have basil, I sometimes just mix basil with a little oil, blend it up, and drizzle that on top, too.
I also make a homemade falafel with them, using soaked chickpeas, parsley, salt, and yellow squash or zucchini. I just blend it up in a food processor until it's a paste and then fry them in olive oil that's maybe 1/2-1 inch deep. You have to kind of adjust the chickpea to squash ratio to get the right consistency, but it works pretty well, as long as you can tolerate something oily/greasy. I can't always, but it's awesome when I can. I tend to dip them in homemade hummus, or roast veggies and put those on top.
jicama - good with salad type things.
Cantaloupe and honeydew melon AND their seeds - you can roast the seeds for both of these and eat them, just like pumpkin seeds, although you need to crack them open, and they're obviously tinier. Tastes good, though, and could give you a little added protein.
Quinoa and amaranth - these are both actually full proteins, rather than partial, so may be very useful to add to the diet. Amaranth can also be eaten raw, so I've seen it added to, say, dried coconut as a snack before, for a little extra crunch.
Sorghum - if you can have this, you can not only make a savory porridge out of it, you can pop it like popcorn - quite good! Millet is also a good one for a porridge-like food to use like you would rice, as something to serve with a savory food.
Mesquite flour - I'm not sure if this would be okay or not, as it's actually based on a legume. However, the flour is actually from the pod, not the bean, so it might be okay on the FODMAP diet. It tastes sweet, too, so might do nicely with a binding agent like crushed chia seed or flaxseed.
Prickly pear and nopalitos - just nice, a bit exotic, but might be doable. The nopalitos are a bit mucellagenous, so go well in gumbo kinds of things.
Squash? - I just saw this neat idea using butternut squash. Take the top part of the butternut squash, the neck. Peel it, and then slice it into rounds. Then you bake the rounds in the oven for a bit, and then top them with something and make mini pizzas out of them, essentially. :-)
Bell peppers - the inner pith and seeds are actually both edible, too, so again, a tiny bit more protein in the diet, along with vitamin e for most of the seeds, at least a little. That's really hard to get without eating seeds/nuts.
For any of the nuts that you CAN have - you can make your own nut milk, if you are not doing that already, so can make a nice drink, or add it to something, or even make a popsicle out of it if you mix it with something sweet. I think maple syrup is okay on the FODMAP, yeah?
Also, if you can have cashews, you are probably already making cashew cream, yeah? You can do it with any other nuts, too. Taste is different, but still useful to mess about with (I've got cashews and pecans that I can have, myself).
Sweet potatoes any good, or are they starchy enough to also be a problem? If you can have them, here's what has turned out well for me. Bake 1-2 sweet potatoes, cool, and peel. Then juice a few lemons or oranges and boil the juice until it's concentrated, maybe half the volume. I usually end up with 1/4 cup or a little less, after boiling, for two large sweet potatoes. Then mix the juice into the sweet potato - it adds a really nice zing, tones down the earthy overtones from the sweet potato. You can't do this with purchased juice - the chemicals and other things added to these make any homemade concentrate from them very bitter and nasty, I've found.
Fresh herbs - seriously, the BEST thing I ever did was start an herb garden. That has been such a help in adding flavor to the limited diet, and I can use huge bunches of them. Also, they are a good source of many vitamins, and anti-inflammatory besides, so a great thing to add to your foods.
Oh, sweet potato leaves - if you want to just plant a sweet potato half immersed in water (kind of like an avocado seed), it'll start to sprout leaves and you can eat the leaves in stir fries and such. Nice way to get some greens in the winter.
broccoli- you've seen that cauliflower rice, yeah? I've done this to broccoli too and it turned out all right.
That's all that comes to mind off the top of my head, really. Wish I had more for you - it's such a struggle when there's so few foods you can eat. For myself, I literally started looking at local wild foods I could forage for, or grow myself, I was so desperate. But that's turned out quite nice, honestly, so I would kind of recommend it! ^_^
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Thanks Shaumom for being so helpful and understanding of my situation. I think its one that is so strange and unique that those who dont have similar experiences often struggle to understand it, so i greatly appreciate your words and advice
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In response to a few other questions - i tried taking digestive enzymes in the past but they exacerbated several other problems so it was decided that they couldnt be continued
I am extremely sensitive to gluten, which is incredibly annoying as i was originally hoping i could get away with little bits of it or even oats, but sadly even small amounts result in massive problems
Rice/starch intolerance was diagnosed during my time in hospital when i was younger and since then all attempts to re-introduce it (with hopes that my body was producing higher amounts of the enzyme) have failed.
I cannot have sweet potatoes/yams
I do currently eat millet puffs - which i love!
For those wanting me to write down the foods i can have, at the moment these are things i usually rotate around:
- millet puffs
- tofu (special types with no soy sauce or other gluten etc)
- pea protein shakes
- pumpkin soup
- blueberries
- strawberries
- chia seeds
- water chestnuts
- cut green beans
- small amounts of flaxseeds
- zucchini
- capsicums
Thats about it, at the moment
I know its a hard thing to express online, but it is almost scary eating things i am not 100% sure wont make me sick/in pain after spending years and years of being sick or in pain almost everyday from what i was eating.
Especially at the moment, doing medical school exams, i cant spend time being sick and risk failing. Im not saying it to shoot down any ideas or as a 'woe is me', its merely to provide a bit of additional context to the current situation and basis of a lot of stress for me right now
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Can you explain why you cannot eat soy? I'm confused that you can eat tofu but yet said earlier no soy. You do understand that tofu is made from soy, right?
I'm not trying to be rude, but I thought I'd question it because if you can tolerate tofu, then you can certainly include lots of other soy products in your diet - like edamame, soy yogurt, ect.0 -
Quinoa is the first thing I would cling to. Maybe some nice quinoa salad with the veggies you can eat which seem to be carrot, celery, zucchini, etc.. Roasting those would make them delicious. Maybe put in some sunflower seeds and use lime juice as a dressing.0
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Okay, first - hugs. I'm in a similar boat. Not quite the same list, but an insanely restrictive set of dietary restrictions anyway, including the grains like rice, so seriously, sympathy hug, hon! (and actually, the disorder I having causing it might be worth exploring, as it's something that can trigger - often from other serious health issues - and involves making the body react to more and more foods, among other things. And it's rare, so most doctors have never even heard of it, let alone know how to test for it - a mast cell activation disorder. Most recent diagnostic criteria can be found here:http://www.wjgnet.com/2218-6204/pdf/v3/i1/1.pdf)
RE: the dietician. First...bahahahaha. Oh man, yeah, that would pretty much be utterly useless. Dieticians are NOT trained for diets as restrictive as this. They get very little training in specialized diets in the first place, and most of what they do have is limited. Often something for diabetes, maybe helping deal with one or two food restrictions at a time, and sometimes even gluten - but not always. I kid you not, the head Dietician at our local hospital was substituting whole wheat foods for potato dishes in the hospital meal plans for gluten free folks, because she thought gluten was something in potatoes. Dieticians know far, far less about specialized diets than most people think they do, sadly.
When a diet gets this complicated, they are rarely of use in helping you know what TO eat, although they CAN be helpful in telling you what nutrients you need to get more of, and then you get to figure your actual diet plan out on your own, in my experience.
But, for food ideas:
Chickpeas - can you eat these? I know only some legumes are off the FODMAP diet, but wasn't sure how sensitive you were to them. Would be a nice protein source. And you can actually make a flatbread out of it! Socca, a traditional French flatbread, just has chickpea flour, water, salt, and olive oil. That's it. I've made some instead by soaking chickpeas and then blending them up with a little water, salt, and olive oil and making a batter that way, instead. It takes a bit longer to cook, and the pan can't be too big in the oven, but it's actually quite nice. I put veggies on top and use it as a pizza base. If you can have basil, I sometimes just mix basil with a little oil, blend it up, and drizzle that on top, too.
I also make a homemade falafel with them, using soaked chickpeas, parsley, salt, and yellow squash or zucchini. I just blend it up in a food processor until it's a paste and then fry them in olive oil that's maybe 1/2-1 inch deep. You have to kind of adjust the chickpea to squash ratio to get the right consistency, but it works pretty well, as long as you can tolerate something oily/greasy. I can't always, but it's awesome when I can. I tend to dip them in homemade hummus, or roast veggies and put those on top.
jicama - good with salad type things.
Cantaloupe and honeydew melon AND their seeds - you can roast the seeds for both of these and eat them, just like pumpkin seeds, although you need to crack them open, and they're obviously tinier. Tastes good, though, and could give you a little added protein.
Quinoa and amaranth - these are both actually full proteins, rather than partial, so may be very useful to add to the diet. Amaranth can also be eaten raw, so I've seen it added to, say, dried coconut as a snack before, for a little extra crunch.
Sorghum - if you can have this, you can not only make a savory porridge out of it, you can pop it like popcorn - quite good! Millet is also a good one for a porridge-like food to use like you would rice, as something to serve with a savory food.
Mesquite flour - I'm not sure if this would be okay or not, as it's actually based on a legume. However, the flour is actually from the pod, not the bean, so it might be okay on the FODMAP diet. It tastes sweet, too, so might do nicely with a binding agent like crushed chia seed or flaxseed.
Prickly pear and nopalitos - just nice, a bit exotic, but might be doable. The nopalitos are a bit mucellagenous, so go well in gumbo kinds of things.
Squash? - I just saw this neat idea using butternut squash. Take the top part of the butternut squash, the neck. Peel it, and then slice it into rounds. Then you bake the rounds in the oven for a bit, and then top them with something and make mini pizzas out of them, essentially. :-)
Bell peppers - the inner pith and seeds are actually both edible, too, so again, a tiny bit more protein in the diet, along with vitamin e for most of the seeds, at least a little. That's really hard to get without eating seeds/nuts.
For any of the nuts that you CAN have - you can make your own nut milk, if you are not doing that already, so can make a nice drink, or add it to something, or even make a popsicle out of it if you mix it with something sweet. I think maple syrup is okay on the FODMAP, yeah?
Also, if you can have cashews, you are probably already making cashew cream, yeah? You can do it with any other nuts, too. Taste is different, but still useful to mess about with (I've got cashews and pecans that I can have, myself).
Sweet potatoes any good, or are they starchy enough to also be a problem? If you can have them, here's what has turned out well for me. Bake 1-2 sweet potatoes, cool, and peel. Then juice a few lemons or oranges and boil the juice until it's concentrated, maybe half the volume. I usually end up with 1/4 cup or a little less, after boiling, for two large sweet potatoes. Then mix the juice into the sweet potato - it adds a really nice zing, tones down the earthy overtones from the sweet potato. You can't do this with purchased juice - the chemicals and other things added to these make any homemade concentrate from them very bitter and nasty, I've found.
Fresh herbs - seriously, the BEST thing I ever did was start an herb garden. That has been such a help in adding flavor to the limited diet, and I can use huge bunches of them. Also, they are a good source of many vitamins, and anti-inflammatory besides, so a great thing to add to your foods.
Oh, sweet potato leaves - if you want to just plant a sweet potato half immersed in water (kind of like an avocado seed), it'll start to sprout leaves and you can eat the leaves in stir fries and such. Nice way to get some greens in the winter.
broccoli- you've seen that cauliflower rice, yeah? I've done this to broccoli too and it turned out all right.
That's all that comes to mind off the top of my head, really. Wish I had more for you - it's such a struggle when there's so few foods you can eat. For myself, I literally started looking at local wild foods I could forage for, or grow myself, I was so desperate. But that's turned out quite nice, honestly, so I would kind of recommend it! ^_^
#1 bashing registered dieticians win win
#2 The diet is restrictive by choice. . . .I am Vegan double win-win
#3 Maybe the OP could just open her diary and avoid the suspense and drama. IE what the heck do you actually eat?
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tiddles_yeah wrote: »I do actually have a dietician, although i am grateful for the recommendation. Even they were at a bit of a loss though as to how much of a variety i can truly have.
Yes, i am vegan, but since then i have found i cannot actually eat meat/dairy/eggs anyway so i thought it was easier to write them like that than just have people tell me to stop being vegan, which for me is not an option. I greatly respect everyone's choice to eat how they choose, i just cannot imagine life (for me) not being vegan. Sorry if that upsets anyone
In response to an earlier post - i cannot eat oatmeal, salmon, tuna, avocado, watermelon, cabbage, beetroot, snow peas
I can eat tofu, but only if it does not contain soy cause which is in a lot more varieties of tofu than you would expect
Long story short - i had chemo several times over my life and its altered a lot of my GIT which was already sensitive. So ive spent a lot of time with drs and things about all this but no way to "cure" it as of yet. The rice/potatoes is because my body does not produce the enzyme necessary to sufficiently break the high amounts of starch in them.
I am going to see my gastroenterologist soon, i was just hoping that maybe someone had suggestions or something to see me through until then as its not for a few more weeks, given that im currently doing medical exams (as in im studying medicine and our exam period is pretty full on right now)
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Your dietician is at a loss but has not suggested food supplements? I have a close relative with severe food allergies and other GI problems. Most of his nutrition and calories come from food supplements.0 -
I was diagnosed with a fruit allergy as a cross effect of my hayfever. My allergist told me to microwave fruit for 30 seconds before eating, because that breaks down the protein that causes my allergy. Do check with your allergist first.0
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You definately need to check out Great Taste, No Pain. My husband has Ulcerative Colitis and when he actually follows this, his symptoms are relieved and he feels a lot better. Unfortunately he can't handle being on this "diet" for whatever reason and chooses to just take the daily medication to keep his symptoms at bay.0
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Can you explain why you cannot eat soy? I'm confused that you can eat tofu but yet said earlier no soy. You do understand that tofu is made from soy, right?
I'm not trying to be rude, but I thought I'd question it because if you can tolerate tofu, then you can certainly include lots of other soy products in your diet - like edamame, soy yogurt, ect.
Tofu (and the soy milk that it's made from) goes through some pretty extensive processing. The milk substrate (beans or flour) is soaked for at least three hours, then boiled for 15-20 minutes. This inactivates a lot of the "bad" stuff in soy (like trypsin inhibitors). So it might be that the process neutralizes the compound that she's actually reacting to.
The salts, acids, or enzymes used in making tofu (magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, citric acid, acetic acid, protease, etc) may actually be helping her without her realizing it.tiddles_yeah wrote: »In response to a few other questions - i tried taking digestive enzymes in the past but they exacerbated several other problems so it was decided that they couldnt be continued
How long did you take them? If you have an overgrowth of something like Candida, the resurgence of the good flora can cause die-off of the parasitic flora. This can make things worse at first, but then things will start getting better. You just have to stick with it for long enough (it sucks, I know, but sometimes, in order to see improvements, you have to cut out the bad stuff).tiddles_yeah wrote: »For those wanting me to write down the foods i can have, at the moment these are things i usually rotate around:
- millet puffs
- tofu (special types with no soy sauce or other gluten etc)
- pea protein shakes
- pumpkin soup
- blueberries
- strawberries
- chia seeds
- water chestnuts
- cut green beans
- small amounts of flaxseeds
- zucchini
- capsicums
Thats about it, at the moment
If you can do strawberries and blueberries, you should be able to do raspberries, too. Being able to do zucchini and pumpkin suggests that other squashes might be feasible (zucchini is a type of squash) - check out spaghetti, butternut, and acorn squash, too.
Have you tried or ruled out shellfish? Oysters, mussels, and other bivalves, in particular, are insanely nutrient dense, so if you can tolerate even a small amount, it can be hugely beneficial.
Also, have you tried wild caught vs farmed fish, and lower on the chain (sardines, anchovies, etc) vs higher on the chain (tuna, swordfish, etc) fish? Farmed fish are very often fed a diet that includes a ton of wheat gluten (seriously, ever look at the ingredient list of fish food?), which again might be the underlying reason you can't eat fish. If you can find wild caught fish, it might be worth trying. Larger fish on the food chain generally have more toxins due to bioaccummulation, but the smaller fish have less of these toxins, and so might be better tolerated.tiddles_yeah wrote: »I know its a hard thing to express online, but it is almost scary eating things i am not 100% sure wont make me sick/in pain after spending years and years of being sick or in pain almost everyday from what i was eating.
Especially at the moment, doing medical school exams, i cant spend time being sick and risk failing. Im not saying it to shoot down any ideas or as a 'woe is me', its merely to provide a bit of additional context to the current situation and basis of a lot of stress for me right now
That's up to you, and being scared is understandable in your circumstance. However, consider this -- the food list you have above is deficient in a number of key nutrients, including several B vitamins, vitamins E and K, and minerals such as zinc and iron. This means that unless you work to find the foods that you can eat, you'll be fighting an uphill battle with your health not even including the underlying issue that's causing these food reactions to begin with. Hold off until exams are done, certainly, but be careful to not find another reason to try to address this head-on. The best residency or job in the world will mean nothing if you become too sick to eat anything at all, or too weak to even get out of bed.
You might want to check out The Patient Celiac. She has MCAS and Celiac, so you can probably find a ton of helpful information on her site.
Even if it's not MCAS proper, your can and can't eat food lists look indicative of a histamine issue (even under normal circumstances, certain foods are high in histamine or cause a histamine release, it becomes a problem when the body over-reacts), so that might be another research avenue, if you haven't gone that route already.0 -
Two things:
1) Go to a different nutritionist. While that list is daunting, they should be able to help you develop a healthy balanced eating plan with alternative foods
2) As someone else suggested, start building a list of foods you can eat and try to focus more on that. While that may sound obvious, it can really help to change your perspective from "there's nothing I can eat without getting sick!" to "huh, look at all these interesting things I can eat". I know it's helped me when trying more restrictive diets in the past.0 -
Did you find out about these allergies through a skin prick test? My doctor stopped me from getting one of those because you WILL react to pretty much everything - the concentrations are too high and the test is a terrible indicator of actual allergies. Just curious.
I also find it really ... generic? that you're allergic to ALL meat. Is that true (just verifying)? Did they test you for chicken, beef, pork, lamb, goat, turkey, duck, goose, bison, ostrich, fish, deer, moose, insects, etc? These are all meats that should be alright to find in a city.
But it does look like beans and veggies are your friend. And... maybe you want to give insects a try. I'm actually serious (especially with the number of things you can't eat). They're nutritious and if you get used to it, maybe it's the way to go?
EDIT: Ah, didn't see you were vegan. I also read that you can't eat most meat so it's not vegan by choice (even though it's also by choice haha). You really might need to branch out though and keep yourself healthy and eat just a few non-vegan items. You said you can't imagine life as not being a vegan... but is death by malnutrition really an option when you're also recovering from illness? I'm concerned.
Whatever your choice, I hope you can find food that works for you! Here's a list of other things to consider:
All other veggies - broccoli, cabbage, bok choy, cauliflower, turnip, parsnip, carrot, endive, spinach, kale, chard, squash, pumpkin, kidney beans, chickpeas, black beans, fava beans, lentils, lima beans, pigeon peas, lupins- there are lots and lots of bean types and you can buy them dry and hydrate them yourself if your concerned about any additives... you may want to look into more ethnic veggies (like from China or South America - their varieties tend to be different than what we would typically eat in North America).
Fruits - Oranges, apples, strawberries, etc - you didn't really list a lot of fruit allergies so the sky may be the limit here other than the Goji berries, cherries, and pomegranates.
Grains (you'll need to research the gluten part yourself) - Others have mentioned quinoa, but there's also bulgur, oats, barley, rye, millet, teff, triticale, amaranth, buckwheat... you could also try some seeds like sunflower, pumpkin, flax, etc. to bulk up your food a bit.
Oils are your friend instead of butter products too.
Edit: Aw crap, I should have looked at the FODMAP site earlier. Oh well... maybe I will have at least listed one or two things you can eat..0 -
Hi there,
Have you ever heard of Diane Sanfillipo? Her site is http://balancedbites.com/. She is a Paleo cookbook writer and I know some of her recent work includes FODMAP alterations. Obviously, not all Paleo foods would work for you (meat & honey), but some of her recipes may open up some doors for you.
Best of luck with your nutritionist and gastroenterologist. I hope they're able to help you find a solution.
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Grains (you'll need to research the gluten part yourself) - Others have mentioned quinoa, but there's also bulgur, oats, barley, rye, millet, teff, triticale, amaranth, buckwheat... you could also try some seeds like sunflower, pumpkin, flax, etc. to bulk up your food a bit.
Oats, barely, and rye contain gluten (oats generally by cross contamination, though). She stated that she's severely reactant to gluten, so those four are out.0 -
Broccoli and spinach weren't on that list of veggies you can't have. I would live on those if I was a vegan. MMMMMMM. Also, there are some beans that weren't on the list, maybe you could incorporate some of those.
Try stress management as well. It sounds like you have a lot of stress going on which can always make IBS worse. Try yoga and meditation in addition to everything else?0 -
Hi Tiddles (hehe), I don't have any advice I can give but I wanted to say I feel for you and I hope you figure out a diet that works. It sounds like you've been through a lot. It's neat that you are going to medical school. Perhaps that isn't surprising.
The only thing I can think is perhaps looking into different ethnic cuisines; perhaps there are some that don't use a lot of these foods. For instance, Ethiopian foods have a lot of vegan, gluten-free and dairy free recipes. Shiro is chick-pea based, Injera is made with teff flour. I'm not sure what kind of starch you can't metabolize, but you might want to see if teff is digestible for you like millet or sorghum.0 -
For the OP just 'cause. Top 10 Paleo Power foods for those who thought this made sense for the OP--dark chocolate(NO), cherries(NO), grass fed beef(NO), wild caught salmon(NO) so this leaves kiwi, coconut oil, seaweed, free range eggs, kale. Folks, giving someone advice who restricts their intake and has medical issues may not be great advice in fact it may just be pretty sad. OP best of luck. Allergist, dietician, endo specialist would be my stops but that is just me.0
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And i thought my diet was restrictive ! Hang in there, i feel for you .. Best of luck in your exams 0
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_Terrapin_ wrote: »For the OP just 'cause. Top 10 Paleo Power foods for those who thought this made sense for the OP--dark chocolate(NO), cherries(NO), grass fed beef(NO), wild caught salmon(NO) so this leaves kiwi, coconut oil, seaweed, free range eggs, kale. Folks, giving someone advice who restricts their intake and has medical issues may not be great advice in fact it may just be pretty sad. OP best of luck. Allergist, dietician, endo specialist would be my stops but that is just me.
Oh Terrapin, you are so smart! I can't believe no one else figured out that Tiddles wouldn't be able to eat everything in the paleo diet; even the mere suggestion that it might have some good ideas for her was absurd. Everyone is so stupid compared to you. You have so much knowledge and wisdom, please, tell us how we can make our lives less sad and miserable.
BTW she can't eat eggs either.
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The idea to look into ethnic cuisines is quite a good idea, so thanks for that. It will probably take a bit of research but may be at least one area to investigate.
I think someone covered it but yes i can eat tofu. The main problem with soy sauce (which is quite often in a lot of types of tofu so i have to check) is that, unless specified otherwise, it can contain gluten which i am extremely sensitive to
I used to eat puffed tofu/puffed bean curd but i had a problem with what i believe was mislabelling of cal/macro content on them and ended up gaining weight at an unusually quick rate (see another of my posts for more details if you need), so thats where i hit a major road block recently
Broccoli i can only have a max of about 1/4 of a cup a day or have problems, the same with most beans/legumes
I really hope the gastorenterologist has some ideas when i see him soon, but otherwise I will accept my current situation and do the best i can to remain positive. As someone who should have died several times by now, I guess a restricted diet is still better than having no life at all0 -
Oh, and i do have supplements for quite a number of micronutrients - eg vit B, iron, calcium, folate, magnesium, copper, zinc etc0
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_Terrapin_ wrote: »For the OP just 'cause. Top 10 Paleo Power foods for those who thought this made sense for the OP--dark chocolate(NO), cherries(NO), grass fed beef(NO), wild caught salmon(NO) so this leaves kiwi, coconut oil, seaweed, free range eggs, kale. Folks, giving someone advice who restricts their intake and has medical issues may not be great advice in fact it may just be pretty sad. OP best of luck. Allergist, dietician, endo specialist would be my stops but that is just me.
Oh Terrapin, you are so smart! I can't believe no one else figured out that Tiddles wouldn't be able to eat everything in the paleo diet; even the mere suggestion that it might have some good ideas for her was absurd. Everyone is so stupid compared to you. You have so much knowledge and wisdom, please, tell us how we can make our lives less sad and miserable.
BTW she can't eat eggs either.
Simple, eat a balanced diet and forget the gimmicky diets. Oh and feel free to workout once in a while your body will thank you.
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Hi Tiddles,
I don't have any specific advice (and it looks like there have been some suggestions far more expert than I could make here anyway) but I just wanted to say it does get easier and you're doing really well. I have suffered from major allergies all my life and just recently have discovered the list is longer than originally thought. It is so demoralising to go to the supermarket and feel like you're going to cry because your options are so slim.
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I LOVE LOVE corn and cherries, I would eat them everyday if I could.
I agree with Cailin " Maybe a better idea might be to write a list of things you can eat. Then try and plan out different meals that way. "
How do you get your protein intake right?? This would help me very much? because, I don't like eating meat proteins, eggs etc.
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