belly achin’
So I kept doing this diet, past the 4 week mark because I felt really good and I was too lazy to figure out what order to ‘challenge’ foods back into my diet. Anyway, I tried out TOMATOES on thanksgiving, because our friend brought some from their garden and they looked really good. No major side effects, but I did have that pre-canker sore feeling all over the inside of my mouth for about 12 hours afterwards. So, next I was thinking of trying out WHEAT.
Last night we tried to go to a Greek restaurant but it was closed. We ended up at a soulfood place across the street. I thought I was ordering all ‘legal’ things – yam fries and different spreads such as chickpea and another one was catfish spread. I knew there would be WHEAT crackers, and thought it was a good chance to challenge them (I couldn’t eat anything else on the menu and I was really hungry). When our food came, I realized I was going to be challenging a lot more than just wheat.
The yam fries had SUGAR on them! Tasty, but they’re on the hit list! The spreads were white (a.k.a. containing DAIRY products). I tried to focus on just the chickpea one, but I wasn’t even sure what was in there, besides chickpeas. Once I started, I just kept going. I ate all of the spreads, sampled all of the WHEAT crackers and ate many of the salty-sweet fries. Over all a pretty tasty meal (the company was better than the food).
Until…….an hour later. My stomach was churning so badly that I took two Peptos (the chewable sugar free ones we accidently bought once and never got around to returning – yuk!). It helped for awhile and I went to sleep, but was unpleasently awoken at 1:00 a.m. with hot flashes and a belly like I think I’d feel on a fishing boat in Puget Sound. I’d taken the last of the two Peptos before bed, so I tried water. Nothing worked. I just laid in bed feeling miserable until about 2:30 when I drifted off to sleep only to awake every hour or so until it was time to get up anyway.
Today all day and tonight, even now over 24 hours after the meal, my stomach is still angry with me. We got more (regular) Pepto and I’m drinking peppermint tea. That’s what I get for my food binge…..all those eliminated foods will stay eliminated, for now.