The bus trial yesterday was very straightforward, I now know how to scan my bus pass, the route the bus takes and where the bus stops are in town, so I'll be able to take myself off to town for solo trips from now on.
I deviated from my low FODMAP diet yesterday, with 'interesting' results. In town, the smell from the pasty shop's open doorway was just too tempting, so we bought pasties for lunch which, fortunately as it turns out, we ate at home. Within an hour of eating my veggie pasty I had stomach pains and diarrhoea (sorry, TMI), probably caused by either the pastry or the onion - I suspect the pastry, well the gluten. I've been following this diet very strictly for about 10 days now, excluding literally all of the listed trigger foods, up till yesterday lunchtime. During that time I have had no gut or bowel problems, indigestion, bloating or sinus problems, none at all. So that confirms to me that the diet works, and that it's too early to reintroduce trigger foods to my diet. You don't have to exclude all of the trigger foods forever, just in the first phase - which takes 2-6 weeks - then it's recommended you to reintroduce one food at a time, monitoring your reactions over 3 days. Even if you do react to one food, it may be a case of simply reducing the quantity of it - a smaller serving may be tolerated. I expect that amount of pastry - a whole pasty - was too much, it would have been better to have just half of the pastry, or even less. I'll remember that for the next time I have a pastry item, which won't be for another 2 or 3 weeks.
We're off out soon to Taunton for husband's MRI brain scan, then we'll pop into Aldi for a top up of the things I like to buy in there. It's a shame we don't have one in Minehead - there's a Lidl but I do prefer Aldi. I'm glad we're out this morning, there's a lot of noise coming from next door.
Been there, done that! In my case it was lactose, but the results were the same. At least you were at home. Small comfort, but better than being out and about!
ReplyDeleteI hope the scan goes OK, and the results, when you get them, are what you want. xx
I have to be very careful what I eat. Ever since I started on Metformin over 12yrs ago, I've had terrible side effects when I eat the wrong foods - like pastry, cakes, weetabix, fatty stuff - the nice things! If I know we're off somewhere I have to plan the day before what not to eat. In my case I think diabetes was in my genes as my dad, all his brothers and their grandma had/have it. I'm only 11st, 5ft 6, so am not drastically overweight either. It's a bit of a nightmare to be honest!
ReplyDeleteHello Sooze, I'm a long time reader but first time commenting. I have a lot of food intolerances including gluten. Caputo Gluten-free flour makes really good bread, as good as bread which contains gluten! However, this is because the flour is made from wheat, which has been deglutened, it's therefore not suitable for people who have a wheat allergy or intolerance. You may well be aware of this but I thought it worth mentioning in case anyone was thinking of trying it. It was only through using Caputo Fioreglut that I became aware that I also had a wheat intolerance.
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It was well you waited on eating that until you got home.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Oh dear Sooze, I do hope you are not wheat intolerant as I'd hate to recommend something that would cause you pain. I now see that Caputo Fioreglut is made up of gluten free wheat starch, dextrose, maize starch, buckwheat flour, rice starch, thickener: guar, flavouring. Don't know the proportion of all these starches but as the wheat starch is the first to be mentioned it will have the biggest share of them.
ReplyDeleteIf you still wish to try it, I see that it is less expensive from this UK store that imports Italian foods. https://fifostore.co.uk/collections/gluten-free/products/caputo-fioreglut-gluten-free-flour-1kg
Best wishes, Annabeth x