Yesterday when I woke up at 5 to get ready for my flight I had a killer headache and my period! What a bad way to start any day let alone the day I was hopping on a plane hoping my Mom would be alive when I got off. I gobbled up a couple of pain killers and prayed they would kick in by the time I got to the airport. They got about 90% of it, enough so that I could function.
Once on the plane it occurred to me that the headache was not my standard stress type head ache and I realized it was a detox headache, which I welcomed since it meant that my latest detox off of sugar was indeed working. Debbie wants to know about the detox, so here it is. You might think I am a bit food paranoid after reading it, and truthfuly I am. If it were remotely possible I woulkd take my family somewhere and live off the land. Except I would have no idea what I was doing so we would end up starving, but hey, what a boost for my diet! Anyway, here is my food hang up.
In the fall of '99 I read an article on food addiction and decided that this might be my problem. The theory is that any highly refined foods can be addictive especially wheat and other flours and sugars, all of them. So, I joined a 12 step program for this special diet and changed the way I ate. I lost a ton of weight and all these abdominal pains I had thought were normal disappeared as well a bm frequency problem I had been struggling with. When I got pregnant with Josh I went off the diet and the problems returned. I later got tested for Celiac Sprue since I also realized that oats upset my stomache too, and was told that while they found nothing definitive, it seemed like I might just be in the very early stages. Therefore I do not eat wheat (or oats). Now, the sugar, I don't have an intolerance too, I just turn into a fiend when I eat it. I start craving and overeating and gaining and gaining and gaining. SO, I can not eat sugar, otherwise my whole day is consumed with thinking about when I can eat more sugary food.
When I stop I have to detox just like a person would detox when they give up cigarettes or alcohol or any other addictive substance. And that is the story.
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