The internet needs another meal description like it needs pictures of cats. Nevertheless, I’ve become a bit obsessed with food lately.
It started with making radical changes to my diet because of the Dr Gundry book. I dropped all my excess weight — about 10 pounds — with no effort other than eating well (the best, I think, I have in my life, which is a good feeling).
Yet I had a flare-up of a background condition, so I realised this investigation wasn’t finished: About nine years ago, a platoon of doctors shrugged their shoulders and told me, “You’ll be itchy forever. Live with it.” That’s been just as fun as it sounds.
But now I’ve discovered a very, very simple explanation for it, thanks to a food intolerance test I took. Two minutes of Googling made the connection between the test result (yeast sensitivity) and my condition.
…Which leads me to wonder what the hell these specialists are for — probing, scratching, scanning, and leeching me for six months without once being even slightly curious about the effect of diet.
Whatever. I’m just relieved to finally have an answer, and to be able to do something about it. Of course, that something involves an even stricter diet for the next little while, though thankfully I’ve already made the most difficult changes (no grains, no sugar).
There are lots of crackpot theories, extreme diets, and costly pills being foisted on the net, but thankfully I’ve found one website that’s a great storehouse of sensible information and recipes that don’t conflict with my values or with Dr Gundry’s advice.
One happy side-effect I experienced from the very start of fixing my diet is that my insomnia went away. That had been a major plague on my life — lying awake at all hours, doing “sleep math” in my head about how little time I had left to rest — and now I sleep like a baby.
So this morning I woke up comfortably rested, lazed as long as I could, then got up at 6:30am.
With the extra time, I baked!
