Lauralyme
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My friends have offically labeled me boring. You wouldn't think what foods I chose to eat would affect others so much. I never realized how much food and drink is so much part of a social experience.
My diet is so squeaky clean, taking probiotics, Diflucan, eating yogurt, wearing yogurt yet I caved to social pressures yesterday and had two bites of phyllo pastry and now I have a yeast infection.
I find the diet to be the most isolating factor. I just felt like venting with others who relate.
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tdtid
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I can definitely relate since I was finding that cheating ever so slightly would also send yeast my way and once you cross that line, it's tough to get rid of.
My diet has been so squeeky clean that I'm consistently told that no one else would ever really stick to a diet that horrid, but I guess when you get as sick as we do, you will do anything.
I do find that some antibiotics are more forgiving than others, but basically I'm pretty strict.
Cathy
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Ralph.. At your suggestion, I purchased that book. It's excellent!
I haven't finished it yet, though!!
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cantgiveupyet
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I can relate to this. I often say, if only I could eat normally, i could atleast go out and meet friends, even if I didnt drink.
But i look like an ethiopian again, so going out and not eating, im sure would make some jump to conclusions.
I have interstitial cystitis, so I cant eat a lot of foods.
I am tolerating some carbs more now. I have two places i can go out to eat that dont affect my bladder or yeast. But, they arent really places my friends would want to hang.
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pos babs, bart, igenex WB igm/igg Posts: 3156 | From Lyme limbo | Registered: Oct 2005
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I have given up trying to please myself and everyone else. At the Corral, you can pick what you want, and if my son wants to eat 3 desserts, so be it!
I finally figured out that I can get the salad @ the salad bar, and go to the grill part and get a steak, and cut it up and put it on my salad! Awesome!
Bunny
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All those things that don't change Come what may. Posts: 103 | From Dallas/ Fort Worth. TX | Registered: Dec 2007
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Do you all hold on to that small light of hope that says, "You will be able to eat normal soon..."
I think this is the only way I get through my boring meals everyday.(gluten, dairy, sugar, cafine, alcohol, and fun free)Eating out is the worst!
I have lost 45 lbs in the last year and can't wait to get back into my "big" clothes again. Everyone else sees size 4 as a positive-I see tired, hungry bones...It is hard to explain to others.
I don't have a chance to cheat- my kids jump all over me if they think I'm even thinking about it. "You have to get better, Mom!" they guilt into me. I don't tell them I dream of cheesecake and chocolate shakes
AZURE WISH
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I dont really have friends and i am really to sick to "hang out" anyway
but i am like cantgiveup really thin now .. and basically like lymetoo in diet - meat and veggies (which is horrible for my gastroparesis so sometimes i cant eat to much of anything)
when people look at me like "will someone please feed that girl" ... you know "that" look... i just tell them i have to eat this way do to various health issues from lyme disease.
My family understands that i need to eat this insane diet but they still think it is awful that i have to and they could never do it but like tdtid said
quote:Originally posted by tdtid: My diet has been so squeeky clean that I'm consistently told that no one else would ever really stick to a diet that horrid, but I guess when you get as sick as we do, you will do anything.
Also there is a sugar free bakery in NYC called Babycakes that seems amazing - many sugar and gluten free items. They will deliver anywhere for a very very high price...Still, it's fun to look at their menu. It makes me smile
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