[fast5] heather, i understand was "Beer Fast" Re: EODD

 

Yep cross contamination is such a huge issue for many. I am thankful I don't have to worry about that, but also grateful that I figured out to totally go gluten free as I have never felt so healthy. (I have not knowingly eaten one bite of anything containing gluten since mid November and I've never looked back) I have pictures as a child of me with big dark circles under my eyes. I sometimes wonder if that was gluten related.

I empathize so much with what you are writing here. I am very social and crave social situations. Where I differ from you is that it doesn't feel isolating to me to not eat the same foods as the rest of teh group, etc....

Thenb again, the people i'm around are not related by blood as I have no extended family......only parents, no siblings, no cousines, etc. and my husband doesn't have much in the way of this either. So the only social eating i do is around friends, and several of them have to be gluten free to the degree of your situation or have other special eating needs so they for the most part, totally "get it".

then again, as a teen i would go to a pizza place and drink a glass of water all night. i was just so thrilled to be around people that that was stimulation enough. also, i probably wanted to be "different". i grew up an only child and found it very lonely so social events are HUGE to me to this day. i will get all excited all week if i have something fun going on :)

right now Im' all excited about an upcoming WAPF meeting :) (on the 21st)

Dh and I are going to celebrate Valentine's today with eating out, something we have not done in years.... Not sure what I will eat yet but I'm excited that he's excited about it. I had oysters and such yesterday so i'm not going to be hungry for awhile......

Chantelle

On Feb 9, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Heather Twist wrote:

 

I think this is where Fast-5 has it over the EOD fasting. You can move a window around, and not worry about it. Human socializing is SO MUCH about food. I didn't really appreciate how much it is about food until I found I couldn't eat what everyone else ate. It is very isolating, and anxiety-provoking. I can empathize with the desire to just sit and drink beer!

At the time the grand spaghetti feast took place, I pretty much had to eat every 3 hours or I couldn't function well. Which, combined with a no-gluten diet, made life really difficult: I had to carry enough food to get me through, every single place I went. Unfortunately I'm one of those people who gets ill from "cross contamination" and all that, which few people actually understand so they think I'm just being a pain, which doesn't help the social situation much. The rest of my family does ok unless they eat something obvious, like say, a whole slice of bread.

These days it is a lot easier and we've started socializing again. There still isn't food I can eat at most small get-togethers, but I'm not ravenous so it doesn't matter much, and they are "snacky" types of foods that people don't notice if you are eating or not. And more and more restaurants have a GF menu. 

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:20 AM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@yahoo.com> wrote:

I agree with you. We were at a pizza place, and everyone was having pizza. I don't normally eat pizza, but I ate a couple slices to be part of the group. I COULD have ordered a salad, but it would have made me feel isolated, and one motivation of being on fast-5 is the idea that I can cheat on my normally strict diet once in a while.....

I love all kinds of food, and I love to socialize with my friends.

I expect it will be another 6 months or more until I have pizza again.... Not something I intend to do regularly.

 - Tamara

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