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Food Relationships, Family Relationships, Food Triggers

We all have relationships with food.  These relationships are constantly changing. Most of us have a love hate relationship. We love certain foods, but they don't love us.

The foods we love are not good for our bodies. Or we eat too much of the food we love. We don't eat enough of the foods that are good for us. It is a constant struggle and test in self-discipline for most of our lives.

I have found throughout the last eight months and the elimination diet that I have gained 15 lbs because I am trying to replace the foods I love with other foods. I gave up all Tyramine rich foods, all processed foods, all sugar additives, all MSG, all aged foods and all nuts.

I have found that a migraine trigger for me is nuts. Almonds and peanut butter seem to be the biggest triggers. I couldn't  believe it. I have eaten peanut butter my entire life. The great news with adding foods back in from eight months of elimination is that you rediscover foods you have loved and forgot you loved, like bananas and Pepper Jack cheese.

Now that I know I can add foods back in I am not binge eating as much. I don't understand it but that is how it is working. I have also found that I don't crave gluten rich foods anymore. My food cravings are practically non-existent. Very bizarre. I also appreciate food more. I don't take it for granted like I used to.

I had a most special moment last week at a wedding. There were probably 100-150 guests in attendance. There were two of us that were gluten-free eaters due to health reasons. One guest has Celiac Disease and the other is me where gluten triggers migraines and causes my thyroid medication not to work well.

The grooms made sure that all of our gluten free needs were attended to and more. We had GF Alfredo sauce on our fish and GF rolls, GF desert..that was heavenly and delicious with non-migraine triggering chocolate. Amazing!  Now that is caring. I know my GF and food sensitive friends understand.

I must also give a big shout out to Cheerios today! Finally we have GF certified Honey Nut Cheerios in our grocery store. I have discovered that I can drink rice milk. I feel I am priveleged to finally eat a commercially packaged and commercially priced cereal. Eating GF is crazy expensive and to be able to get products off the regular cereal shelf is a big deal.


Have a Happy Health-a-licious Day!

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