stomach is communicating?
I have noticed that some foods provoke a light sense of nausea after eating, even just a little, but didn't really think a lot of it. My habit for life has been to tell my stomach to calm down and eat what it gets. I mean, I was really poor a long time. I had to eat what I had, even if it was less than perfect, although I never ate food that was spoiled and generally tried to eat healthy choices. All the same, sometimes you get food that's just not your culture or taste preference and you eat it because it's not about the meal, it's about the nutrition. and the stomach maybe objected to too much grease or spice or something, and I tell it to shut up and digest.
So I've just been seeing the nausea as one more affliction connected to the whole insane thing. I have never considered myself allergic, I find it hard to believe I've suddenly become allergic. Although, really, considering I've been on that goddamn ventolin until about last summer, that shit may well have screwed up my immune system. That's been about five years of immune suppressant aka monkeying around blindly with chemistry.
So now I seem to be one of those many people allergic to every thing not grown in soil or grazed thereon.
So the nausea, I realized finally today. I was putting a potato chip in my mouth. At the base, these chips are pretty safe with safflower oil, salt, and potatoes. But this one was flavoured with whatever various powders they use. One chip down, and the nausea signal came up. Whoa. One chip. Just one, and I'd been craving! So I said to myself "no, we listen this time, and for the foreseeable future." After all, it's the only guide I've found yet, and if my stomach doesn't know by now what it can and can't eat, who would? So I put the chips back. I was still hungry. Sat on it awhile, had a coffee (isn't giving me grief, yay!) and then decided some rice with pan drippings from last night's chicken would do for supper. So as usual, keep the total portion of solids smaller than my fist, and away we go. Man was that satisfying and my stomach did not object, it rewarded me with a few shots of whatever hormone you get for eating right.
So rice is okay to eat.
This is how I'll do it. One bite, wait ten. Listen to nausea. none? Okay to eat. Some? off the menu.
If and when I find myself well for weeks at a time and doing again, I can start trying some forbidden stuffs again and listen for the nausea. I'll learn that way if it's a permanent state or a response to extreme conditions.
So I've just been seeing the nausea as one more affliction connected to the whole insane thing. I have never considered myself allergic, I find it hard to believe I've suddenly become allergic. Although, really, considering I've been on that goddamn ventolin until about last summer, that shit may well have screwed up my immune system. That's been about five years of immune suppressant aka monkeying around blindly with chemistry.
So now I seem to be one of those many people allergic to every thing not grown in soil or grazed thereon.
So the nausea, I realized finally today. I was putting a potato chip in my mouth. At the base, these chips are pretty safe with safflower oil, salt, and potatoes. But this one was flavoured with whatever various powders they use. One chip down, and the nausea signal came up. Whoa. One chip. Just one, and I'd been craving! So I said to myself "no, we listen this time, and for the foreseeable future." After all, it's the only guide I've found yet, and if my stomach doesn't know by now what it can and can't eat, who would? So I put the chips back. I was still hungry. Sat on it awhile, had a coffee (isn't giving me grief, yay!) and then decided some rice with pan drippings from last night's chicken would do for supper. So as usual, keep the total portion of solids smaller than my fist, and away we go. Man was that satisfying and my stomach did not object, it rewarded me with a few shots of whatever hormone you get for eating right.
So rice is okay to eat.
This is how I'll do it. One bite, wait ten. Listen to nausea. none? Okay to eat. Some? off the menu.
If and when I find myself well for weeks at a time and doing again, I can start trying some forbidden stuffs again and listen for the nausea. I'll learn that way if it's a permanent state or a response to extreme conditions.