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Originally Posted by ~Christina
That elimination diet is maddening, I had to do one before but it was absolutely not as strict as what your dealing with.
I know missing church is really bothering you. Could you maybe send a card to someone in your bible study just quick explanation as to why your unable to attend right now ? I imagine you would get prayers from the entire congregation.
I’m very interested in the chick pea pasta .. can you let me know what it’s like ???
I “ think” you had to eliminate all sugar too? I was thinking you should carry glucose tablets.. maybe something to have on hand in the future? My daughter has hypoglycemia and carries them with her since she passed out at work one day. She always keeps protein bars in her purse in case the “ oh hell I have to eat now” hits
My blood sugar will bottom out sometimes, I have probably 3-4 extremely smooshed protein bars in my purse LOL
Enjoy your glorious food additions  |
Thanks Christina and Nammu for the support.
Someone from Bible study who is also the church secretary knows. Actually the pastor knew that I was doing this but not really when. I've been trying to balance being honest about things with not sounding like I'm whining or making things up for attention. I can get on the prayer list; maybe that's a good idea.
I have glucose tablets in my purse. Since I'm on metformin every so often I need one. The diet hasn't explicitly said no sugar but it wasn't on the list of things I could have. And now I have pre-diabetes to fight with so sugar will be limited. I actually want healthy stuff more than sugar anyway. I kind of want chocolate but I want fruit more. (besides apples. I can eat them but they aren't my favorite).
Barilla Plus is at least partially chickpea. HellMart (tm Christina) has various bean pastas like lentil, black bean and chickpea. I've never tried those but will soon. Pasta sauce will take a while to get to because it multi-ingredient. I'll let you know how it goes or please let me know if you try anything. I'm curious how if it will make pasta or paste. (I know Barilla Plus is good but not sure of the others. and my mom doesn't like the Barilla Plus). I also buy zucchini spirals (I have one frozen bag that is with pesto) or carrot spirals and eat that instead of pasta. i may wind up buying a spiralmaker thing (I am blanking on the word) if the frozen ones are expensive.
I need to find some protein bars to have with me. That's a good idea. They are tricky because I can't have soy from my MAOI and peanut butter (so I assume peanuts?) is likely to be a food allergy. But if I look I am sure to find something. I get produce through Misfit Market and last time they sent a free protein bar that was icky. Definitely need to try again from that one.
Anyway, thanks again. Yes, this is definitely hard although I'm getting so used to it that aside from feeling crappy most of the time it almost feels like this is a new normal. Someday it will go away. And then I can hopefully have pizza. And Taco bell, my new craving as of yesterday. I don't even like Taco Bell and don't remember what in the commercial sounded so good but something made me desperate for it. Still not as much as pizza though
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