Stuff this food nonsense. Can't I drink mush for the rest of my life?

Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 13:38

0.6 measly kilos. Six hundred shoddy grams. In a week. And I was doing so forking well with the water, too. I thought I'd be up in the mid-2s. *slumps*

I don't normally bitch or swank about weekly weigh-ins, since it bores even me, but that just sucks.

Anyway, they put me on the food reintroduction stage of this thing today. I'm not at all sure about this. There wasn't nearly as much information, support or guidance as I'd expected. (We still go into the hozza once a week for checks and stuff, and I suppose we can ask questions then, but I just simply expected more hard data instead of "lots of water!" and "I'll just explain patronisingly what a carb-oh-hide-rate is"...)

I have no clue, not a knifing clue, how a vegetarian would even begin to go about a gluten-free/casein-free1 Atkinsesque2 fodder scheme. Intarwebs research has been done and has convinced me the former isn't possible. We'll see about the protein-rich carb-poor business.

I spooning detest foodbores, and really hope I don't turn into one.

I have at least got a list of 'good' and 'bad' fruit and veg. (Apparently melons are excellent, which is confusing because they're all so sweet. Anything that basically consists of leaves is good, but root veggies are right out. Swede's ok though. Ho hum. I anticipate yummy blenderised cabbage - I've been craving it, in the form of 'seaweed', for some time.)


1 I'm half tempted to try, since it 'totally works honest' for a lot of autistic kids (tho I hate that people use the term 'cure'). But it's simply impractical without buying loads of hugely expensive specialist junk or spending your life reading labels, and it's an all-or-nothing thing - cutting down on them doesn't help and even (zomg) one drop of milk in accident would poison you for months. Every site about GFCF talks about 'your child' - there's nothing for adults, except the Paleolithic people, and they're even more restrictive and slightly batty.

2 HATE KILL SUICIDE FAD DIETS GRR. In fact, funny story - I'd been ranting about Atkins to my father in rather violent language ("I'd euthanise 'em all, it's quicker than letting 'em destroy their kidneys, liver and bones"), then later realised he was on the thing. Why people don't stop me when I'm making a tit of myself...

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