I have a really nice organic food shop that has carob buttons for $9.95 a kilo--I think you were wrong earlier when you said you can't binge on carob :) I am having huge trouble finding dairy free carob though. Lots of dairy free chocolate, but no carob. I do have carob powder though--I was thinking of trying to make me some kind of carob chocolate crackles as a (poor) substitute.
I haven't identified the baddies as yet, but I am a step closer now in that I am 100% convinced that I am reacting to *something* I just haven't been able to do a controlled enough trial yet to work out exactly what that something is. I have a horrible suspicion that I am sensitive to *all* of the three, with different symptoms for each. I am pretty sure it is salycilates causing the restless legs (and arms) and that seems to be at a pretty low dose, but I need to 'get clean' again and do a very tightly controlled trial (involving me planning out exactly what I am going to eat on the trial before hand--because once I start and feel like crap I can't be trusted). I haven't actually been well again since I started that first trial, so I am going to need to go cold turkey again for a month or so, I really get sucked into the 'a tiny bit won't hurt you' and the 'you already feel like crap now so you may as well eat something you enjoy cause what is the difference' traps. But at the moment I seem to have an inhumanly low tolerance to these things so a little bit is hurting me quite a lot.
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Date: 2008-03-31 12:11 pm (UTC)I haven't identified the baddies as yet, but I am a step closer now in that I am 100% convinced that I am reacting to *something* I just haven't been able to do a controlled enough trial yet to work out exactly what that something is. I have a horrible suspicion that I am sensitive to *all* of the three, with different symptoms for each. I am pretty sure it is salycilates causing the restless legs (and arms) and that seems to be at a pretty low dose, but I need to 'get clean' again and do a very tightly controlled trial (involving me planning out exactly what I am going to eat on the trial before hand--because once I start and feel like crap I can't be trusted). I haven't actually been well again since I started that first trial, so I am going to need to go cold turkey again for a month or so, I really get sucked into the 'a tiny bit won't hurt you' and the 'you already feel like crap now so you may as well eat something you enjoy cause what is the difference' traps. But at the moment I seem to have an inhumanly low tolerance to these things so a little bit is hurting me quite a lot.