Food trials III: Yummy yummy pizza

[stephbg]

Rebellion with pizza and a devil-may-care attitude for the consequences is all very well, but really, I should pretend that it was a controlled experiment.



The medium term 24-48hr type reactions are hard to analyse because home has been so disrupted the last couple of days. Truth be told I'm a bit over the obsessive recording of food and reactions. Data is good. Data is necessary, but I need a break from the little notebooks!

However, I should note that in the hours after my works pizza binge I pretty much became drunk, plus racing heart, shortness of breath and headache. For a while there I'd have said I was not safe to drive. But not dead, and I'm pretty sure that having very little to eat the following day helped the recovery along (The Transparent Diet: When Beige Is Not Enough(tm)). Plus of course not taking any form of headache, sinus or asthma medication.

The pizza reaction reminded me forcibly of what used to happen when I tried to drink wine, beer or cider when younger. I used to say I was a cheap drunk and "skipped straight to the hangover" but I've never drunk enough to have an actual pray-to-the-porcelain-gods hangover the next day. One, maybe two rum-based cocktails was my limit, and NEVER EVER when driving. Now I know it was the amines from fermentation causing the problem (and the dizzy/woozy/brainless/throbbing/ringing 'drunk' feeling), rather than the alcohol.

It would explain a lot about alcohol being fun for other people if it doesn't normally induce near-instant smashing headaches, palpitations and breathing difficulties. Pour me out and call me a glass of water. No wonder I never got the hang of pubs, and got all confused about publicly accepted fun.

*great light dawns*

So tell me people, what's it *supposed* to be like?

Comments

[redbraids.livejournal.com]

giddy, buzzy fun??? Not at all like you describe!!

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I have 2 questions.

1. How does one get enough nutrients on the beige diet? Usually, when it comes to fruit and veg, different colours indicate different vitamins and minerals.

2. Does fish and chips count as being "beige"?

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

1. That's a very common question. We're told that if you eat a variety of the allowable foods you get enough nutrition. Things like potatoes and red meat cover a lot of ground. I'm a bit paranoid about Vitamin C so I occasionally take a small (250mg) supplement.

2. Home made F&C can easily be beige, but commercial ones are usually cooked in non-beige oils, and the potatoes are treated with sulphite preservatives to stop them going brown. You can also get flavour enhancers tossed in to the batter and the salt, and vinegar is non-beige.

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

A little bit of alcohol is fun. Giddy delight and fun.

[babalon-93.livejournal.com]

I used to swear that if I avoided coke as a mixer in preference of soda or lemonade (or my fave, half lemonade half soda--and oh boy, didn't people love ordering drinks for me at the bar) I would have way less of a hangover, now I see why.

I went on a beige amnesty as of last Friday, and appart from the discomfort it has been fascinating to see the symptoms I was having re-appear one by one in a very short space of time. All of these little (and a few not so little) things that I never knew were related because they all were first noticed by me at different times in my life all gone on the diet and all back again all at once on the amnesty.

This morning I went to an allergy elimination clinic, where they did some trigger pointish type stuff--will have to let you know if it has been at all successful in the next week.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

I'll say one thing for the food trials - it's reminded me of how much I've improved. The breathing thing is particularly interesting. Last year I got to the "Hmmmm. Should I be calling an ambulance?" point a few times. I'd also forgotten how uncomfortable a racing heart can be.

Unfortunately the pizza was intensely pleasurable.