In article >,
Doug Freyburger > wrote:

> Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
> >
> > How many here have some form of food restriction diet?
>
> I'm wheat intolerant.
>
> > If you have a condition/diet how do you do it?
>
> I never expect anyone to take it into account but lots of people try to.
> Folks like to take care and that's nice for the thought.
>
> Once I discovered the difference in my health dropping wheat made, my
> attitude towards it changed dramatically. Moo. Give that poisonous
> grass stuff to the cows and I'll eat the cows thanks. With a new
> attitude I developed very fast and easy mental wheat filters. I scan a
> menu or shelf and my mind ignores items that are likely to have wheat.
> It took some practice to train my mind to it but it became easy in a few
> months.

Yeah, I found the same. Once wheat and gluten stuff went "off my
radar", I stopped even regarding them as food.
>
> > Just curious, as it seems like a never ending attempt to do
> > something only to fail badly at it.
>
> Something nice happened to me after a bunch of years of active avoidance
> - I now get less and less reaction when I get an accidental or
> deliberate dose of wheat. If I have cream of some-veggie soup and they
> used flour as a thickener I might now only get sweaty scalp and
> indigestion. Eleven years in and I can have a slice of pizza with the
> crust once in a year and as long as I start chewing gum as soon as the
> slice is gone and I chew the gum for several hours, the indigestion is
> mild. A cheat that bad and I still snore loudly for two nights in a
> row, though. The gum helps push it past the indigestion phase is all
> ...

That's interesting. I've found my reactions getting worse over the
years, to the point where the equivalent of about a tablespoon of flour
will put me flat on my back for 2 - 3 days.
>
> Wheat is my issue. I never expect anyone to care about it or to plan
> for it. I never expect a separate dish to be available. As common as
> wheat is I hardly ever get in a situation where everything has wheat.
> At times I have nothing but the salad, but I like salad.

I don't expect people to plan for it either, although I really
appreciate it if I do.

Miche

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