Diet ickiness

[figmo]

I'm trying to work within the diet. Some parts are easier than others. I'm getting in my cup of vegetables per day, but it's having icky effects on me.

I've got the runs. Big time. My body has a hard time dealing with that much fruit and vegetable matter. I understand the Nutritionist wants me to get in more phytochemicals, but I wish there was a way I could just take them by pill and eat some grains to bulk myself up. Ugh.

Comments

[bovil.livejournal.com]

Your body will adapt to the fiber, and in the long term it will help with some of the other gastric difficulties that you've talked about.

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

[Squickiness ahead]

Er, maybe, and it might depend upon what Figmo is eating--some stuff is worse than others for particular people, and there can be intolerances involved, too, for particular types of fruit and vegetables and particular types of preparation (I refuse to eat raw onions, for example. Cooked, sure, pickled, okay, raw, NFW, I get heartburn. If I eat too many raw sunflower seeds I regret it).

Apples and I think also pears are full of pectin, used for jelling, I don't know if they're problems for Figmo or not, though. Grapefruit has a digestion-emptying out effect for me. If I eat too much meat I regret it, and as for pizza, if I had to live on a white bread pizza diet I'm convinced I would have died decades ago. It glues itself to my intestines, painfully....

I've lately been doing some raw chestnut eating--I have a Chinese chestnut tree, which apparently get pollinated by insects that visited American chestnut trees (there are American chestnut trees, mature ones even from the evidence of the sprouted sapling chestnuts presumably planted by treerats--the sprouted saplings have leaves that look like American chestnut trees rather than a Chinese chestnut tree--the leaves are longer and they're not the darker glossy green of the Chinese chestnut). The result is nuts that are sweet enough for me to eat raw, and since I collected a few pounds of them this year, and like chestnuts, and have not been going to the effort so far of e.g. roasting them...

European chestnut trees are not edible out of hand that way.

Hmm, I wonder, would eating matzoh help? It's a binding agent supposedly...

[bovil.livejournal.com]

It's distinctly possible that there's a food allergy involved, but that's for the nutritionist and her doctor to figure out.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that's true, which is why i'm persisting on eating the veggies despite the side effect.