Day 45...slacking with the blog, but not the diet.

Saturday evening was pretty dire. I decided later to have a mini cheesecake that my other half had bought, gluten free, dairy free etc. Late in the evening I started getting all too familiar pains and was up till nearly 2am :(

Sunday I seemed to be ok during the day on Sunday, but felt alot of gurgling and uncomfort with the same outcome Sunday evening, but it was not long lived.

So today is the 13th which is day 45 and all is fine once more.:)

I will try my best to crack on with the blog daily again from tomorrow.

Day 38 -42 Am catching up as I havent kept this for a few days...oops :/

So I'm actually writing this on day 41 I think, one thing and another I've just not done it...bad me.


I can't really remember what I had over the last couple of days. I do know though that my main meal was more quinoa with slight variations of veg with it.

The sickness has passed thank goodness. I'm wondering if it was a bug, though I didn't feel like it was. I guess I'll never know what it was, as long as it's buggered off I don't care.

So today is now Saturday, I can't believe that Monday will be the start of week 6 of the diet!

Breakfast:
Porridge l/f milk
Redbush tea

Mid Morning
nothing

Lunch:
Homemade sushi - yay and prawn crackers.
L/f yogurt.

Mid Afternoon:
redbush tea x 3 and I hold my head in shame when I have to admit I also ate three oreo type biscuits. They are made with FODMAP friendly ingredients, but nevertheless I dont think my body was very impressed. I was ok, but then a while later had searing pains. Whennnnn will I learn! -probably never.
I had no more than just pains though, so I'm hoping thats the end of that. I did have to undo the jeans, but moreso because of the pain, rather than swelling up like a spacehopper.

Dinner:

Home made cheese and tomato pizza n chips & carrot sticks.

Very small amount of diet Pepsi.

Evening:

Redbush tea x 2

Day 37 -Feeling sick and Dizzy :(

My tum felt unsettled throughout the evening, but I slept okay.

I feel very sick and dizzy today, I don't think it's at all FODMAP related, the dizziness is something that comes and goes often, I'm not sure why I'm feeling sick, but I hope it passes soon.

Because I'm feeling sick, I've struggled to eat, but have forced the issue as I think not eating will only make it worse in the long run.

Breakfast:
Porridge l/f milk
Redbush Tea

Mid Morning:
Banana
Redbush Tea

Lunch:
Red & White Quinoa, red & yellow pepper, cucumber and tuna...and salad cream, can't palate the quinoa without the salad cream!
Lactose free yogurt

Mid Afternoon:
Redbush Tea

Dinner:
Cheese sandwich, though struggled to eat most of it as I feel so sick.

Evening:
Redbush tea


Fingers crossed for a better day tomorrow :(

Day 36- Holiday clothes shopping.

We go to America in August and being in the UK, my wardrobe consists mainly of jeans and jumpers, with a few tshirts thrown in for a nice day. So I really need some summery clothes or I'm going to melt.

I actually tried on...and bought some clothes which is always a shocker, I HATE clothes shopping, I'm neither fat nor thin, just out of proportion, my bottom half is way bigger than my top half, which makes clothes shopping a nightmare.

As I was in town, I played safe and went for my saftey net of gluten free toast. I did check their toast was also wheat/dairy free too. I've also noticed some breads having apple extract in them too. But all was fine :)

I've felt very dizzy today again, which is tiresome, but it was a productive day in all :)

Breakfast:
Porridge, l/f milk, two strawberries
Redbush Tea

Mid Morning:
Nothing

Lunch:
Two slices g/f toast and butter
Redbush Tea

Mid Afternoon:
Blueberry Muffin Redbush tea

I started feeling slight gurgles in my tum and started with some pain, not intestine pain though. I went for a long soak in the bath to help ease it.
Dinner:

Day 35- Chilled out Bank Holiday Monday.

Im glad it's a Bank Holiday today, as I'm still feeling groggy with period pain, though it's a lot better than it usually is. I get really, really tires too though, so I've had a couple of 'Nana naps' this afternoon too ;)

Breakfast:

Porridge, l/f milk 1large strawberry cut into chunks in the porridge

Redbush tea

Mid morning:

redbush tea

Lunch:

Salad sandwich, hula hoops

G/f d/f Pain au chocolate. 

Redbush tea

Mid afternoon:

Redbush tea x2

Bluberry muffin

Nana nap ;) x2

Zzzzzzz

Dinner:

New potatoes, ham and salad.

Two large strawberries (80g)

L/f yogurt.

Redbush tea

I'm really loving the lactofree yogurts...but....after thinking today hw very sweet they taste, I thought I'd see just how much sugar each pot has....3 teaspoons! :-0 Blimey, no wonder I'm enjoying them so much :-/ 

Day 34 - Finding a suitable lunch whilst out...

Today we (hubby and kids) went to a large shopping mall to try and find some jeans for my eldest son who will insist on growing out of old ones...how very inconsiderate of him ;)

We decided to get some lunch there. They have a massive food place in there, the kids usually opt for a pizza or McDs, in my 'pre FODMAP life', I would have either had a meal deal from boots, It was always one of two versions,  consisting of wither a BBQ chicken wrap or sushi, a pot of fruit or veggie crisps and a drink of some kind....or if I was feeling naughty I'd opt for a McD.

Today however I had to look further afield. I know the boots veggie sushi is ok, as I've cheked before and its never upset me anyway. But I really fancied something warm. I decided to get a jacket potato instead. I've eaten in the shopping mall before whilst I was just gluten free and that was tricky enough, but now adding in all the other things I should avoid was a bit daunting.

I really fancied tuna mayo on the potato, but was dubious of the mayo, I'm guessing it's a no, no. I should check it out. I know I can have my fav salad cream, but again when out, Id be dubious of the salad cream unless I knew exactly what type it was, which you usually don't.

Anyway, I finally opted for cheese. I asked for a 'little bit of cheese please' and was presented with a paper bowl full of grated cheese, with a potato hiding underneath it all somewhere. I'm so glad I didn't ask for lots of it, I think I'd have needed a wheelbarrow!

The cheese had a somewhat odd texture to it and had a kind of floury feel to it. I'm guessing it was pre packaged grated cheese. I will have to look into that to see if that usually contains some kind of flour :-/ It's too late for today obviously, but I don't appear to have had any ill effects from it today.

So todays food intake goes like this...
Breakfast:
The usual porridge, l/f milk
Redbush tea

Mid Morning:
Nothing

Lunch:
Jacket potato and cheeeeeeeese - lots of it :-/ 

Bottle of water
We came home after we had eaten, mainly because I am still in the mentality of wanting to get home as soon as I've eaten out -'just incase', so we waited till we were all finished shopping for the jeans. I'm going to have to totally retrain my way of thinking now there is such a big improvement.
So once home I then had a blueberry muffin and a redbush

Mid Afternoon:
Another muffin...yes, I know, I know.... :-/
Redbush tea x2

Dinner:
Ham & salad Sandwich
hula hoops
L/f yougurt.
Redbush Tea.

Evening:
Banana
Redbush tea x 2

Mid afternoon I started with period pains, not too bad considering how I am most months, but I'm hoping now that it's here the cravings I've been having recently will now subside and my every waking moment won't be filled with thoughts of food.

Day 33- PMT cravings :-/

I didn't get the muffins made yesterday, I realised I had no g/f flour. But I finally got them made this morning...and very scrummy they are too :-)

I had to open the over door whilst they were baking though, so they've not risen as well as usual, but luckily it's not effected the taste :-)

I seem to feel quite grumpy today, I was fine until I has to go clothes shopping with a teenage son who detests buying clothes, so that was a barrel of laughs :-/ I'm determined not to console myself with food though, as I so often would in the past.

Oh and sorry yesterday was incomplete, but I don't remember mid afternoon or evening and I treated myself to a peanut butter n strawberry jams sandwich at dinner, as I'm craving sweet stuff madly.

Breakfast:

Porridge l/f milk

Redbush

Mid morning: 

Redbush 

Lunch: 

Bacon butty -yum!! G/f roll of course, bacon grilled.

Homemade, FODMAP friendly blueberry muffin mmmmmm

Like I mentioned earlier, they didn't rise very well...I have more of a muffin top than they do ;)

Mid afternoon:

Redbush x2 another muffin...oops

Dinner

Homemade FODMAP friendly ham and pineapple pizza and chips.

Lactose free yogurt

Redbush tea.

Day 32- I really must bake!

I  am determined to get some blueberry muffins made today, I've being going to make them for a couple of weeks now, but something always crops up.

I'm just about to have some lunch, then I'll get started :)

Breakfast:

Porridge l/f milk

Redbush tea

Mid morning 

Redbush tea

Lunch:

Crispbread, Philadelphia cheese, cucumber and salad cream (hooray for salad cream).

L/f yogurt

Redbush tea

Day 31- I ate out! Whoo hoo!

After yesterday's dire consequences of me snaffling half an Easter egg, my tum is surprisingly not too bad this morning. It's a little uncomfy, but nothing else.

I am going out today with a friend, this usually involves getting a bite to eat, am contemplating taking a sandwich with me? Hmm, not sure. Might just wait and eat when I'm back home.

Breakfast:

Porridge l/f milk

Redbush tea

Mid morning:

Redbush tea.

Whilst sat in the cafe drinking tea, we noticed they do a g/f bread option on their 'build your own sandwich'. So we thought we'd go back there later for lunch.

Lunch:

G/f bread, cheddara and salad (cucumber, Tom, mixed leaves) sandwich, handful of plain crisps.

Redbush tea.

When the lady bought the sandwiches out, I though, ooo they look nice...infact, they look a little 'too' nice, so I queried, 'is this gluten free bread?' To which she answered, 'no, should it be?' 

*sigh*, good job I asked!

When she bought the g/f version out, it was like a completely diff sight, that bouncy looking bread :-( ...but I have to say, it was a lot more pleasent tasting that it looked :)

When I got home, I had missed a parcel delivery, so hobbled up to the post office where the had left he parcel to find a big and somewhat heavy box to hobble home with (sore joints today).

To my surprise I'd been sent some g/f freebies :) I was delighted with the range, but then on looking closer athe ingredients, I realised most of the breads were actually made with wheat starch still in, so they are no good. Some of the other things had milk powder in and some of the breads had apple and honey in them :( 

I have a friend who is celiac, so I have passed them on to her, as it'd be a shame to waste them. I kept a couple of boxes of pasta, some crackers and a box of cornflakes.

It did make me wonder what kind of bread I'd eaten in that sandwich today. I certainly wouldn't have eaten there if I'd have been celiac, as there didn't seem to be much mindfulness about cross contamination going on and even the fact that they plonked crisps on my plate without asking if they were ok, or indeed if I even wanted them, to me said they didn't seem to know much about decker rh requirements. I wasn't expecting them to know about FODMAP, but it seems pointless to offer g/f bread, then not even bother about cross cross contamination when making the sandwich, it would be awful for a person with celiac to have that.

But, it was nice for me that I could actually eat out, as this was just a small shopping centre we were at, so the choice wasn't vast. Though I daren't risk salad cream, as I know each will have diff ingredients, so the sarnie lacked a little va va voomf for me as I doooo love salad cream.

I always carry redbush teabags in my bag with me incase I can't find somewhere that sells it when I'm out, though I often just have hot water. I'm now thinking, should I take salad cream sachets too haha, at this rate, I'll have a small kitchen in my handbag :)

Dinner:

Felt a little sick, so didn't have dinner, though I pinched a couple of cold new potatoes :)

Redbush tea

Evening:

Redbush the x 2

FODMAP friendly cheesey bites...mmmmmm yum.

Day 30- thud.

I passed out today. Not uncommon for me, but haven't done so in a while, so was a bit annoyed, especially as I face planted into the carpet :-/

I then stupidly consoled myself with chocolate...stupid, stupid, stuuuuuupid me!

Breakfast: 

Porridge, l/f milk

Rebush tea

Mid morning:

Banana

Lunch:

Cheese (cheddar) and cucumber sandwich

Redbush tea

Mid afternoon:

Nothing

Late afternoon -passed out.

Redbush tea

The over the next couple of hours I broke off small pieces of an waste egg, telling myself it was just a small piece. By the time my belly started protesting, I realised I'd eaten half an Easter egg :-(

Needless to say, the digestive system went into a panicked mayhem of pain and I had the worse attack I've had since being on this plan.

I would say, it's a lesson learned and I won't do that, but knowing me, I can't promise myself that!'. What I have realised though is that those awful pains, like full on labour pains, were just part of my normal week, week in week out and a constant ache or pain in my intestines was the everyday norm. I think it's not until you get a break from this stuff, you realise how much you've put up with. 

Evening:

Redbush tea, peppermint capsules.

 abdomen too sore to contemplate eating.