I spent a lot of time (since August 2010) relearning how to eat with all my food allergies. I have a much healthier respect for food but, that doesn’t mean I don’t have moments where I long for a piece of cake or some other forbidden food.
Throughout it all, people have made comments about my diet, food allergies or menu that just make me giggle inside and brings a smile to my face. I thought I would share some of them with you.
“I would starve on your diet”
Well, yes, for about the first week you would feel like you were starving to death. But your body would adjust eventually. I called my dietitian after a week of gorging on everything I could eat because I was starving. She promised me this would not continue. It didn’t and my appetite finally mellowed out and leveled out.
“OMG! What do you eat?”
I eat a lot of different foods actually. I have chicken, eggs, fresh and cooked veggies, fresh fruit, jarred applesauce, biscuits and bread that I make myself, cookies, chocolate, cake, coffee and a lot of experiments.
“Ew! how do you eat that? It looks so gross!”
Excuse the ill-manners, but yes, sometimes my food does look gross. When you have an allergy to foods, sometimes your food isn’t very pretty. But that doesn’t mean that it tastes nasty either. I admit, I do get irritated when people refuse to taste it but keep saying how nasty it is. I don’t sit there and comment on how nasty your food is, why is it okay to make comments about my food? When did this become acceptable behavior? Okay, so this doesn’t make me giggle all the time. But I do love to occasionally make gross looking food just to sit and eat it slowly in front of someone who is trying not to hurl while watching me eat.
“Do you ever miss cake (insert another food here)?”
Why, yes, yes I do! And I miss a lot of foods sometimes. But then I remind myself of how miserable I was before hand and I don’t miss it so much anymore.
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