I've started 3 threads since I joined this forum, all about my GI health issues.
Saw my gastroenterologist yesterday. Was blunt about what I'm doing, diet-wise, (though I spoke in terms of "cutting out grains and sugars", because people freak out less when you put it that way.)
Something flickered in his eyes.
"Cut out
all grains, or just cut down on them?"
I was emphatic that I'd cut them out, and my symptoms improved.
Well, the doc wants me to go back ON grains... for two weeks, so he can test me for (among other things) Celliac's disease. (Yup -- more going on than just GERD.)
He wasn't sure if I'd agree to this, but very much wanted the test. (If I'm not eating ANY grains, he says, the test will not give accurate results.)
(Fats did not come up at any point in the conversation. )
I figure it's worth having the Celliac test, because if it comes out positive, I've got an official medical diagnosis I can wave when I hear the "You need to eat more grains!" from other practitioners.
So after 1 week of induction, I'm back off, for two more weeks. But in the week I was on, I faced a lot of potential pitfall-moments and sidestepped them.
And I came home yesterday (realizing I'd forgotten to eat breakfast, and it was now 11am) looking for something to eat, and absolutely flummoxed. I'd reach for something LC, then remember I'm supposed to eat grains, and try to grab something bad for me, and immediately revert to trying to grab LC.
So these 2 weeks aren't being an excuse go to back into full-carb mode. Just.... I'm having my chicken salad (home-made, from leftover BBQ chicken that came out SOOOOooo good) between two slices of bread, instead of in a bowl with a fork.
The reluctance I'm feeling is the same I felt the first time I ever went off LC. (I was pregnant at the time -- my first child, and what I knew back then was that you weren't supposed to do LC while pregnant. If it had happened 5 years later, I would have had the knowledge and support I needed, but this was then, and the doctors were adamant.) Like, I was so accustomed to eating LC that I could (and did) eat the filling out of a sandwich, leaving the bread, without thinking about it (and by reflex). I just ignored the rice/potatos on my plate, and ate the meat & veggies... it was the food-ju-jitsu I'd developed, and was super-good at, and it was HARD to remember to bite down on what I didn't want to eat.
I'm having the same issue now. It took EFFORT to put that chicken into bread... and then to bite the bread.
So, I'm choosing to comply, so I can get the testing.
Once the tests are done, it's back to full Induction. Not the end of the world, and MY choice. Just feels weird.