I have completed the 2-week Control Phase of the Detection Diet. I have kept careful track of everything I have eaten and the symptoms I have experienced for the past 14 days. Today I have reviewed the journal and tried to identify any correlation between what I eat and how I feel. The pattern isn’t clear, but it looks like I might have an intolerance for dairy and maybe for fructose, too. For the next two weeks I will eliminate all dairy from my diet. I will maintain the journal the same as I have been doing. With any luck I should see a great improvement in my symptoms. If the improvement isn’t there, I will try another two weeks eliminating all (or nearly all) sources of fructose. If neither of these show improvement, I will have to concede that I’m just weird and learn to live as well as possible with the symptoms I have.
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Both lactose and fructose do require more splicing to break down in the body and not everyone can do so, iirc there are also some other carbs some people have trouble breaking down, and they cause tummy aches when they fail to be processed before the bacteria and others living in our guts start eating them (causes gas usually)
I Hope you manage to eliminate whatever it is that is causing you trouble.
By: TheDarkWraith on January 22, 2008
at 4:54 am
Thanks TDW for the good wishes. I started the morning with toast and a bit of olive oil instead of butter. I find that I do not enjoy olive oil on my toast. Back to the drawing board. ;D
By: adamswife on January 22, 2008
at 11:56 am
Hi, I just learned about the detection diet but don’t really want to spend so much money to get access to it. I just wanted to confirm you paid the dues they asked for. Trying to find a way to get the diet w/out spending money. I am cheap. if you could email me, i’d really appreciate it. nickel0325@hotmail.com my name is nicole
By: Nicole on January 22, 2008
at 1:33 pm
How about sugar free applebutter? Hmmm….fructose. Sugar free pumpkin butter would have less or no fructose. Need a recipe? Like pumpkin?
By: Zazzy on January 22, 2008
at 1:35 pm
Hello Eve,maybe you are allergic to dairy products.A friend,
who also has Type 1 diabetes,suffered from vertigo and stomach problems for about two years.A friend of hers asked her to visit her doctor.This doctor told her stop eating all dairy products and she will feel much better in a few months.After
three months on a dairy free diet she threw away her cane,
the vertigo and stomach problems were gone.
By: schnuckiputz on January 22, 2008
at 3:08 pm
Or possibly skip the spread and just add a slice of ham or other tasty thing you like that is ok with the new restrictions.
Dunno if you count egg as diary (I don’t think it contains lactose) You could either fry the egg and have it on the bread (very tasty) or make your own egg rich mayo with sunflower oil and/or rapeseed oil, and maybe a some sort of spice you like, that should end up about as fatty or less than butter, yet solid and tasty.
If egg is out of the question then frying the bread in the oil will be tasty too, though perhaps a bit on the bland side (at least till you figure out how to make it golden without burning it), but one can add spices to the oil to make it tastier (wide range of possibilities there)
None of these ideas may be right for you though, just my brain storming a bit.
I hope you figure something nice out.
I myself try to avoid bread and other carbohydrates but have not and will not totally eliminate those from my diet, but I feel better eating less of the carbohydrates and more of other things (meat, fried asparagus (lots more tasty than boiled, though the water from boiling is tasty too), fried Brussels sprouts, fried broccoli and fried cauliflower (though the latter seems to go poof about as fast as bread and other carbohydrates for me.), cheese, butter, other vegetables (though no roots as they last way too short a time), onions, some fruit too like tomato)
Of course not everyone can function on LCHF diet either, so be careful if you plan to shift over to that, let it take a little while to phase things in and out if you do. Sorry about the hijack, too babbly of me.
By: TheDarkWraith on January 22, 2008
at 8:37 pm
Thank you all for your suggestions and concern. TDW, you are NOT too babbly. I enjoy what you have to say. If this proves to be a fructose intolerance I will be eating very few fruits or vegetables, and no whole grains of any kind. Strangely enough sucrose is the only sugar I would be allowed as the others break down into too much fructose during digestion. I’m beginning to suspect I have an intolerance for both lactose and fructose. Probably not for the milk protein (casein) which means I would be able to eat cheese again. We’ll see what the next few weeks reveal.
By: adamswife on January 22, 2008
at 9:56 pm
Hi
I’m a newbie here.
But I suggest for those of you who seem to have carb in tolerances and bowel troubles that dont seem to resolve no matter what, you might want to try out the Specific Carbohydrate Diet., described in a groundbreaking book [s]by Elisabeth Gottschall. This diet is very limited, but people who have suffered for years hsve been helped and even healed after doing it for a year or so. and can go onto eat more normally. Also, Glutenand dairy intolerances can be so strong that even a teeny bit of it in food [hidden additives] can set you off.
I also feel the same as the person who commented on the detection diet. I cant afford it neither can most sick people.
All the best
Paulette
By: Paulette Paulin on November 24, 2008
at 10:35 am