[food] soy doomed
last night was worse than yesterday morning. Way way way worse. I spent the middle part of the day travelling all around town, taking A to his 9-month check-up, then visiting my soon-to-be-former place of employment, then to Diaper-eez for to pick up $200 worth of snap-on diapers for 'the boy who would not stop moving', then to haul ass back to neighbourhood to sign lease on new apartment. Get home. Eat stuff I shouldn't eat. Pay the price miserably for the rest of the evening with continued vomiting and watery diarrhea. I have finally rid myself of that hideous, fermented-soy burp taste, and have also noted a 5-7 lb loss in weight. Let's have that one again: I lost a minimum of 5 lbs in ONE day. wtf?
N stayed home again today because I was too weak to even pick up A. I'm doing better now. I can pick him up and pee him. Woo!
So... how did I know it was the soy that did me in? For starters, I'd experienced less-severe versions of this in the past (by which, I mean only the watery diarrhea that seems to come out of nowhere with zero notice making it impossible to leave the house). On 3 other occasions, actually. And all were accompanied by the very potent and unforgettable fermented-soy burp taste. I never clued in that it was *soy* until I explored those past experiences more fully.
The first happened after I had mixed apple juice with my soy milk in my cereal one morning. I thought it was just the apple juice and soy combo, so I never repeated that. The second experience is the fuzziest, but I know I ended up not being able to teach that day, due to the can't-stray-from-a-bathroom phenomenon. I don't actually remember what I ate that precipitated it. The third time came after L bought me a different brand of soy milk that I wasn't used to, so I never bought that brand again.
And this last time? Well, that came on the heels of the following diet:
Tamari several times last week
Miso at some point last week
Tempeh on Friday and Saturday
Tofu on Saturday and Sunday
Miso on Monday
Tofu on Tuesday
Hideousness on Wednesday
What's interesting is that while I was eating dinner on Tuesday (which was fabulous, btw), I kept thinking, "This is too much tofu. This is too much soy. It has become a meat replacement, which it's not supposed to be." Cue GI distress several hours later to validate this line of thinking.
So I can't have wheat or dairy or soy. At least I can still have corn and can kinda have sugar. Why is the North American diet so heavily based in these five substances? What happened to dietary variety? WTF? Me no like. Me want easy meal planning with good food. Me want FAST meal planning with safe food. Harumph.
N stayed home again today because I was too weak to even pick up A. I'm doing better now. I can pick him up and pee him. Woo!
So... how did I know it was the soy that did me in? For starters, I'd experienced less-severe versions of this in the past (by which, I mean only the watery diarrhea that seems to come out of nowhere with zero notice making it impossible to leave the house). On 3 other occasions, actually. And all were accompanied by the very potent and unforgettable fermented-soy burp taste. I never clued in that it was *soy* until I explored those past experiences more fully.
The first happened after I had mixed apple juice with my soy milk in my cereal one morning. I thought it was just the apple juice and soy combo, so I never repeated that. The second experience is the fuzziest, but I know I ended up not being able to teach that day, due to the can't-stray-from-a-bathroom phenomenon. I don't actually remember what I ate that precipitated it. The third time came after L bought me a different brand of soy milk that I wasn't used to, so I never bought that brand again.
And this last time? Well, that came on the heels of the following diet:
Tamari several times last week
Miso at some point last week
Tempeh on Friday and Saturday
Tofu on Saturday and Sunday
Miso on Monday
Tofu on Tuesday
Hideousness on Wednesday
What's interesting is that while I was eating dinner on Tuesday (which was fabulous, btw), I kept thinking, "This is too much tofu. This is too much soy. It has become a meat replacement, which it's not supposed to be." Cue GI distress several hours later to validate this line of thinking.
So I can't have wheat or dairy or soy. At least I can still have corn and can kinda have sugar. Why is the North American diet so heavily based in these five substances? What happened to dietary variety? WTF? Me no like. Me want easy meal planning with good food. Me want FAST meal planning with safe food. Harumph.