Frustrated

Today I am feeling like a whiner......... I went to my Drs appt yesterday to get my food sensitivity results, and lets just say I thought it was hard before! Before this visit we have been gluten free (wheat, rye, spelt, kamut, etc.....), casein (dairy) free, corn free, oat free, MSG free, spy free, and we try to avoid all artificial colors and flavors because my middle daughter seems to be sensitive to most things chemical. Way back when, we started off just gluten free because of the many health problems that my middle daughter had (chronic diarrhea, stomach aches, night terrors, poor eye contact, hyper, angry ALL of the time, poor social skills, etc...........) We noticed some improvement right away and noticed that oats (even GF oats) were a BIG problem. When we took out dairy we made HUGE leaps of improvement with her and then 1 by one we have found other things and you could meet her today and have no idea that she ever had so many issues. Now, as I have taken things out of our diet for her, I discovered that many of these foods were indeed problematic for me too, I could also tell that I had not found all of my "bad list" foods. Well, thanks to my amazing new Dr I have found them......... As I am still trying to wrap my mind around my "list" I will not post my new "bad" foods yet. Let's just say that we probably will never eat out or at anyone's home again......... Oh sorry, that was my whiner again. I am an emotional eater and I love food so this is rather a challenge, made worse by the fact that my food choices are going to be more expensive and that most everything will need to be made from scratch and carefully rotated so I don't create more sensitivities by eating 1 thing all of the time(read STRESS here). Not too big of a deal I suppose if I had energy (Dr's still working on that one) and a kitchen......... O.k. so I have a kitchen it just was designed for people who cook boxed foods - think MINUSCULE! I think my walk in closet in our last house was bigger than my kitchen here..... :oP Unfortunately my Dr can't help with that one! LOL!
Actually the 3 meals since my appt have gone fine..... and my SUPER AMAZING Mom said she wants to sit down with me and my list and help me plan meals. Talk about helpful! I think that if she will help me get the first week or two written down then it will seem less daunting. I do have to say though that it (Ahem, excuse my language here) totally sucks to have dietary restrictions in a society that revolves around food! BBQ's, potlucks, lunch meetings, etc..... Pretty much any and every occasion where people get together there is food, and it is not allergen free!

O.k. so enough of my whining! Hope you all are having a FABULOUS week!!! :o)