#diet experiment

Identical twins Hugo and Ross Turner are known for their adventurous spirit have just started a 12 week experiment in comparing High Fat vs. High Carb diets. We are all curious to see the results of this new experiment from them and will share them as soon as the experiment is over. Until we reach there, I decided to share with you another similar experiment they had four and a half years ago. In…

I did feel worse - regular stomach aches - so either something in gluten free weetbix and bread is bad for me, or wheat is essential for my health.

I might try again sometime when I feel I can cope with missing out on all my favourite foods and with making all social events awkward. But... I doubt it. It sucked.

I read a paper yesterday about a study done to see if a gluten free diet helps those with fibromyalgia. They studied 246 people in total, and 20 people more intensively. They tested them all first to check they didn’t have coeliac’s (the 20 people even got the biopsy despite negative blood test results). The threshold for success was high - return to work, fibromyalgia in remission, ceased use of opiate pain killers, etc. Not those surveys of how you feel on a 1-10. After 16 months, one third had achieved these kind of results. That’s pretty amazing. The downside is that although it took some people 2 months, it took others 16, which is a long time to stick to an annoying diet, waiting to see if something is going to happen.

My husband says that your body hurting is not synonymous with tiredness. But like I just thought they were the same thing; the more everything hurts the more tired you are, its just one of the ways you can tell you’re tired, a symptom of tiredness.

I also had this realisation that maybe I’m not lazy or have ADHD, maybe its hard to do stuff because I’m really tired and everything hurts.

So my last diet experiment a couple of months ago where I ate rice and potatoes for a few days to see if histamines/MCAS was my problem did not show any improvement. Instead I felt bad in a new and subtle yet pervasive way, and discovered how much I dislike white rice. I just could not force myself to eat enough to get near my daily energy requirements, whereas had no problem with eating potatoes. Also my neck and upper back muscles were really sore like they get sometimes, but every time I ate potatoes they temporarily got better. Not sure what that was about.

I didn’t feel hungry, or more tired, and even though I had really sore muscles I still did quite a lot of stuff those few days and the problems didn’t seem to affect me as much as I think they normally would. It was kind of weird.