Diet Plan

Had another appointment with the specialist today. He's been stonewalled in his attempt to get me anaesthetised either as an in- or an out-patient, so he's going try and get me a referral to Cedars Sinai.

He's out of medicine, he says.

I brought up dietary mods, and he agrees that tyramine and wheat are a good place to start, although wheat is difficult. I don't doubt that for a second. The idea is to quit as much as possible for three or four weeks, and if it has made a difference, start introducing foods slowly back in and see what makes the needle wiggle.

I figure wheat will be the first thing back in, if I don't snap horribly beforehand. His tyramine recommendations are from the National Headache Foundation, and look...oh, I don't know what's doable and what's not. His summary of the whole thing is that I'll be eating European-style--fresh food, freshly cooked. It would be great if it were just that simple.

Here's what I can have:

* fresh meat, poultry, eggs.
* a fairly generous range of foods dairy-wise, but I don't think I'll take advantage of that. Since I can get protein from meat, I won't lean on cheese for it instead.
* most vegetables and fruit

It also seems to be limiting my chocolate and molasses and licorice consumption. Honestly, putting chocolate in that sentence makes it seem so much less appealing I could even give that up for a heartbeat or two.

I figure that in the first day or so of the juice cleanse I'll do a long slow Wholefoods/Trader Joe's shopping excursion and lay out a plan for a few weeks of healthy eats, and work out how often I'll need to be shopping to sustain this lifestyle.

Next week. Next week it is. The cleanse starts next Friday, for three days.

Which gives me a week to decide how limited the ensuing diet will be. No wheat? Gluten? Yeast? Caffeine?

Tick, tick, tick.

Finger licking good

I think I'm going to attack diet.

It might seem weird that it's only coming up now, but it's not, really. I've made adjustments to my diet but they weren't arcane in any way, or requiring of any detective work to suss out. I can get a migraine from the Nutrasweet in a stick of gum before it loses its flavour, or be sunk by the nitrites in a sausage before finishing the dog. Nice and simple, easily avoided.

What if there's more? In stuff I mind giving up, or which is kinda hard to ignore?

So I'm going to go terribly LA and do a cleanse, and then embark upon a couple weeks of a restricted diet and see what happens.

Thing is, my last cleanse had me incredibly pissy and migrainey by day 2...I have to make sure I'm not running that risk again. So I'll probably opt for something embarassingly chi-chi and expensive in terms of a cleanse, and then buy out half of Wholefoods for my restricted diet afterwards.

As for restrictions--where to start? Wheat, I think. Let me see if I can do without that a while.