It is hard to imagine that, back in 2011, I didn’t give a second thought to food making me ill. Back in those carefree days, all I worried about was how many Weight Watchers points were in what I was eating – not if it contained gluten, dairy or fructose.
I had written food diaries a few times but could never see any patterns (because I was reacting to everything!).
When I was diagnosed with coeliac disease, went gluten free and continued to have problems, I worried that I would become totally obsessed with food and drink.
A dietitian friend recently told me about a new type of eating disorder. Sufferers started off by going gluten free, dairy free and eating ‘clean’ but then their eating habits developed into something dangerous.
Their limited diet becomes something they can hide behind so they can stop eating out (as they say places can’t cater for them), they stop eating at other people’s houses (as they do not know enough about their dietary requirements) and can blame hardly eating anything on their very strict and self-imposed dietary requirements.
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I can definitely see how people become obsessed with food. Everything that I have done to find out what I have issues with has involved me scrutinising every single thing I have put in my mouth and looking out for symptoms – especially while doing the FODMAP diet.
Now I am a massive carnivore and meat/fish are often the only things I can safely eat when I am out – but all of my dietary requirements have been confirmed and carefully monitored by doctors and dietitians.
But it has still led to me blaming most things on my diet – “Oh it must have been the onion I ate”, or, “maybe that meal had fructose in it”.
Pre-coeliac, I blamed everything on alcohol and working too hard. Why now must every stomach twinge, odd toilet experience or nauseous feeling be down to food or drink?
Half the time it is probably just tiredness and periods or stress and totally unrelated to what I have just shoved down my throat.
By Karen Woodford – extreme tricky eater (coeliac disease, lactose & fructose intolerance)