Yep once you get used to preparing your own healthy good foods for long enough only the finest restaurant food will suffice. Most places it is way too processed and its just crap. Not only do my tastebuds make me aware of this, but my body tells me big time!
I think I have read or heard more than once, that a large percentage of the population has some degree of gluten intolerance. Any comments from anyone else on this notion? I had a game night with new friends Monday night (and we stayed up until midnight talking) and we were all saying things we love about Fresh and Easy(grocery store). The one gal commented on how good their prepared meals taste. I commented that I can’t eat them or I gain weight. This prompted a 3rd gal to ask me if I was gluten intolerant.(I told her it was possible that I did have some gluten intolerance and that it would normally not exhibit itself for me since I din’t eat processed foods and due to what I choose to eat otherwise for the past 10-12 years that I could be a lot more intolerant than I even know since I just eat very low gluten anyay) Then we got into that discussion..... But this is the fourth or fifth time in just like 2 weeks that I’ve run onto that being brought up when I am out and about and talking to people. (prior to this, I never had people bringing it up to me as much but it came up a lot in the books I was reading and health news articles, etc.)
Chantelle
On 8/30/10 7:57 PM, "Heather Twist" <HeatherTwist@gmail.com> wrote:
You know, if he starts refusing pasta and bread in favor of steak and shrimp, and he has issues with gaining weight, you might also get him tested for gluten intolerance. My main "symptom" back when I was a kid was an aversion to a lot of foods, breads being among the main ones. Being misdiagnosed for 40 years has left me with a fair bit of permanent damage that could have been easily avoided (plus the last 40 years would have been far more pleasant!). Most of that time the docs thought I was quite healthy, but hypochondriac (because of misc. aches and pains and issues like food aversions).
My kids are really picky about restaurant food too though. So are the adults. It comes from eating good food at home, and learning what tastes good. My daughter took one look at eggs-over-easy at a restaurant, tried one, and said "Mom, that egg looks weird and it tastes weird and I don't want to eat it". She hadn't seen "store bought eggs" for maybe 8 years, and it really did look weird after all that time. She also doesn't like maraschino cherries any more (after loving them for ages) but craves bananas. My husband has followed suit, so he doesn't argue. But what possible good can come from training a kid to force down food that really isn't all that great? You're basically training the kid to ignore their own best instincts.
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Heidi overbeek <heidioverbeek@yahoo.com> wrote:
With my son we have very food restrictions, we just tell him not to eat more than his body needs. He is a natural faster, often eating 1 large meal a day. This worried me a bit, prior to me starting w/ fast-5, but now I see it as very positive. We only had 1 period that we tried to push food on him, when he was 12 and the pediatrician diagnosed him w/ failure to thrive b/c he didn't gain any weight in a year. But then we relaxed pretty quickly and stopped bugging him. He is 15 yo, 5'11" and 145 lb (very athletic.) I have noticed some disapproval though, to my parenting style. For instance from an older relative (at a restaurant) who complained to me that he hadn't eaten his side dish of mac and cheese, after he did eat a steak and shrimp! I smiled and said, "Oh that's okay, I'm sure there were enough calories in that steak and shrimp for one meal." I've also been in situations at restaurants when he took one look at the food and refused to eat it. Fine, he doesn't get anything else but he doesn't have to eat it, and he doesn't get in trouble either. Why make an issue? Completely bothered my friend who then spent the rest of dinner trying to entice him to eat it. Why bother? It wasn't even healthy food!
I had too many rules about food growing up, "don't eat that, you're too fat." And "eat more, your wasting money if you don't eat it." I tell my son what I think is healthy (high protein, high fat, low carbs, low processed foods, low seed oils, etc) but I would rather him eat a few extra candy bars than end up w/ food issues.
Heidi
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