Recently, I’ve developed some kind of ultra-sensitivity to food/the air/something else which seems to have repercussions on the condition of my skin (on my face… gah!). I’m guessing that only girls would really know what I’m talking about here, but stick with me. This tirade will likely force even the most dead-pan of you to crack a tiny smile.
My daily feeding cycle (oink) consists of cereal or bread in the morning, some kind of lunch (which again may contain bread, or rice, or something starchy), and some kind of dinner. Fruit to snack on occasionally - I like bananas because they don’t require much effort to peel - and I drink orange juice because this grows in supermarkets in nice convenient cartons.
My skin, I’ve found through trial and error, appears to flare up whenever I eat food that contains oil. Fine. No oil then. I can do that. Recently, I’ve suspected that consuming an entire LARGE bag of roasted, salted cashews also causes problems. Like duh, mucho oil in peanuts, but I’d heard it was ‘good’ oil. And I do SO love cashews.
Fine. No nuts then.
No oil, no nuts. Am I going to eat everything broiled? Boiled? Heated in the sun perhaps? Oh, wait, I forget I live in the UK. No daylight - let alone sun recently. My problems are only just beginning.
Where was I? Oh yeah, no nuts, no oil, no heat.
So I’m looking around diligently for some holy bible and I find a guide … it seems to be quite a good one; it sets down foods I should be eating and shouldn’t be eating, with reasons.
It starts off (with nice pictures), "choose nutrient-rich, anti-oxidant packed foods". I don’t know what this means, but I’m willing to keep reading, so I get to the end in a few short minutes … I won’t bore you too much, but the contents boil down to:
Eat 5 servings of fruit/veg a day: Strawberries, apricots, plums, raspberries are good anti-oxidants, as are carrots, squash, spinach, broccoli and leafy greens. Uh oh. I like strawberries in that list. And Carrots, some spinach and a minor amount of broccoli.
It goes on: Cut down on carbohydrates, they force your body to generate extra insulin, which is ultimately bad for skin.
Choose foods which are low in sugar: bananas, white rice, pasta, grapes, potatoes, refined pastries and sweets.
Errr. Right then. So I have to cut down on everything I usually like eating, and swap in non-Waidat-friendly foods … which are … what? Strawberries for breakfast? Surely generations of orientals have been gorging themselves on white rice, living longer, and not doing too badly on skin? Maybe I’m racially immune to the death-rice in the same way that caucasians are naturally (kinda) immune to the effects of alcohol? Can I eat cereal? Isn’t that mostly corn? What about milk? Argh!
Strawberries, no pasta, no white rice. Hmmm. Noodles? :p
Aha. Strawberries, apples, mango, kiwi, muesli, and plain yoghurt? Thanks P. Stolen. Chore! omg. I’m in the wrong country. I’ll burn off calories while I make it… and chew through it. Healthy though I guess. That’s going to be one strange breakfast. No milk, no cereal, no bread. Hum.
Carrots, spinach, fish, chicken - grilled or boiled … right. Going out to eat is going to be complicated…
Day 1 starts tomorrow. No wait, day after tomorrow… see how it goes :p
*sob* No sweets, no chocolate. Wtf. No cake. That’s cruel. Stupid people, why invent cake if I can’t eat it?
