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[carmarthenshire]

I have just been tested for foods and I have had bad news!!! (I have acne but aint that bad just constant)
I have to stay off wheat so bread pasta etc
milk
sugar
pork so bacon/ham arghhhhhhhh
cod liver oil
washing powder(need natural type/special one)
etc
I am gutted she told me my body is sensitive to these items and worse of all alcohol, how can I live please helpppppppppppppp
any suggestion on what I can eat?

[R.S.]

Change your dietary outlook. Start living off an abundance of fruits, vegetables, legumes and gluten free grains.

Breakfast could be something like Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Hot Cereal, or an assortment of fruits.
Lunch could be a salad or homemade soup. Maybe brown rice bread.
Dinner could be something like lentils with garlic / onions / other vegetables added into the mix. Or a rice dish, or brown rice spaghetti, chicken if you're not sensitive to that, or fish if that's fine.

You may want to look into alternative ways to treat food intolerances, like MSM, liver flushing, probiotics, bowel cleansing etc.

[carmarthenshire]

Change your dietary outlook. Start living off an abundance of fruits, vegetables, legumes and gluten free grains.

Breakfast could be something like Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Hot Cereal, or an assortment of fruits.
Lunch could be a salad or homemade soup. Maybe brown rice bread.
Dinner could be something like lentils with garlic / onions / other vegetables added into the mix. Or a rice dish, or brown rice spaghetti, chicken if you're not sensitive to that, or fish if that's fine.

You may want to look into alternative ways to treat food intolerances, like MSM, liver flushing, probiotics, bowel cleansing etc.

thank you mate that really does help but if you know more or any1 please write its very helpful!!
mat

[KnowShow]

it could be worse..


this is what I eat in a typical day...

meal 1:

1 apple, some rasberries, some grapes
Cucumbers w/ extra virgin olive oil w/ a dash of balsamic vinegar
2 egg yolks mixed with fresh squeezed orange juice

meal 2:

1 bosc pear, kiwi, strawberries
Cucumbers w/ extra virgin olive oil w/ a dash of balsamic vinegar

meal 3:

1/2 grapefruit w/ rasberries
Cucumbers w/ extra virgin olive oil w/ a dash of balsamic vinegar
2 egg yolks

repeat

sometimes I'll have a snack of brazilian nuts, raw honey, dried blueberries, and sunflower seeds. yum .

Now I see they told you not to eat sugar, but I am extremely sensative to food, as you can see and I eat raw honey and fruit and it doesnt give me any acne.. Now I also eat fat, brazilian nuts or olive oil right after the sugar, this stabilizes my blood sugar level, and as someone else said it makes the sugar digest slower.. Good luck..


p.s. about 1 more week and I should be 98% clear.. pretty much not getting any new zits.. If I do get them its because I smoke pot and drink tea. but they both bring warm heat into my body, which I need, and the pot actually helps to stabilize my body weight... I only smoke once at night before I go to bed.. not even every night..

[R.S.]

so do you ever notice weed breaking you out? im not sure if it breaks me out or not, i go back and forth on it.

[KnowShow]

i wish i really knew.... i go back and fourth too.. I always thought it did and then I quit for a long time and noticed no difference at all.. actually I got worse but I was also eating TONS OF FOOD.. 6-7 large meals a day, 6-7 protein shakes a day, and eating frozen microwaved fried chicken and other nasty stuff. So I definately didn't get any better. But now with the diet I'm on its alot easier to tell whats making me break out. I experiment with too many things at once though.. I really should be more patient. Last week it was either L'Oreal tanning towlettes or the weed. Now its either the green tea, brazilian nuts, sunflower seeds, or the weed. I am 99% its not the nuts or the seeds, I really think its the tea but I'm not sure. I do usually wash my face right after I smoke which probably helps. Also I tried cooking with weed. I made a butter, and although a little bit gets you really high all day long and its a 500% better value for your money, I definately noticed it made me break out, but that was probably just the butter. I then made cookies with the butter, but I could never eat wheat, or anything cooked even, but my friends got really messed up. Its like the feeling right before you start tripping on acid or mushrooms. Some people actually tripped out. Anyways the recipe is here, its really good. http://www.ktc.com/~bdrake/marfoo.html

In conclusion, based on instinct and a little experience I would have to say that weed makes me break out a little bit. Very small pimples that heal quickly.

[jorrellpogi]

hmmmm... too much peanut butter makes my skin very oily the next day...

[carmarthenshire]

thank you very much guys it does help a lot discussing things and also it shows that I am not alone. This morning I have eaten ryvita and a banana.Im takin 10 chicken legs,1 orangew,1 apple,and these wierd healthy biscuits to work lol
lets see how they go init!!!
KEEP THE THREAD GOIN!!
MORE HEALTHY FOOD IDEAS PLEASE
best regards to all
matty

[CandyFlipper]

I'm so glad that diet dosn't affect my acne. I couldnt stand eating seeds and shit all day.

[ness25]

you sound like me. wheat and dairy is off limits. if its any consolation you do adapt eventually!

[KnowShow]

I'm so glad that diet dosn't affect my acne. I couldnt stand eating seeds and shit all day.

I would hate it if diet didn't effect my acne. There is a belief that almost all acne is caused by diet, the rest is by a hormonal imbalance, which you can never control. I have complete control over my acne. I know exactly what causes it and I know how to stop it. I used to not think that diet effected my acne too, but it does.

[R.S.]

You can affect your hormones through diet as well as through taking certain supplements. Whoever told you you couldn't didn't do their research. The most obvious example is the IGF-1 hormone... coincidentally the one that causes acne!

[No I'm Amy]

What I hate is that I HAVE to have dairy so I can't just quit....

[R.S.]

why do you have to have dairy?
you can adapt to rice milk as far as taste for using it in cereal, this is coming from someone who spent their first 15 or 16 years absolutely in love with breakfast cereals and 2% milk, so much that even when i was 8 years old i'd eat it atleast 2 times a day. (looking back this is probably reason why wheat and dairy aren't good for my skin)
you can get protein from other sources. eggs are a higher quality source, and lean meats like turkey and chicken are other options. fish is also great. spirulina is an awesome vegetable source.

[JBHK]

I have just been tested for foods and I have had bad news!!! (I have acne but aint that bad just constant)
I have to stay off wheat so bread pasta etc
milk
sugar
pork so bacon/ham arghhhhhhhh
cod liver oil
washing powder(need natural type/special one)
etc
I am gutted she told me my body is sensitive to these items and worse of all alcohol, how can I live please helpppppppppppppp
any suggestion on what I can eat?

This isn't a bad list at all. You dont mention why you cant each bread and pasta - I assume that it is because you are wheat intolerant. However, there are many wheat free pastas out there made of rice, corn, buckwheat etc etc. You can also do wheat free bread, but you may need to experiment to find something edible. Just do a little hunting around and you will find something in health food shops. As far as alternative grains are concerned you could have oats, rye, barley (assuming you are not gluten intolerant) as well as rice, buckwheat and quinoa. You haven't listed an intolerance to any vegetables and you can also chow down on those as well as root veg like potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams - I am sure there are other less well known foods you could try. You also appear to be able to eat fruit, meat, fish and poultry, beans & pulses as well as nuts? There are also plenty of diary alternatives for example rice milk, almond milk, soy milk etc etc (but watch out for added sugar). You could also try soy cheese but that is something of an acquired taste. Sorry - cant think of an alternative to alcohol but you can see that you have a HUGE range of foods open to you.

[ritzvin]

I have just been tested for foods and I have had bad news!!! (I have acne but aint that bad just constant)
I have to stay off wheat so bread pasta etc
milk
sugar
pork so bacon/ham arghhhhhhhh
cod liver oil
washing powder(need natural type/special one)
etc
I am gutted she told me my body is sensitive to these items and worse of all alcohol, how can I live please helpppppppppppppp
any suggestion on what I can eat?

wheat intolerance here too... my typical diet is:

breakfast: either

oatmeal and oatbran (I buy the organic brands that state gluten free, since those companies are probably more careful about limiting wheat contamination, which is common in oats...severe celiacs should avoid oats) cold with milk of half&half. If it's the lactose in milk you can't tolerate, you can buy lactase enzyme pills or lactaid (milk with lactase added).

or gluten-free toast (Glutino Fiber Bread) with butter and cream cheese (may ar may not be a problem if your dairy intolerance is due to lactose and not casein; will still be a problem if you are allergic to casein). On gluten-free breads-- a good rule of thumb is to buy the breads with the longest list of grains, and avoid those that only have rice flour in them - those usually suck. Since I seem to be intolerant to potatoes as well, I also avoid potato starch, a common ingredient in gluten free flour bases unfortunately.

or

a gluten-free TV dinner (I keep a few in the fridge at work for when I don't have time beforehand to eat). Amy's makes a few. Go to the organic section of your supermarket, and read the labels, looking for ingredients you can't eat.

Lunch:
Coffee sweetened with 2-3 packets of stevia; a jar of baby food (there are a lot of really good fruit ones; no prep needed to eat and the ingredients are very basic- almost all are just the fruit and a very mild preservative such as citric acid)

dinner:
meat on grill (usually chicken with poultry seasoning); a vegetable (canned -> microwave) and/or salad (with shredded cheese, crumbled tortilla chips (make sure they're only corn-based), and sour cream/salsa blend)


Oh- on the rice milk: many have gluten in them (they add barley malt as a flavoring), so make sure you read labels.

washing powder: If you mean body soap/wash, you don't actually need one...unless you've gotten into something oily, water alone will be enough. For face, I use fragrance-free baby wipes since they're convenient and I find most scents in products to be obnoxious.
If you mean laundry detergent, there is a large variety of more organic products out there....which one is best-affordable depends on which component of your current stuff is bothering you..it could be the fragrance, the particular detergent, the phosphates, etc. Also use the lowest amount you need to get your clothes clean. I liked the scent of Ecover, which I used for a while (I found a generic 'non-organic' detergent with a mild enough scent that it didn't bother me and use that now).

[ritzvin]

I'm so glad that diet dosn't affect my acne. I couldnt stand eating seeds and shit all day.

lol. me neither. Unfortunately, I am gluten-intolerant. I don't know if it ever affected my acne (it probably did), but it did make my stomach blow up painfully (bloated to the point that I looked 6 months pregnant) and me incredibly tired (1 cookie = me passed out on the couch for several hours and waking up still exhausted and groggy). Fortunately, I'm not a vegetarian, so I'm not suffering too greatly.

[No I'm Amy]

I probably am gluten-intolerant. I don't care.

Guess what? The bran stuff that I ate for dinner today tasted like fine, but they made me gag, seriously. When I have flake bran, it is fine, but this stuff looks like wood.

[AndD]

I have just been tested for foods and I have had bad news!!! (I have acne but aint that bad just constant)
I have to stay off wheat so bread pasta etc
milk
sugar
pork so bacon/ham arghhhhhhhh
cod liver oil
washing powder(need natural type/special one)
etc
I am gutted she told me my body is sensitive to these items and worse of all alcohol, how can I live please helpppppppppppppp
any suggestion on what I can eat?

I had the same tests done a while back. Im allergic to quite a few citrus fruits and a few other things. Its tricky to judge how significant these allergens are and you should not always assume they directly contribute to acne and may just be causing other minor problems you may not be aware of, such as sinus problems/ coughs/ itching etc. I think your best process now would be to test yourself now by sticking to a strict diet for a while and then slowly trying each of the foods you were tested to be allergic too, and seeing what results you may get. I think its important to not get too hung up on food and acne connections. Remember like i said these tests dont in any way prove or unprove that these foods cause acne (which in most cases they dont, food is more likely to aggravate acne than cause it). I know from experience myself that cutting out those foods made no change to my acne problems.

[Danny©]

I have just been tested for foods and I have had bad news!!! (I have acne but aint that bad just constant)
I have to stay off wheat so bread pasta etc
milk
sugar
pork so bacon/ham arghhhhhhhh
cod liver oil
washing powder(need natural type/special one)
etc
I am gutted she told me my body is sensitive to these items and worse of all alcohol, how can I live please helpppppppppppppp
any suggestion on what I can eat?

You're not that very limited in your choices
Mind you, milk and gluten are very recent items in human nutrition.
There are several theories about the natural diet of humans from the fruitarian/natural hygiene to the paleolithic and although they disagree all agree about the fact that drinking the milk of non human-mammals and consuming gluten containing grains is a modern practice and that humans have lived in good health (as showed by their bones and DNA analysis of fossil feces) without drinking any milk or eating any grain: just fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, eggs and nuts.

Pork even more is a very recent item compared to human history and humans have been eating the meat of hearvivorous animals but rarely the meat of carnivorous or omnivorous animals which is not healthy anyway and infected. There are raw foodists who eat raw meat (Vonderplanitz and so on) and they're healthy enough to testimony that meat can be eaten raw but the meat of carnivorous or omnivorous animals can't be eaten raw and it's too infected by bacteria. We can live without pork doing also a favour to our body

That leaves you with different alternatives: are you intollerant to yogurt and liquid yogurt too
Yogurt contains way less lactose and so does cottage cheese
Also goat milk is very different from cow milk so you could be still intolerant to milk but could consume yogurt, cottage cheese and goat milk
If that doesn't work there's always soy milk, almond milk, coconut milk and rice milk

There are a lot of grains which have no gluten and taste better than wheat
Quinoa, Millet, Buckwheat, Oats, Corn, Amaranth, Rice
You can find flour made with this grain and make your cakes, pancakes and crepes or you can buy bread and pasta made with these grains

What does it mean that you're allergic to sugar? Does it mean table sugar? Are you allowed to use honey instead or else fructose. Also this may be a chance to eat healthier and avoid putting sugar everywhere flavoring cakes, cereals or whatever with fruit juice and natural occuring sugars

As for the pork you have so many alternatives: chicken, turkey, beef alone would provide anything pork provided to you. Wurstel and sausages made of chicken or turkey taste way better IMO than pork wurstel and sausages. And there's also beef ham and beef roast... so you have ample choices

Danny