After I wrote my last post, I began considering the idea that I might want to add back in one major group, just so that I’d have something else to eat. Right now it’s pretty lean times over here, made much worse by the fact that I just don’t like a lot of vegetables. 

So I went ahead and made some split pea soup (which, no kidding, I just found out today was a lentil – I thought peas were vegetables and thus, split peas were just dried veggies), and afterward had what’s been my usual reaction to beans; bad heartburn, only this time I also wrote down that I noticed headaches, gas, and pressure in my chest (bloating?), as well as feeling anxious and just generally grouchy. It took hours to go away, but finally it all did. 

A little while ago I had some hummus on my rice crackers, and geez, here it all is again. What the heck? 

I went to Google and looked up “food intolerance”, and found this page at WebMd on food allergies vs. intolerances, and they have this list for “symptoms of a food intolerance”:

• Nausea
• Stomach pain
• Gas, cramps, or bloating
• Vomiting
• Heartburn
• Diarrhea
• Headaches
• Irritability or nervousness

Okay, well that’s interesting. So here I was thinking I should let beans back in, and now I’m having second thoughts. I’ll think more on this and get back to it tomorrow. For now I’m going to go to bed and hope these symptoms don’t keep me up half the night. Gah, the headache is astounding.