Both of my migraine cookbooks have arrived and they’ve got me thinking; nothing especially coherent so this will be a list post.
- First a lot of the migraine triggers are foods that I’ve come to like overtime after hating them in my childhood. Coincidence or did I not like them because I somehow knew my body couldn’t handle them?
- Also I can’t think of a single food that I eat once and suddenly migraine. Even chocolate I sometimes can cheat and get away with it and other times a few M&Ms kill me. Perhaps there is something these foods have in common that is building up over time resulting in a migraine.
- Even the list of taboo foods from the most restrictive of the two books is shorter than the one I was handed upon my diagnosis all those years ago, so that is hopeful. However, the fact that they don’t agree on what I should and should not eat is a bit worrisome.
- I don’t like most meats (chicken= exception that proves the rule see also hello stereotype) but it appears that most (all?) beans are triggers. This makes me sad
- Most cheeses are a no go. I will put off eliminating cheese from my diet for as long as humanly possible.
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I’d put off eliminating cheese from my diet for as long as possible too. I can’t live without cheese!
By the way, so glad you’re figuring some of this stuff out, and hopefully you’ll find a combination that works awesomely!
Interesting. Maybe the differences between books and doctors is that everyone’s trigger foods and the amount of the foods are different? based on their own bodies, hormones. etc?
As for cheese – eek! Maybe some other type of cheese like goat cheese would be an ok substitute? Or vegan cheese substitutes? Although I can’t believe I just suggested those as possible options….ugh.
No beans? Man. I love beans. Bummer.
I hope this starts you on a good path though! Thinking of you!