I had a lightbulb moment that I’m honestly surprised didn’t hit me sooner. But I guess that’s one of the great things about blogging. So I talked about my mom having the fructose thing. Growing up we just referred to it as her being allergic to sugar. It wasn’t until a couple of years ago that she actually found out what it was and what caused it. So all these years (really until today) I kept wondering if I had a slight intolerance to sugar since she had a total intolerance. But then I realized that hers was caused by missing an enzyme. And either you are missing an enzyme or you aren’t … no in-betweens or degrees there.
Part of the reason I wondered was because I’d read somewhere that if one has a craving for something (like bread) then chances are pretty good that one can actually have an intolerance to it. (As an aside I often use the words intolerance and allergy interchangeably, even though allergy is life-threatening while intolerance merely makes you sick.) As I continue on my journey, though, I’m finding that people state theories as facts all the time, so just because somebody says it doesn’t make it so. And even if it is true for one person that doesn’t necessarily make it true for me.
Another thing I realized is how important balance is. Balance in the physical sense, not in the eating sense. I am very right dominant in my balance … if I go down an escalator, I have to be on the right side or I feel like I am going to fall over. And when I do anything, I always have to start with my right side. Since doing 30 DS, I’ve exponentially improved my balance. I can do things I never thought I could do before and I’m much more conscious of my posture and my balance. Plus I challenge myself to do things and am using my left hand in a lot of tasks where before I’d always use my right hand.
Meanwhile it looks like we are moving sometime during the 4th quarter. The project Mac was working on is done and he isn’t interested in the operations phase. Not sure where we will end up … the company has made multiple offers to him but none of the projects really interest him. He may take retirement and work as a consultant. I just want to end up somewhere warm again for the winters. 
Hi! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today to visit. I’ll skim through some of your past posts over the next few days — love to get to know new people that way. I liked your comment about intolerances — I’ve called it “sensitivity” to certain things, but your description sounds more accurate. A few weeks ago I was on a bagel bender, and while I gained only about 3 pounds, I had terrible swelling of my legs, abdomen, face, and boobs. I actually was having something akin to menstrual cramps although I am 7 years post-menopausal. As soon as I cut out nearly all bread, the swelling disappeared and I have now started losing weight again. Hope you visit me again.
Marsial
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I wish I could remember the name of the world-known pediatrician (Dr. Dobson, I think?) who wrote in one of his many books how cravings ARE a sign of intolerance and/or allergies. And it certainly was proven true with my daughter. She loved tomatoes as a child. I could put a plate of cookies and a plate of sliced tomatoes side by side, and she’d go for the tomatoes. At six, she also had a problem with bed wetting, most noteably at sleep overs. Well, read the book, put two and two together, and removed tomatoes from her life. And let’s face it, at kid’s sleepovers, what’s the typical diet? Pizza, hot dogs or hamburgers, with catsup, french fries with catsup….LOTS of tomatoe products. Sure enough, she never had a bed wetting problem again. Apparently, the scientific reason is the allergic reaction was enough to swell her brain a tad, and make the receptors that speak to the bladder not work quite so well, so she wasn’t ‘getting the message’ that she needed to get up and go potty.
Science is an amazing thing, when we pay attention to what it can tell us.
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Marsial and Sunny — see that’s where the disconnect was with me. I thought because I “loved” bread that it must mean I had an intolerance to it. But I had NO symptoms, just not wanting to stop at one piece of homemade bread.
But why would you crave something you are allergic to? Just seems odd.