White Diet: Day 1

I went to see my mom's therapist yesterday and she suggested my constant stomach issues (I'm becoming lactose intolerant and I get heartburn when I eat a large meal) could be caused by my eating badly (sugar, heavy cream sauces, and lots of pasta.)

She referred me to the website of a nutritionist and suggested I try the diet entitled the White Diet. It's supposed to let my GI tract recover from all the abuse I've been tossing at it.

So I'm trying it. What can it hurt? Here's the gist of what I can't have for the next three days:

No fats, fiber, protein, dairy, artificial sweeteners, tea, coffee, fruit juices or flavored beverages.

What I can have has become a very small list: Plain rice with no pepper, Rice Krispies, Rice Chex, chicken Ramen, and Cream of Wheat (but I wouldn't touch that stuff normally.)

I'm sitting here munching Rice Krispies with no milk on them.

I also have to keep to a fairly strict diet for about two weeks after the three days of White Diet hell are over, just to get my system behaving again.

Just as a note: I HATE my Krispies without milk.

Here's a link to the page on her site: http://www.karenhurd.com/concern_bowel_disease.html


PS: The therapist also suggested that I might have Asperger's (I've heard this from three different experts now, so I've probably got it.) Someday I'll get this particular disability documented, too, but for now I'm just coping with having two papers due this weekend and being stuck on a rice diet.

PS: I failed already. Guess I'll start over tomorrow. What can I do when there's fast-food pizza being thrown at me from all directions?

Ta,
Bec