Hello, hello! So today i am wearing a ball gown
Because
Because reasons
My tip for the day, er, when you feel ill, sparkle
That should be in my book
Thank you for your like, really kind comments yesterday
About my brace
Thank you also to those of you who commented on my You Decide, Yeah!
It was really good to hear what you're interested in
and what you want to see more of
So
Watch the video and tell me what you want to see
I know it's been a few months probably
Er, since I updated you
erm on my diet, I hate, I really hate the sign for diet is
diet
But I think that it should be diet, because it's actually, I mean food
But the reason that I kind of haven't told you more
About the foodstuffs I like now
Is that I, kind of the classic, obvious thing
Where I had a pretty major setback
It's that thing, that thing, where you're feeling so good
Like, yeah it's going really well
But because you've been really regimented
Erm, with yourself yeah, yeah, I'm feeling great, I'm feeling good
So you get invited to someone's birthday party
And you're like, yeah, I'll be grand, I'll be fine.
Everyone's having dinner and you're like yeah, I'll get involved, I'll get involved
A ha ha ha
No
Do not do that
So we had this amazing night out
We were just partying away, but I just kind of couldn't get back on track
After that
Which is a bit of a problem
Er, just all vomiting, like for a whole week
and I ate, there was a huge spike in my
Well, I guess not a spike, because it's like a drop
Anyway, my blood pressure would just drop
So, I was having to lie on the floor with my legs in the air
trying to get all the blood back to my head
So I could stop thinking
after I eat things
It felt like my brain was about to explode
It was just, madness
and erm, that really freaks me out because I had two years probably
two years of that
I was just, ugh, sick, pass out, on the floor
My god, if you told nineteen year old me I'd actually be able to sit up one day that would have been exciting
So, yeah, at the same time as this stuff going wrong,
I was also seeing my doctor, my gastroenterologist, and they want to put me on the FODMAP diet, which is
Also I'm not going to fingerspell gastroenterologist
And at the same time, vlogmas was about to start and
And it just wasn't ...
But things get better, they always get better
I thing that was really holding me back, erm from the candidia diet
I'm kind of becoming well on it really, was that I, I had very little sugar previously
When I started the diet
I had cut out all of the sugar that I did have
I had to cut all the sugar that I did have
Which was mainly berries
But I hadn't added back in any of the carby things which you are meant to have
Now, you are supposed to have, which you desperately need.
I know, i know
Always the brightest spark
Claudia sat me down and was like, this is ridiculous
The whole goal of this journey that I'm on is that so that I can start eating
Eating things that make my life a bit easier
I want to be able to eat everything
In the gluten free
So, we have been trying one new thing every fortnight
And this is how it's gone so far
Number one, bananas
This includes banana pancakes
erm, I've had some smoothies, I actually hate smoothies
but there you go
Grain free banana muffins
If you haven't eaten them for a long time, your tummy will really hurt
It's not a good idea
no
Erm, plus side
It's really yummy, it's really good
I feel like the amount of sugar in bananas is probably too much for me
More than one a day
but I guess, you know, normal people probably don't eat more than one a day do they?
Number two, sweet potato
I do know that that is baby sign but
So now I'm a brace face,
Sweet potatoes are pretty much my lifeline
I eat one a day
I would say
They are so good
They'ree really mushy, and they give me so much energy
I now get headaches if I don't have a sweet potato a day
That's wierd, I think I'm addicted to sweet potatoes
number three, quinoa
Don't make me spell that
It made me really sick, like really really sick
It was disgusting
Number four, potatoes, the regular kind
So far, I have eaten chips. Chips?
I 've eaten chips, erm, roast potatoes
Erm, I found that the easiest thing to eat is definitely chips
I don't know, maybe it has something to do with the fat content
Because I'm used to eating really fatty foods
Eating it in any other kind of way, I can only, I can only eat about, Like half
Of a potato
But with chips I can eat more
No, but I think it's kind of building up that tolerance
Erm, I definitely couldn't have eaten these before eating the sweet potatoes I don't think
I think that really helped, having one of those a day
built up my tolerance to regular potatoes
Number five, sugary fruits
No
No, don't be silly
I don't want to give myself a heart attack.
the vomiting is gross enough, but the heart palpitations freak me out
when i eat sugary things, so
But, back to berries, which is good, yeah!
Number six, rice
Rice makes me very excited because, you maybe know, I think I've discussed this before
But, Claudia is half Malaysian
And most of her favourite foods all involve rice
She eats Chinese Malay food and I love it, and I want to eat so much more of it, OMG
When we were in Malaysia, everything, I was just like OMG, everything, put everything in my mouth now
I eat so much, it is ridiculous
So, I've tried rice now, in both the, erm, kind of grain form and in the more kind of mushy form, Used as rice flour to make something
Dim sum, there you go.
I was so happy I could cry, I think I did cry
It was so good
And, the first time it did hurt, my stomach a little bit, and I was a little bit sick, but not that much
But then it could also have been because some of the sauces were very sugary
So, then I was a lot more careful and I didn't have the sugary sauces
Just had things that involved the rice, and slight tummy pain but no sick
And then the third time, erm, my tummy didn't hurt at all, it was really wonderful, it made me happy
The dream of being able to eat lots of things in the gluten free aisle, is definitely becoming more of a reality
Yeah!
Yeah, like this video, especially if you want to see more
erm, or me trying new foods, I might just sit here on camera and try some new food
There are so many things that I've not, I've not eaten for like fifteen years
popcorn, what does popcorn even taste like anymore?
I don't know
erm, And also, comment down below, and let me know what you think of my little food journey
And also some foods that you think I should try
If there's anything that you're like, yeah, go for it Jessica
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