At first, I was worried that something was pretty wrong with me, but considering the recent bloodwork tests I’ve had done (end of June), if something was wrong, I’d probably have already noticed it at that time. So I poked and prodded, and asked other people about that mysterious phenomenon, mostly on 3FC. And it appears that I’m far from being the only one whose tolerance threshold to certain foods has plummeted down in the past two years.
What I call ‘tolerance threshold’ is simply the ability of my body to eat and especially digest not-so-healthy foods. It seems to me that the more healthily I eat in the long run, the less I can tolerate junk foods such as McDonald’s, ice-cream, a certain quantity of chocolate, etc. I cannot eat a whole chocolate cake all by myself any more without feeling drowsy, with trembling hands and a nasty headache. I can’t eat ice-cream any more without suffering a stomach ache all night long. And if I dare eat just a little too much or a little too often at a hamburger joint, let me tell you that I have to be prepared to face dire intestinal consequences in the next couple of days.
Other people who answered my query on 3FC testified about similar problems. One person in particular even noticed that after a meal at the restaurant, eating in quantities she wasn’t used to any more, her blood pressure would fell to the point of making her really sick and about to faint. She assumed it was because of the food, for such a coincidence cannot be just that–the same way that my symptoms of hypoglycemia are certainly not symptoms of a pre-diabete or whatever of that kind, since those things don’t develop overnight: I think I can safely assume that eating too much chocolate and sugary processed things sent my body into temporary alert mode.
Is it that our bodies lose their ability to digest those foods? That it demands them too much effort? Moreover, is it, all that simply, normal, because Nature hasn’t meant us to eat processed items? I don’t know. I don’t have any definite answer to that.
Regardless, I have decided to consider this phenomenon as a blessing. After all, why should I care about not being able to eat four croissants in a row any more? What kind of good were those doing to me anyway? I don’t and can’t care about gaining more unwanted pounds, nor about lacking essential nutriments because my food comes from crap. I very much doubt that being now unable to eat a half-ton of junk will make me ‘not fun to hang with’, or whatever other sorry argument some people like throwing into others’ faces. (And if the only valuable thing in me was my former ability to eat crap, let me tell you that I’m also better off without that!)
- Kery, whose body is becoming useful for a change
August 21st, 2007 at 13:40
That really does sound like a blessing!
I can, unfortunately, still eat plenty of Crap with no repercussions other than guilt.
But guilt feels pretty bad too, so that usually keeps me from porking out too bad.
Interesting though, that so many people are experiencing this!
August 21st, 2007 at 14:54
Ah, guilt on the other hand is something I’ve finally got rid of. Whether it’s for the best or not, I still don’t know…
But yes, I found it interesting to notice I wasn’t the only one. That other day, when I felt sweaty and all after eating too much sugary stuff, for a moment I really worried about actually being sick, like some pre-diabetes or something setting in. (Those mental-movies I run in my head past midnight ARE ridiculous, alright.)