What the hell am I supposed to eat?
I have endo on my bowel, along with hEDS, EOE, IBS, GERD, MCAS, and POTS. So to say my diet impacts my health would be a gross understatement. Every doctor I talk to, every Reddit post I read, every article, literally everyone just keeps saying “cut out carbs, limit sugar, don’t eat dairy or gluten, ooh you shouldn’t have red meat, don’t eat processed foods, eat all these vitamins, eat so much salt you drown in it, eat all this fiber but not too much!”
I live in a very small rural area. The closest movie theater to me is over 20 miles away. I drive thirty minutes to all of my doctors appointments. Our airport is smaller than our Walmart. There’s no gluten free, low fodmap, dairy free foods in our grocery stores. The produce is all processed garbage and the salads have all turned brown in the fridges and Lactaid is the closest to a vegan milk you’re gonna find.
Not to mention that even if I could find actual good, healthy foods products, I live my life in a constant state of pure agony and fatigue. Most days I only leave my bed four or five times to use the bathroom and feed my dog and that’s all the activity I can tolerate because I’m so fucking exhausted. I couldn’t cook a meal if you held a gun to my head.
Microwave dinners and snack foods are the only things keeping me alive. So unless someone plans on starting a brand of microwave dinners that are dairy free and gluten free and trans fat free and sugar free and whatever the fuck else my GI doctor is gonna yell at me for eating, and then someone manages to convince my population of 40k town to stock that shit, then I’m just gonna have to keep eating raisin brain and lean cuisine until the universe takes pity on me and hits me with a bus or something.