Operation 365
Monday 17th September
Me and gluten have a love-hate relationship. I love it, and it hates me.
It is Very Easy™ to avoid gluten - all I have to do is not put it into my mouth.
If you’ve ever tried to give something up, especially something which doesn’t make you come out in spots, or make you feel bad straight away, then you’ll know what a sensible, yet impossibly difficult statement that is.
I have a friend who is doing something much harder than giving up gluten, and he has introduced me to the idea of Operation 365.
I already, generally, do the teeth-cleaning and bathing and getting up in the morning referred to in the linked blog, but I know that the gluten thing is wrong. Why don’t I give myself sufficient credit to not kill myself slowly? So I’m hereby going to stop putting things containing gluten into my mouth. Just for one year. 365 days.
I apologise in advance to anyone for whom this causes difficulty. Believe me, I don’t want to be a pain. If I could get away with it, I would. But I know, deep down, that I can’t.
“It’s in me”.
Thanks Henry.
Good luck wth your 365 days!
John
17 Sep 07 at 3:03 pm
Thanks.
I did put “gluten free” on the ’special needs’ bit of the wedding reply, didn’t I?
stu
17 Sep 07 at 3:07 pm
What? No more pies?!!! For 365 days? That’s terrible. I will try not be a bad influence. Good luck.
Helen
17 Sep 07 at 5:07 pm
Living without gluten is very very difficult. I have been there. You have to live on cack, esp if you dont eat meat. Good luck (do you want to buy some of these gluten free cereal bars?)
lordhutton
17 Sep 07 at 5:44 pm
Stu: Yep, we have your dietery needs down for the hotel, there’s a few gluton free on the list so you’re not alone
John
17 Sep 07 at 6:44 pm
Haha…interesting typo there, John. I should be ‘glutton-free’, but I don’t think I can do it….hehe.
Kika
18 Sep 07 at 7:11 am
Or it could all be in your head….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7000291.stm
rollasoc
18 Sep 07 at 11:11 am
Oh yeah
gluten LOL!
John
18 Sep 07 at 11:44 am
It could be, rollasoc, but it isn’t.
stu
18 Sep 07 at 12:43 pm
wow, that article manages to say nearly nothing in 12 paragraphs!
1) Lots of people think they have food intolerances.
2) In a survey, 40% of people thought that food intolerances were trendy
3) The author thinks that means that the people in (1) are ‘imagine’-ing it
In fact the author doesn’t even necessarily think that, as imagine is in quotes!
sweavo
18 Sep 07 at 2:54 pm
“While many of the nine million who also claim to be intolerant may well be so, it is suggested they may just be fussy.”
This is [expletive deleted] annoying for someone who would love to be able to eat bread, pastry, pie and pizza without problems.
But next time the ends of my fingers start dropping off and I have feet and fingers covered in verrucas (yes… verrucas on fingers) and cuts and grazes which don’t heal for weeks, I’ll come and see anyone who doesn’t believe me.
Although I won’t because I’m on Operation 365 so it won’t happen any more.
stu
18 Sep 07 at 3:00 pm
I totally sympathise with the love-hate relationship thing, except mine is with a range of food that I really must cut down on to get my weight down to a sennsible level.
I admire your commitment to this 365 thing (and the others who are doing it too).
Lisa
19 Sep 07 at 5:13 pm