When A Little More is NOT Okay

Okay, a reminder here to: watch your low level sensitivities because they can escalate. The past week or so I’ve been upping the number of Starbucks soy lattes I’ve been drinking. I’ve also been craving pudding lately so—because I cannot have milk—have been eating soy pudding. Not a huge amount but definitely more than usual (my usual is none—I usually don’t buy it). The past week I’ve noticed an increasing asthma problem due to heartburn/gas and have been at wit’s end figuring out what the hell I ate to cause the problem.

Cottonwood issues have been at play too, so I’ve been blaming most of my problems on that but this morning, when I woke up around 4:30 with another asthma attack, I let my mind wonder about what the hell was bugging me, and then I knew: it’s the extra soy. I’ve gone from 1-2 servings of soy a week to at least six-seven times that. And that is far, far too much and has escalated my sensitivity. So, time to cut soy back out of my diet for now—and then test to see if I can have any of it considering I’ve sensitized myself to it so highly. Which means only buying the espresso at Starbucks and adding my own milk substitute to it, cutting out anything that is a soy substitute like pudding, ice cream, soy cheeses, etc.

The moral of this blog? Remember your low level sensitivities and take them seriously. They can escalate, just like any allergy or intolerance, and the result can be painful.

Yasmine