Ah...how to deal with this??

[shadowkat]

As many of you know - if you've read my lj for the last five or six months, I am gluten-sensitive. This means I cannot eat anything with gluten in it. Gluten = wheat, barely, oats, kamut, spelt, and millet. Also be careful of buckwheat (cross-contamination), oats is controversial.

Here's the problem...I'm considering doing a couple of things that involve lots of activities around food and with people who love to eat foods high in glutens: BBQ sauce, pancakes, pizza, cakes, cookies, brownies, most creative chocolates/candybars, pies, bread, sandwiches, bagels, muffins, smores, beer, some wines (not all, most are fine - particularly California wines are fine), crackers...and some ice creams. Both trips will be in environments where my choices are going to be limited. They group decides. Money is a factor. And one takes place at a conference in a Holiday Inn.

I don't know what to do? Do I bring food with me? I don't want to be an inconvenience or put people out. This has been my fear from the beginning. I *hate* being a bother or a pest. I *hate* being noticed. I'm the sort who goes along with what the group wants to eat - yay democracy. This diet makes that impossible. I will get sick.

Help???

Comments

[graffitiandsara.livejournal.com]

If you pack a lot of your own food you can snack in your hotel room at various times so that you're not as hungry when you're around people and that the temptation isn't as much of an issue. Anywhere that you can get pizza, you can also get salad, and if you're not that hungry it shouldn't be quite as hard to eat a salad while other people are eating other stuff. It doesn't inconvenience anyone if you order a salad from where ever they're ordering other stuff. It's more a question of how miserable will it make you to watch other people eat the things you can't? Being a food lover myself I can understand that issue.

As far as Tahoe, if it helps, I need to diet and I'll be glad to eat salads with you so at least you'll have company in your misery! And you'd be doing me a huge favor by keeping me from gaining the 5 pounds I probably would over that weekend!!!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Thank you sara.

I appreciate this. And you hit a bit of the nail on the head in your comment on why social activities with food are so hard. I've deleted so many posts on this topic.

And would appreciate the company.

You're coming the 22-26, right?

[graffitiandsara.livejournal.com]

We'll be there Friday June 23rd and we'll be leaving on Sunday on June 25th. I hope you can work it out to be there, I can use someone to keep me off the eating deep end!