00:00 I can only eat 9 foods and yes I really do mean only 9 foods.
00:03 I have a few different health issues that have contributed to this, the main one being
00:07 MCAS.
00:08 And I just want to say everyone with MCAS is very different.
00:11 Some people have no food allergies and some have more than me.
00:14 The reactions people have can also be extremely different and like this person said in their
00:18 comment, they can also only eat 10 foods but they're completely different from mine.
00:22 And I will go into the 9 foods that I can eat but I just want to say a couple of things
00:24 before I do that.
00:25 Eating like this is not healthy for most people.
00:28 This is just what I have to do given all my complicated health issues.
00:31 I have a team of doctors and dietitians and nutritionists that look at what I eat and
00:35 they make sure that I'm getting the best possible nutrition that I can given these circumstances.
00:40 And showing what I eat and talking about all of this is not meant for inspiration.
00:43 This is just to give you insight into what my life is like and some of the challenges
00:46 I have that you wouldn't know about unless I told you.
00:48 If seeing somebody eat like this is triggering to you then you don't need to watch the videos.
00:52 In the end it's up to me what I decide to share and what I don't but you never know
00:55 the full picture so please just don't make assumptions.
00:57 Okay I know you've all been waiting so I'm now going to tell you what the 9 foods are
01:00 that I can eat.
01:01 The 2 proteins I can have are turkey and mahi mahi.
01:03 The vegetables I can have are cucumber, green beans and zucchini.
01:08 And then the 3 things that I can like add to my food are olive oil, salt and lime.
01:13 And then I also have the glucose supplement.
01:14 And I eat about 6 more meals a day just because I feel like I need to eat every few hours
01:19 just because my body digests the food so quickly because it's so simple.
01:22 And I do also get a lot of calories from the glucose drink which is a medical dietary supplement.
01:26 This is how I figured out that I was allergic to everything except the 9 foods that I eat.
01:50 So how did I determine what I could and couldn't eat?
01:52 I used to be able to eat almost anything and when my symptoms started to get a lot worse
01:57 I had to figure out what was causing them and I realised that it was whatever foods
02:00 I was eating.
02:01 So over the past 5 years I've worked to figure out what foods were causing those symptoms
02:05 and just basically eliminating them one by one out of my diet.
02:08 If I ate a food and had some kind of allergic reaction to it and that happened multiple
02:12 times in a row over multiple weeks then I would know that that was a food that I shouldn't
02:16 be eating.
02:17 And a lot of people ask if the foods ever change and the answer is yes they do but so
02:21 far for me I haven't ever been able to eat a food that I previously was unable to eat
02:25 it's only been the other way around.
02:27 MCAS there are flare ups and some of them can last anywhere from a few minutes to a
02:31 few days but some of them can be longer and more permanent.
02:35 Those permanent flare ups basically what happens is your mast cells become more reactive to
02:39 certain things.
02:40 This could happen if I get sick or if I have an extended period of extreme stress.
02:45 And when I've had those permanent flare ups I have become allergic to more foods that
02:48 I previously wasn't allergic to.
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