What can you not eat?

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Maybe not in the right section....maybe it is.

I cannot eat so many things these days, I hate it because I love to eat and I feel like the things i am able to eat just keeps getting smaller and smaller.

My body rejects everything seems like, I have went to a doctor and they ran tests (Vital signs are fine...why do you want these tests again? they ask...looking at me like I am an idiot because I appear perfectly healthy) so I had blood tests done because that's all that they would give me. And nothing showed up as irregular in the blood....supposedly did all the blood tests people might normally be tested for. (Not only for digestion at the time wanted to make sure my mental state wasn't as a result of some seperate illness entirely which is why medications weren't helping)

Here are the things I cannot eat:
Milk
Cereal
Sugary foods/drinks
Sandwhiches
Bread
Beer
Alcahol
Most things heated up in the microwave

So basicly I just eat oatmeal and tea though this is a bit of a lie as i usually eat one of the items on the list everyday because i can't eat oatmeal every meal of my life.

All these previous things mentioned I used to be able to eat.

The last year-2 years my body has grown to reject them.

I can't eat them because of the results afterward they affect everything....they can throw me into depression/anger/sadness, they can turn my stomach into nots, they can make me get stuck on the crapper all day, they basicly make me ill.

I don't know how to explain this to a doctor...and I don't know if there is anything they can do or if this is part of an aspies aging process. Am tired of going into the doctors office, not being able to explain myself and looking like an idiot.

Lentils give me epic gas of the gods. You can smell plus hear it in the kitchen while sitting in the living room.

It'd be easier to make a list of what I will eat. Very limited diet, always has been.

You seriously don't eat bread? o.o
But okay, my list is quite a long one, too, and most of the people can't imagine that, either...

Most of the things I reject I've been rejecting since childhood, as I've grown more accepting of food:

milk
tomatos (only raw ones, they're okay when cooked)
bananas
kohlrabi
coconut (I eat only tiny bits of fresh coconut)
fish (except for salmon and tuna)
nectarines (the taste isn't bad, but the texture...)
lentils
fat

These are the ones that I will not eat under threat of death, since I feel like throwing up when eating them.

Other things that are not as bad but still awfull are most vegetables, most fruit, "burning" sweet things, alcohol and quinoa (a certain grain). And I don't like if things are too salty or too hot (as in taste).

My parents were quite accepting of my eating habits and mostly tried to work around them. They had to, because with some stuff no threat would make me to eat them. It ended up in compromises, such as: I don't need to eat any of the really awfull food, and of the other food only tiny bits (three green beans per dish, for example)
I think it worked well.

I eat bread but it makes me kinda sick and ruins me mood

I like bread...=/ toast/sandwhiches/bagels

I've always had a very limited diet. I hate it, it's really embarrassing because my friends and family all take the piss and people can be really patronising to fussy eaters, especially when I ring up for a takeaway and have to ask what is in a dish or not to include certain things.

I can't eat any veg apart from peas and tinned carrots (can't stand the texture of the other type). Can't have anything that has a creamy texture - most sauces, custard, soup. Dairy products except for margarine on bread and semi-skimmed milk in coffee - not only do I hate the texture but it makes me feel really sluggish. Fatty meats - I love bacon but have given up eating it away from home as I have to cut off all the fat around it and most people don't understand that. Anything that has onions in it, even if it's a beefburger with a tiny bit of it in I will spit it out. That's just a few things, to make a full list of stuff I can't eat would take me all day.

Can't do the following without w/o a bad reaction:

wheat
dairy
corn (including corn syrup which is in virtually everything)
yeast
...and just about anything I eat for too long without a break, which has included so many things I couldn't list them all.

These days I do a "rotation diet" where I don't eat the same (or too closely related a) food without a 3 day break in between. It's boring, but at one point it was getting to where I couldn't eat anything without ending up so sedated I'd be nodding off face-first into my work (soldering) -- despite endless coffee and/or Adderal. For a "minor" problem like a food reaction, it was really horrible.

I'm not a fan of a lot of alternative health stuff, but I think this is one area where modern medicine is lacking. (Modern medicine is great for things that can kill you, but if the problem is not life threatening it seems not as great. ) I.e. I've heard of "food sensitivities" that don't how up on standard allergy tests. The only thing I found that helps it is the rotation diet (3 days in between eating a particular thing), and "pantethine" (basically a "metabolized" form of B-5/pantothenic acid).

Oh, and you probably already did, but if not check into gluten intolerance (celiac disease) and casien intolerance.

I have always eaten anything, it was always important for my mother I tasted everything. I used to dislike some food when I was a teen, but I went over it (fat for instance, can be really incredibly tasteful in the right conditions)

I'm French, I did a lot of restaurant crawling and had a couple of friends who are into serious cooking, and tasted really wired stuff (frogs and escargot being classics to me, so imagine...) and appreciated the taste if it was good and never really hated what was not.

To OP: The items you mentioned are all high carb, do you feel weak and dizzy after you eat them? There is reactive hypoglycemia that's not going to show up in a standard fasting glucose test. I believe I have it. I have all the symptoms anyway.

Sounds like you have some sort of gluten intolerance. ( sub-clinical or not close enough to classic celiac to show up on tests ). This is becoming increasingly common; not only do 1% of the population now have celiac disease, but between 7%-15% or more of the population probably have some degree of gluten-sensitivity. A recent study put that figure at 7%, and other studies show that 10%-15% of the population have elevated levels of gliadin antibodies.

Also dairy intolerance, and perhaps a yeast and sugar/carbohydrate sensitivity, but your reactions to beer etc might be to the cereals used and the trace gluten in the malt used in it, etc. You may be reacting to corn, or High-Fructose-Corn-Sugar in the soft drinks.

I have been gluten-free for three years, ( because it causes me depression among other things ), sucrose-free for a year, ( sugar makes me anxious/panicky ), soya and corn free for two, and I regularly stop eating dairy, because I notice it gives me brain fog and/or racing thoughts ( depending on other factors ), aswell as giving me a sniffy nose and congested chest. I have also almost completely stopped eating rice and pulses and potatoes because starchy carbohydrates seem to cause abdominal bloating/gas and major sleepiness/heaviness.

I tend to eat a lot of meat, some fish incl shellfish, plus mostly raw veg ( esp carrots and avocadoes ) and a bit of fruit.

PS. Oatmeal is almost always contaminated with gluten. But then if you are still eating gluten in daily foods it's unlikely to make much difference.

Don't want to sound gloomy, etc, but if you are gluten-intolerant as seems v likely the sooner you go completely gf the better because the effects are cumulative and get worse over time, including damage to the brain, peripheral neural pathways, the thyroid, ( studies show that autoimmune thyroid disease such as Hashimoto's is closely associated with untreated gluten intolerance/celiac disease ), and the pancreas, aswell as other organs.

PPS. A very useful site for info on gluten-intolerance is The Gluten File, at: http://sites.google.com/site/jccglutenfree/ Scroll down the front page a little and on the left-hand side are links to articles about testing.
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NB. A recent study showed that the intestinal wall cells of a subset, ( over a third ) of people on the autism spectrum are hyper-reactive to the food opioid peptides in gluten and casein ( dairy ) which trigger intestinal wall cells to relax their "tight junctions" thus allowing the passage of large undigested molecules, such as food opioid peptides, to pass through directly into the blood and access the brain in greater quantites than in people without this hyper-reaction.

The food opioid peptides in both gluten and casein suppress our natural appetite suppressants, thus encouraging over-eating of and addiction to the very foods which are a problem, and may, according to some researchers, have an effect on our mood and cognitive functioning ... aswell as causing serious long-term damage to various organs as a result of the self-attack behaviour of the autoimmune reaction to the gluten and casein molecules in those who are or have become sensitive to them.
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I love cooking but don't like food and eating so much. I can't really explain why but just don't feel like I can make my body do it sometimes...

I don't eat meat, partly for ethical reasons but mostly because I just don't enjoy it and found that the only things I did like eating where basically junk. Love most fruit and veg so am happy. Though I have had it through my life on and off over the last six months or so I have found I have been having lots of digestive related problems, pain etc and am unsure what it is. I suspect it could be wheat/gluten as I rarely used to eat bread etc but my wife and kids eat loads and I realized recently I have started too and it's the only change in my diet for years. When I lived with just my kids I cooked for them and ate whatever I chose. My wife nags me if I eat only a bowl of peas and corn. I know she means well but I like it. She focuses a lot of quantity whereas I like about nutrition, I'm also half her size and can't eat the same.
I feel really down and tired lately, gets stomach aches, pain... wind and changes in going to toilet, if you see what I mean. Not certain but I think my skin is different. Have also been getting a lot of allergy type symptoms, sneezing, runny nose, sore eyes, itching...

I also go through stages of loving something and eating it loads and then totally go off it, at the moment it's asparagus and stuffed mushrooms. Sometimes I crave junk food and then feel bad cos I know it's bad for me. I like most fruit and veg other than anything 'leafy' though I'll eat something like spinach if it's chopped and in lasagne or stuffed pasta. Don't really like milk, yoghurt, eggs or simular other than cream which I love. I like most beans and pulses too. Anything with a grainy type texture I hate, like porridge (and it smells so nice :s) and I dislike something that has different variations in textures like mcdonalds mcflurry ice creams, I always ask for no bits or for them not to be mixed as I don't like the feeling of the soft smooth ice cream and then hard bits

I really dislike very different textures in the same food. And I cannot suffer slimy things like okra.

I can't eat things with certain textures. The worst being yogurt drinks

Mushrooms and avocados.

Things I can't eat:
Dairy
Raw tomatoes (okay when cooked)
Pineapple
Walnuts
Pecans

The things that I will not eat are more texture-based... I tend to be really picky <_<