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Safe Food Management

NAS77771

Ok so,

I know safe foods are super common with autists like myself and I know a lot of people will share the experience of having a safe food, buying it in bulk and then suddenly finding it completely repulsive - like the thought of eating it makes my stomach turn.

This has become a major challenge for me over the past few months as my safe foods no longer overlap and I have found myself either unable to stomach anything or only eating old safe foods and never feeling satiated, feeling like something is wrong and it makes me restless. This has resulted in panic attacks when going food shopping because all of it seems repulsive or overspending on takeout (my natural habit when i have no normal safe foods, I wish I could stop but if I don’t I get extremely restless and it usually results in a meltdown).

Does anyone have any advice on how to... stabilise this? I cannot go on like this as it is affecting my health and it’s driving me nuts, affects my mood and causes lots of other problems because I’m finding myself distracted trying to problem solve what I’m going to eat almost 24/7 :(   

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  • It helps to get a technical understanding of the digestive process, and it's timings as they relate to you.

    This knowledge applied carefully will soon allow you to experiment with what you can eat and what you cannot, especially if you can bring yourself to keep track of the quality of what comes out as well as what goes in... 

    Headache is often a sign of some sort of poisoning, be it CO or you've been smoking too much or eating too may sweeties with their hidden ingredients, as I found in my own case.

    I get an urge to eat fish every once in a while and various aspects of my functioning seem to improve markedly, then I forget, or eat enough fish without thinking about it.

    Try to expand your list of safe foods, which can only be done by experimentation. Eat out with a trusted friend who knows you and take their advice, if you need to broaden your scope.

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  • It helps to get a technical understanding of the digestive process, and it's timings as they relate to you.

    This knowledge applied carefully will soon allow you to experiment with what you can eat and what you cannot, especially if you can bring yourself to keep track of the quality of what comes out as well as what goes in... 

    Headache is often a sign of some sort of poisoning, be it CO or you've been smoking too much or eating too may sweeties with their hidden ingredients, as I found in my own case.

    I get an urge to eat fish every once in a while and various aspects of my functioning seem to improve markedly, then I forget, or eat enough fish without thinking about it.

    Try to expand your list of safe foods, which can only be done by experimentation. Eat out with a trusted friend who knows you and take their advice, if you need to broaden your scope.

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