u/MissHissss

Hello,

My family is taking our first Disney Cruise this year. I have multiple food allergies, some of which are quite rare, so I’m a little bit worried about the rotational dining. I’ve been to Disneyland and they were super helpful with my allergies so I’m assuming it’s the same on the ship, but I’ve looked ahead at the menus and at two of the three restaurants there isn’t a single item in the menu I can have without adjustments (and most are bigger adjustments than just leaving off the sauce or something).

There doesn’t appear to be anything else open for dinner though, other than specialty dining. I’m not really sure what would be best in this case. I absolutely hate having to get a custom meal because the staff work hard enough as it is and I don’t want to make their jobs harder. Normally I’d just go to the buffet (because funnily enough it’s usually easier for me to eat there given that there is more options and the items are typically simpler with less ingredients) but it doesn’t look like it’s open.

Has anyone else been in this situation? How did you handle it?

Thanks!

So for some context I didn’t choose to be sugar free and maybe that’s why I’m struggling so much. I was experiencing allergic reactions to an unknown food so I went for skin prick testing and I’m allergic to cocoa, alcohol, and all the fruit types that were tested (in addition to several other things but those are the relevant ones).

So since then I’ve had to stop eating a lot of things cold turkey. And I’ve been horrifically moody and depressed ever since. I was told it gets easier as your body adjusts but that doesn’t seem to have happened yet. I think about food all the time and several times I’ve been so close to eating a piece of chocolate which is not an option because I could literally die.

Has anyone else had to stop sugar due to allergies? I can’t taper off, I can’t “cheat” now and then, and I’m having a really hard time both mentally and physically with it.

I’ve been on venlafaxine (XR) for over 2 years. It’s worked better than the myriad of other medications I’ve tried over the years but I’m getting brain zaps today for no apparent reason.

I KNOW with 100% certainty I took my medication yesterday. But I woke up brain zapping every time I move my head. I took today’s dose an hour early just to get it to stop but nope, it hasn’t stopped and that was 2 hours ago. I can’t even stand up it’s that bad. Has anyone had this? Should I be worried, or…? I’m used to getting a brain zap or two when it gets close to the time for my next dose but this is something else.

I take 225mg once a day.

Thanks!

It’s been a long journey for me. For two years I tried to lose weight using every method under the sun. I lost some, I gained some back, I lost a bit more, and when all was said and done I had lost 15lbs. Which is 15lbs less than I was, but given the effort I was putting in it was way less than I’d hoped/expected. In fact, my tracking app says I should be at my goal weight and yet I had 85lbs to go.

Then two months ago I was diagnosed with a cocoa allergy. Chocolate is and always has been my treat of choice. I didn’t eat a lot of it but I did eat some every day (usually 150-200g that I’d worked into my daily calories). Since I can no longer eat chocolate I decided instead of replacing it with something else that I don’t really want, why not cut out sugar completely. So I’ve been sugar free for the last two months (except for a pack of hard candies I keep in my bag because I have insulin resistance and my blood sugar occasionally drops unexpectedly but I use them so rarely I don’t count them).

And I’ve lost 1lb per week since then, exactly as hoped. I cannot tell you how excited, and frankly relieved I am to see my effort finally working. I was feeling so hopeless and defeated and I honestly didn’t think having a few squares of chocolate each day was affecting me at all, since I was within my calories. I underestimated the extent to which insulin resistance was sabotaging me and now that I know hopefully I can keep the weight loss ball rolling!