Have this ever happened to you?

(Karla Sykes) #1

Today I was very hungry and I was going to eat my favorite old school chips that I used to enjoy Chili Cheese Fritos the 2 oz package. After I start eating like maybe the six chip I started having a headache and I felt hot and feverish and my stomach feel so queasy that I end up vomiting. I used to eat these by the big bag. I haven’t eaten chips in probably two years and I didn’t see any harm and having a small less than 2 oz bag of chips. But I felt extremely terrible. Have this ever happened to anyone?

#2

ugh - that sounds miserable :frowning:
I haven’t had the happen to me personally but I’ve definitely seen cases like this reported on the forum.
Good news is that you’ve probably permanently knocked out any future cravings for Chile Cheese Fritos!

#3

My guess is the msg - a lot of people react to it, especially after removing it from the diet

(Karla Sykes) #4

I guess I really don’t understand because this used to be one of my favorite foods. If you can even call it a food. I don’t know what happened to me tonight I don’t know if it was a fluke or what. What I do know is I don’t want to chance ever been sick that much again. Believe it or not I actually contemplated going to the ER

#5

Thanks for demonstrating that processed potatoes? in chip form are potentially toxic Karla. You took a hit for us there. You don’t have to keep doing these risky experiments of eating nostalgic food stuffs.

Revisiting foods linked to good memories is a function of survival instinct that has been manipulated by food scientists and junk food creators. The instinct used to help our ancestors find and remember seasonal foods locations. Now we just get tricked by our own physiology and Mr. Burns.

(Karla Sykes) #6

The weird part about it is it never happened before when I used to live off Diet Coke and Chili Cheese Fritos. I don’t know what happened maybe it’s because I haven’t even chips in like 2 years. Whatever the case I was damn near two steps away from going to the emergency room

(Allie) #7

Very common and a reminder of how crap you used to feel before making the positive changes in your diet.

(Karla Sykes) #8

Wow I have no clue

#9

It doesn’t matter if it was your favorite and you felt okay back then, one can change a lot in a much shorter span of time as well. My body is very forgiving so I never experienced such a serious problem after eating so little but my body definitely reacted differently after a few months on a low-carb diet (when I even cut out food groups). Yours are more sensitive, that’s all. You showed it a better diet and it decided chips are a bad idea now. Many of us have this, just usually less seriously. I can’t do high-carb since years, my body is too much against it (my mind too so it’s fine and I don’t actually start dying after a crazy day but it’s definitely not pleasant most of the time. I almost never touch heavily processed food, that’s worse).

(Daisy) #10

When you give your body what it wants, it often rejects the bad stuff. That’s how I’ve lost tolerance to almost everything

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #11

I don’t really think it’s related, you’d have barely digested anything by the 6th chip, it’s too short of a time span for me to think it’s related, perhaps it was internal guilt? I know I shouldn’t be eating it, the nausea is usually my anxiety, lol.

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #12

I’m guessing that is how I would react to much that I ate before. The simpiliar my diet is, the more I want it to be, and crave, simple. Ground beef for the win.

#13

I don’t know what it is but it’s not necessarily guilt or other mental reason. If I eat certain sugary things (like apples), I feel something right away (okay, sugar doesn’t need to reach my stomach or guts to start to get digested but it’s really right away, I barely swallow it and I feel it’s sugar and my body doesn’t want it. It’s nothing serious but very noticeable).
But I agree it probably isn’t the starch (though who knows), more like something totally not food in that processed stuff…?
Whatever. If the body hates chips, don’t give it chips. Especially if it’s not even homemade, using only a few basic ingredients.