Bacon is bad for me

I discovered yesterday that my diet changes have led to a general intolerance for rich and greasy foods.  The hard way.

So far, my diet has consisted of primarily what I described in my detox entry, which is to say a lot of spinach salads, rice, fresh fruit and vegetables, and home cooked meat.  I've focused over the past month on cutting out fructose and fructans (with only the occasional blunder), but I didn't think about how that focus also means that I cut out greasy, fatty, and rich foods.

Last night, I decided to make a homemade carbonera, which consisted of alfredo sauce that Kevin had taught me how to make last weekend.  I then added some green onions and about 2/3's of a package of bacon, and put it over a quinoa pasta we had eaten before and not caused problems.

Ohh, my aching digestive tract.  :(

It was definitely an object lesson in how everything is fine in moderation, since I had eaten a couple pieces of bacon here and there before and not had a reaction like this.  It also showed me how my body tells me exactly what to do if I'm in tune with it.

As I was cooking the bacon, I ate a couple little scraps (ok, maybe the equivelent of one full piece).  And at that point, even though I hadn't had much more than a salad and some yogurt six hour prior at lunch, I started to feel full.

But gosh darnit, I wanted to eat my delicious carbonera!

So I ate it, and 24 hours later, I still feel off.  It's a very different type of discomfort from the fructose malabsorption pain (and now has me wondering if maybe it's partly an overdose of lactose and I really hope I'm not lactose intolerant).  It was mostly a feeling of nauseous in my stomach area for most of the day.

I'm hoping very much that it was simply an overdose of grease, and not a new and different food intolerance.  I'm going to watch my intake of cheese ... and bacon ... and keep an eye on it.

On the other hand, I feel a strange sense of accomplishment that my body is now doing so well on fresh, whole foods that it has the ability to "tell" me when I'm eating stuff I shouldn't.  I was tuned out for so many years that I didn't know.