Why My Burger Diet Can No Longer Exist
If you know me, you know that I could eat a hamburger for every meal. There was a point freshman year of college that I was literally eating a burger every single day, but that’s another story. I loved burgers so much that one day last year I took pictures of me with my favorite burger from Wells food court (featured as the cover of this blog post lol). The fact that I am a dancer and was dancing one to two hours every single day was the only reason why I could keep up that burger diet but ANYWAY, not the point of this blog post.
Recently I’ve been having a lot of skin issues that all started when I was studying for one of my class’s (accounting aka the devil) final exams. I kept taking practice exams and with every practice exam, I would break out in more hives. I didn’t think anything of it, chalking up the hives to merely stress. But after the exam had finished (and I passed LMAO thank god), the hives did not go away. They just increasingly got worse and worse. Eventually, I visited an allergist where they found out I was allergic to 55 DIFFERENT THINGS. Which was just ridiculous.
Out of all of those 55 things, the food allergies were the ones I was most devastated about. To list a few, I am apparently allergic to to ALL RED MEATS, (so no more burger diet for me lmao!), yeast (“yeet that yeast” - Chase Owczarzak), salmon, shrimp, broccoli, cauliflower, basil, cumin, pears, green beans/peas, cantaloupe, and much more. So now, I’m on a detox of all those allergens for the next two weeks.
It’s only Day 4, but I can already see my skin getting a lot better! I can also breathe better, and I didn’t even know I had problems with that. I’ve been on a much better diet ever since I found out my allergens because now I pretty much can’t eat any fast food except Taco Bell. So I guess even though it means I can’t eat a burger for the next two weeks, being allergic to so many things is good for me in a way. I feel healthier, and my skin and breathing feels better.
Moral of the story? I’m kind of glad I stopped eating burgers because if my skin didn’t kill me from eating them, a heart attack sure would have.
Also if you have any healthy recipes or food places that are careful about allergens please let me know! The more help, the better.