Posted by bleauberry on February 14, 2009, at 17:44:50
In reply to MAOI's your FAST FOOD Interactions. Post HERE, posted by beaches09 on February 12, 2009, at 17:16:58
I am not an expert on this topic, but I did recently get some good answers here from others when I asked a similar question as you.
Basically it boils down to this. Stick with mozarella cheese or american cheese. Any others are too risky. Even with the safer cheeses, eat them only in modest amounts. You don't want a pizza or pasta drowned in cheese. You might have to get your taco bell tacos without cheese and then add your own. You might have to custom order your pizzas with only specific cheeses and only small amounts of them.
The meats used at Subway, hmm, I don't know. Sounds risky to me. They could be treated, or maybe have been sitting around long enough to accumulate high tyramine levels. Those meats are not fresh.
Pepperoni, say good-bye to that one. No more of that. Which brings me to the next off-limits category of foods...any meat that is not fresh. If it is processed, dried, cured, anything like that, say good-bye to it.
Fermented soy products, such as soy sauce or tofu, say goodbye. Soy milk and the common ingredient soy lechithin are ok.
Fava beans, not that anyone I know eats them, say goodbye.
Chocolate is iffy, I got the impression it was generally ok if eaten in small amounts.
Some people can eat anything on MAOIs. Others are very sensitive to even tiny amounts of anything remotedly risky. So caution is warranted until you know how your own body responds.
Probably the safest bet would be to avoid any foods that have a medium to high risk, but remind yourself it may not be forever. That is, in a couple months or so when your body has adjusted, you can then carefully sample the foods you were avoiding for safety sake and see if they are ok or not.
Changing one's diet isn't all that bad. It seemed traumatic when I found out I was gluten intolerant and had to stop all wheat products. Think about it, that's almost everyhing. Well, I have learned to eat the same foods except made from things other than wheat. My diet now is much more of fresh veggies and meats where it used to be donuts and fast food joints. After a couple months on my new diet, I came to like it better than my old one. I have zero desire to go back to my former love of fast food. My new diet feels so much better. My only lingering want that still hits once a week or so is for a Big Mac or a Dunkin Donuts glazed cinammon bunn.
So I just wanted to say that you are not the first who had to depart from a beloved diet and not the last. Thousands or millions do it for many reasons. It aint that a big of a deal except when thinking about it pre-hand and during the transition. And if it is a price you pay for mental wellbeing, that is a very cheap price to pay. I bet everyone with an illness wishes they could trade something for a cure as simple as that.
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