The thing that amazes me is that high fructose corn syrup is in things that you would never think needed to be sweetened. Corn in any form gives me a headache, that means corn meal, corn flour, corn starch, corn oil as well as HFCS. If I ate any corn yesterday I would wake up with a headache today.
I wish people were more aware of the subtle way that food allergies can affect them. A food diary of what you have eaten and when can be a real eye opener. It is easy to do when you get in the habit of it.
I swell up bad, get dizzy and fight ravenous cravings when I eat corn in any form. I am talking major fluid retention. The food diary was what helped me figure out a pattern. It's been the one tool that has helped me lose the weight. I get migraines from eggs, soy messes up my hormones, dairy and beef cause skin problems along with a few gastro issues.
When the light went on and I finally saw the correlation to my problem foods and how poorly I felt it was so easy to eliminate them. The way they make me feel is so not worth the few moments of eating them.
It was the elimination of those foods that allowed me to lose a LOT of weight fairly easily. I don't have the cravings or ravenous hunger like I struggled with before. My appetite is normal. It doesn't take much to satisfy and hold until the next meal hours away.