help please - the next day of the rest of my life

My usually cast iron stomach is no more, and I have been mourning my loss.

At present, my diverse investigation into foods of the world has been interrupted, and my own body is doing the interrupting.  I have scarcely recovered from the news that I have to exclude all things nightshade from my diet.  This has now been augmented by my body's sudden aversion to meat, fat, dairy products, sugar and (almost worse) alcohol.  To be honest I am not sure that the alcohol bit is entirely necessary so I will do some tests - for the sake of science, mind you - to challenge this theory next week.  In the meantime though, all of the above means that I have suddenly become a vegetarian, no fat, gluten free teetotaller.

I'm not sure yet what I make of this change, it is really too early to say.  On the plus side,  I feel a lot better than I have done for months and I am looking forward to fitting into clothes that haven't seen daylight for a while!  On the negative side, at first glance, almost everything that I enjoy for both nutritional and purely pleasurable purposes, is now denied me.

The effects of this are immediate.  At work I am struggling to be able to taste the recipes that it is my job to design so I am having to learn to work in a whole new way.  I have to be very careful how I taste products, and spitting a sample (so beloved of supermarket buyers everywhere) does not permit you to experience the the flavours & textures of a products in the same way as swallowing.  At home, the enjoyment that I used to get from baking and creating sweet treats is no more, and in its' place is a new challenge I face (at least) 3 times a day - what on earth am I going to eat?