Firstly, where do you live? I have never heard of ingredients lists that are just numbers! Here in Canada that would actually be illegal.
I will try and address all your concerns:
1) If it just says “flour”, assume it’s wheat just to be safe.
2) Remember you have no problem with gluten. Wheat contains chains of fructose molecules which end in a single glucose molecule. These chains are called “fructans”. Fructan chains are the reason we cannot eat wheat – nothing to do with gluten. That said, cruising the stores for items that say “gluten-free” is a great way to seek out new foods as they WILL be wheat-free! Remember though, they may still have things we cannot eat like brown rice.
3) NO SPELT!! EVER!! Whoever told you that you could have Spelt was MISINFORMED and doesn’t know what they are talking about. Spelt (and kamut while we’re on the subject) ARE wheat. They have become a fashionable “wheat substitute” for the hippy crowd… but they are an alternative to MODERN wheat. Spelt and kamut are both ancient forms of the wheat plant, but they ARE wheat. For someone who has no problem with wheat, but wants to move away from modern, engineered, mass produced grains, spelt and kamut are great. But they ARE wheat!
What CAN you have? Buckwheat is NOT a wheat. You should be fine with oats as well – VERY few fructmal have problems with oats. Corn flour, potato flour, tapioca flour, rice flour, sweet or glutinous rice flour… many more.
4) My info is that soy is fine. I find soy disgusting, so I have no personal info on that! LOL!
5) If “nothing fills you up”, you could try several strategies. First, make sure your body is not demanding more and more food because it is missing nutrients. Very often when we switch to a new food plan, we lose our sources of key vitamins and minerals. Look at what you have given up and ask yourself what these foods contributed to your diet. Vitamin C? B? Calcium? Make sure you are getting what you need from your new food plan.
You may literally be eating less that before. If you need to just snack to fill up, try popcorn, mashed potatoes, white rice, oatmeal or a cereal that is fructmal friendly (I like Glutino brand Honey Nut O’s). It could also be that you just can’t stop thinking about all the foods you can’t have all the time and it makes you feel hungry. We all have to create our own strategies for this, but I try and imprint the foods I miss onto mental images of pain. I think about strawberry shortcake so intently I can almost smell the strawberries, then I think about diarrhea, abdominal pain, bursting into tears over vacuuming, etc. Over time, I’ve found I can sit next to someone having a treat I used to LOVE and feel nothing towards it but distaste.
This strategy isn’t for everyone, but mental imagery CAN help you in changing how you related to things – you can think of many ways to use imagery creatively.

I hope this has helped a little! Please comment with anymore questions…

I’ve been given the list from the dietitian which says no wheat, but what kinds??? I assume when I see flour on the ingredients list it contains wheat. If there is flour in the product and the flour contains wheat will it state wheat on the ingredients or a number that someone could help me with?

A lot of the ingredient lists now just show numbers and I thought if I go gluten free I’ll be safe. No! Sometimes gluten can be extracted from wheat. I am so hungry all the time. Nothing fills me up. I’m eating all day without satisfaction. I think it would be much easier to be coeliac than have fructose malabsorption. At least then I’d just need to eat gluten free.

My trouble with bread is that I cannot have rye either. I need to have pure spelt and I cannot find this anywhere. Contradiction on soy. Yes or no?

This whole thing is really starting to get me down. I love food, especially onion, garlic, bread and sweets. All the nice wheat free baked biscuits I’ve found have inulin in them.

Help me!!!

Consider the link fixed!

AVT

Link is broken

Glad you found me! I’m very happy to say the new and improved website is almost done and should launch in the next week (as long as RL doesn’t get in the way…..)

“Fructy”? That’s kinda catchy! Is that a family term, or regional? What country are you from?

Keep in touch,
AVT

How did you come to choose GoDaddy by the way? My FructMal website has outgrown googlepages and I have been looking for a host. Doesn’t have to be free – just reasonably priced, reliable and no ads!
Let me know, eh?

I have heard a lot of great things about Sue Sue Sheperd’s books! My book budget has been zero lately (which means my Shelfari presence is suffering LOL! ) Maybe I’ll put it on my Xmas list!

What country do you live in? Most Fructmals I know who have heard of Sue are from Australia!

AVT