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No I have not. If I did, the effects would be irreversible. My body is missing an enzyme that breaks down phenylalanine, one of the essential amino acids in proteins. If I consume too much, it will store in my brain and become toxic. My IQ would drop to 0, I wouldn't be able to communicate or understand anything. Simply, I'd become mentally retarded. However, it's not overnight thing; it would take some time to accumulate.

For breakfast I usually have a smoothie (without milk products of course) and I mix it with a powdered incomplete protein that is prescribed to me (I get that liquid in the picture, and a powder). This helps the smoothie gets its milkiness since the medicine is produced from whey proteins.

For lunch I either have an almond butter and jelly sandwich (almonds are fine because peanuts are just a little higher in protein... I have to go as low as I can) or a veggie wrap from QuickCheck if I'm out somewhere in town or at work. The sandwich is made with a special bread made from tapioca starch so it has almost no protein as opposed to normal bread. I order some specially made foods from a company called Cambrooke Foods ( http://www.cambrookefoods.com/ ). The company makes a long list of usually high or medium protein foods differently to make them accessible to people with my condition.

For dinner, I eat any random assortment of vegetables and sometimes a bowl of pasta (ordered from Cambrooke).

And then I snack on low protein foods throughout the day

On occasion I'll eat a scrambled egg for breakfast, but then I would have to keep everything else later in the day even lower in protein than usual. As long as I'm meeting the 20-22g each day and not exceeding it too far, I'm golden.

I'm sure there's something like that, but none that are coming to mind. Everything does have phenylalanine in it, so it's hard to find a food that I can just gorge on. Oh wait, I just got it... Sorbet! It's ice cream, minus cream. Haagen dasz makes amazing sorbet!

No I have not. I do occasionally smoke marijuana, though. Why do you ask?

It definitely limits my ability, but I haven't tried working out enough yet to see how it will work. When I do go running, biking, weight lifting, etc. I drink my medication afterwards to get a decent amount of protein. What that is is simply a protein drink that had the amino acid that I can't consume removed (phenylalanine).