Allergies?

I admit--we haven't quite been as stringent about being back on the "no processed foods diet" as we should have been.  For Easter, Andy bought me some chocolates of my very own (meaning he won't polish them off when I'm not looking), so I've been having some chocolate & high fructose corn syrup every day (and whatever else is in Whoppers), and then I had opted to use "illegal" chicken stock in the pad thai I made earlier, and thought we "might as well" use up some microwave popcorn in the pantry....so, obviously still ignoring what I know we should do.  Seriously, it was still a minimal amount compared to a "normal" diet, but for us, BIG time illegal.  Yesterday I woke up with a whopper of a headache (lame pun totally intended), which just wouldn't go away in spite of pain killers.......

.....which is the allergic reaction I get to milk and the only reason I really ever get headaches.  Now chocolate has never had enough milk in it to trigger a reaction, BUT what we are sort of wondering is:  If my body gives me headaches because it views milk as a toxin, did it view the food additives as toxins and react accordingly??????  (And, what I have always wondered:  What sort of a stupid reaction is a headache anyway?????) 

I was only 6 or 7 when the milk allergy was discovered, and the way we determined that it was milk was to eliminate the top 10 food allergens totally, then introduce them one by ones in mass amounts.  The first one to cause a reaction was the winner.  I have strong memories of the onion week, so that might have been the first one.  I remember having really loved milk at the time, but if every time you took a drink of milk & someone smacked you upside the head with a stick, you're soon lose your liking for it.  Trust me on this one.  So....I'm torn between curiosity to know if I have inadvertently given myself a new "allergy" and the realization that trying to give myself a headache on purpose is a remarkably stupid thing to do.

I did behave myself completely yesterday......and woke up without a headache of any kind today. Hmmmm....

On the good side, the no processed foods diet would be sooooooo much easier if it was a Pavlovian response instead of just a willpower thing.........