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RE: Cruuuuuuisin' - Gluten freek style?
sometimes, I hate being a grown-up
I suffer from this "itis" too :)
How did you find out you had a gluten allergy? Were you tested or did you do an elimination diet on your own?
We actually did it as a family because it was easier to make one meal, rather than 2. Lol
Plus we didn't want to make it hard for our son (who we were really doing it for) when we are all chowing down bagels, pizza, rolls, etc.
We did it for 8 months just to see... The difference was a slow one. I did notice the fewer migraines, but honestly didn't connect the dots.
When we were gluten gluttons on the cruise.... Lol I felt the difference IMMEDIATELY.
I got a rash, migraines came back, brain fog, felt kinda sick-ish, always felt "heavy" after every meal. We even noticed major differences in attitudes. Everyone was just edgier on gluten. Snappy, irritable.
Went back off... Symptoms faded.
Slipped (someone served us breaded chicken. We knew it was breaded but they knew we were gluten free so we assumed it was GF breading lol)
It wasn't as bad as the gluten cruise lol but migraines came back... Rash..
So my functional medicine doctor said... We can give you the $1300 test if you want.... But I think you know you have gluten issues.
Which I did.
That was a long way to say " we did a multi-stage elimination diet" hahahaha
It's been a little over three years now ... But as time goes on, the GF options really do get better and better!!! You just have to know which brands are GREAT (and which are disgusting). 😂
When we first went gluten free, more than 20 years ago, there was very little. And my first attempt at GF baking, with millet, was inedible. Soooo much easier now.
I can't even imagine!!! We attempted 10 years ago and threw in the towel before even giving it a real chance!! It was cardboard, cardboard, smoosh, and cardboard!
Now it's actually do-able! And sometimes, (dare I say???) even better than the gluten option 😱
In a nutshell, non GMO, organic, pesticide and gluten free of course. I'm not a huge bread eater or pasta eater anyway. The bread I do eat is sprout flour - Ezekiel bread. I know there is gluten in a ton of things too - like soya sauce and ketchup someone said.
You know what wrecks my head the most? Sugar. Yet, I 'm addicted to it....I was seriously going to go to AA to get off of it. geez. I did it before so I'll do it again.
Bed time.......zzzzzzz
my post for tonight (that you'll have to read tomorrow) is something that I never saw myself being addicted to.
but. ohhhhhhhhhhhh how i was. and it ended up being WORSE than my sugar addiction.
sweet dreEms, friend :)