Hello you guys,
I'm on this diet because I have no choice but, I do admit its a healthy diet I also gained 20lbs in two months from this diet and, that was my goal of course..This diet is serious work and, must be maintained for life..(celiac)
Hi Mario!
I'm on a low gluten diet. But I'm not a celiac sufferer. However, there are plenty who visit these boards who are! Trouble is, most of them post in the "digestive disorders" section of the board.
I did a brief search (have you discovered the lovely search feature? It's on the upper right bar) and found these: [url]http://www.healthboards.com/boards/search.php?searchid=143728[/url]
best wishes,
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I am a Celiac and have been on a gluten free diet for about 7 years, now. It works very well. Although I never *thought* I reacted to gluten too much, the scan they did of my intestines (ew...!) told a different story. Anyway, now that i have been on the gluten free diet I am much healthier!! No stomach problems, I rarely get sick anymore...it is great. It is just hard to make a decend muffin or pancake...and gluten-free food is expensive! Anyway, I am here if you need any advice!
i do not have ciliac, but this past year we did think that i had a gluten allergy, but my allergy test came up negative, so we have concluded that i have a condition involving an over-production of candidias in my body which requires me to stay off, or severly limit, my intake of yeast and anything that your body treates as sugar (i.e. lactose, fructose, and glucose) which pretty much keeps me off of anything that contains gluten...it's been pretty hard for me because i just went off to college this year so i have had to contend with discovering this condition and trying to survive the dining hall (it's a disaster)....i've been doing pretty well eating a lot of vegetables and salads and such and homemade soup that my mom makes for me but if anyone has any types of meals or such that can be made and frozen for later i would really appreciate ideas!!! the gluten free food is too expensive for a poor college girl...lol!
but yes, Losec20mg, i know how you are feeling and i know it can be hard...i've gotten pretty good at not cheating (i now get really bad stomache aches if i do) but the one thing i still crave is a toasted bagel and cream cheese i don't think i'll ever get over that craving....lol...i loved bagels too much....
Well, since I am also vegetarian, I eat mostly plant-based foods and some grains to begin with. In terms of gluten free items, I buy my bread at health food stores (although many grocery stores here in Canada also sell lots of gluten-free products). I eat plenty of rice, gluten free pasta (also found in some grocery and/or health food stores), potatoes, as well as lots of fresh veggies and fruits. There is a lot out there that you can eat. If you still eat dairy food (I don't consume a large amount of dairy), there are also a lot of options out there for you. Just remember to READ LABELS and understand that gluten can be disguised as MANY different things (get a print-out of gluten-free/gluten containing foods if you are confused). Avoid processed foods and stick to whole foods if you can.
I doubt very much I'm consuming gluten...I'm very carefull and, eat no junk whatsoever..i.e.
meats-fresh
white rice-or brown aswell
pasta GF
veggies
friuts-also canned..mmm yum
yogurt
bread GF
begals GF
waffles GF
cookies GF
chips-plain lays
pure 100% chocolate
ice cream
jello
fish-tuna-salmon-sardines..
omelettes
bacon
pop corn home made
raisins
nuts-pure
friut to go bars
rice crackers
olives
salads
rice cakes
corn cakes(both with spreads)
coffee 100% pure
tea-salada
camomile
pudding
apple sauce-pure organic
cereals GF
milk 2%
cheese
cottage cheese
ficellos
butter
margerine
ricotta
boccocinos
tacos
apple juice
orange juice
7up
water
wine
beer GF
pizza GF
polenta with meat sauce
rice pudding
coca 100% pure
peanut butter 100% nuts
broth GF
eggs
.....
eventually i will introduce more stuff..
OOps..sorry again...
No, I did not get a blood test to diagnose my disease. Instead, they placed a tube with a camera attached down my throat and into my stomach to look at my intestines. The villi were damaged...flat, that is...which is how they diagnosed it.
Thanks, that is very interesting to me, because im sure my 10 year old has a massive problem with gluten, yet the blood test came back negative. I have always thought if they looked at it villi it would be flattened,but of course they wont do it!
I tested negative for Celiac (I had blood tests and a colonoscopy), but nevertheless, my diarhea and bloating stopped when I cut down out gluten. Oats actually seem to be worse than wheat, though. According to finerhealth.com, there are probably other types of gluten sensitivity that Celiac. It seems that I can eat wheat without a problem - IF I eat something high-fat, high-protein first, like sausages. I don't know, maybe something to do with stomach acid. Whatever.
Anyway, for me it is a lot easier to just avoid wheat products altogether than to try finding substitues for it. Instead of fake pasta, I just get thai rice noodles. I use a lot of corn tortillas. I do use a GF flour (which I mix myself) to make brownies and cakes, although the are a bit grainy. It took some searching, but I found a cornbread recipe that doesn't call for wheat flour.
Restaurants are becoming very aware of how many people can't have wheat for one reason or another, and I've never had a problem eating out. I just tell the waiters I can't have wheat, and they tell me if anything I order has wheat in it.
I have a list of GF resources on my website, which seems to be down for some reason.
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One thing to be careful about when eating GF Free foods is that many of them are made with potato starch, tapioca flour,buckwheat fours, etc. these are very high glycemic foods. There is a fine line between balancing the ingredients in GF prepared foods to prevent other problems later on. Look at the fiber content on these mixes and prepared foods, you will see that many of them have little to no fiber, that is a big HINT, GF doesn't always mean it is a healthy choice.
Yeah, and also, according to the cookbooks, GF flours are very low in protein compared to wheat flours (gluten is a protein) so you have to make sure you get enough protein from otehr sources. Another reason it's easier to just cut that flour-y stuff out of your diet than try to substitute it.
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heh, well i'm celiac and, have no choice but to eat these products, or starv to death..i also have my meat eveyday and, cheese, milk, veggies fruits..etc..
you can get GF bagels and, you can have the cream cheese (philadelphia)..
what scares me is that its life long..
yeah, but GF bagels just aren't the same and i personally can't have cream cheese cuz it's dairy and i can't have anything that has lactose either....we thought i had a wheat allergy (or even ciliac) until the test came up negative and so we thought what else was in the foods that bothered me and we came up with yeast and after some research my mom and i have concluded that i have this candidias condition...there aren't any tests you can do for it and many doctors don't recognize candidias as a problem and they think that it's other things triggering the body's reponses so its pretty much just me, my mom, and my sister figuring this thing out (we think my sister has it too)....
although i don't have ciliac, my condition is life long too with absolutely no known cures either except to stay off or severly limit my intake of all dairy, wheat products, fruits, any other type of sugar, and anything with yeast....i can only have this stuff once a week or so on a good week....most times i can't have it at all so most times i am stuck just eating vegetables and meat....as for it being lifelong, don't worry about it...you just need to change your diet which can seem really hard, scary, and complicated at first, but after about the first month, you get into the swing of things and then, for the most part, your body doesn't even crave the foods you used to eat...i live in a college dorm where pizza is going up and down the hall every weekend and for the first few weeks that i was on my new diet, i wanted pizza so bad and i couldn't have it....believe me, cuz i did eat it one time and spent the rest of the night on my bed with the worst horrible stomache ache...now it can be in my room with everyone eating it and it doesn't even bother me and i don't even want pizza anymore....so just take one day at a time because it does get easier with time...
well like you said, you can cheat atleast once a week but, I can't never cheat or I will get very sick..for days or weeks depending on ingesting volume..It has totaly ruined my social life..can't go anywhere cuz I can't eat..
well like you said, you can cheat atleast once a week but, I can't never cheat or I will get very sick..for days or weeks depending on ingesting volume..It has totaly ruined my social life..can't go anywhere cuz I can't eat..
but i'm telling you it will get better... you just have to have a positive attitude on it....
most things i can never have again such as pizza, bagels, ice cream, as well as many other things...and i didn't say i could cheat at least once a week...i said if i cheat i can only cheat once a week and i still have to severly cut it down...i mean, on a very good week, i can have an apple, and that's it for the next two weeks...after that i can't cheat again in which case most times i don't cheat cuz it's not worth it...you at least only have to cut out gluten and wheat products....you can eat all the fruit and dairy you want...i have to cut out everything except vegetables and meat...i can't have fruit, wheat, dairy...none of that stuff....and you don't have to eat GF products....just cut that stuff out entirely....that's what i've done....you won't starve...there are other foods out there besides wheat products...
and you can go out and eat, you just have to figure out what you can and can't have and then order accordingly...ask the waiter to double check the ingredients for you...i do this all the time...you can have salads so if nothing else, order a salad!!! you need to learn how to live with this new diet rather than fight it and say that there is nothing for you to eat cuz there is you just have to figure out what...it won't ruin your social life unless you let it...if you remember from my other posts, we first thought that i might have had celiac or a wheat/gluten allergy, so about 8 months ago i had to cut out of my diet the same things that you are doing right now and i was living in a college dorm where i had to go out and get food from the dining hall cuz i couldn't cook in the dorm and i still survived on that limited menu...if i could do it, and many other people out there are doing it, then you can too...
-DancingDiva
Last edited by DancingDiva; 05-09-2004 at 11:03 AM.
i don't think i'll ever get over that craving....lol...i loved bagels too much....
