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Anyone Cheat?

Ksmith

By Ksmith
in Coping with Celiac Disease

  

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Ksmith Contributor
Ksmith
Posted

I really wonder if anyone else cheats on occasion like I do, or if you all are true gluten-free die-hards.

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dlp252 Apprentice
dlp252
Posted

I never cheat on purpose, it's not worth the agony afterward.

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
Posted

Nope. Never. Not once.

katshow Rookie
katshow
Posted

If I cheat, I get SUPER sick like tummy pains, can't breathe, basically out of commission for that whole day. I just can't do it. I would love to a lot of times, but I just can't.

tarnalberry Community Regular
tarnalberry
Posted

It's just not worth the immune response.

VegasCeliacBuckeye Collaborator
VegasCeliacBuckeye
Posted

I don't understand the rationale of cheating

Cheating = Stomach Pains, Diarrhea, Loss of Energy, DH, etc

One bite of something could never tempt me to cheat (on purpose)

Its all willpower...

Lollie Enthusiast
Lollie
Posted

I did once on purpose-it wasn't worth it. I think about it sometimes, but the pain just isn't worth the Krispy Kreme or cresant!

lollie

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VegasCeliacBuckeye Collaborator
VegasCeliacBuckeye
Posted

The last time I knowingly cheated was in 1998

I was at a party at OSU and I thought it would be a good idea to enter a "shotgun" race with my buddy (this entails cutting a can of beer open with a knife, placing your mouth over the newly cut hole and then opening the tab on the beer (which then flushes all of the beer down your belly)...

Good times...

Bad bathroom times the next day...bad everything the next day...I have never had another "regular" beer since then.

:)

IronedOut Apprentice
IronedOut
Posted

I don't cheat because I don't have many external symptoms. For me, it would be way to easy to slip into old habits. I keep the images of my many grandkids in mind as my mental carrot (cupcake) :D .

Of course, my kids are 10 and 13 so I have a way to go before I even get to see them the first time!!

cgilsing Enthusiast
cgilsing
Posted

I never ever cheat. I don't think I would enjoy it anyway knowing what is comming!

ebrbetty Rising Star
ebrbetty
Posted

no never, but I think about it everyday..I dream about subs :angry: but then I think about the pain and a day on the floor crying and wishing I was dead

skoki-mom Explorer
skoki-mom
Posted
I really wonder if anyone else cheats on occasion like I do, or if you all are true gluten-free die-hards.

I ate Santa's cookies on Christmas Eve. They were damn good too. But, I was ticked off I had no symptoms following, so I decided it wasn't worth the mental anguish. So, besides that one time, I would have to say no, I don't cheat.

lovegrov Collaborator
lovegrov
Posted

I think that while most folks on a forum like this do not cheat, but everything I've read indicates that the vast majority of people evetually do cheat, either because they MUST have something or they get caught in a situation where they're starving and they didn't bring anything. I don't know what percentage regularly cheat, though.

richard

VydorScope Proficient
VydorScope
Posted

I think that while SOME ppl reading this right now do cheat, that the precentage of them that would ADMIT it is fiarly low.

I personaly have not cheated yet, but only been on the diet a couple of months so thats not a huge success yet. :)

i canary Rookie
i canary
Posted

I've been gluten-free 2 years - I don't cheat. The consequences of cheating are so dire that it doesn't enter into the realm of possibility.

Carriefaith Enthusiast
Carriefaith
Posted

I've never cheated. I've been careless but I have never cheated.

Mahee34 Enthusiast
Mahee34
Posted

well i'll step it up.....i've cheated, several times......if i have a free weekend where i don't have to do anything i would cheat. however, i've been having some other health problems on top of everything and i haven't cheated in a month...trying to keep up the trend......but i tell you what...sometimes that sub or piece of pizza really was worth it.

flagbabyds Collaborator
flagbabyds
Posted

14 years gluten-free, never have, never will.

I have had accidental ingestion, and ended up in the ER so dehydrated and needed shots to stop throwing up, and now w/ my wheat allergy, I go into anaphalytic shock w/ any little wheat, so really will never cheat.

penguin Community Regular
penguin
Posted

Yeah, I just cheated. I ate like, 6 saltine crackers. About 20 mins ago. I feel stoned. Like I just smoked a big fat one.

I don't like being stoned.

I mentioned something or another to my mom and she said, "you really need to stop self-diagnosing yourself" and I got upset and thinking that I don't really have anything wrong with me and that I really *am* a hypochondriac...

I sure showed her :rolleyes:

ruddabega Apprentice
ruddabega
Posted

I've never cheated, and I've been gluten-free for 1.5 yrs. What really makes me angry is when I get glutenated over something not worth it, like salad dressing or something! ARRRRGG!

I survive not cheating by smelling stuff. I smell everyone's everything and live "vicariously through my nose." It's good most of the time. What I always say is that on my death bed I'm eating garlic breadsticks, devils' food cake, and lots of other gluteny things.

sillyyak Enthusiast
sillyyak
Posted

I have not cheated. The reminder of being hooked to IV's for days on end last Fall with no diagnosis (almost worse then a misdiagnosis, I think?) is too fresh in my mind. I lost a lot of muscle tone and weight and I am still recovering, so no I do not cheat.

What I find particularly hard is not that I miss the food I can no longer eat BUT the people who offer me the food (accidently, or not) that I cannot eat (like bread) and then when I say "I am sorry. I cannot have that" They say "OOPS. I forgot".. or (if they don;t know) .."What about pita bread?" UH NO! It is super enraging that when I try to "act normal" as if nothing is wrong with me -- (which is interesting because people who are say, vegetarians, I think have less of a hard time explaining why they cannot or do not eat this that or the other.. ).. I cannot because someone is always trying to "remind" me of that which I cannot have. I HATE THIS

ruddabega Apprentice
ruddabega
Posted

Yes, Celiac Disease is an "invisible disability" that people are insensitive to. I was just honored at a luncheon, and I emailed them before to ask if they knew the menu... I got some half-ass response, so I ate watermelon at my own luncheon. They basically made comments on how skinny I am. I'm sure they thought I was anorexic. Gah, I agree. This stinks!!!!

jkmunchkin Rising Star
jkmunchkin
Posted

I would never cheat. For starters the consequences are not worth it at all, both the physical aspect of it, and also knowing what it is doing to my insides. There is no food that would be worth that to me. When I was diagnosed, I had a pity party for a couple of days and then just accepted that a gluten free diet is what my body needs. I have never even had the desire to cheat. I just embraced it and moved on.

Nancym Enthusiast
Nancym
Posted

I think it is like heroine. When you go clean, you gotta go all the way clean. If you keep indulging you're just feeding your addiction.

fisharefriendsnotfood Apprentice
fisharefriendsnotfood
Posted

I think it's strange some of us feel this way. People with dairy allergies don't go, "Oh, I feel so different, so left out, etc..." or ppl with other allergies. If I am wrong, I'm sorry please correct me.

Just something I felt like saying. :)

Btw, for the record, I have never cheated. I don't think I'd be able to. Like, I would really not be able to put the food in my mouth. I don't remember the taste of gluten.

-Jackie :)

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