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So Hungry! Is This Normal?

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Hello!

OK I've been Gluten free for about 3 weeks now. I have noticed that the D has calmed down quite a bit and I am MUCH less bloated and crampy. But the one thing that I now have is a constant aching hunger! I eat and eat and yet it seems like my stomach is constantly growling from hunger. I have really focused on eatting a lot more potato and corn trying to fill up, but it really isn't helping much. Has anyone else experienced this??

I am going to order the test from Enterolab later this week. I hope that after 3-4 weeks of gluten free it will tell me something.

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Do you eat meat? I was vegan before my allergy tests and then enterolab tests. I find that if I don't eat meat at my meals (usually only 2 meals a day), then I'm starving long before the next meal. On the weekends when my husband is home he makes sure I eat three meals most times. When I just have hot cereal with various toppings including nuts, then most times I am still hungry before lunch. I make sure I have some meat every meal now and it really helps. Without the gluten in our diet and the protein that provided and the fullness of the grain itself I have found the need to leave the vegan diet. I know there are others that are making a go of the vegan, I just couldn't do it being intolerant to gluten and soy. I also find rice helps fill me up, I only use brown rice.

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I eat a lot. I can't imagine how many calories I eat every day, but every two hours I'm eating something. I also go through weeks when I'm starving and then weeks when it isn't too bad. I wonder if it is related to my monthly cycle, but I have never kept track. Last week was one of the weeks where I would eat a bowl of cereal and then have to make peanut butter toast before I left the house for work.

Do you need to gain or lose weight? I'm finally gaining a little which is good.

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Hello!

OK I've been Gluten free for about 3 weeks now. I have noticed that the D has calmed down quite a bit and I am MUCH less bloated and crampy. But the one thing that I now have is a constant aching hunger! I eat and eat and yet it seems like my stomach is constantly growling from hunger. I have really focused on eatting a lot more potato and corn trying to fill up, but it really isn't helping much. Has anyone else experienced this??

I am going to order the test from Enterolab later this week. I hope that after 3-4 weeks of gluten free it will tell me something.

i am allways eating! i am allways hungry! i put it down to the fact that when i was on gluten my body wasnt takeing in the nutrients it needed and couldnt absorb them iether so when i went gluten-free my body started to absorb the nutreints so it was my bodys way of telling me " more please i need this". try some protien.

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I eat a lot. I can't imagine how many calories I eat every day, but every two hours I'm eating something. I also go through weeks when I'm starving and then weeks when it isn't too bad. I wonder if it is related to my monthly cycle, but I have never kept track. Last week was one of the weeks where I would eat a bowl of cereal and then have to make peanut butter toast before I left the house for work.

Do you need to gain or lose weight? I'm finally gaining a little which is good.

I am a good weight. I don't want to either gain or lose. I teach dance for a living, so I get more than my share of exercise which could also contribute to the hungry factor. I eat a LOT of meat! Especially since cutting out the gluten. I'm also eatting more fish now too. I just don't know how I am going to continue to afford this diet!! LOL Gluten free foods are so expensive and fruits and vegetables just do nothing to fill me up. Maybe I need to start eatting gluten free protien bars, or making protien smoothies. I have noticed that my stomach is smaller than it has been in years, even with all of my dancing! I guess I didn't realize how boated I was all the time.

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I was starving in the begining too. I used to have to have some dairy to calm my stomach, then thru enterolab found out I was casein intolerant. I gave up dairy, then I was REALLY starving. I thought I was going to die. But, within 3-4 days it began to subside and now I can fill up. Fat helps too. I make sure to put clarified butter on my veggies and popcorn that was cooked in coconut oil. Fat and protein, good for filling up. Or a good bowl of gluten-free cereal and almond milk helps me too.

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