Husband Going gluten-free

[Nantzie]

After a rough week last week, my husband decided to go gluten free. This was on the heels of our daughter getting a positive Enterolab stool test.

I wasn't sure if he was going to take it seriously, and I'm not sure if he was going gluten-free because he was starting to suspect it in himself (both of our kids have two copies each of the gluten intolerant gene, so one must have come from him), or if my losing almost 30 pounds now is what has made him want to try it.

Today when he came home, I had cooked a bunch of gluten-free chicken nuggets (Pamela's Baking Mix + cornmeal + spices - yummy). He really liked them. While he was cooking dinner I went in there and he had been eating some of them again with Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing. I told him it had gluten in it, just mentioning it. No pressure or panic. He just kind of stopped and then said we should probably just throw out what we can't eat. Yay!

Then later on, we were looking at our choices for hotel rooms for a business conference we're going to in Vegas (Vegas Baby!!) in a few weeks. There was an option to get an upgrade to a room with a kitchenette and a further upgrade to a full kitchen. He pointed them out and asked me if I thought we should get one with a kitchen. Now, on vacation we've never been the type to get a kitchen, and I did just fine being gluten-free while on another conference this past spring. So I knew he was thinking of the gluten-free thing or he wouldn't have brought something like that up. I told him that we could get the kitchen, but maybe we should get the kitchenette instead so that we have the option of eating some basic foods if we don't want to eat every meal out, but we'll also kind of be forcing ourselves to have the gluten discussion with restaurants so that we can get a decent meal. So I said that I thought we should just get the kitchenette. He acted like he was thinking about it for a minute and agreed that we should just get the kitchenette. So that's what we're going to do. Yay!

Things are going well!

Yay!!!

Nancy

[kabowman]

Congratulations!!!!! What a huge step and how much easier life must be now.

[Nancym]

Wow! This is great. I hope he feels better so he'll want to continue.

[tarnalberry]

Fabulous! I'm glad to hear he's getting on board!

[Ursa Major]

Hooray, things can only get better from here on in!

[Rachel--24]

Wow Nancy! What a turnaround from the way things were in the beginning! I'm so happy for you...and him.

Thats just awesome.

[Luvs to Scrap]

This is wonderful news, Nancy I am so happy for you! Kendra