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Finally Getting Better, 14 Months Later!

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Just thought I would post this for those that are wondering how long it takes to get better. It has been 14 months since I started gluten free. Everyone that knew me thought I looked too skinny. I could eat whatever and not gain weight. Felt sick most of the time I did eat, but still ate what I would consider alot.

Finally the last month or so I can finally eat and not feel sick all the time. I am finally going to the bathroom normally. I didn't take out any other foods, but gluten.

I am VERY happy to feel better as far as my digestion goes. I still seem to feel achy quite a bit. Bone pain or joint pain I guess. Also in the past few months I had Bronchitis that wouldn't go away for two months and a kidney/bladder infection with fever. Wish my immune system would get better too.

Now I have been a size 0 for a few years and now my clothes felt a bit tighter yesterday and I am freaking out. Everyone said I needed to gain weight and now that i have gained just 3-5 lbs. I am not happy about it. I didn't like my face being too thin, but I liked the rest being thin! My husband doesn't understand why I am not happy, because the weight gain has accompanied me feeling better. I also want another baby and needed to gain weight before getting pregnant.

I have seen posts on here about other people gaining weight once they started going gluten free. It hadn't happened to me, but I guess I was still healing and I believe getting gluttened way too much.

Guess I have to watch what I eat again. Also we moved and so I haven't exercised in almost 3 months. None of this made a difference before. I just stayed the same size no matter what.

Thanks for letting me share.

Monica

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key - that is such great news about your recovery. It gives me hope for my Celiac Mother who is feeling much better on the diet after 6 months but she is either intolerant to something else and hasn't figured that out yet. I told her to be patient since she has 20 years on me so there is no way she'll heal as fast as I did. She also has a horridly cc problem (inconsiderate H, my dad) and until she takes care of that issue, she will probably continue to have issues. She is even questioning her dx now I think since I feel so great she thinks maybe something else is wrong with her. That's part of her denial I know but it's so hard. There is no support group in her area and she doesn't have a computer. I told her since she knows at least one other person in town with Celiac, they need to start a support group. I also hope like you, that Mother only has usses with gluten. I thought most everyone sick for so long had other issues too. Glad your dilligence paid off so you can enjoy life to the fullest again!

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Yeah, I went gluten free a year and a half ago and I too was a size 0. Now I'm an 8 and freaking out!! I guess now that my body is getting healthy I am just putting the pounds on.

I just recently started adding even more exercise to my routine and it's helping.

It's reality, but you know what?

I'd rather feel good and be a little bigger.

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Wow, I have a few size zero pants, I also have 1's and 3's, and those are in the junior section. I am fine with gaining up to a 7 again, I'm just dreading buying a whole new wardrobe again! Size 0 is too small, no matter what your build.

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Size 0 is not too small if you're like me. I am 5 foot tall and very small built. When I was a size zero, I weighed 110 pounds, which is actually a normal weight for someone my height. Now I weigh 130 and am a size 8, which is considered overweight for my height category. I should weigh between 120-125 at the very highest.

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Are you serious? A size 0? That's way too underweight. No one on this God's green earth should be a size 0. I don't understand what the obsession with weight is with the younger girls! I just want to be healthy and thin.. not a stick. Have you seen the starlets on the cover of this week's Enquire? Girl, if you look like Nicole Richie, or Keira Knightly, you're in need of serious psychotherapy LOL! :D Men like women who are soft, hence the reason our skin is softer. They like some meat, rounder hips! They did a survey of men in Glamour magazine and all of them thought that women are too thin. One guy said he feels like he's holding another guy, his girlfriend is so boney.

:)

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My husband has been on the diet 2 yrs now,and has put 3 stone on (Um thats 43 lbs)

But boy did he need it-he was emaciated and looked terrible.

In fact,he weighs the most now he has ever done as an adult (not suprising as he's absorbing his food now!)

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My husband has been on the diet 2 yrs now,and has put 3 stone on (Um thats 43 lbs)

But boy did he need it-he was emaciated and looked terrible.

In fact,he weighs the most now he has ever done as an adult (not suprising as he's absorbing his food now!)

This was me exactly. Never able to put on weight until starting this diet last year. I am at what is listed as a healthy weight for my height and can remain there even being active because the body is working correctly now.

Tom

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Just for the record, there are numerous women who are small boned and who are a size 0. Just like there are women who are bigger, and those in between. Not all tiny women have health problems, some are just small.

key, I just want to say that I am happy for you that you are finally starting to see an improvement. I have always enjoyed your posts and it is great news to hear that you are doing well!

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Just for the record, there are numerous women who are small boned and who are a size 0. Just like there are women who are bigger, and those in between. Not all tiny women have health problems, some are just small.

Yep, my best friend is a size 0. She's only 4'11' and Chinese. Her mother teases her for being pudgy because she's even smaller. She has a very small frame.

key Contributor
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A size 0 can be perfectly normal. I really am not emaciated. I do not look at all like Nicole Richie! She is too thin and I can assure you that she probably can't even where adult sizes. She weighs like 82 lbs. I weigh 105 lbs.

I agree women are obsessed with being too thin. Before all of the celiac started I was a 4 then 2 and loved being a 2. Then hit 0 and thought that was a good size! A size 2 is probably where I should be.

Laura,

Thanks, I am happy to be doing better. I did gluten myself, by stupidly eating at Taco bell. Tostada's, but I knew better. I was pretty sick feeling in the night lastnight. It will be awhile before I brave eating anywhere, besides home again! Yes, it is SO nice to not always have stomach problems, but I had a taste of it this weekend, not fun!

Monica

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