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Finally Am Feeling Better Again And Thinking About Cutting Out Even Gluten Free Substitutes.

Pyro

By Pyro
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Pyro
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Hey everyone. I just wanted to let you all know that there IS hope out there/ share that blissful feeling of finally being "done". Today I just got over a mysterious glutening or caseining or whatever it was that left me bloated, irritable, and constipated for THREE WEEKS. Even though I've gone through it before, it always seems like a new and impossible hell. Doesn't it? I was becoming very depressed and feeling hopeless again because it was just dragging on and on and I felt like a prisoner all over again. Especially because I wanted to try to learn to swim right before it happened. Then I felt too embarassed to go swimming with a pregnant looking gut and wasn't even happy enough to want to.

But this one is finally over. My stomach is still a little bloated but I know that should probably go away soon because the big event (won't go into detail) that usually marks the end just happened. Unfortunately it also sapped all of my energy and I feel pretty exhausted right now. Though I don't mind as long as it's what my body had to do to finally recover.

B)

By the way, does anyone here go completely gluten and gluten free substitute free? I was doing much better when I was living in the country and living this way. Now I'm in the city with all kinds of health food stores within 10 miles of me and was zealously trying all the gluten free pizza, cookies, cereals, and whatever else I could find whenever I felt like treating myself. Though I'm starting to conclude that they cause way more problems than they solve because I've been bloated and even glutened somehow many times since I've moved. From now on I'm just going to stick with Turtle Mountain stuff like Purely Decadent for when I want a treat. Anyone else feel the same?

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Hey everyone. I just wanted to let you all know that there IS hope out there/ share that blissful feeling of finally being "done". Today I just got over a mysterious glutening or caseining or whatever it was that left me bloated, irritable, and constipated for THREE WEEKS. Even though I've gone through it before, it always seems like a new and impossible hell. Doesn't it? I was becoming very depressed and feeling hopeless again because it was just dragging on and on and I felt like a prisoner all over again. Especially because I wanted to try to learn to swim right before it happened. Then I felt too embarassed to go swimming with a pregnant looking gut and wasn't even happy enough to want to.

But this one is finally over. My stomach is still a little bloated but I know that should probably go away soon because the big event (won't go into detail) that usually marks the end just happened. Unfortunately it also sapped all of my energy and I feel pretty exhausted right now. Though I don't mind as long as it's what my body had to do to finally recover.

B)

By the way, does anyone here go completely gluten and gluten free substitute free? I was doing much better when I was living in the country and living this way. Now I'm in the city with all kinds of health food stores within 10 miles of me and was zealously trying all the gluten free pizza, cookies, cereals, and whatever else I could find whenever I felt like treating myself. Though I'm starting to conclude that they cause way more problems than they solve because I've been bloated and even glutened somehow many times since I've moved. From now on I'm just going to stick with Turtle Mountain stuff like Purely Decadent for when I want a treat. Anyone else feel the same?

I feel the same. Haven't done it though. Those things are too tenpting. These gluten reactions really suck. I finally decided to carefully check any new thing I eat on this site first to see if any super sensitive person has written in saying they had a reaction. Last time I did that, didn't find anything and still got sick!

Stephanie

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darlindeb25
Posted

Yup, me too. I tell newbies to try and stay away from the gluten free treats, at least until their tummy's have had time to heal. Some of these treats are just too much for some of us to endure. To begin with, many of the gluten-free flours are so heavy, they hit my tummy like a rock. I think eating all natural foods, naturally free of gluten is much healthier for us all.

I am now free of all grains and doing much better than I was, and I have been gluten free for 8 yrs.

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Takala
Posted

When I first did my radical diet change 5 years ago I went to a grain free SCD (specific carboydrate diet) for quite a while, then added small servings of rice back in eventually, then some beans sometimes but still not on a daily basis.

Three years later I tried an occasional potato, then four years into it started experimenting with alternate flours baked goods.

I discovered 2 things. One, I still can bake instinctively and come up with some great substitutes, and two, I'm still pretty grain carbohydrate intolerant overall, and it's better that I save that stuff for special treats (like to feed to other people) and don't eat too much of it.

I don't eat very much pre manufactured baked items other than occasional rice cakes and lara bars and coconut macaroons. Maybe corn tortillas once in a while. My version of a very special treat is usually a piece of really nice fruit, which given grocery prices, IS getting expensive enough to be one !

When I make my own stuff I know exactly what is in it and can therefore predict my reaction to it, with other things, there's always that uncertainty.

I've adapted my metabolism over to be more protein and fat burning instead of carbohydrate burning, which keeps my blood sugar on a more even keel.

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kbtoyssni
Posted

I eat very few gluten-free substitutes, mostly because they're expensive and it would require me to make another stop at another grocery store.

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