How Strict "gluten-free Diet"?

[mellowyellowmushroom]

I just went gluten-free after diagnosis.

How strict to all of you or any of you have to be about what foods you ate while healing? I seem to be having mild reactions to most complex carbs, maybe some fruits...and I'm worried. Though I haven't had any gluten explosion since I ate cookies last week before the diagnosis.

Did any of you develop food allergies? Did they go away? I can't do lactose either.

[ang1e0251]

I react still to some complex carbs. I did react to fruits in the beginning but after a few months was able to reintroduce those. I'm off most carbs right now as I'm dieting and I have to say I've never felt better. I think I will continue to limit carbs going forward. I guess my system is just happier without them.

[mamaw]

How strict do you need to be? Answer:100% for life. Why cause more grief by cheating now & then!

I think many find that once they come into tune with their body they start noticing other things that cause discomfort. People will say oh it is just gas or indigestion & take a tum or something & pass it out but I feel the body is reacting to something but it doesn't jump out & scream so usually it is just overlooked as common. BUt for us who now look at our intestinal system more closely are finding that many other things come into play & we need to address those issues as well to get to a healthy state....

Humans pay little attention to what their bodies are crying out . I believe that illness & disease starts in the digestion ( intestinal tract) & next the nervous system. We all need to keep our intestinal tract healthy for a healthy long life...

blessings

mamaw

[mellowyellowmushroom]

Thanks.

My system needs carbs as I'm an athlete--so I hope it needn't be limited much forever.

Anyone else though who ran into other bad allergies? or who felt highly sensitive on first few weeks/months sans gluten?

[chasbari]

I found, initially, that I couldn't tolerate any "safe" grains like corn and rice. Soy was a big source of my mistaking it for cross contamination. Dairy is on the forbidden list for now as well. I am now getting to the point where I can tolerate exercise although I have to watch overdoing it as I have a proverbially small "gas tank".. at least for now. Much better than I was 5 months ago! I have found that until I went Paleo I was only feeling "not worse" instead of better. Once I went radical with that and started to heal even my rheumatoid arthritis started to clear up. Five months have flown by and now my complaints are of overdoing things I couldn't even dream of five months ago. Good luck with your diet and healing!

[mushroom]

BUt for us who now look at our intestinal system more closely are finding that many other things come into play & we need to address those issues as well to get to a healthy state....

Humans pay little attention to what their bodies are crying out .

I was paying attention before I stopped eating gluten; I just didn't know what it was trying to tell me. I had commented many times that I felt "toxic" but did not know the cause of the toxicity. My body is still telling me something I am not in tune with yet; I still have itchy skin, not bad but mildly. Because of my psoriasis I am used to itching so this is something I have been ignoring but at some point will have to address. I am so afraid of the thought that I might have to eliminate all dairy, because I did it for three weeks and felt absolutely horrible with GI upset, etc., without my yogurt, so didn't really think that was it. But don't know what it is yet.

Yes, all these additional intolerances are a pain....