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  1. CGally81
    I was just quoting the website that explained the difference between the two when I said the "moderately elevated" thing. It was part of a question-and-answer session regarding gluten intolerance. I didn't have a "blood panel" for this kind of thing. Instead I took a "comprehensive" general blood test that looked at everything... except my vitamin levels...
  2. CGally81
    My gut just "hangs" out, in that my stomach sticks out and that's it. It happened as I was putting on muscle. My diet hadn't changed since I went gluten-free, and I didn't have a gut (or for that matter, muscle) then. I just started rapidly getting the muscle, then the gut. I wonder if my body is trying to repair itself to what it used to be, both the good...
  3. CGally81
    No personal trainer here. I got some help from my younger brother, who is in absolutely incredible shape. He knows a lot more about exercise and opposing muscle groups than I do.
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    Darn. It says that the symptoms of gluten intolerance "may resemble some of the gastrointestinal symptoms of celiac disease". But nothing about the neurological ones, and I had both when I was glutened. Only for celiac does it list neurological symptoms. Not good. On the other hand: "My doctor says that I have moderately elevated blood tests but do not...
  5. CGally81
    I haven't gotten specifically tested for celiac disease, but I definitely have had the symptoms when I ate gluten, since March until I went gluten-free in August. And I'd even been accidentally glutened twice during that month, and knew it pretty quickly. I got a question. I'd read somewhere that while gluten intolerance and celiac disease are actually...
  6. CGally81
    It is. Looked it up online and everything. It's gluten-free.
  7. CGally81
    I assumed it was, but then, I assumed all ice cream products were (except those that contained cookies, and cones). Thanks!
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    Unfortunately, I can't check the ingredients of a brand name ice cream truck. Mister Softee is a Northeastern US brand. They don't even cover the whole country. Their headquarters is based in my home state of New Jersey! Anyway, I don't recall ever having any problems with their ice cream. It was in fact a great help when I'd been glutened on the days before...
  9. CGally81
    The yogurt is gluten-free. It even says so on the container. The ice cream is actually custard. Back before I went gluten-free, and having powerful reactions from gluten, I remember the custard as acting like a mild antidote (some foods helped me recover more quickly than others, and the custard helped). It does not cause any gluten symptoms. The turkey...
  10. CGally81
    Hmm... candida? The gut thing showed up only a few weeks ago, and my diet is exactly the same as it was only a week or two after I started going gluten-free. Here's a list of literally all the foods I eat: chicken tuna fish flounder brown rice hamburger, patty only (I cook it myself) milk (I am no longer affected by it like I was before, and I...
  11. CGally81
    Are you still in the "hungry all the time" phase of recovery? Foods seem to make me tired as well, now, to some extent. It's like a new phase. I read some other people say that it happened to them too. If tiredness is the only symptom you have, and not the glutened symptoms such as the constant stomach noises or being mentally fogged and so on, then I'd say...
  12. CGally81
    I'm 5'6", male, and I had been trying to lose weight for a while. I'd gone down from 185 pounds to 153... although I'd been suffering Celiac symptoms for 5 months before I hit 153 pounds, and one of those symptoms was likely weight loss anyway. Well, I've been gluten-free for just over 2 months now, and in addition to the fun withdrawal symptoms (pins...
  13. CGally81
    Yeah, that's true. If your symptoms and/or recovery process match someone else's, then you know what to expect. I am probably going through another phase now. I get tired sometimes right after eating. Yesterday, my hunger dropped enough that I ate less, and didn't have to eat any really big snack after dinner. I stayed up until 2am, and got up around noon...
  14. CGally81
    Do bananas count? Enzyme producing? Is that to help with digestion?
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    Do workouts seem to reduce, or simply increase, hunger? On one weekend where I was really hungry like every hour, I went for two 70-minute bike rides. I loved the bike rides, but I didn't love the hunger. I stopped working out because I figured I was only making things worse. Plus, I'm magically sprouting muscle somehow anyway. I stopped taking Calcium...
  16. CGally81
    I eat lots of protein. In fact, I'll list all the foods - the ONLY foods - I eat. I don't eat out at restaurants either. Stopped doing that a few years ago for diet reasons, as I wanted to get healthy. Okay, here's the list of foods I eat: D&W roasted turkey breast slices (they're gluten-free) Chicken Bananas Popcorn Gluten-free Chex Peanut...
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    I went gluten-free in the beginning of August. Within a few days, the insense hunger started, and I was eating MASSIVE meals or groups of snacks every hour or hour and a half, and always waking up hungry. Within a week that had gone down somewhat, but was still pretty intense. Anyway, it had gradually been getting better, but this past week has been strange...
  18. CGally81
    I had a fever (of the hot, not cold, kind) a few days before discovering the problem, but I'd known for months that something was wrong. I assumed it had to do with fat/protein/carbohydrate balance, but instead it was the specific food ingredient of gluten. Good thing I only had a handful of gluten foods in my daily diet (whole-wheat bread and granola bars...
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    I too have had cravings for gluten-filled items that I normally haven't eaten in forever! I even thought of having pancakes, despite having not eaten them since I was in elementary school! Btw, not that I advocate cheating on the diet, but I hear that if you take gluten enzymes - or whatever exactly they're called - enzymes that help your body break down...
  20. CGally81
    You're right that I get the lethargy, some concentration problems, and drowsiness. I don't wake up at night, but I find it harder to sleep if I'm hungry and don't eat something big before going to bed. You've been gluten-free since June, but how long have you had symptoms? I had overt symptoms 5 months, but possible "covert" symptoms longer than that,...
  21. CGally81
    Okay, the hunger is now getting worse again. I thought Saturday was a breakthrough, but it was just an anomaly, or maybe it was "better before getting worse again". Because I ate today like I normally do during a weekday, and was getting lethargic and hungry only an hour and a half after dinner. Some "improvement"! Okay, who else has gone through this...
  22. CGally81
    From my experience, fish helps a lot. I mean, a lot. I once had a day, before going gluten-free, where I felt horrible the whole day but had fish for dinner. I felt fantastic the entire rest of the night. Some say that fish contains naturally occurring L-glutamine, and that's the reason why. If that's the case, try some L-glutamine (careful, for some reason...
  23. CGally81
    I've had the growly "feeling". It's definitely apparently silent (it seems as if the "noise" it makes is more the feeling of it than anything else, if that makse sense), and I've gotten it when not feeling hungry in other ways. I used to get it all the time for months, but don't get it as much now. Anyway, I've had gluten-related issues since around March...
  24. CGally81
    To be honest, I don't consider a growling stomach to be the best indicator of hunger. There's other signals the body gives off that mean that you're hungry. I'd always felt hunger more "in the body" or "in the head". Come to think of it, young children often complain that they're hungry because, well, they feel hungry, not because their stomach is making...
  25. CGally81
    I may have spoken too soon. Today is being a typical Sunday, even if yesterday felt like a breakthrough. Still, hopefully this is a sign of things to come later? After all, it's better than it was a month ago, and especially when I first started! EDIT at 5:17pm: Maybe not. I still didn't have to eat as much as on all the other Sundays I'd been having nearly...
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