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  1. knittingmonkey
    I'm heading this way, easing into it. I'm sure it's good for us celiacs to examine why we want to eat a different version of the foods that got us into so much trouble to begin with. I look at gluten-free labels in the market and don't want to eat any of it. I still eat a little dairy, but it's raw dairy primarily, a serving of potatoes once a week, rice...
  2. knittingmonkey
    Or a straw! I sipped on my Honey's soda yesterday and regret it today.
  3. knittingmonkey
    Two words: Shower down.
  4. knittingmonkey
    While I read this, things started to make sense for me. Years ago, I went on a diet prescribed by my doctor in order to lose weight. Looking back, the diet was gluten-free and very simple: Yogurt and fruit for breakfast, green salad with tuna or salmon and oil-free vinegrette dressing
  5. knittingmonkey
    Labelling products "Gluten-free" is voluntary at this point (in the U.S.A.) So many lunch meats are gluten-free but aren't labelled that way. Get familiar with the names of additives in which gluten is found, and read the labels, or buy a fresh piece of meat and cut your own lunch meat.
  6. knittingmonkey
    Breakfast for me is most often yogurt or cottage cheese with fruit, sometimes I throw in chopped, fresh basil or some powdered ginger. Boiled eggs and fruit is good too. Sundays breakfast is eggs over medium, bacon and fried, fresh potatoes or fruit. Snacks are often nuts, but celery/carrot sticks with homemade buttermilk dressing are nice too. I'm...
  7. knittingmonkey
    I'm 53, diagnosed celiac on 4/30, after at least five years of discomfort. I'm grateful it seems we found the problem and am working diligently om healing. Have embraced the Gluten-free lifestyle
  8. knittingmonkey
    After having given it some thought, I decided that even if I could shower immediately after, I would not do any work whatsoever with wheat flour. It becomes airborn
  9. knittingmonkey
    So glad to know this! M&Ms are my weakness. Been strong so far, but never know how long it's going to last.
  10. knittingmonkey
    I was talking with a friend who is a luthier just a few days ago, and somehow the subject of dissolving glue came about. He told me when a luthier wants to re-glue an instrument for repair, that they dissolve the first gluing by applying fresh pineapple juice. Then we moved onto how gelatine won't set with fresh pineapple or ginger in the mix, because their...
  11. knittingmonkey
    A friend made us "gluten-free" pulled pork with Sweet Baby Ray's, but I was suspicious, so I faked like I ate it. (Some of us celiacs have to make sure something is safe before it passes our lips.) The next day, when I was in the store I read the labels of a couple of the different flavors of Sweet Baby Ray's, seeing there were ingredients I recognized as...
  12. knittingmonkey
    Your replies are full of advice for nutritional supplements, and I'm inclined to agree that they would be very suitable for your situtaion. However, which one(s) should you take? One can't answer that definitively without knowing more about you. I can tell you that I had great success with supplements after reading Julia Ross's book: The Mood Cure. She really...
  13. knittingmonkey
    Fermented cabbage, carrots, beets, cucumbers, coconut meat and chutney are all under my belt now. They're fantastic foods! I make coconut milk kefir, and kombucha too. And it's all so easy! You are going to have so much fun making visits to all your jars and crocks with neat stuff in them. My favorite fermented cabbage is cortidas, the Latin American sauerkraut...
  14. knittingmonkey
    Once you open the bag of flax seed meal, keep it refridgerated, as it goes rancid quickly at room temp. You really don't want rancid flax seed meal!
  15. knittingmonkey
    Teresa Tapp is an excellent exercise physiologist. She has DVDs and videos available for her workouts. Her workouts are short in duration but very effective, and she has specific exercises for spot reduction. Because of scoliosis and a subluxated rib with depression due to the chronic pain, I didn't feel like exercising, so to start out again I chose her...
  16. knittingmonkey
    I suppose I've been suffering with separation anxiety for about 5 years. Started having trouble at work with concentration, dreading the 20 mile commute, ultimately I lost my job, so now I'm home alone most of the day. I just haven't wanted to make any social overtures. Now since I've been diagnosed celiac last month I'm wondering just how much celiac has...
  17. knittingmonkey
    Watch the paprika, I've read that unless it's labeled "organic" it's often been mixed with wheat-based stablizers. If you buy McCormicks single spices they are 100% pure, so look for dry mustard from McCormicks too. Here's a note I found regarding McCormick spices and their commitment to label any kind of gluten: Open Original Shared Link
  18. knittingmonkey
    Here's a website that can answer your magnesium question. I use their Magnesium Gel w/Seaweed, they have by far the best magnesium supplements I've ever used. If you get too much magnesium, your BMs will get loose, then you need to back off. But of course that is if your BMs have become "normal" since you started gluten-free.
  19. knittingmonkey
    I like to use different herbs and spices in my dinner meals, maybe thicken a stew with arrowroot instead of corn starch. I like to vary how I cook meals too; sometimes slow-cooking soups and stews, other times broiling shrimp or steak and eating it with a really big salad. Try preparing vegetables that are from another culture, like jicama, jerusalem artichokes...
  20. knittingmonkey
    Thanks for bringing this subject up. I often travel on Amtrak and am newly diagnosed celiac (4/30/10) I hadn't thought about what I was going to eat on the train.
  21. knittingmonkey
    It has got me wondering are there other supplements not suitable for autoimmune diseases? Thanks Lisa
  22. knittingmonkey
    I like Now brand Daily Balance.
  23. knittingmonkey
    I'm celiac, with no DH. My good friend is celiac with DH and G.I. issues. A celiac can have DH without G.I. issues. One thing I've heard for sure, DH is always indicative of celiac whether or not they have G.I. issues.
  24. knittingmonkey
    In the three weeks since being diagnosed celiac and starting my gluten-free life I have lost two very embarrassing G.I. symptoms, have more energy, have more hope, AND have lost a bit of the bloat over the upper abdomin. (Been CCed at least twice.)
  25. knittingmonkey
    I have celiac disease, been eating gluten-free since April 30. I am also lactose intolerant
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