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    You find out real quick who your REAL friends are with this disease. Mel, my ex would make marinated or breaded pork chops and chicken and then say "You can just scrape it off or wash it off." And she still wonders why she's an ex and not a Mrs. anymore. A lot of people just don't get it but I have met some that really go out of their way to accomodate...
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    It will be quite a while before Katie and celiac3270 can run for president but in a few years they could at least run for the House of Representatives.
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    I prefer simply prepared meat, veggies and fruits. I avoid fruits and veggies that are real high in starch like potatoes and bannanas or fructose like most tree fruits. I can't seem to stomach starch or sugar in great quantities. Also nuts and buckwheat (not a grain despite the name), flax seed meal, quinoa, millet are all good. It takes a while to get the...
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    As time goes on this lifestyle becomes a habit and you won't think much about it. All I can say is for me it was the most liberating experience of my life. I was in such poor health that I seriously did not think I would live to see 40. In the past 14 months or so I have completely turned my life around. I have found the gluten-free experience to be a challenge...
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    You might want to try buckwheat and flax seed meal. Both are high protien and fiber and low carb. It works for me.
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    Because it is about the same size and shape as an elephant ear hence the name.
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    It is a flat piece of deep fried dough covered in sugar and cinnamon.
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    A couple of times us non Southerners had to send the food back it was so salty. Whenever we requested no salt on anything we would get a strange look. It was funny because they had no problem when I asked about gluten or made requests pertaining to my food being gluten free. But the no salt thing....
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    Before going gluten-free I used to run a near constant low grade fever. Now my body temp tends to run a little below normal. A fever usually happens when your immune system is trying to fight something so I would expect a fever when most of us get glutened.
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    My brain fog would get so bad sometimes that I couldn't remember much of anything and would get disoriented. I would forget where I was at, where I was going and why. It would come as no surprise to anyone who has experienced brain fog that Alzheimers and gluten are linked.
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    Speaking of a Southern thing, is it customary for Southerners to pour buckets of salt all over their food? I was in Alabama for a week on business and it seems like every restaurant went WAY overboard on the salt. There were some Aussies and Brits there working with me and we were quite shocked at the amount of salt put on food. Plus some of the born and...
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    I'll take the gluten free world over the place with angels anyday because it might not be gluten free there.
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    Wow, a couple of doctors that have a clue. Sure aren't any where I live. Maybe there is hope after all.
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    Try to eat more protiens and natural fats. They take longer to digest and you won't get the insulin spikes. Eating candy is probably the worst thing you can do. It will cause your blood sugar to spike then your body will flood with insulin causing the fatigue you are experiencing. You sound a lot like me before I went gluten-free. I would experience many...
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    I had symptoms that would come and go all of my life. In my mid-20's they started to become really severe. I didn't learn what was wrong until early 2004 at the age of 36 when I tried the Atkins diet. Dozens of doctors never once suggested a food intolerance. Since then my life has changed dramatically for the better. I am not the man I used to be at all...
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    I only eat simply prepared unprocessed foods, meat, veggies, fruits, buckwheat, quinoa, cheese, yogurt. It is hard to avoid gluten sometimes. Saturday night I accidently glutened myself by using my son's Ninja Turtle toothpaste. I was out of it because I had gone to the funeral of a close freind that day and wasn't paying attention. I wasn't knocked out but...
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    And now you are probably going to ask "What is an Autobot?" The Autobots are the good Transformer robots and the Decepticons are the evil robots. My son is a big fan and I was into them when I was his age.
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    I had all of the symptoms you've described and it will take some time. It does get better. The fatigue and brain fog are gone now but it took 3 months to start feeling better and a year before I was healthy. You didn't get this way overnight and your body won't heal overnight. We've all been there so keep at it because it is worth it.
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    If your brother is a famous rock star, what in the world is he doing getting married to someone like that?
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    Some people just refuse to believe that a food that billions of people eat every day could be so toxic. All you can do is gather as much information as possible and don't back down. You are in for a tough fight.
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    You pretty much sound like me when I was 27 except I was very overweight. I would get so hungry that I would clean the kitchen out of food in an hour or two. The fatique and brain fog were the worst. I would be completely unable to connect with reality. The gas and bloating made me feel like I was going to explode. Hang in there it DOES get better and we...
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    ARCHIVED Sleep Patterns

    ianm replied to a topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    If I don't get exercise of any kind for at least a 1/2 hour a day I have a rough time getting to sleep.
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    Most will get better over time. It seems that it takes on average 3 months to start feeling better and a good year to be healthy. It took a lifetime for your body to get damaged so it won't heal over night. This lifestyle is not as hard as it first appears. It takes time to learn new habits and break the old ones. Once you get the hang of it you will feel...
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    I think it was a chocolat donut. It was quite a while before I would eat chocolat again. Last donut I ever ate that's for sure. Not a pleasent time in my life.
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    Whew! That's a relief. Cheese is the most important food group.
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