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  1. ButterflyChaser
    After weeks of being very careful I left down my guard and accidentally ingested wheat - I swelled immediately (5 lbs in weight, most of which disappeared after 30 hours), and my upper thighs are once again covered in small red spots (both legs), extremely itchy at first. They have been there for almost a week even if they don't really itch that much anymore...
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    Thank you VeggieGal, I'll look into RT3 (I am now in Italy for a few weeks, but I wish I lived in Britain LOL!) . I saw a couple of my docs yesterday, who think that my weight gain is probably edema due to a loss of proteins, caused by my chronic D (been pretty bad for a couple of years, getting increasingly worse, made a semi-invalid this summer, and getting...
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    I'd really like to hear others' opinion on Dr. K, too, and on his book. I can't seem to find infos for his MD degree, though...
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    I think Gnosis chocolate is both dairy and soy free. Theo doesn't use soy, but they are not gluten-free certified nor Df certified because they certainly use those in certain bars. To my delight, now that I am in Italy, I have discovered that most mainstream chocolate brands, like Perugina, are gluten-free and soy-free (they use sunflower lechitin). This...
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    Hi all, I have been gluten-free since October 2012 and have been hyper since July - just got my tests back, and while my TSH has risen a bit (0.06, the highest it has ever been, it was 0.01 last October), and my FT3 is 21.37 (max should be 6) and my FT4 is 35.49 (max should be 15.50). Never been this high. It's really weird, however, as I don't have...
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    Hi Kiki, soy lechitin gives me heart problems (extrasystoles). I also avoid it because of my thyroid disorders, and I am currently making my own pretty much anything. Have you tried looking up recipes to make your own salad dressings et cetera? I never use dressings, but I am pretty sure it can't be impossible to make?
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    GFinDC I received your card - it is beautiful! Did you make that?!?!?
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    I love Lysistrata! We did that as a ballet piece when I was about 10-11. Quickly adds that to the list of childhood trauma that made me what I am now.
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    Celiac Mindwarp, my favourite crazy class in college was my romance philology course. 10 hours of classes per week. Not kidding - part of it was learning, well, philology, part of it was figuring out languedoc and other essentially dead languages, and part of it was literature. This last part, 6 hrs per week, was on Medieval comic literature - just about...
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    I have 50 pages of research punning the word "hang" in every possible way except the obvious obscene ones. Now, that was a feat. I am the same way with notes. I think it is a form of body memory. Not a neuroscientist really, but I think it has to do with the way in which you have to process sound into writing/visuals via your body movement.
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    It's a girl thing, too. The good news is that you can make it to grad school even if you can't sit down still. I mean, I did still nicely in class, but I pace when I read/think, and "chair dance" when I am writing/dancing to the perplexity of my colleagues. Not for nothing, I am writing a diss on the physiology of body movement in reading/writing techniques
  12. ButterflyChaser
    Ok, thanks! I am planning a Red Velvet Angel Cake soon...
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    Yay! Well done shadowicewolf! A completely random question for you - is there any natural red food coloring you can have? I am looking for natural reds I can use for a red cake...
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    Open Original Shared Link Never been there, but by googling "resort celiachia glutine" a bunch came up. This place calls itself "a resort for celiacs" but I can't vouch personally because I never visited. I think in Italy it is also a bit easier to be gluten-free because of the style of cooking, and you are less likely to find gluten-containing ingredients...
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    Hugs shadowicewolf. Try not to think about school for a while. Your hands any better? Could it be an allergic reaction or something? A friend of mine had a t-shirt made for me. It has my motto "my body is trying to kill me" written right on my bum. So next time I go running I will be a living ad for autoimmune disease awareness!
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    Oh, gee, now I have to look for sumac... Except that I have filled my spice counter, and it's either another jar of spices, or my roommate, and spices don't pay rent, so... Does anyone here know where I can find piri piri in the US? I have been searching high and low, with no success. It also took me a while to find tandoori spices Dinner is grapefruit...
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    Yes. Whoever came up with that name lacks a basic understanding of the term "insulin spike."
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    All of the above. Also: endless discussion on a distinction without a difference. I am going to adapt a version of this thread next semester when I teach my classes on humane food policies.
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    Being vegetarian, while possible, would not be recommended for us; many vegetarians rely heavily on soy, which is known to mess up with thyroid hormones. There is also a bunch of other things that thyroid patients should avoid. In my case, I did the elimination diet for all of those, and I found out that in my case they do affect me a lot (confirmed by symptoms...
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    I had a mixed greens salad with butternut cubes, caramelized apple slices, cranberries, walnuts, goat cheese, and sliced chicken. Dessert was chocolate and a marron glace.
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    I have just realized that Italians say "X floats like a poop" - X usually being a disagreeable person who always gets away with it. Like, of *course* poop floats. Do you think that this saying is indicative of the incidence of celiac disease in the country?
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    Oh, 'shroom, I am so sorry (((((hugs)))))
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    Wow, thanks! I'll mention this to my mum: I am sure that we have lots of spare pans from my grandmothers' inheritance. It is true, Adelaide, I have an amazing family. I wub them very much. Think that when I found out I had thyroid disorders one of my brothers called me to say "you shouldn't eat yuca anymore" (my SIL is from Ecuador, so we make yuca sometimes...
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    Cabana boys... ladyfingers... mmm... And then people ask me what I like in this forum. BUT! I have put my Barnardo's thinking hat, and pulled out my Latin dictionary and my philological training: DIET (via Old French) < Latin diæta (in medieval Latin di&#275;ta), < Greek δ&#943;αιτα ‘mode of life’ The old dead folks are laugh...
  25. ButterflyChaser
    I love those, and the ginger snapz, too! They are tiny and crunchy, just like I prefer them. Unfortunately, cookies are a bit off limts of me at the moment...
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