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  1. C-Girl
    :-D I also mix the raw eggs in with the rice, or take leftover rice and mix it in a pan w/ some butter and then add the eggs. If humans ate the same thing every day for their entire life like cats, this would be my choice.
  2. C-Girl
    FYI there is a Open Original Shared Link for making rice bars out of the recipe for easy snacking. It was originally intended for feeding cyclists in the Tour de France, but it works great for anyone, really.
  3. C-Girl
    I went through the same thing, but thanks to a recipe I'd seen before ( from Open Original Shared Link) I now make a breakfast of sticky rice mixed with scrambled eggs and bacon. I top it with Aminos (wheat-free soy sauce) and Sriracha. It's taken the place of my morning oatmeal (which I can no longer tolerate). I think the sticky rice is more comforting...
  4. C-Girl
    Not for my family. My sisters and mom were mid-50s.
  5. C-Girl
    So I finally find out at 47 that I'm celiac, and now I learn my body is trying to go into early menopause because of it. I'm so very Not Ready For This. Has anyone else experienced this? Will hormones help? I'm in abject terror. I thought I had at least another 8 years before I had to worry about that. MFing gluten. Stupid immune system. Damn you genetics...
  6. C-Girl
    OK, I was kidding a little bit about the stupid part, but since I just turned 47 I'm not sure I'm getting much back from the damage that's been done after probably decades of being undiagnosed. According to the article "With grey matter damage, you may have balance issues, problems speaking or sensory symptoms" - which describes me to a T. I've been taking...
  7. C-Girl
    I'm starting to experiment with gluten free baking, where Open Original Shared Link. After having some intestinal upset after eating a lot of my experiments, I'm researching substitutes. I tried adding flax flour with xantham to some pancakes and muffins to see if I see any additional upset (no) - the next step will be to try the flax flour substitution in...
  8. C-Girl
    OK, so it's not the gluten-free diet making me stupid - I'm just stupid and will Open Original Shared Link because I fried my brain with gluten!! What a frightening article. At least now I have a good excuse for being an idiot! Just one more reason to be vigilant about avoiding gluten...
  9. C-Girl
    My first regular bm in three months. You are the only people who would appreciate this so I had to share
  10. C-Girl
    I'm so proud of my gluten-free Christmas Eve dinner! I made these sour cream and scallion biscuits and carrot soup (it's really ONLY CARROTS and butter!), collard greens, green beans, coconut soy-marinated red snapper and mashed potatoes and two different kinds of gluten free cookies. Everyone loved it, and nobody missed the wheat.
  11. C-Girl
    King Arthur makes the best pancake mix! I love the slightly lemony flavor. Glad you're enjoying your new diet! If you do feel compelled to eat your own cooking, I love the recipes on Open Original Shared Link blog.
  12. C-Girl
    Someone on this forum tipped me on to nuts.com - if you go to Whole Paycheck for gluten free flours you'll pay 2-3x more than if you order them from nuts. I got a whole load of flours to mix together to make the recommended mix from Open Original Shared Link - and I plan to bake a ton of cookies with it because I got some gluten-free gingerbread men from...
  13. C-Girl
    I would love to say to a hater, "you know, I was like you once. I loved bread, beer and cake. Then one day, 'bam!' I had celiac disease. It could happen to you. Think about that."
  14. C-Girl
    I've been constantly surprised and to be honest, floored by the restaurant managers here. I went to my favorite local Chinese place and asked if they could make things gluten-free, didn't believe it when she said just about everything but noodles. So I asked to talk to the manager, and for sure - the owner's best friend is celiac, and they made special arrangements...
  15. C-Girl
    Thanks everyone - I guess I will try and be patient. I'm hoping I can start getting some more variety in the diet, but right now a lot of things cause problems - salad, dairy, chocolate (sigh!) any sort of cabbage or its relatives (brussel sprouts!). It's getting really dull and if I cut out all grains I wouldn't be eating anything except meat. I think I...
  16. C-Girl
    I'm past one month gluten free, have been extremely diligent thanks to the support of my husband and nutritionist, but can't shake the big D. I've given up, in addition to gluten: chocolate, coffee, alcohol, all FODMAPs foods (dairy, onion, garlic, fruits, beans, all sugary drinks except a small glass of OJ) and I still have had diarrhea on a nearly daily...
  17. C-Girl
    It could be worse - instead of making your issues her own, you could have your own family basically refuse to believe you, and when you come to visit, get everyone together and order pizza.
  18. C-Girl
    Link? I have a week off over the holidays - maybe that's long enough to produce something that's not a concrete block
  19. C-Girl
    I also didn't want to post something like this and be a downer, but I've been having quite a few pity parties these days. All the holiday treats in the grocery and it's my first Christmas as a diagnosed celiac and I am realizing I can never, ever again just buy Christmas cookies. NEVER. If I don't make them, I won't have them. I can never again enjoy my mom...
  20. C-Girl
    I had no idea that my health insurance covered my visits 100% to a nutritionist until I was diagnosed celiac and the GI recommended I see one. Mine has been an enormous help with my recovery, helping me to figure out which foods aggravate my guts and which are OK, and helping me stop (sadly, not reverse yet) the rapid weight loss that was causing me to worry...
  21. C-Girl
    Thanks y'all for the kind messages. I've started taking lysine to drive off the virus and it's seemed to work - that, or the extra sleep and limits on activity. It's hard being this lazy, but it seems to be working. I've tried the digestive enzymes and vitamin supplements - I'm not entirely sure they do anything but will keep at it. I'm not someone with a...
  22. C-Girl
    Well, I just got a call from the doctor - it's not the coffee, it's not the gluten-free diet at all. Apparently my immune is so busy trying to destroy my own body that it has let a rampant Epstein Barr infection and CMV rage both at the same time. sigh.
  23. C-Girl
    !! And here I was wondering if it was caffeine withdrawal because I gave up coffee to stop the diarrhea - thought the black tea was just not strong enough. The headaches just increase throughout the day until bedtime when I finally have to just give in and take pain killers, which then upset my stomach. Sigh. It's been more than a month without gluten. Please...
  24. C-Girl
    About five weeks ago, I got the call that my blood work showed off the charts positives for celiac. Before then, I figured I'd picked up a bug while traveling and just couldn't shake the diarrhea. I had been a competitive athlete, worked out a lot until the past year when life got in the way and perhaps the stress of a cross-country move contributed to the...
  25. C-Girl
    I'm surprised I don't see more on this forum about FODMAPs. I was diagnosed recently, and didn't see any improvement in my symptoms after just cutting out gluten, but when I got on the FODMAP elimination diet, I saw immediate improvement. I can always tell when I eat something banned by mistake - immediate cramps, diarrhea. It's different from being 'glutened...
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